The Children's Channel, also known as TCC, was a British-based pan-European children's television channel in Europe, Asia and Africa, which was owned by Flextech in

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, England, UK. It began broadcasting on the original

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satellite on 1 September 1984.

History

Early years

The Children's Channel was launched on the original

satellite on 1 September 1984, almost exclusively to cable households owing to the low proliferation of domestic satellite dishes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa at that time. The channel was owned by Starstream (a joint venture of

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and

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) and worked closely with Warner-Amex. The channel was directed by Richard Wolfe, who had previously worked at Warner. "The Children's Channel" was created according to the old

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concept (previously owned by Warner-Amex Cable Communications). The office was located in London at 6/7 D'Arblay Street. In March 1989, The Children's Channel started airing

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on the SES-owned

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satellite, airing from 5.00am to 10.00am on weekdays and from 5.00am to 12.00pm on weekends, time-sharing with

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. Following the launch of the

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satellite in 1991, The Children's Channel expanded to broadcast until 7.00pm each day, time-sharing with

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Change of ownership

In 1990, Flextech acquired its first stake in the company, beating United Artists Cable International to gain a stake. In 1991, United bought its own stake in The Children's Channel and won the management contract to run it. In late 1993, Flextech held talks with Tele-Communications and acquired TCI's European programming business in exchange for shares, giving TCI a 50%-60% stake in the enlarged Flextech group. The deal was completed which resulted in Flextech increasing its stake from 50.1% to 75%. ad by 5 June 1995, Flextech had completed its acquisition of The Children's Channel when it purchased the remaining 25.1% stake in Starstream for £15 million.

Later years

In 1992, The Children's Channel launched an evening block showing programming of greater interest to older children and teenagers. The segment, called simply TCC, aired from 5.00pm to 7.00pm, and featured a number of home-produced programmes, such as ''CDQ'' and ''TVFM'', as well as American imports including ''

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''. During the day, The Children's Channel continued targeting younger children, and a large amount of its programming output was still archive animated series from the 1980s. As time went on, the TCC block extended its hours, initially starting half an hour earlier at 4.30pm, until the focus on teen programmes eventually became more prominent across The Children's Channel, which became known as TCC all day long. The demographic shift repositioned the channel away from its newly established competitors

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, to a market not adequately covered by others. On 1 September 1993, the

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package was launched and it became a pay channel on satellite for the first time. Its on-air hours were cut back to 6.00am to 5.00pm so that it could share satellite space with Family Channel. On 11 September 1995, The Children's Channel introduced a strand for toddlers and preschoolers called Tiny TCC, which aired every morning from 6.00am until 9.00am. This block was then transferred over to UK Living on 3 February 1997 and renamed ''Tiny Living'' with its airtimes being changed to 7.00–9.00am on weekdays, and 7.00–10.00am during the weekend. In mid-1996, Flextech were in talks with

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to sell off a 50% stake in The Children's Channel; however, extremely lengthy negotiations made it impossible to secure a deal. Flextech tried to undertake negotiations to secure a different form of investment in The Children's Channel, but decided to refocus on the teen and youth markets instead. News Corp went on to launch

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in a joint venture with sister company

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. This strongly affected TCC as they no longer had access to most of Fox and

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's library. On 3 February 1997, all the programmes targeting older children was by then airing were split off into Trouble with TCC reverted to the original name of The Children's Channel and continuing to screen programmes for younger children, running side by side with Trouble.

Demise

On 3 April 1998, the original pan-European operations of The Children's Channel on

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both unexpectedly and silently closed after 14 years. Ratings had fallen massively due to competitors

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and Fox Kids UK launching within three years of each other. These launches had reduced TCC's viewer share to 0.2% by its closure. The exodus of teen programmes to Trouble only accelerated its decline. Flextech officially stated that it only wished to focus on the teen market, and there were "so many other channels designed for CC's former target audience. After the closure, Trouble's hours expanded to start at 7.00am. Upon the closure of the pan-regional TCC Europe channel, Cable & Wireless carried the localized TCC Nordic feed for a few months due to the company's anger at the closure of TCC at such short notice. On 5 October 1998, it was taken off the service and its slot was filled by Fox Kids. However, due to a pre-agreed contract signed some years before to air The Children's Channel in

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until October 2000, Flextech created an advertisement-free version of TCC known as TCC Nordic to fulfil this requirement to air until 2000 as arranged before finally ceasing transmission. As this service was only fulfilling a contractual requirement, it was totally automated and showed exactly the same four weeks of programming on a constant loop where technical difficulties were frequent. On 30 September 2000, when the Nordic feed's contract expired, TCC closed entirely, more than two years after the original channel's closure. The website stayed running until late 2005.

Programming

In its day, TCC created some original programming. '' Connect 4'' and '' The Super Mario Challenge'' were popular tea-time quiz shows. Some other 'in-between' show segments included ''Link Anchorman'', featuring Chuck the Chimp and Hopper the Penguin. All of the puppets were created and performed by Hands Up Puppets, primarily Marcus Clarke and Helena Smee. Other television talent made an appearance or got an early break working on these series, including

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, then awaiting news of her university place. During school holidays, ''RatKan'' was aired between 7.00am and 12.00pm, with ''It's Droibee Time'' off air. Some of today's producers also got valuable early television introduction experience on these series including Lisa Opie, Tim Lowe, Karen Ward, and Mike Crosby. A live-action quiz programme, ''Around the World in 80 Seconds'' is produced for the channel in 1993–94 was hosted by

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as Captain Everything, schoolchildren participated in a quiz based on geography and general knowledge of particular countries, before "replaying" famous scenarios from the history of their chosen country as the top team received a prize of a four-day trip to the then-new Euro Disney.

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'' * '' Robinson Sucroe'' * ''

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'' * '' Rocky Hollow'' * ''

Roobarb ''Roobarb'' (also known as ''Roobarb and Custard'') is an animated children's television series, created by Grange Calveley and originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon of the original series, written by Calveley and d ...

'' * ''

Roger Ramjet ''Roger Ramjet'' is a 1965–69 American animated television series, starring Roger Ramjet and the American Eagle Squadron. The show was known for its simple animation, frenetic pace, and frequent references to pop culture which appealed to adult ...

'' * '' Rogue's Rock'' * '' Romper Room'' * '' Romuald the Reindeer'' * ''

Round the Bend ''Round the Bend!'' is a satirical British children's television series, which ran on Children's ITV for three series from January 6, 1989, to May 7, 1991. The programme was produced by Hat Trick Productions for Yorkshire Television. After its f ...

'' * '' Round the Twist'' * ''

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'' * '' Rub-a-Dub-Dub'' * '' Rude Dog and the Dweebs'' * '' Runaway Bay'' * '' The Rabbit with the Checkered Ears'' * ''Sally and Jake'' * ''

'' (original series) * ''See How They Grow'' * '' Seven Little Australians'' * '' Shadow of the Stone'' * ''

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'' * ''

Sharky & George ''Sharky & George'' (French: ''Sharky et Georges'') is a children's animated series, produced by animation studios CinéGroupe and Label 35 between 1990 and 1992. The series consisted of fifty-two 25 minute episodes, including two 12 minute edi ...

'' * ''She-Ra: Princess of Power'' * ''Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings'' * ''Silly Fairy Stories'' * ''Skeleton Warriors'' * ''Slip and Slap'' * ''Son of Zorro'' * ''Sonic SatAM, Sonic the Hedgehog'' * ''The Smoggies'' * ''The Magician Trilogy, The Snow Spider''''The Times'' listings, 1–22 November 1993 and 12 June-3 July 1994 * ''Space Sentinels'' * ''Spiff and Hercules'' * ''Spirou et Fantasio, Spirou'' * ''The Square Leopard'' * ''Stories Without Words'' * ''Street Sharks'' * ''Stunt Dawgs'' * ''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' * ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * '' The Super Mario Challenge'' * ''Super Mario Bros. (TV series), Super Mario World'' * ''SuperTed'' * ''Swamp Thing (1991 TV series), Swamp Thing'' * ''Swans Crossing'' * ''Sweet Valley High (TV series), Sweet Valley High'' * ''Sylvanian Families'' * ''Miś Uszatek, Teddy Drop Ear'' * ''Teddy Trucks'' * ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series), Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles'' (UK title) * ''Teen Wolf (1986 TV series), Teen Wolf'' * ''The Telebugs'' * ''The Telecat Show'' * ''Thomas & Friends, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' * ''The Three Mouseketeers'' * ''The Tick (1994 series), The Tick'' * ''Tiny and Crew'' * ''The Toon Room'' * ''Towser'' * ''Toxic Crusaders'' * ''The Transformers (TV series), The Transformers'' * ''The Trap Door'' * ''Treehouse'' * ''Tumbledown Farm'' * ''Twinkle, the Dream Being'' * ''The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat'' * ''Ulysses 31'' * ''Under the Mountain (TV miniseries), Under the Mountain'' * ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' * ''USA High''

V–Z

* ''Victor & Maria'' * ''Voltron: Defender of the Universe'' * ''What-a-Mess'' * ''Where's Wally?'' * ''Whizzkid's Guide'' * ''Widget (TV series), Widget'' * ''Wil Cwac Cwac'' * ''The Winners'' * ''Wisdom of the Gnomes'' * ''The Witches and the Grinnygog (TV series), The Witches and the Grinnygog'' * ''Wizbit'' * ''The World of David the Gnome'' * ''Worzel Gummidge (TV series), Worzel Gummidge'' * ''Worzel Gummidge Down Under'' * ''Wowser (TV series), Wowser'' * ''The Wuzzles'' * ''You Can't Do That on Television'' * ''Zazoo U'' * ''Zoobilee Zoo''

Jack in the Box/Tiny TCC

* ''The Babaloos'' * ''Babar (TV series), Babar'' * ''Baby Follies'' * ''Barney & Friends'' * ''Bertha (TV series), Bertha'' * ''Bod (TV series), Bod'' * ''Bump (British TV series), Bump'' * ''Button Moon'' * ''The Care Bears Family, Care Bears'' (UK title) * ''Peanuts, Charlie Brown Specials'' * ''Charlie Chalk'' * ''Chorlton and the Wheelies'' * ''Christopher Crocodile'' * ''Clangers'' (original series 1-2 only) * ''Cockleshell Bay'' * ''Creepy Crawlers (TV series), Creepy Crawlers'' * ''Crystal Tipps and Alistair'' * ''Dappledown Farm'' * ''Edward and Friends'' * ''The Flumps'' * ''The Forgotten Toys'' * ''The Fruitties'' * ''Gran (TV series), Gran'' * ''

'' * ''The Herbs'' * ''Ivor the Engine'' * ''James the Cat'' * ''Johnson and Friends'' * ''Kitty Cats'' * ''The Little Green Man'' * ''Morph (character), Morph'' * ''Mr Benn#The television series, Mr Benn'' * ''Mr. Men, Mister Men'' * ''Nellie the Elephant (TV series), Nellie the Elephant'' * ''Noddy (character), Noddy'' * ''Old Bear Stories'' * ''Ovide and the Gang'' * ''Papa Beaver's Storytime'' * ''Philbert Frog'' * ''Phillips'' * ''Pinwheel (TV series), Pinwheel'' * ''Pob's Programme'' * ''Potsworth & Co.'' * ''Professor Bubble'' * ''Professor Iris'' * ''Puppydog Tales'' * ''The Puzzle Place'' * ''Rosie and Jim'' * ''Sesame Street'' * ''The Shoe People'' * ''Special Sports'' * ''Stoppit and Tidyup'' * ''Strawberry Shortcake'' * ''Titch (TV series), Titch'' * ''Topsy and Tim'' * ''Tots TV'' * ''William's Wish Wellingtons'' * ''The Wind in the Willows'' * ''The Wombles (1973 TV series), The Wombles''

References

External links

The Children's Channel at TV Ark

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History

Early years

Change of ownership

Later years

Demise

Programming

0–9

A–G

H–N

O–U

V–Z

Jack in the Box/Tiny TCC

See also

References

External links