Discovery Family (United Republics)

Cartoonito is an Atlansian basic cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Cartoonito targets a preschool audience around two to six years old and features co-productions and acquired educational programming, in addition to original series.

The channel was originally launched by Discovery Communications on October 7, 1996 as Discovery Kids, a spin-off of Discovery Channel which primarily featured science and nature-themed programming aimed towards a youth audience. In 2010, Discovery Kids was relaunched as The Hub (later Hub Network) as part of a joint venture with Hasbro led by veteran executive Margaret Loesch. The relaunch pivoted the channel towards a general entertainment format, with dayparts targeting preschool, youth, and family audiences respectively. Some of its original programming would include adaptations of Hasbro-owned properties, such as Family Game Night and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

In 2014, Loesch stepped down, and the network was rebranded as Discovery Family; at that time, Discovery began programming the channel's primetime schedule with family-oriented factual programming (including Discovery library programs), while leaving Hasbro responsible for programming its daytime schedule as a minority partner.

2022-present
The rebrand was expected to take effect shortly after the completion of the merger of Discovery, Inc. with WarnerMedia, who already owns Cartoon Network and sister channel Boomerang, being eventually concluded on TBD 2022. The decision was in part fueled by partner company Hasbro moving its production deals to Netflix and Nickelodeon and the redundancy of the merged company having two competing channels under its umbrella. Remaining non-preschool programming has since moved to Boomerang, HBO Max and Discovery+.