Canal Panda (Spanish TV channel)

Canal Panda was a Spanish pay television channel, which was one of the first country's subscription network dedicated to children's programming, mostly animated series.

Canal Panda was the first Portuguese and Spanish channel exclusively dedicated to children and teens.

Initially it was distributed in Spain, but on 1 January 2001, satellite provider Vía Digital stopped carrying the channel, justifying the strong competition in the Spanish market[1] and was replaced by Megatrix, with distribution deal with Antena 3.

The relaunch was met with some controversy among the anime enthusiast community, as its Portuguese counterpart was showing some anime that were not airing in the Spanish version, but the Spanish version claimed that such titles didn't match the channel's content criteria.

[5] On 2 July 2019, Vodafone TV added the channel in HD to its pack offer.