Pirate rock for kids, pioneered in Portland, gets exported nationally with the premiere of Disney Channel's "Jake and the Never Land Pirates," debuting this morning as part of a re-branded ...

Jake and the Never Land Pirates is cable’s #1 series among Boys 2-5 and is on track to be Disney Channel’s #1 preschool series ever.

Jake and his gang of young pirates, including Izzy, Cubby and their parrot Skully, must surpass the evil Captain Hook and Mr Smee to find the lost treasure in Neverland.

The series’ first primetime special, Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Peter Pan Returns, debuted in February 2012 and was the most-watched cable telecast in nearly 10 years in Kids 2-5.

Jake and the Never Land Pirates are looking for a few landlubbers to send in birthday greetings to put the Disney Channel.

The Disney Channel programming block formerly known as Playhouse Disney and now rebranded as Disney Junior, to what imagined benefit I don’t know, fires off its first new cartoon Monday, “Jake ...