Channel J

Canal J is a Television channel French set of themes intended for the children from 7 to 14 years.

History of the chain

Created in Christmas 1985 on the initiative of the group Hatchet, Canal J is first of all diffused on the cable network of Cergy-Pontoise. With 300 subscribed hearths on December 23rd, the chain at the head diffuses mainly cartoons for the 3-13 years by video cassettes of network. The grid of the programs is made up of two hour old multidiffusés modules.

The 3 older chains of the cable are:

TV5MONDE : January 2nd 1984

Channel J : December 23rd 1985

Planet: September 24th 1988

As from January 1988, Canal J is exploited within a new business made up around Europe 1 Communication and of the three cable television operators Communication and Development, Lyonnaise Communications and Générale of Images. Within the framework of this new structure, Canal J is the first chain to be opened, in 1988, with the whole of the systems of cable television: cable networks and community aerials thanks to the satellite system Telecom 1C. Available everywhere in France, the chain passes from 50.000 to 100.000 subscribers and then starts his development on the cable. At the end of 1989, it counts 160.000 subscribers and crosses the course of the 300.000 in 1990.

The abandonment of the expensive project of hertzian diffusion per subscription (Paris + 22 cities in France) and satellite in direct reception TDF 1 makes it possible to launch an ambitious strategy of investment on the future in the programs. It is the beginning of the policy of production and coproduction of programs ( Cajou , intrepid the , stories of the Father Beaver ). Little by little, the share of cartoons is reduced with the profit of fictions, films, magazines, documentary and plays. The regular appointments are established, the offer of programs and the range of kinds widen and are renewed. Channel J consolidates its position on the cable. During the year 1991, the number of subscribers passes from 330.000 to 550.000 hearths.

Launching analogical in November 1992 of CanalSatellite (direct reception by satellite of 7 specialized channels) makes it possible Canal J to be received in all France.

In 1993, Channel J created the event on television by repeating daily the Island with the children allowing the large nostalgic children years 1974-1982 to find Casimir and Léonard, and by attracting a older public consequently. The chain diffuses also Spirou (a coproduction diffused in the first exclusiveness) and exclusive incarnated magazines, like Ciné furax or hooked Atomes , enabling him to touch an audience even larger and to pass the million families subscribed in 1994.

In Christmas 1995, Canal J celebrates its ten years and, for the first time, the chain is with financial balance thanks to the 1.500.000 subscribed hearths. Channel J is included in the numerical bouquet of CanalSatellite launched in 1996, and its magazines are diffused on International Canal France (CFI) starting from May 1st, 1996 in a two hour old module of programs of Channel J intended for Africa, the Close relation and Middle-East and Asia.

In February 1997, the chain launches its Internet site Canalj.net which is preceded with Biarritz the same year. The site is entirely reconsidered on January 1st 2001 to become the first leading and Community site chains youth bound for the children.

Channel J reaches the 2 million subscribed families in January 1998.

The chain celebrates its 15 years with Christmas 2000 and, strong of its success (it counts three million subscribed families), lance a variation intended for the children of less than 7 years: TiJi which counts 1.200.000 subscribed families. Channel J is then the only chain youth present on all the bouquets cables and CanalSatellite.

April 4th, 2001, the chain diffuses Titeuf in the first exclusiveness (coproduction) and is classified in third position of the specialized channels in term of audience, all public confused in the MédiaCabSat barometer of August 2001.

Channel J launches Yu-Gi-Oh in the first exclusiveness on April 1st, 2002 and Mémomix in March 2003, which changes to eight the number of emissions to the antenna.

the candidature of Channel J is retained by the SCUMS for its paying diffusion in full channel on the digital terrestrial television (TNT) and its convention is signed by the Superior council of Audio-visual the (SCUMS) in May 2003. The chain is received by 3.500.000 subscribed hearths and its audiences are in rise.

Channel J launches two other variations: the first, devoted exclusively to the girls, on the cable and CanalSat on September 1st 2004: Girls TV. The second on November 18th 2005 on free TNT in partnership with France Televisions: Gulli. In parallel, Canal J arrives on the paying offer of TNT.

Following fusion CanalSat/TPS, Channel J, Girls TV and TiJi arrive on TPS during the summer 2007. The chain counts 5,5 million subscribed families.

Since the August 27th 2007, the chain changes its logo and gives up the logo spiral dattant of 1998 for a more modern look.

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