HP Kids

HP Kids (stylized as HP K!DS) is an American cable and subscription channel aimed at a children's and youth audience that first aired on May 20, 2008 by Hewlett-Packard, focused on children's and youth series.

Beginnings of the channel
In July 2007, a children's entertainer had the idea that many children would watch television on the 24-hour channels that this channel will have from Monday to Sunday in the mornings for children from 3 to 7 years old, topics such as numbers, colors, respect for routines, stories, etc.

In January 2008 they said that the transmission would begin in May of that same year, on May 10 they announced that the transmission would begin on May 20, viewers reported the first transmission of the channel, the next day it began broadcasting at 9:30 am with the motto  The magic of children's television  with its first broadcast program Pinky Dinky Doo and its programming ends at 19:30 since many small children do not watch television. On May 25, the channel just started 5 days ago, it was successful in the ranking and received positive reviews from parents and children considering it as "The educational channel loved by children", on May 31 of the same year the website was launched with games, clips from the series, printables and physical activities and help for parents.

Successes in countries like Europe and Asia
In 2009, a year after the channel's launch, it was recommended on SHOWTIME TV and in the news. In countries like Europe it started that same year and in Asia in 2010 and it was a complete success.

The first HP KIDS interactive game
In March 2011 I changed the channel up a bit by adding shorts, movies, series and a game where you make fun games of interacting with a preschool girl and just start with a username and password like they wanted without the need for a email. and it was a huge success with 2,000 active users and raised $456,447,699 for the game and channel. In December 2014, the game was shut down due to channel changes. In March 2015, he proposed a similar one but in a school and had negative and positive reviews until May because the channel was celebrating its 7th anniversary.

The scandal and the complaints of the parents of 2016
In June 2016, HP KIDS promoted a commercial on TV, its Facebook page and its website, a compilation of educational videos from the Internet with the slogan  The Internet is now on our TV , many parents and guardians agreed on educate your children the videos and they will be broadcast on television on the 25th of the same year and month at approximately 12:15 p.m. it began, Marie Leiner was broadcast in the marathon and was successful, but two months later several parents and guardians sent the from HP KIDS to explain that it was broadcasting, HP KIDS ignored it completely and thought it was normal, at the end of October and beginning of November youtubers, Facebook users, newscasters and newspapers showed the tantrum of the children in total there were 995,554 according to the BBC News and HP KIDS woke up and canceled it immediately, according to them they lost a total of $878,552,999 due to parental complaints.

The first mascot of the channel
HP KIDS wanted something new to entertain with a character since many children got tired of commercials without encouragement, in July of the same year the movie Emoji: The Movie was released and the producer went to see it and loved it so much that on August 12 In 2017 the character Smiler appeared on the best television and gave advice to children and adolescents, the mascot was kept for two years and in February 2019 the same producer began to become obsessed with a zombie mermaid from the video game  PVZH , Neptuna and without notice it started on February 10, it started with more encouragement and many of the users were confused and sent comments like  The channel is fine or what  ,  The channel that broadcast by surprise and not being April Fools ' Day,  Failures that started badly '' , others for the style and humor, in an hour the channel apologized through social networks for the following: "We have seen the comments due to the commercial broadcast an hour ago and we want to apologize for the case, next time we will be notifying of any event, series, movies, channel changes and commercials that we will do in the future without any inconvenience."

On its website, in its social networks and in a commercial, a vote called "Who will be the mascot of the year" was carried out, which would be from July 5 to 10 between Smiler and Neptuna, many children even adults voted, Neptuna won with 100.00% votes and Smiler lost by 10.00% so Smiler was replaced by Neptuna and was the channel's most doubtful mascot.

Censorship
In July 2020, episode 10 of season 2 was broadcast for 31 minutes, the Servando Bueno scene was shown, but on July 16 of the same year it was broadcast again but the Servando Bueno scene was censored, according to the page said that it could be inappropriate and irrelevant, people sent emails and complaints about it, but they didn 't receive an answer, the following year HP KIDS apologized for the case, but they still kept censoring it until on the website and in the application it asks you to see only if you bought Neptuna de Oro other episodes that were irrelevant were never censored, causing controversy to HP KIDS, a few years the episode was never broadcast again.

In October 2021, Didactic stories with values was broadcast and almost of its 30 episodes were censored, but in 2022 it stopped showing the censored episodes.

Programming
The shows are rated TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G and TV-PG.

Current programming

 * Angelina Ballerina: The classic (2022-present)
 * Baby Shark's Big Show! (2023-present)
 * Dinosaur Train (2022-present)
 * Dragon Tales (2008-2009) - (2017-2018) - (2023-present)
 * Green Eggs and Ham (2021-present)
 * Little Princess (2021-present)
 * Plants vs Zombies Heroes: The Series (2019-present)
 * Siberek Adventures (2023-present)
 * The Bug Diaries (2021-present)
 * The Adventures of the Family Supertuna (2020-present)
 * The Proud Family (2022-present)
 * Thirty One Minutes (2020-present)
 * The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (2022-present)
 * The Amazing World of Gumball (2023-present)
 * Triassic Triumph: The Series (2020-present)
 * Villanland (2020-present)