JimJam is an international children's preschool television channel which originally launched in Italy on Sky in 2006.[1][2]
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| Country | Europe Africa Southeast Asia |
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| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English Czech Hungarian Polish Romanian Russian Arabic (formerly) Italian (formerly) Portuguese Hebrew (formerly) Lithuanian Dutch (formerly) German (formerly) French (formerly) Greek (formerly) Danish (formerly) Indonesian (formerly) Malay (formerly) Thai (formerly) Mandarin (formerly) Cantonese (formerly) Hindi (formerly) Bulgarian |
| Timeshift service | JimJam +1 (closed in Italy) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | AMC Networks International |
| Sister channels | AMC CBS Europa CBS Reality Extreme Sports Channel HorrorXtra Legend RealityXtra RealityXtra2 |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 October 2006 (Italy) 3 October 2006 (Czech Republic & Slovakia) 1 January 2008 (Hungary, Moldova & Romania) 14 April 2008 (MENA & Israel) 1 April 2008 (The Netherlands) 19 May 2008 (Austria, Germany & Switzerland) 1 July 2008 (Bulgaria, Russia & CIS Nations) 15 August 2008 (Malta) 1 November 2008 (Southeast Asia) 28 November 2008 (Portugal) 22 June 2009 (France) 27 April 2012 (Sub-Saharan Africa) 29 August 2012 (Lithuania) 1 October 2012 (Ukraine) 1 March 2013 (Belgium and Luxembourg) |
| Replaced | Cartoon Network (Israel) |
| Closed | 9 December 2014; (Asia) 30 June 2015 (Italy) 1 March 2018 (Cyprus, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Belgium, France, Greece and MENA) 10 March 2022 (Bulgaria, Russia & CIS Nations) 1 July 2022 (Portugal) |
| Replaced by | DreamWorks (MENA/Asia) |
| Links | |
| Website | www.jimjam.tv |
JimJam is available across Europe and Africa.[3]
History
editJimJam was launched on 1 October 2006. In September 2007, HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia (European content division of Liberty Global, currently AMC Networks International) formed a joint venture to run a children's channel. The channel was advertised as international, with plans to start cable and satellite broadcast in Western and Eastern Europe and then expand broadcasting worldwide (outside the UK, Ireland, US and Canada).[4]
The channel was expanded to Central and Eastern Europe in November 2007. By May 2008, JimJam launched in the Netherlands and Switzerland.[1] By 2010, the channel had been broadcast in over 50 territories in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. By August 2010, HIT Entertainment withdrew from the JimJam joint venture, leaving JimJam wholly owned by Chello Zone. HIT Entertainment was supposed to keep providing content for JimJam.[2] By 2013, JimJam was available to an audience of 17 million subscribers in 13 languages. The channel has been broadcast in over 60 territories in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Africa, with seven feeds and four localized versions.[3][5]
JimJam closed in Asia-Pacific on 9 December 2014, Italy on 30 June 2015, in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands on 1 March 2018,[6] Cyprus, Greece, Middle East and North Africa on 1 January 2020, in the CIS Nations on 10 March 2022, and in Portugal on 1 July 2022.
A dedicated Lithuanian version was launched on 29 August 2012.[7]
A dedicated Hungarian version was launched on 1 January 2020.[8]
A dedicated Romanian version was launched on 1 March 2020.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Chala, Jean K. (28 February 2009). Transnational Television in Europe: Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks. I.B.Tauris. p. 124. ISBN 9780857717474. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Hit pulls out of JimJam JV". Digital TV Europe. TBIvision. 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ^ a b "Dutch-language feed for JimJam". BroadBand TV News. 1 March 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "Chellomedia and Hit Entertainment Form Joint Venture to Launch and Distribute International Pre-School Channel" (PDF). HIT Entertainment. 26 September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "JimJam launches on Russia's Tricolor TV". Digital TV Europe. TBIvision. 29 May 2013. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ "JimJam trekt zich terug van Nederlandse TV-markt". MediaMagazine.nl (in Dutch). 12 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- ^ "TV kanalas ikimokyklinukams "JimJam" – jau lietuviškai" [JimJam launches in Lithuania]. mamyciuklubas.lt (in Lithuanian). 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ Szalay, Dániel (6 November 2019). "Érkezik a teljesen magyar JimJam tévécsatorna". Media1 (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^ "JIMJAM-FEED LOCAL-ROMANIA / JimJam lansează un feed special pentru România pe care va măsura audiența și va vinde publicitate locală". Media Expres (in Romanian). 27 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.