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Preschool television channel

For the 2000 jazz-funk album, see Jimjam.

Television channel

JimJam
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Country Europe
Africa
Language(s) English
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Arabic (Formerly)
Italian (Formerly)
Portuguese
Hebrew (Formerly)
Lithuanian
Dutch (Formerly)
German (formerly)
French (formerly)
Timeshift service JimJam +1 (closed in Italy)
Owner AMC Networks International
Sister channels AMC
CBS Europa
CBS Reality
Extreme Sports Channel
HorrorXtra
Legend
RealityXtra
RealityXtra2
Launched 1 October 2006; 16 years ago (2006-10-01) (Italy)
3 October 2006; 16 years ago (2006-10-03) (Czech Republic & Slovakia)
1 January 2008; 15 years ago (2008-01-01) (Hungary, Moldova & Romania)
14 April 2008; 14 years ago (2008-04-14) (MENA)
1 April 2008; 14 years ago (2008-04-01) (The Netherlands)
19 May 2008; 14 years ago (2008-05-19) (Austria, Germany & Switzerland)
1 July 2008; 14 years ago (2008-07-01) (Bulgaria, Russia & CIS Nations)
15 August 2008; 14 years ago (2008-08-15) (Malta)
1 November 2008; 14 years ago (2008-11-01) (Asia)
28 November 2008; 14 years ago (2008-11-28) (Portugal)
22 June 2009; 13 years ago (2009-06-22) (France)
27 April 2012; 10 years ago (2012-04-27) (Sub-Saharan Africa)
1 October 2012; 10 years ago (2012-10-01) (Ukraine)
1 March 2013; 10 years ago (2013-03-01) (Belgium and Luxembourg)
Replaced Cartoon Network (Israel)
Closed 9 December 2014; (Asia)
30 June 2015; 7 years ago (2015-06-30) (Italy)
1 March 2018; 5 years ago (2018-03-01) (Cyprus, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Greece and MENA)
10 March 2022; 12 months ago (2022-03-10) (Russia and CIS Nations)
1 July 2022; 8 months ago (2022-07-01) (Portugal)
Replaced by DreamWorks (MENA/Asia)
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]

History[edit]

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 Hungarian version was launched on 1 January 2020.[7]

A dedicated Romanian version was launched on 1 March 2020.[8]

Programming[edit]

As of December 2022, the following programmes air on JimJam:[9]

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