Draft:Pop (Italy)

Pop was an Italian free-to-air children's TV channel, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment Italy. It is also the Italian version of the homonymous British TV channel.

The channel launched on 4 May 2017 and closed on 11 July 2019 after Mediaset bought the channel and Cine Sony's slots.

History
The channel was launched on 4 May 2017 in replacement of NekoTV, on channel 45 of digital terrestrial television. The channel starts broadcasting with an episode of Power Rangers RPM.

Since 24 July 2017 to August 2017, a tour called Pop Invasion was held, that teached younger children to know the characters of the channel's shows with various types of activities.

Since 6 November 2017 to 4 July 2019, the channel was available through Tivùsat.

On 11 July 2019 the channel finished broadcasting along with sister channel Cine Sony, being replaced by Boing Plus. On satellite, the channel continued to broadcast loop promotional footages until 6 AM, when a light blue screen replaces broadcasting.

The channel's speaker was Marco De Domenico.

The channel's advertising was managed by Viacom International Media Networks Pubblicità e Solutions.

The channel also had the Pop App, available on App Store, Amazon Appstore and Google Play.

Programming

 * 3 Amigonauts
 * Angry Birds Toons
 * Angelo Rules
 * Breadwinners
 * Counterfeit Cat
 * Deadly
 * Just Kidding
 * Kuu Kuu Harajuku
 * Larva
 * League of Super Evil
 * Nate is Late
 * Pig Boat Banana Cricket
 * Power Rangers Ninja Steel
 * Power Rangers RPM
 * Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
 * Power Rangers Jungle Fury
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * The Bagel and Becky Show
 * The Deep
 * The Insectibles
 * The Penguins of Madagascar
 * Totally Spies
 * Transfomers: Prime
 * Transformers: Rescue Bots
 * Wild Kratts

The channel also had two programming blocks, which include:


 * Pop Art, programming block that teached how to draw the characters of the channel's shows.
 * Pop Corn, programming block that broadcast animated movies.