Canal Panda (Rikkedia)

Canal Panda is a Rekkdian television network owned by AMC Networks Rekkedia. The channel broadcasts animated series and entertainment programmings for children from 3 to 7 years.
== History ==
The channel was launched on July 5th, 1999.
Its daily broadcast, originally, was 11 hours, without interruptions and with a great diversity of programs such as cartoons, real image series, children's films, news programs and special programs on sport, music and culture, but also with some series politically incorrect. Since 2014, its daily emission has increased to 24 hours.
As in the 2000s there was still no Panda Biggs (it only appeared in 2009, which later became Biggs only), the Panda Channel was also aimed at teenagers and young adults. Canal Panda, from 2011, started to dedicate itself exclusively to children up to 10 years of age.
As of July 6, 2016, the channel was remodeled with a new image and a new logo, making it also more appealing to children. The target audience was also reduced for the smaller audience. 
As of March 25, 2013, the Panda Channel in Portugal started to have an HD channel.
=== Panda Mix and Live Panda ===
The two attractions that the channel had in the first half of the 2000s were Panda Mix and Panda ao Vivo . At a time when Biggs did not yet exist , nor did the children's Panda Festival , Canal Panda had these programs. On Friday night, the channel broadcast Panda Mix , which was a program that broadcast several video clips (just like Biggs does, but Canal Panda did not use them as a stop-gap, it had its own program). On Saturday night, the channel was broadcasting at 8:30 pm, Panda ao Vivo , which were concerts with famous celebrities, such as " Keane " or " Mika". Panda Mix was just acquiring copyrights. Saturday's concerts were recorded in several countries and then they were taken to Portuguese TV. 
The broadcasts were always regular and continued until 2008 , due to strict criteria related to the target audience for children, as these programs were for the elderly and the channel had to focus on content suitable for children.
=== The "plug-holes" of programming ===
One of the peculiarities that the channel also had was the showing of a magazine or an animated cartoon between 2 and 7 minutes between one program and another, just as RTP sometimes did. These drawings had been broadcast since the early 2000s and were not on the schedule (only those that were between 15 and 30 minutes long) and worked at various times, and these were also those that just before 1 am ended the broadcast. The most accepted and transmitted were Panda Flash and Panda Sport and cartoons were those of Renada (Renaade) , A Aranha (Spider!), Lua, Hugo and Egon and Jimbo (Jimbo and the Jet Set). The cartoons continued until2009 , but Panda Sport ended just before 2005 and Panda Flash remained (at some point in a fleeting way) until July 2015, when the channel totally reshaped the programming.
== Programmings ==
=== Animated series ===
* Charley and Mimmo
* Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
* Elinor Wonders Why
* Let's Go Luna
* Scribbles and Ink
* Teletubbies
== Broadcast hours ==
Date start 	Date end 	Air start	Air end
July 5th 1999 	December 24th 1999	7:00 	18:00
December 25th 1999	January 9th 2000 	7:00 	19:00
January 10th 2000 	March 31st 2000 	6:30 	19:30
April 1st 2000 	May 31st 2003 	6:00 	20:00
April 1st 2003 	December 24th 2004	5:30 	20:30
December 25th 2004	April 31st 2006 	5:00 	21:00
May 1st 2006 	June 29th 2009 	5:00 	22:00
June 30th 2009 	July 24th 2014 	5:00 	23:00
July 25th 2014 	present 	24 hours 	24 hours