List of children's television channels in South Asia

This is a list of kids channels in South Asia.

Bangladesh
Name Launch Language(s) Owner
Duronto TV[1] 15 October 2017 Bengali Barind Media Limited

Pakistan
Name Launch Language(s) Owner
Cartoon Network Pakistan 2 April 2004 English
Urdu		 Turner International Pakistan
Nickelodeon Pakistan 23 November 2006 English

Urdu

 ARY Group
POP 3 June 2018 English

Urdu

 Edutainment (Pty.) Ltd/Sony Pictures Television
Kids Zone[2][3][4][5] 18 December 2018 English

Urdu

Mediacon Network Pvt. Ltd./Kids Network Television LLC

Cinemachi Kids[6][7][8] 30 September 2016 English

Urdu

 Ironline Production (Pvt.) Ltd./Mimyuni Media Entertainment
Champion TV[9] 19 April 2020 English

Urdu

 M/s. Media Roots (Pvt.) Limited
PTV Teleschool[10][11][12] 14 April 2020 English

Urdu

 Pakistan Television Corporation

Sri Lanka
Name Launch Language(s) Owner
A+ Kids TV July 2017 Sinhala Kidzy

India
Name Launch Language(s) Owner
Cartoon Network 1 May 1995 English
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu		 Turner International India
Pogo TV 1 January 2004
Cartoon Network HD+ 15 April 2018
Disney Channel 17 December 2004 English
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu		 Disney India Media Networks
Disney Junior 15 October 2012
Marvel HQ 20 January 2019
Hungama TV 26 September 2004 Hindi
Tamil
Telugu
Nickelodeon 16 October 1999 English
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu
Kannada
Gujarati
Bengali
Malayalam[13]		 Viacom 18
Nickelodeon Sonic 20 December 2011
Nick HD+ 5 December 2015 English
Hindi
Nick Jr. 21 November 2012
BabyTV 14 September 2006
1 November 2012 (HD)		 English Star India
Discovery Kids India 7 August 2012 English
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu		 Discovery Communications India
Maha Cartoon TV 1 November 2016 Hindi Teleone Consumers Product Private Ltd
Sony Yay 18 April 2017 Hindi
Tamil
Telugu
Bengali
Malayalam
Marathi		 Sony Pictures Networks India
Mubu TV[14] 25 February 2017 Hindi Mubu Network
Chithiram TV 3 June 2010 Tamil Kalaignar TV Network
Chutti TV 29 April 2007 Tamil Sun TV Network
Kochu TV 16 October 2011 Malayalam
Kushi TV 2009 Telugu
Chintu TV Kannada
Rongeen TV[15] 12 June 2019 Bengali Biswas Media Solutions

Defunct
Name Launch Closure Owner Country
Splash Channel[16] 17 August 2001 N/A Pentamedia Graphics
Mayajaal Entertainment[17]		 India
Toon Disney India 17 December 2004 14 November 2009 Disney India Media Networks
CBeebies 29 September 2007[18] 25 November 2012[19] BBC Worldwide
Spacetoon India 14 January 2009[20] N/A Kids Media India (KMI)
ZeeQ 5 November 2012 1 June 2017 Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Animax 4 July 2004 18 April 2017 Sony Pictures Networks India
Da Vinci Learning[21] 18 November 2015 30 November 2017 Da Vinci Media
Toonami India 26 February 2015 15 May 2018 Turner International India
Disney XD India 14 November 2009 20 January 2019 Disney India Media Networks

Programming Blocks

India
Name Channel Year(s)
Toonami[22] Cartoon Network 2001-2010
Boomerang[23] 2007
Disney DD National 1994
Disney Jadoo[24] 2005
Cartoon Network Ki Duniya[25] 2006-2007
Discovery Kids[26] Discovery Channel 2001-2005
Playhouse Disney Disney Channel 2006-2011
Disney Junior 2011-present
Disney Sandhya[27] ETV 1999-2000
TeenNick India Nick Jr. 2012-2017
Nick Hour[28] Rishtey 2016-present
Toon Time[29] SAB TV 2001-2002
Just Kids![30] Sahara One 2002-2005
Spacetoon Hour[31] 2005-2006
Sunday Funday[32] Sony Aath 2015-present
Good Morning Disney[33] Sony Entertainment Television 2000-2003
Disney Hour 2000-2003
Animax Kool Kidz[34] 2004-2005
Jetix Action Station[24] STAR One 2005-2009
Fox Kids Star Plus 2001-2004
Disney Time[24] 2005-2010
Disney[24] Star Utsav 2005-2009
Jetix Toon Disney 2004-2009
Good Morning Disney Zee TV 1994-1999
Disney Hour
Nick HD+[35] 1999-2002
Cartoon Network[36] 2002-2003
Disney[37] Zee Bangla 2000-2001
Zee Gujarati
Zee Marathi
Zee Punjabi
CBeebies[38] ZeeQ 2013-2017

Pakistan
Name Channel Year(s)
Pogo Cartoon Network 2008 - present
CNP Movies 2004 - present
It's All About Action ! 2016 - present
Toontastic Weekends 2020 - present
Nick.Jr Nickelodeon Pakistan 2006 - present
Nick@Nite 2006 - present
Teen Nick 2006 - present
Nick Toons 2006 - present

References
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  2. [Kidszonehd.com "Kids Zone Pakistan"] Check |url= value (help).
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  14. "Mubu TV Started on Intelsat 20 Satellite on C-Band". Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  15. "Bengali kids' channel, Rongeen TV to launch in India on 12 June". June 10, 2019.
  16. "Pentamedia's kid's channel Splash formally launched". October 19, 2001. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
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  25. "CN gets on to DD with new branded block". July 4, 2006. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
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  32. "Sony Aath launches kids' slot 'Sunday Funday'". March 4, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  33. "Sony :The Big Picture". December 30, 2000. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  34. "Animax now on Sony Entertainment Television". 4 December 2004. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  35. "ZEE TV TO LAUNCH NICKELODEON". October 11, 1999. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  36. "Cartoon Network block replaces Nick on Zee TV". August 14, 2002. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  37. "Walt Disney signs one-year pact with Zee Telefilms for animation content". September 25, 2000. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  38. "ZeeQ ties up with BBC Worldwide to offer CBeebies programmes to preschoolers in India". June 5, 2013. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
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