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Wide Eyes News from the Tube

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Wide Eyes News from the Tube (Skibidi Toilet Rules: The Viral Sensation Overtaking Kids’ Online Viewing)

May 23, 2025

At this year’s annual international children’s TV conference, Kidscreen Summit, the major takeaways were that the traditional children’s linear broadcast TV business was in...

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Wide Eyes News from the Tube (What’s The Next Big Thing In Music For Small Children? Here Are The Ones To Watch.)

October 9, 2024

We all know The Wiggles — they have dominated the preschool children’s music scene in Australia and around the world for the last 30...

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Wide Eyes News from the Tube (Amazon Prime Brings You All The Ads)

February 11, 2024

Amazon Prime Brings You All The Ads At No Extra Cost — Want No Ads, Well You’re Paying More For That Viewing Experience On the...

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Wide Eyes News from the Tube (No Commercial Quota / No Commercial Kids Shows)

October 5, 2023

No commercial quota / no commercial kids shows produced Down Under — and the big red raspberry goes to... the Federal Government. So what was...

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Wide Eyes News from the Tube (FAST TV channels are booming in Australia but who knew?)

June 6, 2023

Over the last two years in Australia there has been a quiet explosion in the number of free ad-supported streaming TV channels (FAST) on...

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Wide Eyes News from the Tube (The Rise of the SVODs is Slowing Down to a Crawl and the FTA Dinosaurs are Fighting Back)

March 5, 2023

In 2019, Wide Eyes wrote that “SVOD will be the new norm in viewing content either at home or outside the home and will...

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Wide Eyes News from the Tube (What’s All This Stuff About the Metaverse Anyway?)

October 31, 2022

All the buzz & hype these days seems to be around the Metaverse, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrencies and blockchain. But what does it all...

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