Disney Channel (European TV channel) facts for kids
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| Country | Czech Romania Bulgaria Hungary Slovakia Russia Slovenia |
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| Broadcast area | Czech Romania Moldova Bulgaria Hungary Slovakia Slovenia Belarus Kazakhstan Russia Ukraine |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International |
| History | |
| Launched | February, 1999 (as Fox Kids) January 1, 2005 (as Jetix) September 19, 2009 (as Disney Channel) |
| Former names | Fox Kids (1999–2005) Jetix (2005–2009) |
| Availability | |
| Cable | |
| Blizoo | Channel 49 |
| Skat Burgas | Channel 60 |
| UPC Romania | Channel 503 (as Disney Channel România) |
| SBB (Serbia Broadband) | Channel 260 (digital) |
| Satellite | |
| Bulsatcom | Channel 39 |
| Dolce | Channel 356 |
| Vivacom | Channel 30 |
| OSN (MENA) | Channel 350 (HD) |
Disney Channel is a European children's television channel owned by Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International broadcast in Romania, Bulgaria and other countries. It was previously known as Fox Kids, then Jetix. There are several variations of the channel which broadcast simultaneously in seven languages (using DVB audio technology): Romanian, English, Bulgarian, Czech, and Hungarian. Advertising is shown in Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Czech.
Contents
Feeds
- Disney Channel Eastern Europe, available in Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria with three audio tracks in Romanian, Bulgarian and English.
- Disney Channel Central Europe, available in Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary, with three audio tracks in Czech, Hungarian and English
- Disney Channel Russia, available in Russia as a free-to-air network, and Belarus, Kazakhstan and ex-Soviet countries (except Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltic states) as a pay television channel.
Disney Channel Eastern Europe, on its commercial break ident, it shows just the Romanian word for "commercials": RECLAME, without the Bulgarian word, unlike on Jetix, where it showed first "RECLAME", then "РЕКЛАМА".
Availability
Disney Channel Eastern Europe is broadcast in Romania by all pay television providers. The network is also included in the list of channels of various Moldovan cable operators. Meanwhile, Disney Channel EMEA is included in the basic package of the digital platform Digi TV in Serbia
Fox Kids, then Jetix, and now Disney Channel have been available in all cable operators in Bulgaria since around 1999 and were mostly broadcast with either the Russian, Romanian, Turkish or English language audio track. In October 2007, a Bulgarian audio track was added to for some of the shows on Jetix. Jetix was previously shown in Bulgaria on bTV, which continued to air a Jetix block even after Fox Kids was sold to Disney. Translation and distribution for the channel's Bulgarian version was handled by Media Link. It was expected that the channel would reach 100% translation of its shows in 2008. However, this was achieved only in early 2009, with many shows being withheld from broadcast after February 2009 until translation of their episodes was completed. In May and June many such programs were returned to the channel, since translation had advanced a lot. Hannah Montana was the only untranslated show, but it was available in Bulgarian on BNT 1 since March 28, 2009. Promos aired in English and not in Bulgarian.
Jetix in Russia was based on this channel, but all things related to Disney were automatically replaced with Jetix promos. Certain shows which then did not air on the regular Jetix CEE (W.I.T.C.H., Iggy Arbuckle) were part of the hour-and-a-half long programming block that replaced the Disney block. When Jetix CEE was changed to Disney Channel, the Russian-language broadcast was continued, but until 10 August, 2010 it was only in English. After 10 August, 2010 Russian-language broadcast was renamed by Ukrainian-language broadcast, and in 16 October, 2010 was officially started with Ukrainian promos, but shows was mixed in English, Russian and Ukrainian. On 1 January, 2013 Ukrainian-language broadcast was ceased with unknown reasons. However, Jetix Russia continued to exist as a separate channel until August 10, 2010.
Disney Junior
Playhouse Disney was launched the same day as Disney Channel as a block. In 2010, Playhouse Disney was launched as a channel, replacing Jetix Play. In June 2011, Playhouse Disney was replaced by Disney Junior.
Programming
