Top 10 interesting facts about Bibigon

Many people still remember the Bibigon channel, which was created for children and youth. It was released back in 1964 and until 2010 every day delighted schoolchildren and preschool children with their favorite programs. Most of the cult programs were first shown on this channel. For example, “Why” and “Good night, kids!”.

Since 2007, the channel has been broadcasting 19 hours a day. It existed as a separate block in such popular channels as Rossiya, Kultura and Sport. In September of the same year, the channel was granted the rights to Soviet cartoons.

It got its name from Chukovsky’s famous fairy tale “The Adventures of Bibigon”. The modern successor is the Karusel channel, which also shows selected children’s programs starting from 0+. But still, many remember that kind and sincere channel.

The article presents the 10 most interesting facts you need to know about Bibigon. Many of them will be a real discovery, because so far the talks about the closure do not stop.

10 The name was given in honor of the hero of the fairy tale Korney Chukovsky

A popular Russian children’s TV channel and the author of fairy tales, on which a whole generation grew up, have much in common. In addition to the upbringing and education in children of a sense of beauty, the channel is called a fairy-tale character. And the fairy tale, from which we learned about the existence of Bibigon, a boy who fell to earth from the moon, was written by Korney Chukovsky.

According to legend, Bibigon lives at the writer’s house and is not afraid of anything except the villain, who is an evil and terrible turkey named Brundulyak.

9. Started broadcasting in 2007

The channel’s birthday is August 20, 2007when a trial run started at one of the satellite TV operators. Less than two weeks later, the regular work of Bibigon began, which gave joy to children twenty hours a day.

In addition to broadcasting on its own channel, there was also work in the form of a separate airtime on other TV channels. The first such experience took place on the Sport channel. Later, the baton was intercepted by “Russia” and the television and radio channel “Culture”.

8. Children’s social network “Country of Friends”

At the moment, there are many popular social networks on the Internet, both foreign and domestic. In them, in addition to the usual communication, you can watch and post various kinds of content.

But the problem is that this very content sometimes contains materials that are unacceptable for a child’s eye. Various videos can shake the immature child’s psyche, teach bad things. The authors of the Bibigon channel tried to solve this problem by creating a special children’s social network “Country of Friends”.

The social network is intended for persons aged six to sixteen. The service, created by VGTRK, has the usual features for a social network. The child can watch censored videos, play games, upload photos to albums and create interest clubs.

7. Laureate of the “Runet Prize” contest

Runet is a part of the digital space, the bulk of the content of which is presented in Russian. There is a special award, which is called the Runet Prize. The award was created on the initiative of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

Channel “Bibigon” was awarded this honorary title in the nomination “Culture and Mass Communications”. Awarded in 2009.

6. Re-voicing of Soviet cartoons in a new way

In the fall of 2007, Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov purchased and donated to the channel a collection of Soviet animation. “Bibigon” did a great job and gave young viewers old cartoons, on which more than one generation of Russians grew up, in a new voice acting.

The updated voice acting has made the classics more accessible and perhaps more interesting for new viewers.

5. Program “Behind the Seven Seals”

The TV channel released a number of programs that managed to acquire fans and were repeatedly nominated for various awards. One of these was TV quiz “Behind the Seven Seals”.

The essence of the game was that young viewers learn new things about the people who entered the national and world history in a playful way. In the course of passing through the seven stages, the host slightly opened the veil of secrecy, which was shrouded in a given personality, and the players gained “seals”, learning more and more new things.

In addition, seals were awarded for correct answers to minor questions. The goal of the game was to correctly name the individual at the end of the seven stages. But the winner was the player who managed to get the most of these same seals.

4. Transfer “Why”

Russian series “Why” Designed for teaching children aged 7 to 12 years. Curious topics are raised in the program and the characters give a clear and detailed answer that even preschoolers can understand. For example, “Why does the sun shine? Why don’t ships sink?

The main characters of the animated series are Sergey and Lena. They have a computer in which Bit and Byte live. They perform the tasks of the wise Processor. In the third and fourth season, new characters appeared and the old ones changed a little.

The versions on the channel “Bibigon” and “Carousel” differ slightly in heroes. They have a different appearance: hair color, clothes and hands of the Processor. The first two seasons introduce children to natural science, the subsequent ones talk about computer science, and in the last seasons the characters talk about astronomy.

3. Transfer “Steps”

This TV game was intended for children and adolescents. “Steps” aired from the very foundation of the channel. In 2007, the program began to be dubbed on the Russia 1 channel.

The rules were simple and interesting. At the first stage, you need to answer the question with a peculiar number. Who does not guess, loses one life. Lives are represented as elephants and when two elephants leave, the player is out.

Only the two remaining players play in the second stage. The final participant starts climbing the steps of knowledge, each step contains an expensive gift, and the participant only needs to answer questions.

2. Transfer “Good night, kids!”

Transfer “Good night, kids!” first appeared on the screen on September 1, 1964. A year before this event, the writers were actively writing the text and selecting the scenery. The editor-in-chief came up with the idea for the show after watching a Sandman cartoon.

The name caused the most controversy. There were a lot of options: “Evening Tale”, “Good Night”, “Bedtime Story”, “Visiting the Magic Man Tick-Tock”. And only a day before the release of the first series, the name was finally found, which was fixed on a permanent basis.

1. The channel stopped broadcasting in 2010

On December 27, 2010, the Bibigon channel stopped broadcasting. The last show that aired was a BBC program about penguins. It ended at 00:55, after which the standard channel screensaver appeared, then the Kremlin clock and then the color bar generator.

Shortly before the end, several programs about animals and “Good night, kids!” were shown. At the same time, another channel, Telenanny, finished broadcasting. These two projects have been merged into one channel “Carousel”.