IRIB Pooya & Nahal

IRIB Pooya & Nahal
Country	Iran
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	Tehran
Programming
Language(s)	Persian
Picture format	16:9 (1080p, HDTV, 576i, SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	IRIB
History
Launched	July 18, 2012 (IRIB Pooya); September 23, 2015 (IRIB Pooya & Nahal)
Links
Website	www.pooyatv.ir; www.nahaltv.ir
Availability
Terrestrial
Jamaran	CH43 UHF Digital
Streaming media
	IRIB Pooya & Nahal Live Streaming

IRIB Pooya & Nahal (Persian: شبکه کودک و نوجوان, romanized: Shabakeh-e Kudak va Nowjavān) is an Iranian state-owned children's Television channel owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

History of the Channel

The channel was established on July 18, 2012, as IRIB Pooya, and reformed on September 23, 2015.

The channel consists of two subchannels, Pooya, launched on September 23, 2015, which is broadcast daily from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., targets a younger audience, mainly consisting of six years and below. Nahal (which means Sapling in Persian), launched on September 23, 2015, as IRIB Koodak, but renamed and rebranded on April 18, 2016, broadcast everyday from 7.30 p.m., primarily targets older children. On September 20, 2016, Omid (meaning hope), a sister television channel targeted towards adolescents, was launched.