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Input (English): Context: Corus Entertainment is a Canadian media and broadcasting company. Formed in 1999 as a spin-off from Shaw Communications, it is headquartered at Corus Quay in Toronto, Ontario, and has prominent holdings in the radio, publishing, and television industries. Corus Entertainment's voting majority is held by the company's founder JR Shaw and his family, and a 39% stake of Corus stock is owned by Shaw Communications., Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables or, in the 2010s, light pulses through fiber-optic cables. This contrasts with broadcast television, in which the television signal is transmitted over the air by radio waves and received by a television antenna attached to the television. FM radio programming, high-speed Internet, telephone services, and similar non-television services may also be provided through these cables.
Analog television was standard in the 20th century, but since the 2000s, cable systems have been upgraded to digital cable operation., A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks. Many early television networks (such as the BBC, NBC or CBC) evolved from earlier radio networks., Viacom, Inc. (known simply as Viacom) is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in cinema and cable television. It is currently the world's sixth largest broadcasting and cable company in terms of revenue, behind Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox and CBS Corporation, respectively. Voting control of Viacom is held by National Amusements, Inc., a privately owned theater company controlled by the billionaire Sumner Redstone. Redstone also holds via National Amusements a controlling stake in CBS Corporation., Biologically, a child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority., The Backyardigans is a Canadian -- American CGI - animated musical TV series created by Janice Burgess , It is a co-production of animation studio Nelvana and Nickelodeon Animation Studios . The series debuted on October 11 , 2004 and ended on May 31 , 2010 ; reruns of The Backyardigans continued to air on the Nickelodeon family of channels in the United States until 2015 . The show airs on Treehouse TV in Canada . In 2015 , the first season was included as part of Nickelodeon 's Noggin app , a mobile application featuring episodes of older Nick Jr. programs . The series was based upon a live - action pilot produced in 1998 titled Me and My Friends ., Treehouse TV (more commonly known as simply Treehouse) is a Canadian English-language cable television specialty channel that was launched on November 1, 1997. Its name comes from YTV's former children's programming block, "The Treehouse". The channel is owned by YTV Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of Corus Entertainment., Janice Burgess is the Canadian former key person of Nick Jr.. She is the creator and executive producer of "The Backyardigans", a CGI-animated series on Nick Jr. running from 2004 to 2013 about five high-spirited friends and their imaginative, musical journeys. , Viacom Media Networks (formerly MTV Networks) is an American mass media division of Viacom that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and Internet brands, including Nickelodeon, BET, CMT, Comedy Central, VH1 and the original MTV channel in the United States. Its sister international division is Viacom International Media Networks., The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world., Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977, and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 817, while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at younger children ages 27., A specialty channel can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic. , Subject: the backyardigans, Relation: instance_of, Options: (A) animated series (B) animation (C) antenna (D) billionaire (E) broadcasting (F) cable television (G) century (H) child (I) cinema (J) city (K) city of new york (L) comedy (M) commercial broadcasting (N) company (O) conglomerate (P) december (Q) division (R) education (S) entertainment (T) fashion (U) finance (V) founder (W) fox (X) home (Y) internet (Z) key ([) language (\) market (]) mass media (^) media conglomerate (_) musical (`) name (a) network (b) november (c) part (d) pay television (e) person (f) population (g) programming (h) radio (i) radio programming (j) radio waves (k) season (l) series (m) signal (n) single (o) specialty channel (p) standard (q) state (r) studio (s) telecommunications network (t) television (u) television channel (v) television network (w) the city (x) theater (y) voting
Output (English): animated series