Tag: TV Kids Festival

Halle Stanford, the president of television at The Jim Henson Company, talked about how the outfit places “humor, heart and hope” at the center of every show it produces at the TV Kids Festival today.

Day two of the TV Kids Festival continued this morning with a keynote conversation between Vince Commisso, 9 Story Media Group’s president and CEO, and TV Kids’ Anna Carugati.

Strategies for harnessing the power of YouTube and other free video platforms in serving young viewers were debated at a TV Kids Festival panel featuring Entertainment One’s Yannick Ferrero, pocket.watch’s David B. Williams, Cloudco Entertainment’s Sean Gorman and Kartoon Channel! Worldwide’s Paul Robinson.

A look at what's to come during the TV Kids Festival, taking place across four jam-packed days beginning February 7 and featuring almost 40 speakers and 20 sessions.

In this digital edition of the festival agenda, you will find the full daily program and speaker biographies.

In time for the TV Kids Festival and Kidscreen Summit, we’re spotlighting three great shows that place diversity and inclusion front and center: Boone Productions’ The Nap Time Show, ZDF Studios’ Heirs of the Night and Guru Studio’s Big Blue.

Halle Stanford, president of television at The Jim Henson Company, is set to deliver a keynote at the TV Kids Festival, which you can register for here at no cost.

Brenda Bisner, chief content officer of the Safe Streaming service Kidoodle.TV, has joined the roster of speakers for the TV Kids Festival, which you can sign up for here for free.

Keynotes slated for the TV Kids Festival include WildBrain’s Eric Ellenbogen, Mattel’s Richard Dickson, 9 Story Media Group’s Vince Commisso, Banijay Kids & Family’s Benoît Di Sabatino, POP Channels’ Francesca Newington, Chris Nee, Gabby’s Dollhouse creators Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey, Star Trek: Prodigy’s Kevin and Dan Hageman, The Jim Henson Company’s Halle Stanford, Kidoodle.TV’s Brenda Bisner and more.

Dandelooo’s Emmanuèle Pétry-Sirvin, The itsy bitsy Entertainment Company’s Kenn Viselman and Toonz Media Group’s Bruno Zarka will take part in a panel spotlighting how curricula, DNI, ecotainment and more are being woven into children’s shows at the TV Kids Festival, which you can register for here at no cost.