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Country | United Arab Emirates,[1] Indonesia, Ukraine, Syria |
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Broadcast area | Arab world Ukraine[2] Indonesia |
Headquarters | Damascus, Syria (formerly)[3]
Dubai, UAE |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Arabic (Arab world) Indonesian (Indonesia) |
Picture format | 576i (4:3 - 16:9 SDTV) |
Timeshift service | Malyatko TV (2009–2010) (Formerly Spacetoon Малятко) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Spacetoon International[4] |
Sister channels | Spacetoon 2 Spacetoon Radio Space Power (SPTV) |
History | |
Launched | 15 March 2000 24 March 2005 (Indonesia, terrestrial) 1 April 2005 (English and Korean) 31 December 2009 (Ukrainian channel) 18 May 2013 (Indonesia, Telkom-1 satellite) | (Arabic channel)
Closed | 25 March 2010 1 January 2011 (English channel) 15 November 2011 (Korean channel) 17 May 2013 (Indonesia, terrestrial) | (Ukrainian channel)
Replaced by | Malyatko TV (Ukraine) NET. (Indonesia, on terrestrial) Spacetoon Indonesia (launch as a channel on Telkom-1 satellite, it was listed as Spacetoon 1) |
Links | |
Website | spacetoon |
Availability (channel space shared with Space Power in Arabic world only) | |
Streaming media | |
Live Stream | Spacetoon Arabic |
Spacetoon (Arabic: سبيستون or سبيس تون) is a pan-Arab free-to-air television channel that specializes in animation and children programs. It began broadcasting on 15 March 2000 in Damascus,[5] and it is currently headquartered in Dubai.[6] The channel targets children from 4 and up. Its late night block Space Power is targeted at teenagers and young adults. The Spacetoon company also maintains a video-on-demand app called Spacetoon Go. It is informally referred to as Stoon.
The Spacetoon company has had two now-defunct channels in the Arab world, Space Power TV and Spacetoon English.
The main Indonesian channel began airing on 24 March 2005 in Jakarta.[7] It later became NET., and its broadcast remains on satellite television. Currently, there are three Spacetoon channels in Indonesia: Spacetoon, Space Shopping and Spacetoon Plus. In India, Spacetoon India exists as licensing company, but not as a separate TV channel. In South Korea, Spacetoon launched in 2005 but has since closed down.[8] A Turkish feed is scheduled to release soon.[9]
Spacetoon is currently broadcast in 22 countries, and has an audience of over 130 million viewers.[10]
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