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POP! (previously known as Toons and Tunes) is a free-to-air television channel in the UK, broadcasting cartoons and pop music videos. It is owned and operated by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels) and launched on 29 May, 2003. Its sister channel Tiny Pop, which was launched on 27 July, 2004, has similar content but for younger children. Its second sister channel Pop Girl was launched on 6 August, 2007, and also shows cartoons and live action shows but is aimed at a more female audience. Its third sister channel, Kix! was launched on 19 May, 2008, and also shows cartoons but is aimed at a more male audience. Pop broadcasts on Sky Digital, Virgin Media and Freesat. Before and after advertisements during pop music, the channel's mascots — two cartoon characters — talk about upcoming cartoons, introduce competitions, read viewers' jokes and show viewers' artwork. The characters are a dragon called Rorry (identical to "Tricky", who "presented" a Saturday morning show on ITV in 1997), and his pet cat called Purrdy (again, taken from the Saturday morning show). Pop's logo originally consisted of the word 'pop' in blue writing, with a red background. When shown on the channel, the logo was animated, with balloons floating past the letters, or the letters themselves becoming balloons. It changed in October 2006 to white letters on an orange background. The letters became all caps, and an exclamation mark was added. In October 2006 a further change was added: Now the all cap letters ("!" included) are in 3D and during advert breaks are shown dancing or chasing each other and eventually spelling out the logo "POP!". This ident was set to music very similar to "Benny Hill", though this was changed after a few months, perhaps due to the similarity. Originally the channel was mainly music videos until February 2004 when cartoons were first shown. Music videos were kept on the channel, but were then dropped entirely during mid-2006. They were later revived in early 2007, but only during a 60 minute slot called "Pop Party". Some of the programmes on Pop! have previously screened on other UK channels; some have not been screened in the UK before. In some cases, the channel which previously broadcast a programme is now defunct (such as TCC, Discovery Kids and Toonami). On 11 October, 2007, Pop! was launched onto Virgin Media, along with its sister channel Tiny Pop. In 2008, Pop! was made available on the newly-launched Freesat platform.
[edit] ProgrammesThere are a selection of programmes that broadcast on Pop: [edit] Current Programmes
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