BabyTV was first developed in December 2003 as an educational block for babies and toddlers in Israel by Ron Isaak, Maya and Liran Talit and members of their families.

[4] The first six programmes to air on BabyTV were "Hands Up", "Tulli", "Bouncy Balls", "Jammers", "Little Chick" and "1, 2, 3, Tell A Story".

[5][6] Rebranded as Vision 3 Baby and dubbed in Indonesian, it has the same program content and schedules as BabyTV Asia.

[8] By this time, BabyTV was also available in South Korea through MegaTV and HanaTV, Taiwan via Yoyo TV, on VTV3 in Vietnam, and on FoxHD and the National Geographic Channel in Japan.

[13] In 2008, French authorities banned the broadcasting of programs aimed at children under the age of 3, and ordered warnings to be included on foreign channels available in France such as BabyTV and its competitor BabyFirst.

[17] In July 2010, it was announced that Fox and Asia Television Limited would bring BabyTV to Hong Kong through Now TV.

[18][19] In January 2011, RRsat signed an agreement with BabyTV to distribute the channel to North America via Intelsat’s Galaxy 23 satellite.

[28] In January 2022, Astro informed its customers that BabyTV would be replaced by Moonbug Kids starting in February.

[31] That same month, Charter Communications in the United States dropped BabyTV and its Spanish language simulcast, among several other channels, from Spectrum to retain carriage of other Disney networks and pick up Disney+ streaming plans.

[32] Focusing solely on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, The Walt Disney Company ceased broadcasting in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Korea, and Philippines in October 2023.

On March 28, 2024, BabyTV's transmission in The Netherlands, Portugal, and Scandinavia was hijacked to broadcast Russian propaganda.

[45] BabyTV's original programming library, which is developed in-house in co-operation with childhood development experts and content experts is built around nine developmental topics, which cover all early learning skills and developmental milestones for babies and toddlers.

They are: BabyTV's video on demand service features edited segments of BabyTV programming, categorized into their nine developmental themes, in hundreds of half hour segments and is available in languages including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and Turkish.