{"id":12666,"date":"2017-07-20T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/dhx-media-programming-lands-on-virgin-tv\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:41:14","slug":"dhx-media-programming-lands-on-virgin-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/dhx-media-programming-lands-on-virgin-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"DHX Media Programming Lands on Virgin TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHX Media has licensed 615 half-hours of content to Virgin TV for streaming in the U.K. and Ireland, and TV3 Ireland for linear broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 30 titles from the company&#8217;s\u00a0catalog have been licensed on a non-exclusive basis. The agreement includes seasons 15 through 19 of <em>Bob the Builder<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0nine specials; seasons 6 through 9 of <em>Fireman Sam<\/em> as well as three specials; the first five installments of <em>In the Night Garden<\/em>; seven <em>Air Bud<\/em> movies; and the DHX Media original animated series\u00a0<em>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wiebke Hoefer, DHX Media\u2019s senior director of sales for Germany, Switzerland, France, U.K. digital and multi-territory digital, remarked: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have signed our third and largest deal to date with Virgin TV, reinforcing our position as a go-to provider of kids\u2019 content to the world\u2019s top SVOD and linear broadcasters. Virgin TV offers an excellent platform for kids in this market, and we\u2019re thrilled that their viewers will be able to enjoy a great selection of our library titles, plus the latest original, <em>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Bouchier, the chief digital entertainment officer at Virgin TV, said: \u201cWe are very excited to have concluded our biggest kids\u2019 programming deal to date, covering over 600 half-hours of some of the most loved kids\u2019 characters. The addition of multiple seasons of <em>Bob the Builder<\/em>, <em>Fireman Sam<\/em> and<em> In the Night Garden<\/em>, as well as full-length movies, really does underline our commitment to a market-leading kids\u2019 offer for Virgin TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur youngest viewers have never had a broader, bigger and more diverse choice of entertainment! Kids\u2019 content is a clear focus for us at Virgin TV and it is great to have DHX Media on board as a key supplier to bring children and their parents more of the programming that they want to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHX Media has licensed 615 half-hours of content to Virgin TV for streaming in the U.K. and Ireland, and TV3 Ireland for linear broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":12667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2350,178,2849],"class_list":["post-12666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs","tag-dhx-media","tag-virgin-tv","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DHX Media Programming Lands on Virgin TV - 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