Fox Kids builds UK penetration

Fox Kids UK has added another 600k households to its footprint after inking a carriage deal with the territory's second largest cable operator Telewest Broadband.

The channel will arrive on Telewest's digital cable network from 15 February, bringing Fox Kids UK's total reach to some 6.8m homes in the UK and Ireland. The vast majority of these, around 5.5m, come through BSkyB's Sky Digital satellite service. The channel is already carried by two analogue networks owned by Telewest Communications: Birmingham Cable and Eurobell.

Under the new carriage deal with Telewest, Fox Kids will air from 06:00-22:00 on the digital net. The move {will bring us to a closer level of distribution with our competitors,{ said Fox Kids UK's md Ian Finnegan.