Telly owners receive free upgrade with two new TV channels following CITV closure
TELLY owners will receive a two free TV channels as part of a free upgrade.
The CITV channel closed for good on Monday after 17 years on-air across every platform, not just Freeview.
To compensate, two children’s channels will be made available to viewers with certain smart TVs and boxes from Wednesday 17 September.
Narrative Entertainment, who own the POP children’s channel and will broadcast POP and Tiny POP on Samsung TV Plus and Netgem TV.
POP will replace the existing POP Kids streaming channel, also on LG, Hisense and Rakuten TV platforms.
The former is catered to kids between the ages of four to six with programmes including Hello Kitty: Super Style!, Gigantosaurus and Simon and Dino Ranch.
The latter channel’s demographic is a little older, screening programmes for children aged six to ten.
In September, the much-anticipates shows LEGO Dreamzzz and Total Dramarama join Miraculous and Dragon Ball Super on the streaming channel line-up.
Director of POP Channels, Francesca Newington, is optimistic about the company’s move.
“We’re excited to be rebranding and expanding our FAST channels to provide families with even more fantastic content for free via FAST TV,” she said in a statement.
“At POP we are constantly exploring ways to share our brilliant selection of content with new viewers, and the FAST platform enables us to further amplify our brands and extend our reach to new audiences in the free space.”
It comes after millions of smart TV owners received access to over 100 extra channels.
It’s all thanks to a new partnership between TV maker Philips and Paramount’s Pluto.