CER Two

**CER Two** (known on-air as **CER2** or **CER2 HD** until 2015) is a ad-free digital television station broadcasting from the CER Two-ZooMoo Broadcast Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas (adjacent to McCain Mall), and is owned by CER Two Television Networks, it launched on June 5th, 2011. The mascot of CER Two is Geoffrey the Giraffe since 2018 onwards and is seen on its new co-produced programs like Geoffrey's Big Backyard, Geoffrey's Diary, Make & Do, and Jumpin' Beats. Unlike the formerly-owned Ene and the now-defunct formerly-owned South Korean commercial television network CBN, and like the cable/satellite community channel ARTV, CER Two is a 24-hour ad-free entertainment/TV information service and offers a variety of un-interrupted programming from foreign and domestic broadcasters like the BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and other international networks along with originally-produced entertainment programming, the latest entertainment, and music news, movie and TV reviews, up-to-the-minute news and weather, the hottest videos and trends, live traffic reports and stock markets, road closings, festival and event closings, delays, and cancellations, movie reviews, sports news/highlights and live scores, the latest broadcast and cable TV listings and scheduling information, and the most up-to-date travel forecasts and conditions along with airport delays when available. CER Two is also seen on cable TV across Saline County, and on the digital subchannels of KCER-TV (channel 42.3) and KWAB-TV (channel 22.1), along with our satellite stations which are formerly satellites of KDUL-TV until December 31st, 2017 including **KRTF-TV** (channel 10) in Conway, **KJES-TV** (channel 38) in Jonesboro, **KHRM-TV** (channel 20) in Harrison, **KPBF-TV** (channel 68) in Sheridan and Pine Bluff, **KCMW-TV** (channel 56) in Fort Smith and Fayetteville, **WFXM-TV** (channel 33) in Macon, **WRTJ-TV** (channel 5) in New Britain and Harford, and **WQWN-TV** (channel 10) in Waterbury and New Haven.

## History

    On June 5th, 2011 at Kaylor's older house in Haskell, Arkansas, CER Two begins broadcasting and goes on the air as Benton's premiere entertainment station on KCER-DT42.2, the first program aired at 5 am was Johnson and Friends.

In 2012, CER2 begins broadcasting in high definition, rebranding the station as CER2 HD and launched a new on-air look to reflect CER2's big move to HD.

In April 2013, CER2 HD becomes the new home of CBeebies and CITV programming and in October 2013, CER2 HD becomes Benton's new home for classic Treehouse TV programs previously seen on a Canadian preschool channel until February 27th, 2011.

In February 2014, CER2 HD moved to Pinnacle Drive in East End and introduced a new programming format in August 2014 featuring the best in Music, Entertainment, News, and Sports.

In September 2015, CER2 HD renamed as CER Two and introduced a new logo and on-air look including its new slogan "The One to Watch" bought from Seven Network Australia, and in November 2015, CER Two moved its studios to 8567 Cedar Street in Tull, Arkansas and the station begins broadcasting from its new home in Tull, initially, CER Two was on the air out of the internet for the first 4 months, the internet was finally connected in mid-February 2016 when the station begins to receive up-to-the-minute weather and traffic information from the internet.

On April 11th, 2016, CER Two moved to KCER-DT 42.3 due to the launch of City America, this will move KCER Now to KCEZ-DT 53.2 as of this date, and on October 12th, 2016, CER Two premieres its second vlog series Sam & Nia from the producers of All4TubeKids which also aired as the first vlog series premiered on CER Two on August 19th, 2014.

On April 30th, 2018, after Toys R Us closed some of its stores in all US locations, Geoffrey the Giraffe (under the 1999 and the 2007 designs) adopted by CER Two as a part of the new identity, and introduce a new on-air look, new graphics, and newly-designed logo which is based on Toys R Us logo, along with the new slogan bought from Toys R Us "Today We Play", and offers an experience to play with our friends and characters (from family-oriented formatted CER Two) through new ID's and promos along with new original programming produced exclusively for CER Two, and also adopted the 2014 Toys R Us campaign song *C'Mon Let's Play* for new CER Two station ID's and promos, but with the new slogan *Today we Play* sung in place of *C'Mon Let's Play*.

As a result of Toys R Us stores, partly closing in the US and remaining open in Canada, all the features that they have seen at Toys R Us including Easter Egg Hunt, Geoffrey's Birthday Club, and seasonal events have moved to CER Two as part of a new on-air format.

On January 5th, 2020, to reflect its newly expanded 4065-hour library of video game long plays and gameplays as seen exclusively on WFXM-TV and also seen at selected times on many CER Two relay stations, CER Two adopted its new tertiary slogan *The Games & Entertainment Network* alongside its current slogan *Today we Play*, and its new graphics for its station ID's, it also begins sailing selected programming sourced from KiKA in Germany.

On February 24th, 2020, a hard drive error caused the 298GB hard drive to have its files corrupted and the pandemic of COVID-19, as a result of this, CER Two has decided to end its old format on the primetime schedule after 9-and-a-half years on the air and to delete its Show Promos and Station ID's folders as we expanded its new format to our primetime schedule to reflect CER Two's 24/7 commercial-free programming in order to create the best entertainment value in time for Spring 2020, and on February 29th, 2020, CER Two was re-launched as the **Whole New CER Two**, ending its 5-day run of a stunting promo loop of CER Two's new era on the air, marking a exciting new era of ad-free/full-service television with some videos that are being corrupted and/or deleted as of February 24th, 2020 having replaced with updated videos, expanded its video game programming to include more video game longplays/gameplays and a hourly videogame news service named **GameBeat**, and expanded its coverage to be seen coast-to-coast via satellite nationwide, creating a national ad-free broadcast television network for the first time since November 28th, 2018, additionally, CER Two has also decided to launch its fast-paced and tabloid-based news department named **CER Two NewsBeat** and it will launch its flagship news and investigation program named **Pulse** on Monday, September 21st, its crime-based newsmagazine named **CER Two CrimeBeat** on Tuesday, September 22nd, its science/technology newsmagazine named **ScienceDesk** on Wednesday, September 23rd, its new 3-hour morning block named **TrafficJams** featuring on-screen traffic and weather reports (using traffic and weather maps along with live camera feeds of roads in the Benton and Little Rock areas) in a L-bar format alongside its regular various programming (both long-form and short-form) on Monday, September 28th, its new nightly weather program named **WeatherNight** and its late-night sports program named **SportsWatch** on Tuesday, September 29th, and its current affairs newsmagazine named **Nightly File** on Wednesday, September 30th.

On July 13th, 2020, CER Two was taken off the air to upgrade the station's programming and to add new show promos, a new massive top-of-the-hour launcher reflecting the channel's ZooMoo content (aired at selected times), and to also add ZooMoo content to the mix of programming until exactly 9pm that night in preparation of becoming the new home for ZooMoo content serving as the channel's new continuity segments airing in-between most programs and it will also launch CER Two's new bigger home in North Little Rock, Arkansas in November 2020 to serve as the new world headquarters of the network (along with a new US version of ZooMoo) with a new setting related to CER Two's new ZooMoo content and the station's games and entertainment programming and features a giant living room similar to the CBeebies set, a big kitchen named **Geoffrey's Kitchen**, a dining room named **CER Two Diner**, a video arcade room named **Video Arcade** which also offers a studio for the station's hourly GameBeat video game news service, four bedrooms related to the ZooMoo and Nick Jr programming seen on CER Two, three master bathrooms, its centralcasting master control room (which controls the CER Two network along with ZooMoo, CER Two's digital networks suite, and its local opt-outs for its CER Two relay stations) featuring its new broadcast video mixer and its video wall including the preview and program monitors along with monitors for its cameras, graphics, video, and still store, its satellite room offering its video wall with programming transmitted from the international television networks via satellite which is recorded for tape-delay broadcast on CER Two thru its video decks, its 24-hour newsroom for the newly launched tabloid-based news operation called **CER Two NewsEdge** which features its new anchor desk (which is also used for non-news programming on CER Two) along with a new weather lab for weather forecasts and the new roadway traffic center for traffic reports, several studios for CER Two's original programming (including the new US version of Mat Yoyo, and its ZooMoo programming), a new set for CER Two's nightly newsmagazine **Nightly File**, its video editing suites for pre-recorded programming and news stories, and its 24-hour kindergarten/Toys R Us store-hybird entertainment center featuring its additional video arcade games (including arcade games being published by Midway, Sega, Taito, and Namco), a lot of toys similar to the Toys R Us stores, a kindergarten school related to CER Two's mascot (Geoffrey the Giraffe) and its ZooMoo programming, and new fictional buildings such as a school, a hospital, a motel, and several others.

On August 26th, 2020, CER Two licensed the rights of uses of the former name of TLC, "The Learning Channel" from Discovery, Inc., and on August 30th, 2020, CER Two launches its new branding and new forth slogan known as "CER Two: The Learning Channel", its new branding reflects the station's educational programming and providing a variety of education and entertainment with a new strong focus on learning and educational opportunities, this new branding coincides with the upcoming move of CER Two's full operations to North Little Rock and the premiere of Jane and The Dragon on Monday, August 31st.

## Programming format

### Thomas Kong62704 version (with ads)

CER Two's programming format was oriented with entertainment especially indie show and animation series like StudioChu's Globolab and Good Mythical Morning. The shows as said are aimed at teenagers, with additional music and original programming (like The Fandroid Show until 2020). Anime also included in its format.

### Kaylor Blakley version (ad-free)

From June 5th, 2011 to November 28th, 2018, CER Two's programming format formerly offered classic and current television previews, behind the scenes interviews, news updates, and weather forecasts all taped from broadcast and cable stations from 1978 to May 2018 as well as short-form features produced by Sky Germany and its defunct digital cable channel Nickelodeon Games and Sports alongside promos for KCER-TV/CER2's programs, even after the new format was introduced in August 2014.

On November 28th, 2018, CER Two has revamped its programming format to reflect the station's new slogan and logo and began to incorporate the station's program promos, identifications, and program strand intros full-time for the first time since June 5th, 2011 to help make CER Two's programming more viewable, and despite its new programming format, it continues to broadcast its old format on its primetime schedule until February 22nd, 2020 and also continues to broadcast short-form content (both kids and adults) which airs more often during its weekday early morning hours between 7am to 10am alongside its CER Two program promos airing between shows as all of the station's programming is un-interrupted and self-contained with some shows being presented in 2 parts as separate standalone programs, therefore some programs (generally in the Sports, Travel, and Video Games categories) may cut-off at the 30 minute mark because all CER Two programs always start at the top and bottom of every hour.

To provide the best in high-quality uninterrupted programming, CER Two's revamped programming format has split into six programming categories:

* Music: Shows, information, and special events related to the world of music.
* Sports: Programming that covers the world of sports, including sports video games and sports-related shows.
* Travel: Entertainment and information programming that covers the people and places in travel.
* Vlogs: In-depth and entertaining vlog reports that provide insights and unscripted in-depth coverage.
* Video Games: Longplays and playthroughs of video games along with arcade tours and gameplay clips.
* Entertainment: Programming ranging from preschoolers to young adults along with family-friendly films.

There is also an alternate programming feed of the Kaylor Blakley version of CER Two seen exclusively on relay station WFXM-TV (channel 33) in Macon, Georgia offering additional times for various programming on a variety of genres during those times when its scheduled programs are seen on KCER-DT42.3 and most CER Two satellite stations along with broadcast premieres which are seen first on WFXM-TV before premiering on other CER Two stations one month later.

CER Two's screen format (using Intellistar hardware) uses a window in the top-left of the screen to show the current program, which is surrounded by a sidebar with weather and traffic reports, scrolling news headlines, and local entertainment/event information, and tickers for stocks and sports.

## List of CER Two network affiliates

* KCER-DT 42.3 Benton/Little Rock/Tull
* KRTF-TV 10 Conway
* KJES-TV 38 Jonesboro
* KHRM-TV 20 Harrison
* KPBF-TV 68 Sheridan/Pine Bluff
* KCMW-TV 56 Fort Smith/Fayetteville
* WFXM-TV 33 Macon
* WRTJ-TV 5 New Britain/Hartford
* WQWN-TV 10 Waterbury/New Haven
* WCER-TV 16 New York City
* WPHX-TV 33 Philadelphia
* WTSC-TV 35 Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater
* WCTW-TV 41 Chicago
* WMEM-TV 21 Memphis
* WRTB-TV 40 Medford/Boston
* WAQY-TV 13 Springfield
* KTYS-TV 8 Shreveport
* WKDH-TV 45 Houston/Tupelo/Columbus/West Point
* WJKS-TV 67 Jackson (formerly known as WJMI-TV until 1997)
* KMDD-TV 4 Midland/Odessa
* KIOC-TV 2 Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange
* KHBT-TV 7 Harlingen/McAllen/Brownsville
* KCDJ-TV 4 Corpus Christi
* WBCT-TV 20 Northport/Birmingham
* WLWI-TV 5 Montgomery
* WHTE-TV 8 Huntsville/Decatur
* WIIX-TV 5 Meridian
* KYYY-TV 36 Bismarck/Minot
* KGDK-TV 30 Glendive
* KMXD-TV 36 Missoula
* WNBF-TV 2 Binghamton
* WKFX-TV 13 Elmira/Corning
* WULI-TV 5 Utica/Rome
* WWAR-TV 10 Watertown
* KCLA-TV 38 Los Angeles
* WWDC-TV 40 Washington
* WNYS-TV 53 Syracuse (formerly known as WQKS-TV until January 14th, 2020)
* KHWO-TV 31 Honolulu (branded as The Hawaii Network; secondary affiliation with MyTV)
* KWAK-TV 26 Wailuku
* KHIO-TV 10 Hilo
* KLHI-TV 21 Lihue
* KMFD-DT 16.2 Medford
* KIXS-TV 17 San Antonio
* KQRQ-TV 36 Austin/Rochester/Albert Lee
* WVHZ-TV 48 Rochester
* KGIE-TV 55 Eugene/Springfield
* KGBH-TV 46 Seattle/Tacoma
* KXTQ-TV 12 Spokane/Coeur d'Alene
* KUTI-TV 2 Yakima
* KKBS-TV 27 Vancouver/Portland
* KSFL-TV 41 San Francisco
* KSCR-TV 49 Sacramento/Modesto
* KKDF-TV 26 Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz (branded as CER Two Central Coast)
* KCHI-TV 9 Chico/Redding (also seen, along with the other five stations, in the Eureka, CA area via cable)
* KEKA-TV 48 Eureka (semi-satellite of KCHI-TV serving the Eureka area)
* KTWX-TV 44 Dallas/Fort Worth
* KLVC-TV 17 Las Vegas
* KXRV-TV 20 Sparks/Reno
* WKTO-TV 2 Ashville/Greenville/Spartanburg
* WGRB-TV 46 Green Bay/Fox Cities
* WRLD-TV 27 Greenfield/Milwaukee
* WMEQ-TV 2 Menomonie/Eau Claire
* WMXX-TV 17 Sun Prairie/Madison
* WIFC-TV 2 Stevens Point/Wausau
* WKKF-TV 5 La Crosse
* WHOR-TV 30 Charlotte
* WGWH-TV 5 Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point
* WNFK-TV 16 Virginia Beach/Norfolk
* WMBL-TV 7 Mobile/Pensacola
* KCDI-TV 4 Des Moines
* KAXN-TV 25 Abilene/Sweetwater
* KKMJ-TV 38 Amarillo (branded as CER Two Magic 38)
* KLDX-TV 2 Plainview/Lubbock
* KEPS-TV 52 El Paso
* KKWX-TV 50 Fargo/Moorhead
* KFXP-TV 38 Idaho Falls/Pocatello (formerly known as KALC-TV until 2015)
* KYUX-TV 25 Mesa/Phoenix
* KBQI-TV 68 Albuquerque/Santa Fe
* KAOL-TV 22 Granite City/St. Louis
* KTKC-TV 56 Liberty/Kansas City
* KQTP-TV 10 Topeka
* KTVJ-TV 38 Joplin
* KFXD-TV 21 Nampa/Boise
* KZKK-TV 27 Sand Springs/Tulsa
* WTKG-TV 10 Grand Rapids/Battle Creek
* WIIC-TV 39 Pittsburgh
* WELX-TV 5 Erie
* WBXQ-TV 16 Johnstown/Altoona/State College
* WTPA-TV 6 Harrisburg/York/Lancaster/Lebanon
* WNSV-TV 13 Gallatin/Hendersonville/Nashville
* WJKB-TV 35 Johnson City/Kingsport/Bristol
* WWWO-TV 18 Oak Hill/Bluefield/Clarksburg/Weston (branded as 3WO SuperChannel)
* WHEL-TV 11 Wheeling/Steubenville
* WXGK-TV 13 Charlottesville (affiliated with CER Two's alternate feed)
* KXKS-TV 31 Cedar Park/Austin
* WNOC-TV 14 Kenner/New Orleans
* WRXL-TV 32 Richmond
* WEYX-TV 19 Miami/Fort Lauderdale
* WOFC-TV 40 Cocoa Beach/Orlando
* WRLR-TV 8 Fort Myers/Naples
* WYGT-TV 48 Ocala/Gainesville
* WJXW-TV 10 Jacksonville/Brunswick
* WCTA-TV 51 Gainesville/Atlanta
* WTWA-TV 50 Annapolis/Baltimore
* WITW-TV 42 Fishers/Indianapolis
* WBUF-TV 43 Niagara Falls/Buffalo
* WDYN-TV 10 Dayton/Springfield
* WCLE-TV 51 Shaker Heights/Cleveland
* WOXY-TV 4 Newport/Cincinnati
* WWZV-TV 5 Zanesville
* WPRK-TV 10 Parkersburg
* WTFL-TV 56 Thomasville/Tallahassee
* WLRW-TV 7 Champaign/Urbana/Springfield
* WPBG-TV 10 Peoria/Bloomington
* WPDX-TV 36 Paducah
* KIDA-TV 5 Twin Falls
* WMVX-TV 26 Greenwood/Greenville
* WLAI-TV 2 Charlottesville (affiliated with CER Two's main feed)
* WMGL-TV 5 Lima, OH
* WNCI-TV 25 Columbus
* KKHT-TV 35 Lake Jackson/Houston
* KRED-TV 48 Laredo
* WLSI-TV 6 Louisville
* WXKG-TV 47 Bowling Green
* KEXP-TV 34 Salt Lake City
* KCRR-TV 50 Cedar Rapids/Mason City
* KTWN-TV 15 Minneapolis/St. Paul
* KTOE-TV 44 Mankato
* KXFD-TV 18 Duluth/Superior
* KSOX-TV 35 Sioux Falls/Rapid City
* KSCZ-TV 7 Sioux City
* KSDC-TV 28 San Diego
* WAST-TV 48 Albany/Troy
* WGAX-TV 5 Albany, GA
* WSXJ-TV 19 Savannah
* WWRK-TV 22 Augusta
* KTLI-TV 58 Newton/Wichita
* WLXX-TV 33 Lexington
* KCXM-TV 41 Great Falls/Billings
* WXLK-TV 17 Roanoke/Lynchburg
* WDEC-TV 46 Sterling Heights/Detroit
* WRAV-TV 53 Traverse City/Cadillac
* WGGZ-TV 7 Baton Rouge
* KFCE-TV 11 Sanger/Fresno
* KDCE-TV 33 Denver/Boulder
* KJVC-TV 17 Colorado Springs/Pueblo
* KKCS-TV 35 Casper/Cheyenne
* KOKT-TV 51 Oklahoma City
* WRCE-TV 36 Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville
* WJVC-TV 5 Greenville/New Bern/Jacksonville
* KOMJ-TV 11 Omaha/Council Bluffs
* KXXM-TV 22 Wichita Falls/Lawton
* WCTK-TV 24 New Bedford/Providence
* WCRZ-TV 20 Flint
* WMER-TV 36 Florence/Myrtle Beach
* WJKA-TV 16 Wilmington
* WCRS-TV 6 Charleston, WV
* WSCC-TV 9 Charleston, SC
* WBOX-TV 16 Bangor
* WLGI-TV 26 Portland, ME
* WBPS-TV 10 Burlington/Plattsburgh
* WTWP-TV 2 Panama City
* WKXC-TV 31 Knoxville
* WKLX-TV 35 Chattanooga
* KYEL-TV 26 Yuma/El Centro
* WOWO-TV 5 Fort Wayne
* WKRZ-TV 10 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazelton
* KTUT-TV 56 Tucson
* WACO-TV 5 Waco
* KELR-TV 16 El Dorado/Monroe
* WQTW-TV 69 Quincy
* WWCR-TV 20 Rockford
* WPAL-TV 10 West Palm Beach
* WLCE-TV 12 Lansing/Jackson
* WSBC-TV 32 South Bend
* WSTV-TV 13 Savannah
* WTRC-TV 7 Terre Haute
* KBBL-TV 45 Springfield
* KSKC-TV 55 Columbia/Jefferson City
* WKOL-TV 52 Columbia
* WKBF-TV 13 Rock Island/Davenport
* KKXL-TV 25 Grand Forks
* KBCT-TV 5 Bakersfield

## Current programming

* Dora the Explorer
* The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
* Dora and Friends: Into the City!
* My Friends Tigger and Pooh
* Shimmer and Shine
* Go, Diego, Go!
* The Torres
* The Olivers
* Dani's adventures with Dora and Pooh
* Hey Dani!