Youth Television

Youth Television is an international programming block which airs in various countries. It first aired in the USA on January 3, 2009 on NBC, replacing Qubo on NBC, and ran there until 2012. It also airs various other countries.

History
On September 13, 2008, NBC announced that the three-hour children's programming time period allocated by the network on Saturday mornings would be taken over by a newly found company called Youth Television (which NBC had a 50% stake in at the time) and launch a new Saturday morning block called Youth Television, which would be aimed at grade school-aged children ages 6 to 13. The block would also run on a number of television channels worldwide and would also run on weekday mornings and afternoons.

Youth Television debuted on January 3, 2009, one week after the Qubo block ended its run on both NBC and Telemundo on December 27 (leaving Ion Television as the only network to retain a Qubo-branded children's block, as Ion Media Networks is now sole owner of the Qubo properties including the flagship Qubo Channel television service).

On March 28, 2012, NBC announced that the four-hour children's programming time period allocated to YTV on Saturday mornings would be taken over by Sprout, with NBC putting their 50% ownership up for sale. It was eventually acquired by Fox Entertaiment Group and on July 7, 2012, Youth Television moved to FOX in the same timeslots of when it was broadcast on NBC.

In 2015, Youth Television announced it would be extending it’s weekday programming block to be 3 and a half hours from 2 and a half. It would also be geared directly to preschoolers airing acquired preschool shows from CBeebies, Nick Jr and various other animation studios. The FOX block on Saturday mornings would also extend to start at 6am until midday, with the first two hours made for preschool audiences.

In Febuary 2019, Youth Television announced they would show Bluey, many of the Australian media praised YTV for this move, although it was dropped in the same year due to ratings tanking each week. YTV often censored episodes of it (despite being a preschool show) to remove all the gross-out jokes.

USA

 * NBC (2010-2012)
 * FOX (2012-present)

United Kingdom

 * Channel 4 (2010-present; weekday mornings)
 * E4 (2010-present; Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons)

Ireland

 * RTÉ2 (2010-present)