BBC launches children's CBeebies iPlayer for children aged 6 and under

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The specially designed child-friendly CBeebies iPlayer offers children six years old and under the chance to watch programmes on demand, such as In The Night Garden, Charlie And Lola and Kerwizz.

The service is designed to put parents in control of their children's viewing and restrict inadvertent access to non-children's programming.

A parental guidance lock feature allows parents to "lock" potentially challenging guidance-labelled content, which may then only be accessed by first inputting a user-defined password.

Most programmes will be available to view for a week after broadcast with some available for up to 13 weeks as "series catch ups".

The new service follows the launch of the CBBC iPlayer last year for six to 12-year-olds.

The BBC iPlayer has received over 414 million requests to view BBC television content (TV streams and downloads) since its launch in 2007.

Richard Deverell, Controller of BBC Children's, said: "Children live in an on-demand age and with the launch of the new BBC iPlayer designed for the under sixes, children can now watch some of their favourite programmes whenever they want and parents have greater flexibility and freedom to choose what their children watch and when. This is why I am so delighted that we are launching the CBeebies iPlayer and I hope it will significantly increase the public value we deliver to this important audience."


Source:telegraph