Kika

KiKa

KiKA (full name: "Der KinderKAnal von ARD und ZDF" ; formerly KI.KA= "The Children's Channel of ARD & ZDF") is a public non-commercial free television channel based in Erfurt, Germany. It is a joint venture of national public television channels ARD, and ARD's constituent broadcasting institutions – BR, HR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen, RBB, Saarländischer Rundfunk, SWR, WDR and ZDF, and is targeted at children and youth. KiKA is broadcast on analog cable and satellite as well as digital services, DVB-T, cable and via Astra. KiKA operates daily from 6:00 a.m. CET until 9:00 p.m. CET, and airs a mixture of live action and animated features. Until 2003, its analog cable and satellite service ended at 7:00 p.m. CET; after that time the frequency was used by Arte. KiKA now has exclusive use of its frequency — Arte was assigned its own in 2003.