Luckykids (stylized as LUCKyK!DS) is an international children's entertainment channel, aimed at a younger audience, operating under the Jetix International umbrella, as a brand for younger audiences.
The Konami Channel
The Konami Channel (or simply "TKC") is a commercial-free premium cable network co-owned by HBO and Konami, it began broadcasting in 1983 and is part of the multi-channel Lucky Kids network, it originally focused fully on arcade and console video games broadcasted via cable headend, its now targeted young kids and young adults, featuring classic Konami video games along with other classic Acclaim Entertainment and Midway video games and anime broadcasting via cable headend and via satellite.
It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
1983-1986
It has the same as the old Konami logo from the 80's, but added "Channel" at the bottom.
1986-1992
It has the same as the 1986 Konami logo, but added "channel" at the bottom.
1992-1998
It has the same as the 1989 Konami logo, but instead of "KONAMI", it read "KONAMI CHANNEL" at the bottom.
1998-2002
LOGO MISSING |
It has the same as the 1998 Konami logo, but added "CHANNEL" at the bottom.
2002-2005
LOGO MISSING |
It has the same as the 2002 Konami logo, but added "CHANNEL" at the bottom-left.
2005-2014
LOGO MISSING |
The Konami Channel is re-branded as "TKC" with the new branding "The New Konami Channel" and the new slogan "All video games, all the time".
2014-2017
It has the same as 2003 Konami Logo, but the instead of "Konami", it read "TKC". It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
FTV
1985-1995
1995-1996
FTV1
1996-2012
(note: the network would only use the "tick" during kids programmes)
FTV One
2012-2017
It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
The Acclaim Channel
The Acclaim Channel (or simply "TAC") is a commercial-free basic cable network owned by Crystal Holdings as part of the Lucky Kids network, it began broadcasting in 1987, originally targeted young adults, and fully focused on video games broadcasted via cable headend, its now targeted young adults and young kids, featuring classic Acclaim Entertainment video games along with other classic Sega and Midway video games broadcasting via cable headend and via satellite.
It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
1987-1998; 1998-2017 (secondary)
It has the same as the Acclaim Entertainment logo, but instead of "entertainment, inc.", it reads "The" at the top of the second "a" and "channel" at the bottom in place of "entertainment, inc.".
1998-2003
It has the same as the 1992 TLC logo, but instead of "TLC", it reads "TAC" along with the Acclaim Entertainment logo between the "The" and "Channel" but "entertainment, inc." is absent.
2003-2006; 2006-2017 (secondary)
It has the same as the Acclaim Entertainment logo, but instead of "entertainment", it reads "channel".
2006-2013
It has the same as the Abbey Home Entertainment logo, but instead of "AHE", it reads "TAC".
2013-2014
The Acclaim Channel begin broadcasting in HD, and a new logo is launched.
2014-2017
The Acclaim Channel gets a new on-air look, adopting the BBC logo style for the very first time, and launching our new enhanced logo featuring newer versions of the 1987 and 1998 logos, along with new slogans "The best video games on television", "Cable television's all-video game network" and "Video Games in the whole channel".
It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
Movie Universe
1994-2017
Movie Universe is a Canadian movie channel. It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
Capcom Channel
2001-2017
It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
Lucky Jr.
2012-2017
It merged into Lucky Kids in January 2017.
Lucky Toons
2012-2018
Lucky XD
2012-2016
2015-2018
Lucky Mom
2013-2015
2015-2018
This logo was created by Salovaara + Kukkonen Group Austin.
Lucky Night
2014-2015
2015-2018
Megamax USA
2014-2017
Megamax USA was created by Anti-Bad People Group and AMC Networks in 2015. In 2016, it was sold to Ktuhbodonut2011 Holdings and the channel was merged to the new multi-channel Lucky Kids.
10MTV Jr
2016-2017
LOGO MISSING |
CEC TV
1999-2014
LOGO MISSING |
2014-2017
CEC TV became Lucky Kids in Australia, UK and Republic of Guy, while it's US operations were discontinued.
Lumix Cinema Family
Film+ Fam
Nightowl Summertime
LOGO MISSING |
Nightowl Holiday
Nightowl Halloween
Nightowl Thanksgiving
Nightowl Foster's
Nightowl Mawmther's
Nightowl Valentine
Nightowl 4reworks
Nightowl Saint Patrick
Nightowl Canada Day
Nightowl Happy Birthday
Nightowl Elf Jokes 2.4
LOGO MISSING |
Lucky Kids
2006-2012
2012-2015
2015-2018
Lucky Kids, by the time of purchase by NTVP, was a multinational multi-channel commercial-free family-friendly service that launched in 2006 as a single-channel service. The multi-channel service offers quality uninterrupted programming on a network of channels available. In 2017, Lucky Kids launched in UK, Australia, YinYangia and Republic of Guy.
In January 2017, Konami Channel, TAC, FTV One, Movie Universe, CEC TV (which is not owned by Lucky Holdings, but rather Village Lava) and Lucky Jr. merged into Lucky Kids, and Village Lava bought out Capcom, HBO and Konami's total 60% of stakes in the holding company. In November, Metropolitan (Village Lava's successor) merged Lucky Night, Lucky Mom and Lucky Toons into Lucky Kids.
In January 1, 2017, Lucky Holdings will be merging The Acclaim Channel, FTV One, The Konami Channel, Capcom Channel, Movie Universe and Lucky Jr into Nostalgic, Jetix and Lucky Kids, and will sell all non-family movie-related programming to Nostalgic and video game-related programming to Jetix.
In January 1, 2018, Lucky Holdings merged into Nostalgic TV Partners.
There were plans to rebrand the channel in early 2018.
JeDeux
2018-2019
Luckykids
2019-present
On January 15, 2019, JeDeux was re-branded back to Lucky Kids, but it's now referred to as Luckykids (both words together).
On January 30, 2019, when the Funhouse and ToonSchool international channels were merged into Luckykids, the channel launched in Republic of Juan Carlos, Canada, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Middle East and North Africa, Southeast Asia, Turkey, Portugal, Latin America, Germany, Italy, Engary and France. It launched for the rest of the world on February 15, 2019.