PBS Kids

PBS Kids is a channel where Barney & Friends formerly aired.

History[]

Along with the block of programming on PBS, PBS Kids was a separate television network, founded as PTV in July 1994, and was targeted to children four to seven years old. The PBS Kids Channel ran for six years and was largely funded by DirecTV. The channel ceased broadcast on September 26, 2005, in favor of a new commercial joint venture, PBS Kids Sprout (now Universal Kids), which is a partnership owned by Comcast.

About half of PBS TV stations still program a children's channel themselves over their multicasting service. On PBS, two blocks of programming are currently included in PBS Kids: PBS Kids Go! and the PBS Kids Preschool Block. The former block, PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch, was launched in 2000 and canceled in 2004.

Barney & Friends[]

Broadcast[]

For the broadcast history prior to the launch of PBS Kids, see: PBS

1999 -
- November 1, 1999: The season six premiere of Barney & Friends.
2000 -
- March 4: Barney's Big Surprise airs.^[1]
- April 14: The season six finale of Barney & Friends.
- December 1: Barney's Night Before Christmas airs.^[2]
- December 19-25: Barney's Night Before Christmas airs.
2001 -
- December 22-25: Barney's Night Before Christmas airs.
2002 -
- September 2-November 22: The seventh season of Barney & Friends premieres.
- November 29: Barney's Christmas Star airs.
2003 -
- June 23-July 18: The complete fourth season of Barney & Friends airs on weekdays for the final time.
- July 21-August 15: The complete fifth season of Barney & Friends airs on weekdays for the final time, though episodes were still aired on sporadic, rare occasions after this.
- August 18-September 12: The complete sixth season of Barney & Friends airs on weekdays for the final time, though episodes were still aired on sporadic, rare occasions after this.
- September 15: The eighth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
2004 -
- March 13: Barney's Best Manners: Your Invitation to Fun! airs.^[3]
- May 14: The season eight finale of Barney & Friends.
- September 6: The ninth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
2005 -
- May 13: The season nine finale of Barney & Friends.
2006 -
- March 5: Let's Go to the Farm airs.^[4]
- September 18-October 13: The tenth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
2007 -
- May 28-June 22: The complete seventh season of Barney & Friends airs on weekdays for the final time, though episodes were still aired on sporadic, rare occasions after this.
- September 17-October 12: The eleventh season of Barney & Friends premieres.
2008 -
- March 27-April 9; May 8-May 21: The complete eighth season of Barney & Friends airs on weekdays for the final time, though episodes were still aired on sporadic, rare occasions after this.
- June 19-20; June 30-July 23: The complete ninth season of Barney & Friends airs on weekdays for the final time, though episodes were still aired on sporadic, rare occasions after this.
- September 15-26: The twelfth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
- October: In honor of Barney's 20th Anniversary, PBS Kids aired the top twenty favorite Barney & Friends episodes of all time, in what was titled "Best of Barney" month.^[5]
2009 -
- September 2, 5, and 6: Barney's Jungle Friends airs.^[6]
- September 7-18: The thirteenth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
2010 -
- October 4-November 2: The fourteenth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
2011 -
- October 21-30: Big World Adventure airs.^[7]
- December 24: Big World Adventure airs.^[8]
2016 -
- August 31: Barney & Friends aired for the final time on PBS Kids.

Trivia[]

When Barney & Friends Broadcasting rights expired on PBS Stations in 2016, it was removed from the PBS Kids Lineup. Since then, only the 2001 website remained from the PBS Kids website and that's the grownup website of the PBS Kids page.
Dino-Mite Birthday also aired on the network, but it is currently unknown when this special aired unlike the other direct-to-video Barney releases that formerly aired with their original airdates.
An advertisement promoting the seventh series being aired on television was included on the video release of Barney's Christmas Star before the start of the program. However, since that video was originally made before that season was produced, it was released during the time episodes from that season were aired.
HIT Entertainment released four Barney videos in 2003 which contained the PBS Kids funding for each one as well as the Barney Says closing segment and the ending intervals compared to their original television airings.

1999 PBS Kids Barney website logo

Barney's Jungle Friends aired on the network, making it the only other direct-to-video special to air on television before it was officially given its own video release with the first one being Imagination Island which originally aired on NBC in 1994.
When seasons seven and eight originally aired, it would usually contain the Barney Says closing segment like the first six seasons did including the ending intervals. During reruns when season nine began airing, it was replaced by a different segment named Barney... A Helping Hand for Growing Children and the intervals were removed given the fact of how they were never used or seen again since then.
- However, the Barney Says segment from those said seasons were formerly seen during reruns when the show originally aired on Sprout but the ending intervals were removed. The segment also remained intact when the first six seasons of the show aired on said network.
  - When the segment returned during season twelve after it was given a temporary hiatus after the eighth season finished airing, it was only broadcasted on PBS and never seen on any other network station.
    - Likewise, the Let's Play with Barney closing segments which were first seen in original airings of seasons ten and eleven were not seen on Sprout and Universal Kids due to time constraints and the fact of how they were eventually phased out overtime.
Since Seasons thirteen and fourteen were originally produced in the 16:9 widescreen format after the 4:3 full screen (or full frame) format was no longer used after the twelfth season, episodes from those seasons would usually be aired in either one of those formats, cropped to an aspect ratio.
Season fourteen was the only season of Barney & Friends to showcase the PBS Kids website during the end credits as well as the only one to be aired on the network since it was never shown on Sprout or Universal Kids unlike the other seasons.
- As such, seasons six through thirteen would usually showcase a link to the website after the closing segment and before the end credits for that matter.
  - This further identifies that the fourteenth season was listed as a separate season since it contained a repackaging of episodes that were previously from seasons ten and eleven as the newly revised version of the Barney Theme Song and the joke and music video interstitials were only a part of the new material aside from the episode segments.
The Barney and Friends webpage was removed off the main PBS Kids website around 2009 which was the exact same year episodes from season thirteen were being aired. Since the series was removed from Sprout's lineup in 2015, reruns aired for the final time on PBS Kids in 2016 as PBS' broadcasting rights for the series expired within the network that same year.
- Because of this, the series would not be aired again on television for another two years until 2018 after Sprout went defunct and was fully rebranded into Universal Kids as a result.

Gallery[]

TV Bumpers & Logos[]

End Credits[]

Website[]

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2001-2002[]

External links[]

PBS Kids at Wikipedia

References[]

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Networks
PBS • PBS Kids

Stations
Connecticut Public Television • WNET New York

See also
Sprout

[1] Barney's Big Surprise | Barney's Big Surprise

[2] Barney's Night Before Christmas | Barney's Night Before Christmas

[3] Barney's Best Manners: Your Invitation to Fun | Barney's Best Manners: Your Invitation to Fun

[4] Barney: Let's Go to the Farm

[5] Celebrate 20 Years Of Caring, Sharing And Imagination With Everyone’s Favorite Purple Dinosaur in The Best Of Barney August 7, 2008 Retrieved October 5, 2023

[6] Episode of Barney's Jungle Friends | TV Schedules - AZPM

[7] Episode of Barney & Friends: Big World Adventure | TV Schedules - AZPM

[8] Barney & Friends: Big World Adventure

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