TV5MONDE will be launching its first online TV platform dedicated to kids – TiVi5MONDE Plus on June 23. Aimed at French-speaking youngsters between 3 and 12 years old, this new platform will provide families around the world with an ideal tool to accustom their children with the French language within a secure, commercial-free environment. The platform will be accessible free-of-charge worldwide (except a few markets to avoid cannibalizing parallel paying offerings), either from TV5MONDE main portal’s youth section (tv5monde.com/tivi5), directly at www.tivi5mondeplus.com or from a desktop widget. It will offer over 70 hours of content on launch date and a further 100 hours from January 2010. Afterwards the catalogue will be refreshed on a daily basis so as to provide an average 30 hours of new content each month. TiVi5MONDE Plus has been designed to allow kids to navigate unattended within a secure, commercial-free branded environment. Users will be able to either watch the live-like channel (consisting of a 3-hour loop of selected programs) or create their own a-la-carte playlist from the TV5MONDE catalogue.