New Broadcast Deals for Classic Media's Preschool Brands

Classic Media has announced new broadcast distribution deals for preschool series, "Guess with Jess" and "Tinga Tinga Tales."

The latest signings include Cartoon Network (Asia Pacific), RTB (Brunei), Emirates Cable TV/E-Vision (Middle East), Hop TV (Israel), YLE (Finland), TV3 (Malaysia), Canal Panda (Portugal), Vietnamese Broadcasting Corporation (Vietnam), ANTV (Indonesia), Mediacorp (Singapore), Difusion S.A (Argentina), CYBC (Cyprus), NRK (Norway) and EBS (South Korea).

"Guess with Jess," a co-production with Nelvana, made its U.K. broadcast debut November 2009 on CBeebies in the U.K. and has since launched on Treehouse in Canada, France 5 and ABC in Australia.

New deals for Classic Media's preschool "Tinga Tinga Tales" include ABC (Australia), Rai (Italy), Mini Mini (Poland), YLE (Finland), ViaSat 1, Can Family (Ghana), True Visions (Thailand), RTE (Ireland), NRK (Norway), SVT (Sweden), TVB (Hong Kong), Al Jazeera Children's Channel (Middle East), Canal Panda (Portugal), France TV (France).

"Tinga Tinga Tales," a co-production with Tiger Aspect Productions in association with HomeBoyz, launched February 2010 on U.K.'s CBeebies. It is set to air in the U.S. on Playhouse Disney in spring 2011.

"The reaction from our international broadcast partners to both 'Guess with Jess' and 'Tinga Tinga Tales' has been fantastic and the team has been busy securing deals on key platforms across the globe," says Chloe van den Berg, executive vice president of international, Classic Media.