SVT Barn facts for kids
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| Country | Sweden |
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| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Sveriges Television |
| Sister channels | SVT1, SVT2, SVTK, SVT24 |
| History | |
| Launched | 23 December 2002 |
| Former names | Barnkanalen, SVTB, SVT Barnkanalen |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| DTT (Sweden) | Channel 98 |
| Cable | |
| Com Hem | Analogue Channel 153 |
| Satellite | |
| Canal Digital | Channel 7 |
| Viasat | Channel 39 |
| IPTV | |
| Telia Digital-tv | Channel 14 |
SVT Barn, formerly Barnkanalen, is a Swedish free-to-air television channel from state broadcaster Sveriges Television dedicated to children's television programming.
Logos and identities
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SVT Barnkanalen's third logo used from 25 August 2008 to 10 June 2012.
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SVT Barnkanalen's fourth logo used from 11 June 2012 to 18 June 2019.
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Stacked version of SVT Barnkanalen's fourth logo with a modified SVT trademark from 2016.
Programming
Pre-schoolers
Since the programming in the mornings is mostly aimed and preschoolers, it is either Swedish language in original, dubbed into Swedish or silent. Dubbing is expensive to do, as is producing new programmes. So most of the shows have been shown on SVT before, except for a few ones that have been dubbed recently.
Older programming shown in the mornings include Professor Balthazar, Doctor Snuggles and the Alfons Åberg films. Pingu was also aired on Barnkanalen.
Pre-teens and teens
Barnkanalen also shows some animation aimed at older children with its original sound track, for example the foreign anime Cardcaptors and imported American Animaniacs and AAAHH!!! Real Monsters. Notably, there is a version of Real Monsters dubbed into Swedish, but it is only shown in the competing satellite channel Nickelodeon Scandinavia. Other animated programmes are the animated Mr. Bean, Garfield and Friends, Code Lyoko, Martin Mystery and The Rubbish World of Dave Spud. They also air Oggy and The Cockroaches.
Other acquired programming include drama series from several countries, such as Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, France and Germany.
The many Australian drama series shown in the channel include Mirror, Mirror, Search for Treasure Island, Home Farm Twins, The Saddle Club and Ocean Star. American shows include PBS series such as Ramona and Nickelodeon series The Secret World of Alex Mack. From the UK comes the Central series Woof! and Press Gang. Many live action shows that were once broadcast with its original soundtrack have been broadcast with Swedish dubbing in recent years.
Between 2011 and 2014, Barnkanalen was responsible for airing the Junior Eurovision Song Contest after previously having been aired on SVT 1.
Availability
Initially Barnkanalen was available on satellite from Canal Digital, on certain digital cable distributors and free-to-air in the digital terrestrial network, being the first channel to broadcast without encryption in the platform. An agreement of distribution on the Viasat satellite platform was settled in 2003. A few days earlier, SVT had decided to allow cable providers to transform the channel and convert it to analogue PAL in their systems.
Many cable companies used copyright issues motivate an additional fee for the channel. An agreement that would make SVT pay the copyright costs was made some years later and made Barnkanalen (as well as Kunskapskanalen and SVT24) available in the analogue basic packages on the two major cable providers, UPC Sverige and Com Hem, from 1 July 2005. This increased the penetration of the channel dramatically.
