Gloob
Gloob (Portuguese pronunciation: ""Glubi"") is a Brazilian pay TV kids channel that was launched on 15 June 2012, aimed at children 6 to 12 years old. It belongs to Globo, a Grupo Globo company that, in 2020, unified TV Globo, Globo.com, Gestão Corporativa and Globosat (now called Canals Globo). Its name is an anagram of the word Globo, reversing the letter "O" before the "B". History. Background. In late 1995, it was announced that Globosat would be making deals with News Corporation to develop domestic versions of U.S. channels to the country. Among them were ESPN International, Fox News  Channel and Fox Kids. The premiere date of the children's channel was scheduled for June 1996, but only USA Network, the company's movie channel, was launched with Fox Kids being launched in November by Fox itself. In June 2012, due to an audience considered low for children's programs on broadcast TV, Globo announced it would stop broadcasting its children's strand, "TV Globinho", during the week to focus on a female audience with a new block, "Encontro". To retain this audience, Globo launched a full-time pay TV channel, which would be more lucrative than its predecessor . The channel had been scheduled to be launched on 1 June 2012, but this was postponed two weeks to 15 June 2012. It appeared at launch on NET, Claro TV, Vivo TV, CTBC TV, Oi TV, GVT TV and Sky. On Sky, it was initially offered only in HD until December 2012. In 2017, a separate channel for the preschool audience, , was launched.