Disney Branded Television

Television production unit of Disney for children, teenagers and families

For the current Disney Imagineering live show unit that also formerly used this name and "Walt Disney Creative Entertainment", see Disney Live Entertainment.

Disney Branded Television

Formerly|

List

* Walt Disney Entertainment, Inc. (1982–1983)
* The Disney Channel, Inc. (1983–1997)
* Disney Channel, Inc. (1997–2001)
* ABC Cable Networks Group (2001–2005)
* Disney Channels Worldwide (2005–2020)

Company type| Division
Industry| Entertainment
Genre| Children and family
Founded| July 15, 1982; 43 years ago (1982-07-15)
Founder| Alan Wagner
Headquarters|

Burbank, California

U.S.

Number of locations

| 37 (formerly)

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| Ayo Davis (president)
Brands|

* Disney Channel
* Disney Jr.
* Disney XD

Services| Television content
Parent| Walt Disney Telecommunications (1982–1996)
Disney Entertainment Television (1996–present)
Subsidiaries| Disney Original Documentary[1]
Disney Television Animation
It's a Laugh Productions
Website| www.detpress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/

Disney Branded Television is a unit of Disney Entertainment Television which oversees development, production and acquisition of content geared towards children, teenagers and families for Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney Jr. and Disney XD.[2] The unit also oversees Disney-branded unscripted series, documentaries and specials for Disney+ and the Disney channels.

Prior to the formation of Disney Branded Television, Disney Channels Worldwide oversaw all Disney television networks until the organization of the Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International segment on March 14, 2018, when the company was split into two. The U.S. unit operated Disney Channel, Radio Disney. The international unit operated various children and family-oriented TV channels around the world, including variations of the U.S. channels plus Disney International HD, Dlife, and Hungama TV.

Disney Channel was originally established in the United States in 1983 as a premium channel, and has since converted to a basic service; in addition, Disney Channel's programming has also expanded internationally with the launch of various country-specific and regional versions of the channel, as well as program licensing agreements reached with television networks not bearing the Disney Channel brand.

Previous corporate names were: Walt Disney Entertainment, Inc. (1982–83), The Disney Channel, Inc. (1983–97), Disney Channel, Inc. (1997–2001), ABC Cable Networks Group (2001–05) and Disney Channels Worldwide (2005–20).

## History

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### Walt Disney Entertainment, Inc.

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On November 10, 1981, Walt Disney Productions and Westinghouse Broadcasting announced that they had joined up to start a family-oriented cable television service.[3] In 1982, Disney hired Alan Wagner to develop a cable channel.[4]

20 months after the launch, the channel moved into the home satellite dish market thus scrambling its signal.

By July 15, 1982, Disney incorporated Walt Disney Entertainment, Inc., which was renamed by January 28, 1983, to The Disney Channel, Inc.[5]

### The Disney Channel, Inc.

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The Disney Channel was launched in April 1983 as a premium channel with 16 hours of programming.[4][6]

The channel became profitable in January 1985.

The channel started moving to the basic cable level on September 1, 1990, with TCI Montgomery Cablevision.[6] In March 1995, the second Disney Channel began broadcasting in Taiwan[7] while the third is launched in October for the United Kingdom.[6]

### Disney Channel, Inc.

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By September 29, 1997, the corporate name was shortened to Disney Channel, Inc.[5] Disney had hired Geraldine Laybourne away from the Nickelodeon channel in 1996. She founded a kids channel codename ABZ, which the media speculated to be aimed at preschoolers. Laybourne dismissed this report.[8] In December 1997, the Toon Disney channel was announced as a basic channel consisting of Disney animated programming.[6] As of April 1, 1998, most of the international versions are pay channels while the Taiwan and Malaysia versions are ad supported and the USA version is a basic channel.[9] The Toon Disney Channel was launched on April 18, 1998, on the Disney Channel's 15th anniversary.[10]

In 2000, the Playhouse Disney preschool channel was launched in the United Kingdom.[11] while in the US, in 1997, the Playhouse Disney block was launched on Disney Channel. In June 2001, Disney was looking into launch Playhouse Disney as a channel in the United States for 2002.[12]

### ABC Cable Networks Group

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Disney Channel, Inc. changed its name to ABC Cable Networks Group, Inc. by January 31, 2001.[5] In October 2003, ABC Family Worldwide was shifted from Disney COO Bob Iger's directly reporting unit to the ABC Cable Networks Group.[13] In early 2004, Disney Channel's original programming leaders took over ABC Family's original movies unit temporarily as two ABC Family executives left the channel.[14]

In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, Fox Kids Latin America and ABC Cable Networks Group created the Jetix programming alliance that would rebrand Fox Kids as Jetix for all blocks, channels and companies.[15] ABC1 launched on the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform on September 27, 2004.[16]

### Disney Channels Worldwide

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Disney Channels Worldwide's headquarters in Burbank as it appeared during the 2000s.

In November 2005, Barry Blumberg resigned as president of Walt Disney Television Animation to allow the planned transfer of TV animation to Disney Channels Worldwide.[17]

In 2006, Disney Television India acquired Hungama TV from UTV Software Communications Limited[18] Disney Cinemagic began broadcasting in the UK in March 2006[19] to of several Cinemagic channels, including timeshift and HD versions across Western Europe.[20] ABC1 ceased broadcasting on all UK TV platforms at noon on September 26, 2007.[21]

In Spain, Walt Disney Company Iberia purchased 20% of Management Company Television Net TV SA (or NET TV) in February 2008.[22] In late May 2008, the company announced the move of Disney Channel to the digital over-the air space, replacing NET TV's Fly Music on July 1, 2008.[23]

The company's Japanese unit, Walt Disney Television International Japan, started procuring its own animated series in March 2008, with the first two series to debut at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008. The company produced Stitch! with Madhouse Company, while Fireball was produced with Jinni's Animation Studios.[24]

After two Disney Channel stars had various scandals, the company started a set of classes for their young stars in 2009 to adapt to the pressure of fame. Optional monthly life-skill classes were added in 2014.[25]

Disney XD (DXD) was launched on February 13, 2009, taking over the channel space of Toon Disney in the US,[26] while Jetix switched over to DXD (or for some Disney Channel) starting with France on April 1.[27] In April, The Walt Disney Company Japan, and Disney Channels Worldwide started Broadcast Satellite Disney Co., Ltd. to broadcast a women and family targeted channel called Dlife with licensed content, received in October 2010 and debuted on March 17, 2012.[28]

Jetix Play closed down on August 1, 2010, in most countries,[29] on September 1, 2010, in Turkey, and in Romania on March 12, 2011.[citation needed] In these countries, the channel was replaced with Playhouse Disney.[29]

On May 26, 2010, Disney–ABC Television Group announced the launch of Disney Junior, which would replace the Playhouse Disney Morning block on sister network Disney Channel in February 2011, and extend to a standalone preschooler-oriented channel that would replace Soapnet in January 2012. All 22 Playhouse Disney channels and blocks outside the U.S. were also renamed to "Disney Junior" in 2011.[30][31][32]

In October 2011, Disney reached a joint venture agreement (49%/51%) with UTH Russia, in which UTH will turn its broadcasting network Seven TV into a Disney Channel starting in early 2012.[33] On March 28, 2013, Cinemagic was replaced with Sky Movies Disney in the UK market under license to BSkyB.[34]

In April 2013, Disney announced that Das Vierte, its recent purchased broadcast station in Germany, would become a Disney Channel in January 2014 as a 24-hour family entertainment network.[35] Disney formed an in-house ad sales company called Disney Media + for the channel, given that two competitors control most ad sales companies.[36][37]

Disney India Media Networks shut down Bindass Play, a Hindi music channel, and replaced it with Disney International HD on October 29, 2017. This general entertainment channel is in English and HD, targeted to ages 14 to 25 while only tapping Disney live action shows.[38][39]

### Company split

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With Disney's March 14, 2018 reorganization, all international channels including Disney Channel have been transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International, a new segment, while the US unit is still under Disney–ABC Television Group.[40] On January 20, 2019, Disney India Media Networks shut down Disney XD India and replaced it with Marvel HQ, a channel featuring shows and movies from Marvel Entertainment as well as some acquired programming.[41]

Shortly after the November 2019 launch of Disney+ in New Zealand, Disney shut down its linear channels there. In June 2020, Disney Channels Worldwide announced that all three of the networks owned by Disney Channels Worldwide in the United Kingdom would be shut down on October 1, with content thereafter to be available via the Disney+ streaming service, as the extension of a carriage deal with Sky and Virgin Media could not be reached.[42]

### Disney Branded Television

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Following a company restructuring in November 2020, the Disney channels became part of Disney Branded Television, a newly created unit of Disney General Entertainment Content. Headed by the former Disney Channels Worldwide president, Gary Marsh, the new unit oversees development and production of content made for kids, tweens, teens and families for Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD and Disney+. Disney Branded TV also oversees all Disney+ unscripted series and specials.[2] In December 2020, Disney announced that Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country would cease operations in early 2021.[43] Following the reorganization, the management of Disney XD was moved to Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution.[44]

On May 25, 2021, Disney announced that they would close 100 TV channels internationally by the end of 2021 following the 30 closures that occurred in 2020; this not only included Disney-branded channels, but also Fox Networks Group channels inherited from Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019.[45] The closure was mostly targeted in Asian countries.

In December 2021, Disney acquired the documentary short Sophie and the Baron and brought it under its newly created Disney Original Documentary banner.[46]

On March 1, 2022, Marvel HQ in India was rebranded to Super Hungama.[47]

In March 2022, Disney announced it would suspend its operations in Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[48][49] Its Russian channel however continued operating until the dissolution of Disney's joint venture with local broadcaster Media-1 on December 14, 2022.[50][51][52]

The closure of the global channels continued in 2022, as it closed Latin American[53] and Turkish channels[54] in the early months of that year.

On March 15, 2023, Disney Channel HD was launched in India.[55]

## Filmography

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### Television series

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Title  | Genre  | Year(s)  | Network  | Co-production with  | Notes

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Out of the Box | Educational
Musical | 1998–2004 | Playhouse Disney | OOTB Inc.
Lizzie McGuire | Comedy | 2001–2004 | Disney Channel | Egmont Imagination[56][57] (seasons 1–2), Telescreen (season 2) and Stan Rogow Productions
The Book of Pooh | Adventure
Puppetry | 2001–2003 | Playhouse Disney | Shadow Projects | Based on the books by A.A. Milne
The Proud Family | Animated sitcom | 2001–2005 | Disney Channel | Jambalaya Studio
Stanley | Educational | 2001–2004 | Playhouse Disney | Cartoon Pizza
Bunnytown[58] | Puppetry
Educational
Musical comedy | 2007–2008 | Playhouse Disney | Spiffy Pictures and Baker/Coogan Productions
Can You Teach My Alligator Manners? | Short series | 2008–2009 | Oddbot Animation
Imagination Movers | Musical sitcom | 2008–2013 | Playhouse Disney/Disney Jr. | Penn/Bright Entertainment and Zydeco Productions
Jungle Junction | Preschool comedy | 2009–2012 | Disney Jr. | Spider Eye Productions
PrankStars | Reality | 2011 | Disney Channel/Disney XD | Zoo Productions
Sheriff Callie's Wild West | Animated action comedy
Western | 2014–2017 | Disney Jr. | DHX Media Los Angeles (season 1) and Wild Canary Animation (season 2) | Originally titled Oki's Oasis[59]
Kirby Buckets[60] | Comedy | 2014–2017 | Disney XD | Horizon Productions
Stuck in the Middle[61] | Family comedy | 2016–2018 | Disney Channel | International Donut Fund Productions and Horizon Productions
Walk the Prank[62] | Comedy | 2016–2018 | Disney XD | Blackbird Films, Sullen Child and Horizon Productions
101 Dalmatian Street[63][64] | Animated sitcom | 2019–2020 | Disney Channel UK | Passion Animation Studios | under Walt Disney EMEA Productions
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series | Musical/Mockmentary | 2019–2023 | Disney+ | Chorus Boy and Salty Pictures
The Chicken Squad[65] | Animated comedy
Adventure | 2021–2022 | Disney Jr. | Wild Canary Animation
Behind the Attraction | Documentary | 2021–present | Disney+ | Seven Bucks Productions and The Nucelle Company
Among the Stars | Science | 2021 | Olive Bridge Entertainment and Fulwell 73 Productions
Foodtastic[66] | Cooking | Endemol Shine North America
Eureka![67] | Animated musical | 2022–2023 | Disney Jr. | Brown Bag Films
SuperKitties[68] | Superhero | 2023–present | Disney Jr. | Sony Pictures Television Kids
Extraordinary[69] | 2023–2024 | Disney+ | Sid Gentle Films | under Walt Disney EMEA Productions
Saturdays[70] | Coming-of-age | 2023 | Disney Channel | Over the Hump Production Inc., Genius Entertainment and GWave Productions
Pupstruction[71] | Comedy
Construction | 2023–present | Disney Jr. | Titmouse, Inc.
Pretty Freekin Scary[72] | Comedy horror | 2023 | Disney Channel | Cloudco Entertainment, CakeStart Entertainment, Kickstart Entertainment and Apt. 11H Productions
Ariel[73] | Animated fantasy | 2024–present | Disney Jr. | Wild Canary Animation
Kindergarten: The Musical[68] | Musical comedy | 2024–present | Disney Jr. | Oddbot Animation
RoboGobo[68][74][75] | Superhero
Animated sitcom | 2025–present | Disney Jr. | Brown Bag Films
Electric Bloom[76] | Musical sitcom | Disney Channel | Echo & Cici Productions, Fox & Lewis, Diane Warren + Bahareh Batmang and Kenwood TV Productions

### Television movies, documentaries and specials

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Title  | Genre  | Release date  | Network  | Co-production with

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Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming | Music | 2023 | Disney+ | Imagine Documentaries, Tremolo Productions and Worldwide Pants
Mickey and Friends Trick or Treats | Animated comedy
Musical
Horror | October 1, 2023 | Disney Jr. | Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Descendants: The Rise of Red | Teen musical | July 12, 2024 (Disney+)
August 9, 2024 (Disney Channel) | Disney+
Disney Channel | Suzanne Todd Productions, Potato Monkey Productions and GWave Productions
Out of My Mind[77][78] | Drama | November 22, 2024 | Disney+ | Big Beach, Participant, Reunion Pacific Entertainment and EveryWhere Studios
Mickey and the Very Many Christmases[79] | Animated holiday | December 1, 2024 | Disney Jr. | Wild Canary Animation

## Localization

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The international on-air channel brand's look is consistent with the Disney brand. Individual channel managers can develop schedules and marketing programs to allow children's preferences in the market. Additionally, local programming that meets Disney's standards, combined with difficulties, is acquired. If a program is thriving in a market, its format may be developed for other Disney Channels' market viewing tastes.[9] But most of Disney's channels in their foreign markets were shut down since 2020, all in favor of Disney+.[45]

The Disney Channel in different version around the world, each represented by one colour. Gray indicates that their feeds were closed.

### Asia

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Disney Channel Asia officially launched on January 15, 2000, as a single video feed with an English audio track being the default and Mandarin audio and subtitle tracks also available. The channel became available in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. On June 1, 2002, the channel was launched in the South Korea market as a Korean-language feed.[80] Over the first six months of 2005, Disney Channel Asia along with sister channel Playhouse Disney launched in Vietnam, Palau and Thailand and finishing off with a launch of both in Cambodia, its 11th market, with Cambodia Entertainment Production Co. Ltd. as distributor.[81] Disney Channel Asia was also made available on select cable providers in Bangladesh after Disney Channel India was banned in the country back in 2013.[82][83] It ceased transmissions by the end of 2021.

#### Japan

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In April 2009, the Walt Disney Company Ltd. Japan and Disney Channels Worldwide started Broadcast Satellite Disney Co., Ltd. to broadcast a women and family targeted channel, Dlife [ja], with licensed received in October 2010 and debuted on March 17, 2012.[28] In December 2013, Dlife launched a children's programming block called Disney Time.[84] The channel was shut down on March 31, 2020, but was revived on March 1, 2024, as a replacement for the Japanese version of Fox.[85]

#### China

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Disney Channel does not have a localized version for China. However, many of its live-action and animated series are syndicated on regional channels through ABC owned Dragon Club since 1994. It also has a Chinese website.[86]

#### India

[edit]

Previously, Disney programming was available through programming blocks starting as early as 1994 with Doordarshan then moving to Zee TV until the early 2000s. Disney moved its block to Sony Entertainment Television for three years. Star TV picked up the Disney TV blocks on Star Plus, Disney Time, and on Star Utsav.[87]

In December 2004, Walt Disney Television International India launched a Toon Disney channel with three language feeds (English, Tamil and Telugu)[88] at the same time as the Disney Channel with Star TV network distributing the channels.[89] Disney reached an agreement with Doordarshan (DD) in November 2005 for DD to carry a half-hour block called Disney Jadoo. Thus Disney was up to 4 branded blocks in India.[87]

### Canada

[edit]

On April 16, 2015, Corus Entertainment announced that it had reached a multi-year agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group to acquire Canadian rights to Disney Channel's programming library, and launched Disney Channel in Canada on September 1, 2015—the first time that a Disney Channel-branded network has operated in Canada.[90]

Prior to this agreement, rights to Disney Channel programming had been held by Family Channel, a network owned by children's media conglomerate WildBrain which is licensed as a premium service but is carried as a basic service by many television providers. Family was formerly owned by Astral Media which was acquired by Bell Media in 2013. As a result of the fact that the majority of Disney Channel U.S.'s programs aired on Family, coupled with the fact that both channels developed similarly in their respective countries (as both began as premium services before adding availability via basic subscription), Family Channel was commonly considered to be a de facto Canadian version of Disney Channel (though it was often mistakenly assumed to be related to ABC Family (now Freeform), a sister network to Disney Channel U.S. which was formerly known as The (emphasis added) Family Channel from 1988 to 1998;[citation needed] a Canadian version of ABC Family (now Freeform) launched in March 2012, called ABC Spark[91] to avoid confusion with Family Channel, to which it does not share common ownership). Some Canadian-produced original series produced by Family (such as Life with Derek, Naturally, Sadie, and Overruled!) have aired on Disney Channel in the United States and in other countries in the past. In addition to its distribution agreement with Disney Channel U.S., Family also operated an English-language version of Disney Junior as a multiplex channel, as CRTC rules allow pay-TV channels licensed as premium services to add multiplex channels consistent with the network's license. Disney XD and a French-language version of Disney Junior were also owned by DHX Media, operating under separate licenses.

DHX's program supply agreement with Disney ended on January 1, 2016; as a result of these re-alignments, its Disney-branded networks were re-launched as spin-offs of the Family brand beforehand on September 18, 2015 (Family Jr. and Télémagino) and October 9, 2015 (Family Chrgd, now known as WildBrainTV.).[90]

## List of Disney Channels

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### Current channels

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Market/Country  | Type  | Formerly  | Launch date  | Other countries  | Operator

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United States | Channel (East)  | —  | April 18, 1983 | —  | Disney Branded Television[92]
Channel (West)  | — | —
Channel HD  | — | April 2, 2008 | —
France | Channel  | —  | March 22, 1997[9] | —  | The Walt Disney Company France[93]
Channel +1  | —  | November 2, 2002 | —
Channel HD  | —  | September 20, 2011 | —
Europe, Middle East, and Africa | Channel  | —  |

* April 2, 1997 (English)[9]
* April 1, 1998 (Arabic)[94]
* September 25, 2006 (Africa)
* November 8, 2009
(Greece & Cyprus)
* 2009–2012 (Balkans)
* February 28, 2023 (Baltics)
* June 5, 2023 (Nordic countries)

| Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, MENA, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sub-Saharan Africa  | The Walt Disney Company Limited[95]
Channel HD  | —  | 2015  | MENA
Germany (current) | Channel  | Das Vierte | January 17, 2014[37]a | Austria, Switzerland  | The Walt Disney Company (Germany)[96]
Channel HD
Latin America | Channel (Mexico)[97] | Disney Weekend  | July 27, 2000[9] | —  | Disney Media Networks Latin America
Channel (Central)[98] | Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Venezuela
Channel (South)[99] | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
Channel HD[100] | — | September 2012  | —
Portugal | Channel  | —  | November 28, 2001[101] | Angola, Mozambique  | The Walt Disney Company (Iberia) S.L.[102]
Channel HD  | —  | May 4, 2021 | —
Japan | Channel  | —  | November 18, 2003 | — | The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd.[103]
India | Channel  | —  | December 17, 2004[104] | Maldives,[105] Nepal; previously Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Pakistan, but banned.[106][107][108] | Disney Star
Channel HD  | —  | March 15, 2023[55]
Poland | Channel  | Disney Channel (EMEA)  | December 2, 2006b | — | The Walt Disney Company Limited[109]
Channel HD  | —  | October 1, 2015[110] | —
Israel | Channel  | Jetix | September 9, 2009[111] | — | The Walt Disney Company (Israel) Ltd.
Czech Republic | September 19, 2009[112] | Slovakia  | The Walt Disney Company Limited[113][114][115]
Hungary | —
Bulgaria | —
Romania | Moldova
Netherlands | —  | October 3, 2009 | Belgium, now split  | The Walt Disney Company (Benelux) BV
Belgium | Channel HD (Dutch)  | Disney Channel (Netherlands) | 2012  | Flanders
Channel HD (French)  | Disney Channel (France) | June 29, 2015 | Wallonia, Luxembourg
Canada | Channel (English)  | Teletoon Retro | September 1, 2015 | — | Corus Entertainment[90][116]
Channel (French)  | —
Scandinavia (relaunch)  | Channel  | Disney Channel EMEA | April 1, 2024[117] | Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands  | The Walt Disney Company Nordic

^a Relaunched via free-to-air replacing Das Vierte. Originally launched between October 16, 1999[9] to November 30, 2013[118] while the HD channel between December 24, 2011[119] to November 30, 2013 as well.[118]

^b Initially became an independent feed on August 1, 2010.

### Defunct channels

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Market/Country  | Type  | Active date  | Feeds/other countries  | Operator  | Fate

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Ukraine | Channel  | October 16, 2010[120]–January 1, 2013 | None  | The Walt Disney Company Limited  | Select programming moved to PLUSPLUS and NLO TV following the channel's closure.
Germany (original) | October 16, 1998-November 30, 2013 | Austria, Switzerland  | The Walt Disney Company (Germany)  | The channel became free-to-air on January 17, 2014 but Disney XD , Disney Junior & Disney Cinemagic remained
Australia | Channel  | December 24, 2003[121]–November 30, 2019 (New Zealand)
June 8, 1996[9][122]–April 30, 2020 (Australia)  | New Zealand  | The Walt Disney Company Australia  | Selected programming moved to Disney+ following the channel's closure.
Italy | October 3, 1998[9]– May 1, 2020 |

* San Marino
* Vatican City

| The Walt Disney Company Italy
Channel +1  | December 24, 2004–May 1, 2020
Disney in English  | December 20, 2008–October 1, 2019
Channel +2  | October 1, 2011–April 9, 2018
Channel Mobile  | October 1, 2011–May 1, 2020
HD Channel  | February 1, 2012[123]–May 1, 2020
Singapore | Channel | March 1, 2000[124]–June 1, 2020[125] | None  | The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia | Contract renewal failure with service providers in the country.[126] It was replaced with Disney+.
United Kingdom | October 1, 1995[9]–October 1, 2020 | Ireland, Isle of Man  | The Walt Disney Company (UK) Ltd.[127] | Sky and Virgin Media declined to sign a new deal to keep the Disney-branded networks running after the launch of Disney+ in the country. Selected programming moved to the service following the channel's closure.
Channel +1[128] | September 2000–October 1, 2020
Channel HD[129] | 2011–October 1, 2020
Southeast Asia and Hong Kong | Channel  | January 15, 2000–January 1, 2021 | Malaysia, and Brunei  | The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia  | It was replaced by Disney+ (in Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan) and Disney+ Hotstar (in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand).

* January 15, 2000–October 1, 2021 (Philippines)
* January 15, 2000–January 1, 2021 (Malaysia)[130]
* July 2002–October 1, 2021 (Indonesia)
* April 2, 2004[131]–October 1, 2021
* 2005–October 1, 2021 (Thailand, Palau, Vietnam & Cambodia)
* December 2006–October 1, 2021 (Papua New Guinea)
* 2016–October 1, 2021 (Bangladesh)

* Philippines
* Indonesia
* Thailand
* Palau
* Vietnam
* Cambodia
* Papua New Guinea
* Bangladesh

South Korea | Channel HD  | July 1, 2011–October 1, 2021[132] | None  | Television Media Korea (SK Telecom 51% and Disney Channels International 49% venture),[133] The Walt Disney Company (Korea) LLC
Taiwan | March 29, 1995[134]–January 1, 2022 | The Walt Disney Company (Taiwan) Ltd.
Turkey | Channel  | April 29, 2007[135]c–March 31, 2022[136][54] | Disney Televizyon Yayıncılık A.Ş. (Disney Co. Turkey)[137] | Replaced with Disney+.
Russia | August 10, 2010d–December 14, 2022[51] | Media-1 (80%)
The Walt Disney Company CIS (20%)  | Dissolution of the joint-venture with Media-1 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Scandinavia (original)  | February 28, 2003–June 5, 2023 |

* Estonia
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Norway
* Sweden
* Finland
* Denmark
* Iceland

| The Walt Disney Company Limited  | Merged with the pan-EMEA feed.
Spain | Channel +1[138] | November 16, 2001–March 9, 2017 | None  | The Walt Disney Company Iberia[139]e | Replaced in most operators with Disney Channel HD. Fully discontinued in favor of rewind features built into cable boxes.
Channel  | April 17, 1998[9] (July 1, 2008 on DTT)–January 7, 2025 | Andorra  | Disney Iberia did not renew its agreement with Net TV to continue operating the channel on DTT. Content can still be watch on its official YouTube channel and Disney+.
Brazil | Channel[140] | April 5, 2001[141]–March 1, 2025 | None  | The Walt Disney Company Brazil  | Closed due to high operational costs in the respective country, the dwindling pay TV ratings in Brazil and the Brazilian pay TV crisis.
Channel HD  | September 2012–March 1, 2025

* ^c Initially went free-to-air on January 12, 2012[142]
* ^d Replacing Jetix; later went free-to-air on December 31, 2011, replacing Seven TV.[143]
* ^e Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV is owned by Vocento SA, The Walt Disney Company Iberia S.L. (20%) and Intereconomía Corporation SA. Which in addition to the Disney channels owns Intereconomia TV, a generalist channel.[citation needed]

## Channel types per market

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Market/Country  | Disney Channel | Disney Jr. | Disney XD | Cinemagic
Disney Movies | Other

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United States  | April 18, 1983[6]
West, East HD, West HD[144] | February 14, 2011
(block)
March 23, 2012[145] | February 13, 2009[26] | None  | Radio Disney (1996–2021)
Radio Disney Country (2015–2021)[146]
~~Taiwan~~ | March 29, 1995[9]
–January 1, 2022 | 2012
–December 31, 2021
(block)[147] | None  | None
~~United Kingdom~~ | October 1, 1995[9]
–September 30, 2020[42]
+1, HD | May 2011[9]
–September 30, 2020[42]
+1, HD | August 31, 2009[9]
–September 30, 2020[42]
+1, HD | March 16, 2006[9]
–March 28, 2013
(as Disney Cinemagic)
March 28, 2013[9]
–December 31, 2020
(as Sky Movies Disney)
HD | ABC1 (2004–2007)[16][21]
~~Australia~~ | June 8, 1996[9][122]
–April 30, 2020 | May 29, 2011[148]
–April 30, 2020 | April 10, 2014[149]
–January 6, 2019[150] | April 10, 2014
–November 7, 2019
(as Foxtel Movies Disney)[149] | None
France | March 22, 1997[9]
+1, HD | May 28, 2011
HD | April 1, 2009
–May 1, 2020
HD | November 4, 2007
–May 8, 2015
(as Disney Cinemagic)
May 8, 2015[151]
–April 7, 2020
(as Disney Cinema) | Disneynature TV (2012–2018)
Middle East & North Africa  | April 2, 1997[9]
HD | April 1, 2011
(English)
May 31, 2016
(Arabic)
HD | 2009
–December 31, 2020
HD | 2018–2021
(as OSN Movies Disney HD) | None
Spain  | April 17, 1998[9]
–January 7, 2025[42]
| June 11, 2011  | September 18, 2009
–April 1, 2020
HD | July 1, 2008
–January 1, 2015 | Intereconomía TV (2005)[138]
~~Italy~~ | October 3, 1998
–May 1, 2020
+1, +2, HD, Mobile, Disney in English | May 14, 2011
–May 1, 2020
+1 | September 28, 2009
–October 1, 2019
+1, +2, HD | None  | None
Germany  | October 16, 1999b
HD | July 14, 2011
–September 30, 2021 | October 18, 2009
–April 1, 2020
+1 | July 4, 2009
–October 1, 2019

~~Malaysia~~ | January 15, 2000
–December 31, 2020[130]
HD | July 11, 2011
–December 31, 2020
HD | September 15, 2012
–December 31, 2020
HD | None
~~Philippines~~ | January 15, 2000
–September 30, 2021
HD | July 11, 2011[152]
–September 30, 2021 | May 31, 2014
–December 31, 2020
~~Singapore~~ | March 1, 2000
–May 31, 2020
HD | July 11, 2011
–May 31, 2020 | March 16, 2013
–May 31, 2020
Latin America (Spanish)  | July 27, 2000[9] | April 1, 2011[153] | July 3, 2009[154]
–April 1, 2022 | Radio Disney[155]
~~Brazil~~ | April 5, 2001[156]
–March 1, 2025
HD | April 1, 2011[153]
–April 1, 2022[157]
Portugal  | November 28, 2001 | November 1, 2012 | None  | October 1, 2008
–November 1, 2012 | None
~~Indonesia~~ | July 2002
–October 1, 2021 | July 11, 2011
–October 1, 2021 | October 19, 2013
–December 31, 2020 | None
Scandinavia  | February 28, 2003
–June 5, 2023 (original)
April 1, 2024 (relaunch)
HD | September 10, 2011
–March 1, 2024 (Denmark)
–April 1, 2024 | September 12, 2009
–December 31, 2020
Belgium  | March 31, 2003 | 2011 | None
Japan  | November 2003 | Fall 2012[158] | August 2009[159]
–January 31, 2021 | Dlife (2012–2020; revived in 2024[160])
~~Hong Kong~~ | April 2, 2004
–October 1, 2021 | April 2, 2004
–October 1, 2021 | None  | None
India  | December 17, 2004[104] | October 15, 2012[161] | November 14, 2009[162]
–January 9, 2019[163] |

* Disney International HD[38]
* Super Hungama[163]
* Hungama TV
* Bindass
* UTV Action
* UTV Movies[38]

~~Thailand~~ | January 2005
–October 1, 2021 | July 11, 2011
–October 1, 2021 | October 19, 2013
–December 31, 2020 | None
~~Vietnam~~ | May 2005
–October 1, 2021 | None
South Africa  | September 25, 2006[164] | June 1, 2011[165] | May 11, 2011[164]
–October 1, 2020
Poland  | December 2, 2006
HD | June 1, 2011  | September 2009
Turkey  | April 29, 2007d
–March 31, 2022[54] | April 1, 2011
HD | October 3, 2009
–January 31, 2021
Israel  | September 9, 2009 | July 18, 2011[166] | January 1, 2018
–February 1, 2018
(pop-up channel on HOT)[167]
Bulgaria  | September 19, 2009 | June 1, 2011
–February 29, 2012
(block)
March 1, 2012
(channel) | None
Czechia  | June 1, 2011
–July 1, 2015
(block)
June 1, 2011
(channel)
Hungary  | June 1, 2011
–July 1, 2015
(block)
July 1, 2015
–December 5, 2017
(channel)
Romania  | June 1, 2011
–February 29, 2012
(block)
March 1, 2012
(channel)
Slovakia  | None
Netherlands  | October 3, 2009 | September 10, 2011
–April 1, 2019 (original)
May 1, 2025 (relaunch)  | January 1, 2010
–May 1, 2025
Greece  | November 7, 2009 | June 1, 2011 | October 3, 2009
–January 31, 2021
~~Russia~~ | August 10, 2010c
–December 14, 2022
+2, +4, +7 | September 1, 2013
–December 13, 2022
(block) | None  | Radio Disney (2013–2022)[155]
~~South Korea~~ | July 1, 2011
–October 1, 2021
HD | July 1, 2011[133]
–October 1, 2021
HD | None
Serbia  | 2012 | 2012/2013[citation needed] | 2009
–December 31, 2020
Slovenia  | 2009[168]
–December 31, 2020
Canada  | DHX Media[169] | None  | May 6, 2011[170]
–September 18, 2015
(both English and French) | June 1, 2011[171]
–October 9, 2015[90] | Radio Disney[155]
Corus | September 1, 2015
(both English and French) | December 1, 2015
(English channel)
November 30, 2015
(French block)[172] | December 1, 2015
(English channel)
June 27, 2016
–2019
(French block)[173] | ABC Spark[90][116]
Notes:

* ^a Initially as a paid channel; went free-to-air on July 1, 2008
* ^b Initially as a paid channel; went free-to-air on January 17, 2014
* ^c Initially as a paid channel; went free-to-air on December 31, 2011, in a joint venture with UTH Russia.
* ^d Initially as a paid channel; went free-to-air in January 2012.

## See also

[edit]

* List of Disney Jr. TV channels
* List of Disney XD TV channels

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