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#Bookworm bunch series

PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch (Septem– September 5, 2004) – a Saturday morning block consisting of six animated series produced by the Canadian Nelvana Limited.The Game (Octo– September 6, 1999) – an afternoon programming block aimed at children ages 6 to 8.Programming įor list of all PBS Kids programs, see List of programs broadcast by PBS Kids (block) for the block and List of programs broadcast by PBS Kids for the channel. In 2021, PBS Distribution partnered with FOXTEL to launch PBS Kids in Australia. PBS Distribution partnered with MultiChoice Africa to launch PBS Kids on on DStv and GOtv platforms across Sub-Saharan Africa. PBS Kids Channel is also available on DirecTV and DirecTV Stream on channel 288. The block is counter programmed from the network, thus the same show would not be shown at the same time on the network and block. PBS Kids network was relaunched on Januwith a live stream of the channel on the PBS Kids website and video app no changes were made to the main PBS Kids block. On July 1, 2016, all the PBS Kids shows, streaming from Netflix and Hulu moved to Amazon Prime. As of October 7, 2013, to coincide with the debut of Peg + Cat, PBS Kids received another graphic redesign and the PBS Kids Go! block and branding dissolved. On May 8, 2013, PBS Kids programming was added to the Roku streaming player. PBS offered a replacement early school-aged kids network based on the block PBS Kids Go! by April 2006 to be launched in October 2006, but was cancelled before launch. Half of stations programmed their own children's channel. PBS gave licensees an option to sign on Sprout promoters while indicating that they should retain PBS Kids programming block during the day time.

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The network was shut down on September 26, 2005, in favor of a new commercial cable and satellite joint venture channel, PBS Kids Sprout, which was developed in partnership with Sesame Workshop, HIT Entertainment and Comcast (who later bought full control of the network via NBCUniversal). PBS Kids Go!, a programming block targeting older children, was launched in October 2004. On September 30, 2000, the Bookworm Bunch programming block was introduced as PBS Kids' Saturday morning block. Along with the block of programming on PBS, PBS Kids lent its name to a separate television network, which launched on the same date. Children's programming on the PBS network was then given unified branding. On September 6, 1999, PBS launched the PBS Kids brand in several areas including its daytime Ready to Learn Service, PBS Online web pages for kids, and a home video label. Several of the interstitial shorts, along with some of the station identification sequences that were shown during the block, continued to be used by some PBS member stations after PTV aired for the last time on September 5, 1999. The block briefly showed a series called Crafting Smarts between October-December 1995 as part of the PTV block. Older children were targeted with live-action and music video interstitials. These interstitial shorts were aimed at younger children. In addition to scheduled educational programming, PTV also incorporated interstitial content such as 'The P-Pals', which featured animated characters shaped like PBS logos delivering educational content from their fictional world, 'PTV Park'.

On July 11, 1994, PBS repackaged their existing children's educational programming as a new block called 'PTV'.

The framework for PBS Kids was established as part of PBS' 'Ready to Learn' initiative, a project intended to facilitate access of early childhood educational programming to underprivileged children.