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Canal J
Canal J (stylised as canal J, French pronunciation: [kanal ʒi]) is a French pay television channel dedicated to children's programming. It is aimed at children aged 7 to 12.
On 1 February 2019, M6 Group entered negotiations to acquire the television unit of Lagardère Active including Canal J. The sale was completed on 2 September 2019.
Created on 23 December 1985 at the initiative of the French corporation Group Hachette, Canal J was first launched on the cable network of Cergy-Pontoise. It was then launched in Paris on 25 November 1986 and in Nice and Montpellier on 12 February 1987. The channel broadcast mostly cartoons for 3–13 year-old kids using video cassettes at the network's headend. At launch, its schedule consisted of a two-hour programming block that aired for five times to make a ten-hour schedule.
On 8 February 1988, Canal J started to be managed by a new company composed by Europe 1 Communication and three cable providers: Communication and Development, Lyonnaise Communications and Générale d'Images. As part of this new structure, Canal J was the first channel in 1988 to be available to all television providers for cable and community antenna through the Telecom 1C satellite system. Now that it was available everywhere in France, the channel increased its subscribers base from 50,000 to 100,000 subscribers. By late-1989, it had 160,000 subscribers and increased its share to 300.000 subscribers the following year.[citation needed]
On 13 April 1989, the channel rebranded for the first time, beginning to improve its schedule.
On 15 December 1990, the abandonment of the costly project of subscription-based terrestrial and satellite broadcasting from TDF1 (covering Paris and other 22 cities in France) allowed Canal J to launch an ambitious strategy of investment in original programming, during which it started to produce and co-produce programmes. The channel consolidated its position on cable television. This marks the start of the policy of production and co-production of programmes (with the broadcast of Cajou, Le Trésor des Templiers and Les Histoires du père Castor) On that same year, the channel increased its subscribers base from 330,000 to 550,000 customers.
On 14 November 1992, the launch of CanalSatellite analogique made Canal J available throughout all of France, as it was picked up by the provider as one of its seven channels offered to its customers. Canal J used to timeshare with Canal Jimmy, causing confusion. On 19 November, Les Bêtises by Henri Dès was the first song adapted as a cartoon to be aired on the channel.
On 4 September 1993, Canal J aired L'Île aux enfants, a syndication TV series for kids that was originally aired on ORTF's third colour channel (Now France 3) allowing the nostalgic audience from the 1970s to watch again the programme's characters Casimir and Léonard, attracting an older audience. Canal J also broadcast Spirou and other morning programmes, such as Ciné Fourax and Atomes crochus, in order to increase its audience base.
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Canal J
Canal J (stylised as canal J, French pronunciation: [kanal ʒi]) is a French pay television channel dedicated to children's programming. It is aimed at children aged 7 to 12.
On 1 February 2019, M6 Group entered negotiations to acquire the television unit of Lagardère Active including Canal J. The sale was completed on 2 September 2019.
Created on 23 December 1985 at the initiative of the French corporation Group Hachette, Canal J was first launched on the cable network of Cergy-Pontoise. It was then launched in Paris on 25 November 1986 and in Nice and Montpellier on 12 February 1987. The channel broadcast mostly cartoons for 3–13 year-old kids using video cassettes at the network's headend. At launch, its schedule consisted of a two-hour programming block that aired for five times to make a ten-hour schedule.
On 8 February 1988, Canal J started to be managed by a new company composed by Europe 1 Communication and three cable providers: Communication and Development, Lyonnaise Communications and Générale d'Images. As part of this new structure, Canal J was the first channel in 1988 to be available to all television providers for cable and community antenna through the Telecom 1C satellite system. Now that it was available everywhere in France, the channel increased its subscribers base from 50,000 to 100,000 subscribers. By late-1989, it had 160,000 subscribers and increased its share to 300.000 subscribers the following year.[citation needed]
On 13 April 1989, the channel rebranded for the first time, beginning to improve its schedule.
On 15 December 1990, the abandonment of the costly project of subscription-based terrestrial and satellite broadcasting from TDF1 (covering Paris and other 22 cities in France) allowed Canal J to launch an ambitious strategy of investment in original programming, during which it started to produce and co-produce programmes. The channel consolidated its position on cable television. This marks the start of the policy of production and co-production of programmes (with the broadcast of Cajou, Le Trésor des Templiers and Les Histoires du père Castor) On that same year, the channel increased its subscribers base from 330,000 to 550,000 customers.
On 14 November 1992, the launch of CanalSatellite analogique made Canal J available throughout all of France, as it was picked up by the provider as one of its seven channels offered to its customers. Canal J used to timeshare with Canal Jimmy, causing confusion. On 19 November, Les Bêtises by Henri Dès was the first song adapted as a cartoon to be aired on the channel.
On 4 September 1993, Canal J aired L'Île aux enfants, a syndication TV series for kids that was originally aired on ORTF's third colour channel (Now France 3) allowing the nostalgic audience from the 1970s to watch again the programme's characters Casimir and Léonard, attracting an older audience. Canal J also broadcast Spirou and other morning programmes, such as Ciné Fourax and Atomes crochus, in order to increase its audience base.
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