ZooMoo

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ZooMoo
ZooMoo logo.svg
Broadcast areaWorldwide (except Europe)
Programming
Language(s)English
Latin American Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Indonesian
Thai
Picture format 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner Rock Entertainment Holdings
Sister channels Rock Entertainment
Rock Extreme (Taiwan only)
Love Nature
Smithsonian Channel
Makeful
Global Trekker
Golden Chinese Drama (Hong Kong only)
Outdoor Channel
Rock Action
History
Founded Virgin Media and Sky Glass & Virgin Kids (as on ZooMoo date)
LaunchedSeptember 2013;10 years ago (September 2013) (Brazil)
4 April 2014 (Starhub, Malaysia)
25 May 2018 (Easy TV, Philippines)
21 July 2018 (SD & HD feed, Virgin Media, United Kingdom)
1 December 2018 (Colours block (until 31 December 2021))
1 April 2020 (Zuku TV, Kenya) [1]
Closed1 April 2018 (SD Feed, Malaysia)
2018 (SD feed, Virgin Media, United Kingdom)
2020 (Virgin Media, United Kingdom) 31 December 2021 (as a Colors block) 2022 (Virgin Media On Demand, United Kingdom)
Links
Website www.zoomoo.tv
Availability
Terrestrial
DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa)Channel 314 (pop-up channel)
Zuku TV (Kenya)Channel 630

ZooMoo is an international multilanguage pay television channel owned by Rock Entertainment Holdings that was first launched in Brazil in September 2013 in high definition (HD). [1] On 4 April 2014, ZooMoo was launched in Singapore via Starhub. The ZooMoo brand name is also used for international programming blocks broadcasting ZooMoo's original programming.

ZooMoo features puppetry, animations, games, music, puzzles and activities. [2] Programming on the channel is a blend of in-house original productions and acquired programming such as Jelly Jamm and Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends .

In 2016, Canadian-based Blue Ant Media acquired a majority stake in the channel.

On 25 May 2018, the channel was launched in the Philippines on Easy TV Home.

The channel launched on Virgin Media channels 295 and 739 on 21 July 2018. A temporary duplicate of the SD channel launched a day later following the removal of the UKTV network of channels, taking the slot held by Eden +1, until they returned on 11 August 2018. The SD version was removed from channel 295 a few days later. The HD channel was removed from Virgin Media on 7 January 2020, the same day as 5Spike and VH1. The UK channel later closed in the same year.

On 1 December 2018, a ZooMoo programming block was launched on Cignal's exclusive channel, Colours. [3]

In Latin America, Brazil and the United States, ZooMoo is operated by AMC Networks International. Currently, the United States and Latin America share a ZooMoo feed, which is available in English and Spanish. The Brazilian feed, known as "ZooMoo Kids," features some exclusive shows produced in Brazil, and only features programming in Portuguese.

On 1 April 2020, it was launched on Zuku TV in Kenya [4] and 6 months later on DStv [5] as a "pop-up channel" which has been extended from March to the end of June 2021. [6]

On 16 June 2020, Your Family Entertainment and Blue Ant Media made a "content swap" agreement which enabled an exchange of programming between the YFE catalog and the international ZooMoo channels to occur. [7] As a result, ZooMoo feeds worldwide began broadcasting series from the YFE catalog. The EMEA feed currently airs Albert Says... Nature Knows Best,Gloria's House,Urmel and Bob's Beach as a result of the swap. The United States/Latin America feed broadcasts Albert Says... Nature Knows Best,Urmel and Bob's Beach. The international kids' TV channels operated by YFE, Fix & Foxi and RiC, also begun to air some of ZooMoo's content, including their acquired animated series Jelly Jamm, as a result.

In 2021, ZooMoo was acquired by Rock Entertainment Holdings. [8] [9]

In 2022, ZooMoo was removed from Virgin Media On Demand, in the United Kingdom.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Zoomoo - Original Wildlife Channel Premieres on Starhub". ZooMoo Networks eKit. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "ZooMoo and StarHub Unveil Asia's First Kids Channel Dedicated to Wildlife". StarHub. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Colours - Zoo Moo Parents | Facebook" – via www.facebook.com.
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  6. ↑ "Celebrate love and New Years' fun with ZooMoo (DStv 314) in February". www.dstv.co.za.
  7. ↑ "YFE, Blue Ant agree content swap deal".
  8. ↑ Release, Press (18 August 2021). "Blue Ant Channels to be Rebranded as ROCK Entertainment and ROCK Extreme This September - ClickTheCity" . Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  9. ↑ Rock Entertainment Holdings | LinkedIn
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