True Spark

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True Spark
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Country Thailand
Broadcast area Thailand
Programming
Picture format 576i ( 4:3 SDTV )
Ownership
Owner TrueVisions
History
Launched 17 April 1989 (35 years ago)  ( 1989-04-17 )
UBC: July 1, 1998
True: January 23, 2007
Replaced Toon (True Spark Jump)
Former names
  • IBC 7, IBC Cartoons, IBC Kids
    (1989?1998)
  • UBC Movies and Kids
    (1998?1999)
  • UBC Kids
    (1999?2003)
  • UBC Spark
    (2003?2007)
Links
Website http://www.truevisionstv.com/

True Spark ( Thai : ????????? ) is a 24-hour television channel for children provided by TrueVisions . It broadcast cartoons that come from Japan, United States and Europe. It broadcasts on channel 444 (digital) and channel 28 (analogue).

History [ edit ]

True Spark has been broadcast since TrueVisions was IBC. In that time, it was named IBC Cartoons ( Thai : ?????? ??????? ). It was broadcast on IBC Channel 7. After a few years, IBC Cartoons was renamed IBC Kids ( Thai : ?????? ????? ). It was used to broadcast for 24 hours and presents new episodes of cartoons between 6:00pm to 8:30pm. After a few years, its broadcast duration was reduced to 5:00am to 8:00pm and presents new episodes of cartoons between 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Then, in July 1998, IBC combined its business with UTV, then renamed IBC to UBC, integrating cartoons and movies into one channel, under the banner of UBC Movies & Kids - broadcast on channel 25 ( Thai : ?????? ??????? ????? ????? ). The channel shows children's programmes between 6:00am to 8:00pm and shows movies and drama series from 8:00pm to 6:00am.

In March 1999, UBC separated all its movies into its own movie channel, UBC Movies, and at this time, the channel was renamed UBC Kids ( Thai : ?????? ????? ). It was broadcast on channel 26 between 6:00am to 8:00pm.

On 1 July 2003, it was renamed to UBC Spark ( Thai : ?????? ?????? ), and in 2004, UBC Spark moved to channel 28, and by June 1, 2005, the channel sees its broadcasting hours extended to 9:00pm

On 1 April 2006, UBC was renamed to UBC-True and following the move, UBC Spark began broadcasting 24-hours. On 23 January 2007, UBC-True was renamed to TrueVisions, was renamed True Spark, and presents new episodes of cartoons between 4:00pm to 8:00pm.

On 15 May 2016, True Spark was split into two channels True Spark Play and True Spark Jump.

On 1 October 2023, True Spark Jump had ceased broadcasting. All cartoons from True Spark Jump had been moved to True Spark Play.

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