Al Jazeera Children's Channel will broadcast 18 hours of programming on weekdays and 19.5 hours on weekends.
The channel will offer a daily debate magazine show, an educational game show, weekly sports and news magazines, as well as monthly science, health, multimedia and current affairs shows. European-acquired programming will be dubbed into Arabic.
The channel will be headquartered in Doha, but will have five regional offices in Paris, Cairo, Beirut, Amman and Rabbat.
Al Jazeera plans to roll the channel out to cable and satellite operators in the Europe and the Arab world through Legarde Networks International, which is managing the production of European segments of the channel and designing its website.
In addition, the channel has created two characters: Fafa the turtle for preschoolers and Nad the robot for older children.
Separately, a UK version of US-based, English-language Muslim television channel Bridges TV is set to launch on Sky, featuring Islamic equivalents of programmes such as 'Sesame Street'.
The channel, which bills itself as the American Muslim Lifestyle channel, will launch by the end of the year following a deal arranged by Bridges TV founder Hara Rafiq.
"Bridges TV promises Sky One from a Muslim perspective," Rafiq said.
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