Country |
Europe Africa Southeast Asia |
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Programming | |
Language(s) |
English Czech Hungarian Polish Romanian Russian Arabic (formerly) Italian (formerly) Portuguese Hebrew (formerly) Lithuanian Dutch (formerly) German (formerly) French (formerly) Greek (formerly) Danish (formerly) Indonesian (formerly) Malay (formerly) Thai (formerly) Mandarin (formerly) Cantonese (formerly) Hindi (formerly) Bulgarian Macedonian Afrikaans |
Timeshift service | JimJam +1 (closed in Italy) |
Ownership | |
Owner | AMC Networks International |
Sister channels |
AMC CBS Europa CBS Reality Extreme Sports Channel HorrorXtra Legend RealityXtra RealityXtra2 |
History | |
Launched | 1 October 2006 3 October 2006 (Czech Republic & Slovakia) 1 January 2008 (Hungary, Moldova & Romania) 14 April 2008 (MENA & Israel) 1 April 2008 (The Netherlands) 19 May 2008 (Austria, Germany & Switzerland) 1 July 2008 (Bulgaria, Russia & CIS Nations) 15 August 2008 (Malta) 1 November 2008 (Southeast Asia) 28 November 2008 (Portugal) 22 June 2009 (France) 27 April 2012 (Sub-Saharan Africa) 29 August 2012 (Lithuania) 1 October 2012 (Ukraine) 1 March 2013 (Belgium and Luxembourg) | (Italy)
Replaced | Cartoon Network (Israel) |
Closed | 9 December 2014; (Asia) 30 June 2015 (Italy) 1 March 2018 (Cyprus, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Belgium, France, Greece and MENA) 10 March 2022 (Russia) 1 July 2022 (Portugal) |
Replaced by | DreamWorks (MENA/Asia) |
Links | |
Website | www.jimjam.tv |
JimJam is an international children's preschool television channel which originally launched in Italy on Sky in 2006. [1] [2]
JimJam is available across Europe and Africa. [3]
JimJam was launched on 1 October 2006. In September 2007, HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia (European content division of Liberty Global, currently AMC Networks International) formed a joint venture to run a children's channel. The channel was advertised as international, with plans to start cable and satellite broadcast in Western and Eastern Europe and then expand broadcasting worldwide (outside the UK, Ireland, US and Canada). [4]
The channel was expanded to Central and Eastern Europe in November 2007. By May 2008, JimJam launched in the Netherlands and Switzerland. [1] By 2010, the channel had been broadcast in over 50 territories in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. By August 2010, HIT Entertainment withdrew from the JimJam joint venture, leaving JimJam wholly owned by Chello Zone. HIT Entertainment was supposed to keep providing content for JimJam. [2] By 2013, JimJam was available to an audience of 17 million subscribers in 13 languages. The channel has been broadcast in over 60 territories in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Africa, with seven feeds and four localized versions. [3] [5]
JimJam closed in Asia-Pacific on 9 December 2014, Italy on 30 June 2015, in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands on 1 March 2018, [6] Cyprus, Greece, Middle East and North Africa on 1 January 2020, in the CIS Nations on 10 March 2022, and in Portugal on 1 July 2022.
A dedicated Lithuanian version was launched on 29 August 2012. [7]
A dedicated Hungarian version was launched on 1 January 2020. [8]
A dedicated Romanian version was launched on 1 March 2020. [9]
As of March 2023, the following programmes air on JimJam: [10]