BabyFirstTV is a commercial-free premium

Pay TV

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 satellite

Satellite

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 TV Network

Television network

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 aimed at 6-month-old to 5-year-old children. Its investors include Regency Enterprises

Regency Enterprises

Regency Enterprises is a Los Angeles-based film and television production company formed by Arnon Milchan and Joseph P. Grace. It was founded in 1982 as Embassy International Pictures, but the company name changed to avoid confusion with Norman Lear's Embassy Pictures . Its most successful film is...

, Bellco Capital, LLC & Kardan N.V.. Guy Oranim & Sharon Rechter created BabyFirstTV in 2003.

Availability

In the United States, DirecTV

DirecTV

DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

 customers can subscribe to the channel à la carte for $4.99 per month. DirecTV added the channel in May 2006. Until early 2011, Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

 customers also paid $4.99 a month for the channel. In mid-January

January

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, the channel was briefly replaced with BabyTV

BabyTV

BabyTV is a television channel for infants, toddlers, and their parents. Launched in 2003 BabyTV is distributed in 85 countries globally via over 300 affiliates, and is localized in 15 languages ....

. Following a Facebook

Facebook

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 campaign by disgruntled subscribers, BabyFirstTV was restored to Dish Network. BabyTV will remain as a pay channel, but BabyFirstTV is now available to all subscribers of Dish Network free of charge on Channel 9400. The channel is also available à la carte on the Roku

Roku

Roku , is an American, privately held, consumer electronics company that sells home digital media products. The Company is based in Saratoga, California.- Company profile and products :...

 streaming player as a premium channel.

Baby First TV is additionally an associate member of the Caribbean Cable Cooperative.

In Europe

Europe

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, the channel is available under various satellite networks such as CanalSat

CanalSat

CanalSat is a French digital satellite and DSL pay television service. It is owned by Vivendi with a 65% share, minority shareholders are Lagardère , TF1 and M6...

 & Digital+. The European versions of the channel transmit programs dubbed in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

 & Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

. The shows sometimes omit their titles.

In Indonesia

Indonesia

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 , BabyFist TV available on aora TV Satelit

Aora TV

Aora TV is an Indonesian direct broadcast satellite pay television company that is operated by PT Karya Megah Adijaya and is owned by Rini M. Soemarno, Ongki P. Soemarno and join at dormant period Sugiono Wiyono. It started its nation-wide broadcast in the beginning of August 2008 with an initial...

 (Ch. 114) & Orange TV
In Singapore

Singapore

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, the channel is available on SingTel & mio TV

Mio TV

mio TV is a 24-hours pay-TV service, introduced by SingTel. It is transmitted through the company's SingNet broadband network via an IPTV service and uses Microsoft Mediaroom as its end to end software platform. It is a service that will allow multimedia content - including broadcast channels and...

.

In the Maldives

Maldives

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, it is available on TV Cabo

TV Cabo

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 & has nothing to do with the pre-existing "Baby TV". A DVD

DVD

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 is available in a couple of continents, like Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

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In Jamaica, the channel is available on The Flow cable network.

In the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, most of the shows are redubbed with British voice actors, replacing the American English soundtrack.

BabyFirstTV has no connection with "BabyTV

BabyTV

BabyTV is a television channel for infants, toddlers, and their parents. Launched in 2003 BabyTV is distributed in 85 countries globally via over 300 affiliates, and is localized in 15 languages ....

" or with any other older TV channels with various similar names.

Programs

Shows on BFTV are divided into 7 zones, each identified by a color & by a learning strategy. The names & programs within’ each zone are listed below. As the entire schedule is designed to be viewed by toddlers & infants, a blanket TV-Y rating is applied through the entire broadcast day.

Thinking Journey (Yellow)

• Tillie Knock Knock
• Fred & Fiona
• Joey's Toy Box
• Bonnie Bear
• Puzzles
• Danny & Daddy
• What’s Different?
• What Is It
• Magic Tunnels

Language Playground (Red)

• Harry the Bunny
• Baby First Tales
• Hide & Seek
• Connect the Dots
• Ready Dress Go
• Tell Me A Story
• I Can Sign
• VocabuLARRY

Imagination Lane (Pink)

• Rainbow Horse
• Kaleidoscope
• Petey Paintbrush
• Color Symphony
• Mio Mao
  Mio Mao
  Mio Mao , also known as Mio and Mao, is an Italian children's TV show produced by Misseri Studios , L+H Films , and Channel 5...
  
  
• Picture Pad
• The Notekins
• Lil’ Vinnie’s Art
• Shadow Stories

Feelings Garden (Orange)

• Friendly Jack
• Squeak!
  Squeak!
  Squeak! was a children's TV show made by SMG Productions for the ITV network children's strand CITV. The show was re-broadcast on STV in 2009 as part of their children's strand wknd@stv. There is a DVD boxset available which features all the episodes. BabyFirstTV also shows repeat episodes.The...
  
  
• Play With Me!
• Tec The Tractor

Numbers Parade (Blue)

• Numbers Around the Globe
• Numbers Farm
• Number Time
• Shapes & Sizes
• Shape A Majigs
• Widget & His Wonder Machine

Sensory Wonderland (Green)

• Baby D.I.Y.
• My Gym At Home
• Black & White
• Peek-A-Boo, I See You!
• Safari Scrapbook
• 2 Tone Motion

Rainbow Dreams (Rainbow Colors)

• Sandman
• Pixies
• Color Symphony
• Scuba Dots
• Carousel Dreams
• Flow
• Wave
• Lullabies

Former Programs

• Bonny, Banana & Mo
• Dougie in Disguise
• Foodie Fables
• Hopla
  Hopla
  Hopla is a Flemish 3D animation cartoon for toddlers, created by Bert Smets in 1999, and produced by Bert Smets Productions. The cartoon features the rabbit Hopla and his friends – the pig Onki, the bear Nina, and the kitten Lola....
  
  
• The Junglies
• Disney's Baby Einstein
  Baby Einstein
  Baby Einstein is a line of multimedia products and toys that specializes in interactive activities for children aged 3 months to 3 years old. Subjects such as classical music, art, and poetry are prominently explored. These products are currently made by a division of the Walt Disney Company,...
  
  
• Sali Mali
• Tik Tak
• Shadow Stories
• Tinosaurs

External links

• Official site