Sony Yay (Rikkedia)

**Sony Yay** is a Rikkedian television network owned by Sony Pictures Television Rikkedia. The channel broadcasts animated, live-action series and movies programmings for whole family.

## History

On July 25, 2018, AMC Networks International Rikkedia announced that Minimax will go 24/7 in Rikkedia in October 5 of that year. As a result, Sony Pictures Television Rikkedia auditionned Minimax's primetime block up to that point, **Animax**, for digital terrestrial television.

However, on February 1, 2019, the project was renamed to **Pop** and the project was modified, airing cartoons as well. This was due to due to it's free-to-air position.

On September 1, 2020, **Pop** was launched, featuring three blocks : Tiny Pop (04:00-12:00) airs cartoons and series for preschoolers, **Pop** (12:00-20:00) for cartoons and series for kids, and Pop Max (20:00-04:00) airs anime.

On March 28, 2021, due to various complaints, Pop Max was renamed to Animax.

On July 18, 2021, Sony Pictures Television Rikkedia announced that **Pop** will rebrand to **Sony Yay**. As a result **Pop** and Tiny Pop will be merged, but Animax will remain, though renamed as Sony Animax.

On 15th November 2021, **Pop** and Tiny Pop merged into Sony Yay, and Animax was renamed into Sony Animax

## Description

The basic principle of the channel will be EDUCATE and DISTRACT.

This Rikkedian channel project is part of a logic for the group on which it depends and which provides programs for young people several terrestrial or cable and satellite channels in Rikkedia. Thus, Sony Yay will feature the heroes and characters that children already know and appreciate (Talking Tom, Molang, 44 Cats ...) but will also participate in the production of Rikkedian and Emporian works in order to create cartoons specific to the Rikkedian market.

The channel will target children from 2 to 14 years old, through 3 main time slots. In the morning, children aged 2 to 5 will be able to discover early learning programs while older children aged 6 to 10 will have their programs at noon and afternoon. Japanese animation fans will have to wait until the evening and the night to find animes that will be intended for them.

Mainly built around cartoons, the station will also offer on-set shows such as CLUB YAY which will be daily shows giving the channel an identity. Other programs will focus more particularly on entertaining with games, on discovering universes as varied as music or the environment.

The programs will respect the strong values ​​of the channel: respect for children with a tone adapted to different ages, positive characters, tolerance, all aimed at girls and boys.

## Programmings

### Current programming

#### Sony Yay

* ***Ella, Oscar & Hoo***
* ***Sesame Street***
* ***Remy & Boo***
* ***Molang***
* ***Dino City***
* ***The Ollie & Moon Show***
* ***Barbapapa Around the World***
* ***Oggy Oggy***
* ***My Little Pony : Pony Life***
* ***Trulli Tales***
* ***Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy***
* ***Pikwik Pack***
* ***Gus the Itsy-Witsy Knight***
* ***Super Wings***
* ***Lilybuds***
* ***Appolo's Tail Tales***
* ***Care Bears: Unlock the Magic***
* ***Masha and the Bear***
* ***Elinor Wonders Why***
* ***Kody Kapow***
* ***Dinotrux***
* ***Enchantimals***
* ***Potatoes and Dragons***
* ***Once Upon A Time Man***
* ***Skylanders Academy***
* ***Kirby: Right Back At Ya!***
* ***Just So Stories*** (1981)
* ***Talking Tom and Friends***
* ***Power Rangers: Dino Fury***
* ***44 Cats***
* ***Troll Hunters : Tales of Arcadia***
* ***Tom and Lili*** (2019)
* ***Ninja Express***
* ***Tupu***
* ***Nawak***
* ***Cupcake & Dino***
* ***Polly Pocket*** (2018)
* ***Counterfiet Cat***
* ***Sonic Boom***
* ***Grizzy and the Lemmings***
* ***Squish***
* ***Oswaldo***
* ***The Strange Chores***
* ***Oggy and the Cockroaches***
* ***Centaur World***
* ***Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs***
* ***Hotel Transylvania***

#### Sony Animax

* ***Pokémon Journeys: the Series***
* ***Dragon Ball Super***
* ***Zak Storm***
* ***Bakugan: Armored Alliance***
* ***Mega Man : Fully Charged***
* ***Fruits Basket***
* ***The Seven Deadly Sins***
* ***Golden Kaumy***
* ***Doraemon*** (2005)
* ***Yo-Kai Watch***
* ***Inazuma Eleven***
* ***Beyblade Burst***
* ***Boruto***
* ***One Piece***
* ***Hunter X Hunter*** (2011)
* ***Assasination Classroom***
* ***One Punch Man***
* ***Gyrozetter***
* ***Jojo's Bizzare Adventure***
* ***Mew Mew Power***

#### Interstitials

* ***Doodlez***
* ***Trotro***
* ***Keeko***
* ***Cubs***
* ***Best Friends***

#### Movies by rights

* **Columbia Pictures**
* **Sony Pictures Animation**
* **Lionsgate**

### Former programming

#### Pop

* **Space Goofs**
* ***Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty***
* ***Titeuf***
* ***Power Players***
* ***Space Chickens in Space***

#### Tiny Pop

* ***Zafari***
* ***My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic***

## Logos

First logo (2020 to 2021)HD logo (2020 to 2021)Current logo (2021 to present)HD logo (2021 to present)