Kidville

Kidville was a 24-hour channel aimed at preschoolers than launched on July 24th, 1995 as a joint venture between Comcast, HiT Entertainment, Nelvana, and NBC. It rebranded to Omniversal Kids in June 2007.

History
The Children's NBC block launched in 1985 but rarely found success, and NBC was looking for a way to broaden its children's programming and have it reach out more. In 1994, it was announced that NBC, Comcast, HiT Entertainment, and Nelvana would be launching a 24-hour preschool channel. In early 1995, Comcast announced that the channel's name would be Kidville.

The Kidville channel launched on July 24th, 1995, airing some of NBC, HiT, and Nelvana's preschool shows with hosted programming blocks - Live from Birthdays (hosted by Jake Sewell) and The Evening Show (hosted by Meredith Baker) - in between them. These blocks encouraged viewers to send in content online and see them on TV.

Kidville had sponsors, whose commercials aired in between programs on the channel. Shows were aired for about fifteen minutes rather than the traditional thirty. At first, Kidville's original series were shorts like Dishes by Kidville, Handrew's Adventures, and Bedtime Business music videos, but in 2000, when the channel turned ten, they started to make long-form shows like Artsy and Crafty, the half-hour Bedtime Business, and The Foofa Show.

HiT Entertainment and Nelvana both sold their shares of Kidville to Comcast in 2002 and programs from the channel would air ever Saturday morning not too soon after.

In 2007, it was announced that Kidville would air as a block from 3AM to 6PM on Omniversal Kids, which launched in June. The Kidville name was removed completely in early 2008.

In 2011, a theatrical film featuring original Kidville characters was made and three more followed suit. In 2015, an adult sitcom starring the same characters premiered and ran for one season.