Panda Kids

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Panda Kids

Country	Portugal
Broadcast area	Portugal Angola Mozambique
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Programming
Language	Portuguese
Picture format	1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Dreamia
Sister channels	VinTV Canal Hollywood AMC Odisseia AMC Break AMC Crime Casa e Cozinha Canal Panda
History
Launched	June 1, 2021 (2021-06-01)
Links
Website	www.pandakids.pt

Panda Kids is a Portuguese pay television channel that launched in 2021, and mainly features animated series and anime for children aged 6 to 12. It is operated by Dreamia, a joint venture between NOS and AMC Networks International Southern Europe.

History

Panda Kids was launched in Portugal on 1 June 2021, as a pop-up channel for children aged 6 to 9, and featured animated programming formerly aired on Biggs, which was refocused on live-action programming for teens and young adults. Panda Kids also launched in Spain at the same time, as an evening block on Canal Panda, but unlike the Portugal version, it featured live-action programming including television series and reality shows for older children as well as on-air graphics similar to Biggs.

Panda Kids was initially intended as a pop-up channel running until December 2021, but due to the channel's popularity, its license was renewed to June 2022, before eventually being established as a permanent channel, which allowed Biggs to be fully refocused as a teen and young adult channel until Biggs' closure and replacement to VinTV in May 2026. Panda Kids was initially scheduled to run from 8:00am to midnight, but at launch, it instead aired from 6:00am to 1:00am. Its timerange was expanded from 6:00am to 2:30am in July 2021, then to 4:00am in August, to 4:30am in October, and became a 24-hour channel on 16 November 2021.^{[citation needed]}

In 2024, the channel expanded its target audience to preteens, with some live-action shows targeting the demographic and Dragon Ball Super premiering on the channel in August.

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