Dish Network has become the first pay-TV provider in the US to offer BabyTV a Spanish-language channel offering 24 hours per day of commercial-free programming dedicated to babies and toddlers Dish has added the channel to its DishLatino suite of packages.
“Dish Network is proud to be the exclusive provider of BabyTV, a channel that delivers 100 percent original programming in Spanish featuring an abundance of baby- and toddler-specific learning and entertainment content not offered by any other channel,” said Alfredo Rodriguez, vice president of Marketing for DishLatino. “BabyTV will add another dimension to the already wide variety of high-quality Spanish-language children’s programming offered in our DishLatino packages, such as CBeebies, Discovery in Español and Toon Disney.”
“Baby and toddler content have been a huge success on DVD over the past decade in the U.S., with parents showing an appetite for well-designed, well-produced content from a trusted brand,” said Maya Talit, Global Marketing Director and co-founder of BabyTV. “BabyTV has been able to deliver this kind of content successfully to parents and children through its global TV channel, and is happy to now provide its unique shows to parents in the US on DISH Network.”
BabyTV features short-form episodes that explore early learning themes with an emphasis on parent-child interaction. The programs are categorized under nine themes, including First Concepts, Nature & Animals, Music & Art, Imagination & Creativity, Building Friendships, Activities, Guessing Games, First Songs & Rhymes, and Nighttime.
A part of Fox International Channels since 2007, BabyTV airs in over 90 countries globally via 400+ affiliate platforms, and in 17 languages, and also provides its content via VOD, Mobile and Broadband offerings.
