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"Kix" redirects here. For the Asian TV channel, see Kix (Asian TV channel).
2008–2014 2014–2017 2017–2025
2008–2014 2014–2017 2017–2025

Kix!

2008–2014

Kix!
Designer:  Lumiere Studios
Typography:  New Unicode (Ki !)

Baby Kruffy (X)

Launched:  May 19, 2008

Kix

2014–2017

Kix
Designer:  String & Tins for Future Forever
Typography:  Unknown
Launched:  2014

Pop Max

2017–2025

Pop Max 2017
Designer:  Duck Thunder
Typography:  Custom
Launched:  August 30, 2017

On 30 August 2017, the channel was rebranded as Pop Max.

The channel shut down on April 21, 2025.[1] On August 20, 2025, Pop Max was relaunched on Freeview as a FAST channel, but was shut down again on December 10.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sky confirms removal of children’s channel" – RXTV (April 17, 2025)
  2. ↑ August 20, 2025 - Latest Channel Updates on Freeview
  3. ↑ December 10, 2025 - Latest Channel Updates on Freeview


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owned by Narrative Capital Partners

Great!:
Entertainment channels: Great! TV
Movie channels: Great! Action | Great! Movies | Great! Mystery | Great! Romance
On-demand: Great! Player
Defunct: GREAT! comedy | GREAT! real

Pop:
Children's channels: Pop | Pop Up | Tiny Pop
Defunct: Pop Kids | Kix Power | Pop Girl | Pop Player | Pop Power | Pop Max

Narrative Entertainment
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Part of Sony

Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group:
Columbia Pictures (Ghost Corps) | TriStar Pictures | Sony Pictures Animation | Sony Pictures Classics | Screen Gems (Scream Gems) | 3000 Pictures22 | Sony Pictures Imageworks | Sony Pictures Digital (Digital Productions) | Sony Pictures Releasing (International) | Sony Pictures Consumer Products | Provident Films | Sony Pictures International Productions

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:
Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | Sony Pictures Kids Zone | Kartoon Studios (7%)

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions:
Destination Films | Affirm Films | Stage 6 Films

Sony Pictures Television:
2waytraffic | 19 Entertainment | Affirm Originals | AXN Original Production | Columbia Showcase Theatre | Crunchyroll, LLC (95%)1 (Hayate) | Embassy Row | Game Show Enterprises | Gemstone Studios | Intellectual Property Corporation | Left Bank Pictures | Maxine | Sharp Entertainment | Silver River Productions | Sony Pictures Television Kids | Sony Pictures Television Networks Original | Sony Pictures Television Nonfiction | Starling | Teleset (50%)

Sony Pictures Television Networks:
AXN: Asia | Latin America | Portugal and Spain
Other AXN-branded channels: AXN White (Portugal) | AXN Movies (Spain | Portugal)

Sony Channel: Latin America | Brazil

Sony Movies: Latin America | United States (Sony Cine)

Other US Networks: Great Entertainment Television

Video-on-demand:
Crunchyroll | Sony Networks | Sony One | Sony Pictures Core

Other channels:
Crunchyroll Channel | Game Show Network3 (Game Show Central) | Lifetime (Latin America)4 | FMN (Indonesia)5

Sony Pictures Experiences:
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema | Columbia Pictures Aquaverse | Wonderverse

Other assets: Sony Pictures Mobile | Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions | AXN Sync | AXN Now | AXN Player | Movies Anywhere | Sony Pictures Studios | Sony Pictures Virtual Reality | Madison Gate Records | Great American Pure Flix | Madhouse (5%)6 | Peanuts Worldwide (41%)35

Former/defunct assets:
Film and television studios: AnimeLab | Barris Industries | Barris Program Sales | The Burbank Studios30 | CBC Film Sales Corporation | Chorion | Coca-Cola Telecommunications27 | Colex Enterprises31 | Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors32 | Columbia/Embassy Television | Columbia Night at the Movies | Columbia Pictures Television | Columbia Pictures Television Distribution | Columbia TriStar Television | Columbia TriStar Domestic Television | Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International | Culver Entertainment | Diplomatic Productions | Embassy Communications | Embassy Home Entertainment | Embassy Pay Television | Embassy Pictures | Fearnet | First Independent Films | First Release Home Entertainment | Four D Productions | Funimation Channel | Funimation Films | Gaumont Columbia TriStar Films8 | Gaumont Columbia TriStar Home Video8 | Hoyts-Fox-Columbia TriStar Films33 | Merv Griffin Enterprises | The Guber-Peters Entertainment Company | Jim Henson Pictures | Lean-M21 | Madman Anime Group | Magic Window | Manga Entertainment UK | The Mimus Corporation | Musicvision | Navarre Corporation29 | Nozomi Entertainment | Our Time Family Entertainment | Pop | PITS Films | Rastar Films | Rastar Television | RCA-Columbia Pictures-Hoyts Video | Screen Gems | Screen Gems Network | Skybound Galactic2 | Sony Pictures Entertainment Visual Works7 | Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group | Sony Pictures Television International | Sony Wonder | Sony Wonder Television26 | Spelling-Goldberg Productions | Starling23 | Sunbow Entertainment28 | SVS Triumph | Tandem Productions | T.A.T. Communications Company | Tri-Star Showcase | TriStar Television | Triumph Films | Victory Television | Video Box Office

Defunct television channels: United States: 3net9 | UK and Ireland: TruTV10 | Western Europe: AXN (Italy) | AXN Sci Fi (Italy) | Pop (Italy) | Cine Sony (Italy) | Sony Entertainment Television (Portugal | Spain) | Central and Eastern Europe: AXN Crime | Sony Channel (Baltics12 | Turkey) | Sony Turbo10 | Sony Çocuk | Sony Mutfak | Sony Max (Turkey) | Southeast Asia: Sony Channel | Sony BeTV | Sony Pix Thriller | India: AXN | Sony ESPN13 | Sony Le Plex HD | Sony Rox HD | Sony Ten Golf HD | Canada: Sony Movie Channel | AXN Movies | Latin America: Sony Spin4 | South Africa: Sony Channel | Sony Max | Star Channel (Japan) | Israel: AXN | Netherlands: Cinenova34

Video-on-demand: Southeast Asia and India: HOOQ13 | United States: VRV | Funimation

Divested television channels: Southeast Asia:14 AXN | Gem | One | Animax | Japan:20 AXN | AXN Mystery | Animax | Kids Station | Sony Channel | UK and Ireland: Sony Pictures Television UK Networks15 (Sony Channel | Sony Movies | Sony Movies Classic | Sony Movies Action) | Netherlands: Film116 | Russia:17 Sony Channel Russia | Sony Sci-Fi | Sony Turbo | Central and Eastern Europe:18 AXN (Hungary, Poland, Romania) | AXN Black (Central Europe, Poland, Romania) | AXN White (Romania) | AXN Spin (Balkans, Poland, Romania) | Hungary:18 AXN | Viasat 2 | Viasat 319 | Viasat 619 | Viasat Film | Germany:24 Sony Channel | Sony AXN | Taiwan:25 Sony Super TV | Korea: AXN

Video-on-demand: Crackle

Other: Sony Pictures DVD Center

Notes
1 Co-owned with Aniplex.
2 Formerly co-owned with Skybound.
3 Formerly co-owned with AT&T; Sony acquired AT&T’s stake of GSN in 2019.
4 Joint venture with A+E Networks.
5 Joint venture with Dori Media Group.
6 Co-owned with Nippon Television.
7 Transferred to Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 2001 and renamed to Aniplex in 2003.
8 Joint venture with Gaumont.
9 Joint venture with IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery
10 Under license from Warner Bros. Discovery.
11 Sold to Duo Media Networks (Postimees Grupp).
12 Joint venture with ESPN.
13 Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery and Singtel.
14 Sold to KC Global Media Entertainment.
15 Sold to Narrative Entertainment.
16 Sold to SPI International.
17 Sold to National Media Group.
18 Sold to Antenna Group.
19 Under license from Viasat.
20 Sold to Nojima.
21 Sold to JVM Holding.
22 Joint venture with HarperCollins.
23 Sold to Sastisfaction Group.
24 Sold to High View Group.
25 Sold to Eastern Television.
26 Sold to Studio 100.
27 Co-onwed by The Coca-Cola Company.
28 Joint venture with Hasbro.
29 Assets acquired by WYNIT Distribution LLC.
30 Joint venture with Warner Bros. Studios.
31 Joint venture with LBS Communications, Inc..
32 Joint venture with Thorn EMI, Warner Bros. and Cannon Films.
33 Joint Venture with 20th Century Studios.
34 Joint venture with Buena Vista International Television, Sony Pictures Entertainment and UPC Nederland.
35 Joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates.
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