List of children's television channels in South Asia

This is a list of children's channels in South Asia .

Bangladesh

Name	Launch	Language(s)	Owner
Duronto TV [1]	15 October 2017	Bengali	Barind Media Limited

India

The first kids channel launched in India was Cartoon Network which was launched on May 1, 1995.

Name	Launch	Closure	Language(s)	Owner
Cartoon Network	1 May 1995		Tamil Telugu Malayalam Kannada Hindi	Warner Bros. Discovery India
Pogo TV	1 January 2004
Discovery Kids	7 August 2012
Cartoon Network HD+	15 April 2018
Toonami	26 February 2015	15 May 2018	English Hindi
Sony YAY!	18 April 2017		Hindi Tamil Telugu Malayalam Marathi Bengali	Culver Max Entertainment
Animax	4 July 2004	18 April 2017	English
Disney Channel	17 December 2004		Tamil Telugu Hindi English	Disney Star
Disney Channel HD	15 March 2023
Disney Junior	15 October 2012
Hungama TV	26 September 2004
Super Hungama	1 March 2022
Toon Disney	17 December 2004	14 November 2009
Disney XD	14 November 2009	20 January 2019
Marvel HQ [2]	20 January 2019	1 March 2022
Nickelodeon	16 October 1999		Tamil Hindi Telugu Kannada Malayalam Bengali Marathi	Viacom18
Nickelodeon Sonic	20 December 2011
Nick HD+	5 December 2015		English Hindi
Nick Jr.	21 November 2012
CBeebies	July 2020 [3]		English	BBC
Chithiram TV	3 June 2010	13 December 2022	Tamil	Kalaignar TV Network
Chutti TV	29 April 2007		Tamil	Sun TV Network
Kochu TV	16 October 2011		Malayalam
Kushi TV	2009		Telugu
Chintu TV			Kannada
Rongeen TV [4]	12 June 2019		Bengali	Biswas Media Solutions
Gubbare	14 November 2020		Hindi Malayalam Tamil Telugu	IN10 Media Network
ETV Bal Bharat	27 April 2021		Hindi English Tamil Telugu Malayalam Marathi Bengali Kannada Gujarathi Odia Assamese Punjabi	Ramoji Group
Maha Cartoon TV	1 November 2016	1 March 2019	Hindi
Splash Channel [5]	17 August 2001	2009	Hindi	Pentamedia Graphics Mayajaal Entertainment [6]
Spacetoon India	14 January 2009 [7]	13 March 2013	English Hindi	Kids Media India (KMI)
ZeeQ	5 November 2012	1 June 2017	English Hindi Telugu	Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Da Vinci Learning [8]	18 November 2015	30 November 2017	English	Da Vinci Media

Pakistan

Name	Launch	Language(s)	Owner
Cartoon Network	2 April 2004	Urdu English	WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks Asia Pacific/M/s. Information & Systems Corp. (Pvt.) Ltd.
Nickelodeon	23 November 2006		ARY Digital Network
CBeebies	19 July 2008		BBC Asia
Pop	3 June 2018		Edutainment (Pty.) Ltd
Kids Zone [9] [10] [11] [12]	18 December 2018		Mediacon Network Pvt. Ltd./Kids Network Television LLC
Cinemachi Kids [13] [14] [12]	30 September 2016		Ironline Production (Pvt.) Ltd./Mimyuni Media Entertainment
Baby TV [12]	4 December 2003
Champion TV [12]	19 April 2020		M/s. Media Roots (Pvt.) Limited

Sri Lanka

Name	Launch	Language(s)	Owner
A+ Kids TV	July 2017	Sinhala	Kidzy

Programming blocks

India

Name	Channel	Year(s)
Toonami [15]	Cartoon Network	2001–2010
Boomerang [16]		2007
Disney	DD National	1994
Disney Jadoo [17]		2005
Cartoon Network Ki Duniya [18]		2006–2007
Discovery Kids [19]	Discovery Channel	2001–2005
Playhouse Disney	Disney Channel	2006–2011
Disney Junior		2011–present
Disney Sandhya [20]	ETV	1999–2000
TeenNick	Nick Jr.	2012–2017
Nick Hour [21]	Rishtey	2016–present
Toon Time [22]	SAB TV	2001–2002
Just Kids! [23]	Sahara One	2002–2005
Spacetoon Hour [24]		2005–2006
Sunday Funday [25]	Sony Aath	2015–present
Good Morning Disney [26]	Sony Entertainment Television	2000–2003
Disney Hour		2000–2003
Animax Kool Kidz [27]		2004–2005
Jetix Action Station [17]	Star One	2005–2009
Fox Kids	StarPlus	2001–2004
Disney Time [17]		2005–2010
Disney [17]	Star Utsav	2005–2009
Jetix	Toon Disney	2004–2009
Good Morning Disney	Zee TV	1994–1999
Disney Hour
Nickelodeon [28]		1999–2002
Cartoon Network [29]		2002–2003
Disney [30]	Zee Bangla	2000–2001
	Zee Gujarati
	Zee Marathi
	Zee Punjabi
CBeebies [31]	ZeeQ	2013–2017

Pakistan

Name	Channel	Year(s)
Pogo	Cartoon Network	2008–present
CNP Movies		2004–present
It's All About Action		2016 - 2021
Toontastic Weekends		2020 - 2021
Get Set Go!	CBeebies	2008–present.
Discover and Do!
Big Fun Time!
Bedtime Hour

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