Pop Girl

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Pop Girl

Programming
Picture format	16:9/4:3, 576i (SDTV)
Timeshift service	Pop Girl +1 (2008-2013)
Ownership
Owner	Sony Pictures Television
Sister channels	Bliss Chart Show Dance Chart Show TV Flava Kix More Than Movies Movies4Men Pop Scuzz Sony Entertainment Television Sony Movie Channel Starz TV Tiny Pop True Drama True Entertainment True Movies 1 True Movies 2 The Vault
History
Launched	6 August 2007
Closed	1 October 2015

Pop Girl was a free-to-air children's television channel in the United Kingdom, owned by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels), a company associated with the makers of The Chart Show, a television programme that had previously been on Channel 4 and ITV. It broadcast cartoons, live action and pop music videos on Sky and Freesat. Its target audience was 7 to 12-year-old girls.^[1]

Pop Girl originally broadcast from 6 am until 9 pm in order to share bandwidth with the now-defunct AnimeCentral, a general entertainment channel also owned and operated by CSC Media Group, which broadcast from 9 pm until 6am. Subsequently, Pop Girl's broadcast hours were extended to match those of Pop Max and it broadcast from 6am until 11:30 pm. This allowed the sharing arrangement with AnimeCentral to end, thus allowing the entertainment channel to broadcast 24 hours when it became Showcase TV (now 'True Entertainment').