It's the end of the road for Universal Kids. NBCUniversal will shutter the kid-centric cable network in early March, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap. The move is expected to take place around March 6,

NBCUniversal plans to shut down Universal Kids in March ahead of the spinoff of most of its cable network portfolio into a separate company.

Universal Kids, the youth-oriented network that began life as the preschool-centric PBS Kids Sprout (and later, Sprout) before being rebranded as a destination for a wider age range in 2017, is shutting down,