Red Princess

Red Princess is a Free-to-air children's network owned by Katz Broadcasting. It is target towards children between the ages of 7 to 17. It's programming consists of various animated and live-action shows from an assortment of companies. As well as movies from the Paramount, Universal and MGM libraries.

History
Red Princess was first announced as an unnamed TV channel in 2016 that focuses on children's entertainment. On September 25, 2016, it was announced that the channel would be called "Red Princess" to represent channel's personality of one's youth-hood. on November 23, 2017, it was announced that the channel would have shows providing from NBCUniversal, DHX Media, Nelvana, 9 Story and MGM and would launch on January 1, 2018.

First year (2018)
Initially, Red Princess launched with 8 shows: Spliced, Stella and Sam, Inspector Gadget, Babar, Sitting Ducks, Look Kool, The Magic School Bus and The Lionhearts. The channel would also have no mascot until April 22, 2018 with the introduction of Princess Rainbow, a 16-year old princess that can change color depending on the day of the week. Also on that same week, to comply with e/i regulations, they launched a weekday morning preschool-orientated block. The launch shows on that block are: Word Party, Green's Clubhouse, Jerry and the Raiders and ToddWorld. The channel aired cartoons during the daytime hours and sitcoms during the nighttime hours.

Second Year (2019)
On December 23, 2018, Red Princess announced that the channel would undergo a semi-rebrand. With that rebrand, came two weekend gender-oriented programming blocks. "Boys Night Out", a male-oriented block that airs every Saturday, and Girls night out, a female-oriented block that airs every Sunday. They also announced the launch of a nighttime block geared to adults: Purple Queen. All three blocks were launched from January 5 to 7, 2019. With Purple Queen's mascot being an alien queen named "Queen Purple, planet slayer". A queen who slays the alien planet that kidnapped Princess Rainbow. Later that year, the network created a Friday evening block: Knight University. A live-action block geared to Teenagers. And to add that, they produced four original series: Minecraft: The Cartoon Series, Yellow, Princess of the Desert, Little Larva School and The Pillow Squad.

Third Year (2020)
To celebrate the new decade, Red Princess launched a movie block every Friday at 7 PM named Rainbow Theater. When the COVID-19 pandemic arises, Red Princess created various tips and tidbits in between their shows on how to protect yourself from the deadly pandemic. Red Princess also launched a +1 channel for areas that didn't have the channel in the area. +1 tends to appear on CW, MyNetworkTV and ION affiliates. Though despite this, a few areas contain both the main and +1 channel.

Current Year (2021)
Following ION's merger with E.W. Scripps, Red Princess begun to add programming from the Qubo catalog. Following ION's announcement of Qubo and ION Plus shutting down, the channel announced that they would merge Red Princess +1 as well as it's purple queen block with Qubo and Ion Plus respectively. They've also announced that the merger would be a total reborn to the ION networks.

Programming
Programming on Red Princess includes original series such as Minecraft: The Animated Series, Green's Clubhouse, Yellow, Princess of the Desert, Rupert (2020), Little Larva School, and The Pillow Squad, as well as acquired programming from other studios, which as of January 2021 includes Spliced, Willa's Wild Life, Babar, Madeline, Digimon Adventure, Ruby Gloom, All Dogs Go to heaven: The Animated Series, Free Willy (Cartoon), Dear America/Royal Daries, Franklin, Turbo Dogs, Animaniacs, Rescue Heroes, and The Land Before Time (TV Series).

Current

 * Little Royal Academy - A daily preschool-oriented block geared to Children under 7. It airs from 9 AM to 2 PM on weekdays and 8 AM to 11 AM on Weekends, Holidays and during the Summer). It's programming consists of various programing from the WildBrain, Jim Henson and Netflix libraries such as True and the Rainbow Kingdom, Monster Math Squad, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Buddi and original programing such as Little Larva School.
 * Knight University - A Friday afternoon block that airs from 4 PM to 7 PM. It consists of live-action programming from the Litton Entertainment lineup. Just like the other Litton Entertainment blocks, it's geared to Teens aged 13 to 16.
 * Boys Night Out - A Saturday evening block that airs from 6 PM to 10 PM. It's an Action block oriented to young males. It contains mostly action shows such as Class of the Titans, Rescue Heroes and Grossology.
 * Girls Night Out - A Sunday evening block that's the female counterpart to Boys Night Out.
 * Purple Queen - A daily night time block that airs everyday from 10 PM to 6 AM (11 PM to 5 AM on Friday and Sunday and 12 to 4 AM on Saturday). Unlike the other blocks, it's aimed towards adults ages 18 to 49. The block's programming mostly consist of Comedy and animated shows imported from Adult Swim, Laff, Nighthouse and Toonami.

Annual

 * Beach Party Montage - A block that airs every summer Starting on Memorial Day and ends the Sunday before Labor day from 11 AM to either 5 PM Friday, 6 PM Saturday, 11 PM Sunday and 10 PM Mondays to Thursdays.

Red Tiara
Red Tiara is the official streaming service of Red Princess. Just like PBS Kids Video, it just simply requires your zip code to see if it's available to you. While viewing the shows are free with ads, you can pay 99 cents per month to watch it free. If a station is available, you can watch live for free as well. Purple Queen's version is called Purple Gown.

RedPrincess.com
RedPrincess.com is the official website for Red Princess. It launched on March 1, 2018 and contains shorts (and sometimes, full episodes) based off of the shows they air. New episodes of Rupert (2020) sometimes premiere on the Red Princess website (or sometimes Peacock) instead of the main channel.