Rovio's ToonTV comes to Apple TV.
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Angry Birds maker Rovio bringing its ToonsTV cartoon app to Apple TV

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Angry Birds mobile game publisher Rovio is announcing today that its ToonsTV animated cartoon channel is flying to the Apple TV platform.

The move shows that Apple is still trying to get content to attract viewers to its Apple TV platform, which is its major effort to get iTunes content into the living room. The ToonsTV channel, created by the Rovio Animation Company subsidiary of Rovio, has already had more than 5.6 billion views across its 30 channels.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.