Friday, December 24, 2021

About Sprout

 



Sprout was a 24-hour preschool channel for parents and kids to share together - from morning to night, they could share everything from birthday wishes to bedtime stories. Sprout followed the day of a preschooler from breakfast to bedtime with distinctive, interactive programming. Sprout launched in 2005 as a joint venture between PBS, HiT Entertainment, Sesame Workshop, and Comcast, and soon after was available in over fifty million homes. Sprout became fully acquired by NBCUniversal in 2013, and became a part of Universal Kids in 2017.

Some of Sprout’s gold-standard, curriculum-based programming included Caillou, The Berenstain Bears, Sesame Street, Barney & Friends, Thomas & Friends, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, The HoobsMake Way for Noddy, The Mighty Jungle, Mama Mirabelle's Home MoviesAngelina Ballerina, Teletubbies, BoohbahDragon Tales, Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Panwapa, Frances, Percy the Park Keeper, James the CatJay Jay the Jet PlanePingu, Kipper, Super WHY!Tree Fu Tom, Zerby DerbyEarth to Luna, The Wiggles, LazyTown, Zou, Boj, Wibbly Pjg, 64 Zoo Lane, Olive the Ostrich, Justin TimeSarah and Duck, Stella and Sam, Lily's Driftwood BayPoppy Cat, dirtgirlworld, Dive Olly Dive, Rubbadubbers, Franny's Feet, Chloe's ClosetFifi and the Flowertots, Roary the Racing Car, Noodle and Doodle, Jim Henson's Pajanimals, The Chica Show, Astroblast!, Ruff-Ruff, Tweet, and Dave, Clangers, Nina's World, Floogals, Super WingsTerrific Trucks, Dot.The Ollie and Moon Show, and Kody Kapow. A few shows aired on Sprout at launch day, but were removed afterwards for being too inappropriate.

Sprout's programming blocks included The Good Night Show, The Let's Go Show, Musical Mornings with Coo, The Sunny Side Up Show, The Sprout Sharing Show, Sprout's Wiggly Waffle, and The Super Sproutlet Show.

Sprout was extremely popular. It had more than a million VOD orders, was available in over fifty million homes, and SproutOnline.com had 821,000 registered users. Once Comcast acquired NBCUniversal, a Saturday morning block of Sprout shows called NBC Kids premiered on the NBC channel and ran from 2012 to 2016. In 2013, Sprout and CafePress launched a website called Shop Sprout, which sold Sprout merchandise.

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