From toys to TV

Hasbro joins crowded market with new children’s channel

By Brian Steinberg

Globe Correspondent / October 7, 2010

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When children’s cable network The Hub launches this Sunday, viewers will see an animated logo known as “The Hubble’’ and the start of “The Twisted Whiskers Show,’’ which features funny-looking cats and dogs. But if they look closer, they’ll see something else: a new effort by Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro to be more than a toymaker. (Full article: 1047 words)