Kelly, Sean, Dennisha, and Chica in a TWC/Sprout giveway banner ad.
Time Warner Cable was an American cable television company. Before it was acquired by Charter Communications on May 18, 2016, it was ranked the second largest cable company in the United States by revenue behind only Comcast, operating in 29 states. Its corporate headquarters were located in the Time Warner Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with other corporate offices in Stamford, Connecticut; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Herndon, Virginia.
For its second anniversary in September 2007, Sprout expanded its carriage agreement with Time Warner Cable to include digital cable transmission, which made it available in 34 million households starting in Bakersfield, California,[1] and added more than 250,000 subscribers after pickups of Sprout in Time Warner Cable systems in Lincoln, Nebraska; Portland, Oregon, Maine, and Dallas and San Antonio, Texas.[2] Time Warner Cable has been carrying Sprout’s video on-demand service since 2005 - originally channel 706 before moving to 715 on May 25, 2007. Sprout was channel 209 on Time Warner Cable in San Diego, 142 in Erie and Niagara counties, and 172 in Olean, New York.[3] Back then, Time Warner Cable didn’t carry anything with the name anywhere except for the on-demand service, as there were no plans to launch the channel at the time.[4] Sprout launched on Time September Cable's large regional systems in Los Angeles, Dallas and San Antonio.[5] The premiere of The Sprout Sharing Show less than a year later came off the heels of the deal.[6]
In 2006, Sprout was channel 146 on Time Warner Digital Cable.[7]
The Time Warner Cable agreement extended to Bright House Networks, which acquired Sprout in Tampa in 2008.
¡Hola Sproutitos!, a Sprout original series exclusive to Time Warner Cable on Demand, premiered in 2009.
In November 2013, the same month NBCUniversal acquired all of the channel, Time Warner Cable expanded the distribution of Sprout to customers' lineups in select cities, making it reach 60 million homes.
Sources
- ↑ 360AM: Oct. 3 Programming, Online News & More October 3, 2007 Retrieved September 26, 2024
- ↑ Preschool Net Sprouts More Time Warner Subs February 8, 2008 Retrieved September 26, 2024
- ↑ The Buffalo News, April 18, 2008, page 41
- ↑ Growth Spurt for Two-Year-Old Sprout September 9, 2007 Retrieved August 26, 2024
- ↑ Sprout Launches In Tampa On Bright House Networks September 17, 2008 Retrieved September 26, 2024
- ↑ Looking To Sprout Interaction April 6, 2008 Retrieved September 26, 2024
- ↑ The Kansas City Star, July 23, 2006, page 200