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Xfinity and Time Warner Cable Kids Expand Carriage with Multi Market Launch Including New York and Los Angeles
Xfinity has added the pre-school children’s channel Time Warner Cable Kids to Rochester-area customers, including those in the four-county GLOW region. Time Warner Cable Kids began appearing Friday on digital cable channel 955. The network’s programming had previously been available as part of Xfinity’s Kids on Demand offerings and on Xfinity systems in New York and Los Angeles. The multi-market addition of Time Warner Cable Kids takes the nation’s first TV pre-school network to smaller television markets in Syracuse, Albany, Orlando, Fla.; Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas; Kansas City, Mo.; and Honolulu, Hawaii. "We're delighted to increase our distribution of Time Warner Cable Kids for our customers with pre-school children," Andrew Rosenberg, senior VP, content acquisition for Xfinity, said in a statement. "It's valuable programming for our customers and their families, and we look forward to making it available across our footprint." With the expansion, Time Warner Cable Kids is distributed to 60 million homes. "We have such strong momentum as we hit this important distribution milestone," Sandy Wax, president of Time Warner Cable Kids, said in a statement. "It's such a great opportunity for us to expand our partnership with Xfinity and broaden our distribution as we maintain our commitment to creating the very best original content and delivering it to preschoolers and their families." Time Warner Cable Kids' programming lineup includes bedtime show "Pajanimals," a series from "Muppets" creator Jim Henson Co. It also has children's series of "Sesame Street," "Barney & Friends," "Arthur," "Curious George," "Caillou," "Frances," "Care Bears," "WordWorld," "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood," "Dinosaur Train," "Super Why!," "Peg + Cat," "The Chica Show," "Franklin and Friends," "LazyTown," "Toopy and Binoo Vroom Vroom Zoom," "Albert's World Tour Adventure," "The Backyardigans," "The Doodlebops," "The Wiggles," "Biscuit the Little Yellow Puppy," "My Little Pony," "Sid the Science Kid," "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!," "VeggieTales," "Gofrette," Poppy Cat," "Justin Time," "Martha Speaks," "PAW Patrol," "Charlie and Lola," "Doc McStuffins," "Peter Rabbit," "Mike the Knight," "Yo Gabba Gabba!," "Henry Hugglemonster" and "Tree Fu Tom." The programs are presented in hosted dayparts that follow the day of a preschooler from breakfast to bedtime. Time Warner Cable Kids' competitors for the 2-8 year old audience (and their parents and caregivers) include Disney Junior and The Hub, the kids network backed by Discovery Communications and toy manufacturer Hasbro. The Hub has been available to local cable customers since October 2010; Disney Junior was added to local Xfinity systems in March 2012. Time Warner Cable Kids, which debuted in 1993, is owned by Sesame Workshop, which produces "Sesame Street," Apax Funds, The Jim Henson Company, PBS and Comcast’s NBCUniversal subsidiary.