Television channel
True Spark
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Country
| Thailand
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Broadcast area
| Thailand
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Picture format
| 576i
(
4:3
SDTV
)
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Owner
| TrueVisions
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Launched
| 17 April 1989
(35 years ago)
(
1989-04-17
)
UBC: July 1, 1998
True: January 23, 2007
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Replaced
| Toon (True Spark Jump)
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Former names
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- IBC 7, IBC Cartoons, IBC Kids
(1989?1998)
- UBC Movies and Kids
(1998?1999)
- UBC Kids
(1999?2003)
- UBC Spark
(2003?2007)
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Website
| http://www.truevisionstv.com/
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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
:
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). It was broadcast on IBC Channel 7. After a few years, IBC Cartoons was renamed IBC Kids (
Thai
:
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). 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
:
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). 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
:
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). It was broadcast on channel 26 between 6:00am to 8:00pm.
On 1 July 2003, it was renamed to UBC Spark (
Thai
:
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), 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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