Cartoon Network, Nick to Provide VUGO Toons

New kid friendly portable video player from Hasbro will allow tweens to download and watch toons from the Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

Tiger Electronics today announced content deals with the Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon to bring programming to their upcoming VUGO Multimedia System. This kid friendly portable video player is due out this month.

The content deals, the three companies said, will bring Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Dexter’s Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Codename: Kids Next Door, Ed, Edd n Eddy and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy from the Cartoon Network. Nickelodeon will be providing SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, Unfabulous, Romeo!, Rugrats, Rocket Power and Teenage Robot.

Other programming will be made available in the months ahead. All of the content is purchased and downloaded through the VUGO website.

“Portable digital media players are all the rage right now and by partnering with Tiger Electronics Cartoon Network can offer its most popular shows to kids in a format that is perfect for them,” says John Friend, senior vice president of Cartoon Network Enterprises. “The VUGO multi-media player allows us to put our content into the pockets of tweens everywhere. And, as a key content provider, Cartoon Network will provide a free Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends download that will be featured on the VUGO packaging.”

“As the number-one entertainment brand for kids and the top rated television network for tweens, we’re excited to bring Nickelodeon’s leading properties, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, and Unfabulous to the launch of VUGO, ” said Stephen Youngwood, Senior Vice President Entertainment Products for Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products. “In addition to reaching Nick fans on-air, on-line, and through new technologies including mobile telephone content, VUGO offers us a new path to serve tweens, wherever they may go.”