PBS Kids

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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 2005.

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.
  • April 14: The season six finale of Barney & Friends.
  • December 1: Barney's Night Before Christmas airs.
  • 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 -
  • September 12: Seasons four, five and six of Barney & Friends are phased out after this day.
  • September 15: The eighth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
• 2004 -
  • March 13: Barney's Best Manners: Your Invitation to Fun! airs.
  • 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.
  • September 18-October 13: The tenth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
• 2007 -
  • September 17-October 12: The eleventh season of Barney & Friends premieres.
• 2008 -
  • September 12: Seasons seven, eight and nine of Barney & Friends are phased out after this day.
  • September 15-26: The twelfth season of Barney & Friends premieres.
• 2009 -
  • September 2, 5, and 6: Barney's Jungle Friends airs.
  • 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.
  • December 24: Big World Adventure airs.
• 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.
  • Barney's It's A Happy Day
  • It's Nice To Meet You
  • Barney's Red, Yellow and Blue!
  • Barney's Numbers! Numbers!
• 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 possibly 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 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.

Gallery

TV Bumpers & Logos

PTV/PBS Kids "Up Next" Bumper

Website

1999-2002

2002

2002-2004

References

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Networks PBS • PBS Kids Stations Connecticut Public Television • WNET New York See also Sprout