Disney Channel is a European children's television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Limited. broadcast in the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
,
Hungary
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,
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
,
Moldova
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, and
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...
. It was previously known as
Fox Kids, then
Jetix. There are several variations of the channel which broadcast simultaneously in seven languages (using
DVB
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audio technology):
Romanian
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*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
*** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...
, English,
Bulgarian
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
,
Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
* Czech, ...
, and
Hungarian. Advertising is shown in Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Czech.
History
* February, 1999 – Fox Kids launches in Romania, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria.
* November 2000 – Fox Kids launches in Hungary.
* February 2001 – Fox Kids Hungarian feed was expanded to the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
* January 2004 – Fox Kids Turkey leaves Eastern European feed, and joins EMEA feed.
* January 1, 2005 – Fox Kids is rebranded as Jetix.
* October 1, 2007 – A Bulgarian audio track was introduced.
On August 11, 2008, Jetix started broadcasting a block of "Disney Stars" in Romania and Bulgaria, featuring the series ''
Kim Possible'', ''
Phineas and Ferb
''Phineas and Ferb'' is an American animated musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series was originally broadcast as ...
'', ''
American Dragon'' and ''
Hannah Montana''. ''
High School Musical
''High School Musical'' is a 2006 American musical television film directed by Kenny Ortega and written by Peter Barsocchini. The 63rd Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) and first installment of the ''High School Musical'' film series, ...
'' aired on August 22, 2008, and ''
High School Musical 2
''High School Musical 2'' is a 2007 American musical television film written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega. The 70th Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM), it is the sequel to ''High School Musical'' (2006) and the second inst ...
'' aired on November 1, 2008. It was fully dubbed into Romanian, and an old Bulgarian translation of ''Kim Possible'' (once aired on
BNT Channel 1
BNT 1 () is a Bulgarian language, Bulgarian-language public television, public television station founded in 1959. It began broadcasting on December 26 the same year. The headquarters are located in Sofia, Bulgaria. BNT 1 is run by the Bulgarian ...
) was made available on October 20, 2008. ''High School Musical 2'' was also dubbed. Subsequently, ''Phineas and Ferb'' and ''American Dragon'' were also dubbed by Media Link using voice-over dubbing (unlike all pre-2005 Disney cartoon series, which were all dubbed with synchronized voices). This way of dubbing is very common in Bulgarian television, because it costs less and takes less time to produce (as the voices of actors are just placed directly over a quieted original voice track). Usually, only theatrically or home video-released animated films are dubbed with synchronized voices, and in the 1990s only Disney's animated series were dubbed this way for television. Only starting in 2008, Disney allowed Bulgarian broadcasters to dub films themselves, and all of them were using voice-over dubbing.
After
Disney XD
Disney XD is an American pay television channel owned by the Disney Branded Television and Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution units of The Walt Disney Company. The channel is aimed primarily at older children ages six to eleven yea ...
successfully launched on February 13, 2009, in the US, it was supposed to be rolled out to CEE territories (except Poland and Netherlands) in 2009. Later, however, Disney announced that the Jetix channel in certain countries (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel) will be renamed to
Disney Channel, marking that channel's first introduction in these countries. The change took place on September 19, 2009, in the CEE region.
[Jetix to become Disney](_blank)
- ''Broadband TV News'', by Chris Dziadul, published and retrieved: 2009-05-26 Disney Channel Romania & Bulgaria are broadcast as a single video feed with two audio channels and there is also a Russian audio channel.
On September 19, 2009, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in
Bulgaria
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,
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
,
Moldova, Romania and
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
. But the Russian feed was still broadcasting under the
Jetix name until it was announced that a separate
Disney Channel would launch. After the launch of
Disney Channel Romania
Disney Channel is a European children's television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Limited. broadcast in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria. It was previously known as Fox Kids, then Jetix. There are several va ...
and
Disney Channel Bulgaria
Disney Channel is a British-managed Bulgarian pay television kids' channel, owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Limited. It was launched on 19 September 2009, replacing Jetix Eastern Europe.
History
The channel was launched in April ...
, the
Jetix feed in Russia began to be independent and got localized, with Russian title cards and banners with Russian hours.
On August 10, 2010, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in Russia.
On October 16, 2010, Disney Channel CEE launched a Ukrainian audio for audience in Ukraine, which was deleted on 1 January 2013 for unknown reasons.
Feeds
* Disney Channel Eastern Europe, available in
Romania, Moldova and
Bulgaria
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with three audio tracks in Romanian, Bulgarian and English.
* Disney Channel Central Europe, available in
the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and
Hungary
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, with three audio tracks in Czech, Hungarian and English.
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". Since 2022, it now shows the word "РЕКЛАМА" only on the Bulgarian sub-feed for commercials.
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.
[http://www.jetixeurope.com/site/press_office/press_releases/bulgaria_localisation.html]
''Jetix begins localisation of its Bulgarian Channel'' - 31 October 2007 ''(retrieved on November 14, 2007)'' 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.
''W.I.T.C.H.'' (stylised as ''W.i.t.c.h.'') is an Italian fantasy Disney comics series created by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci, and Barbara Canepa. The series features a group of five teenage girls who become the guardians of the classi ...
'', ''
Iggy Arbuckle
''Iggy Arbuckle'' is an animated series that premiered in Canada on Teletoon in June 2007. Based on a comic strip from National Geographic Kids, the show is created by Guy Vasilovich, and focuses on a pig (Iggy Arbuckle) who happens to be a for ...
'') 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 until 10 August 2010. After 10 August 2010 Russian-language broadcast was renamed by Ukrainian-language broadcast, and on 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.
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
* ''
Handy Manny
''Handy Manny'' is a CGI-animated children's television series that premiered with its first two episodes consecutively on Saturday, September 16, 2006, originally as part of Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block. On Valentine's Day 2011, th ...
''
* ''
Jake and the Never Land Pirates
''Jake and the Never Land Pirates'' (titled ''Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates'' for the fourth season and associated merchandise) is an American animated musical and interactive preschool children's television series shown on Disney Junior ...
''
* ''
Jungle Junction
''Jungle Junction'' is a CGI interactive computer-animated children's television series created by Trevor Ricketts. In the United States, it was originally part of the Playhouse Disney daily block intended for preschoolers. On 14 February 2011, ...
''
* ''
Lalaloopsy
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''
* ''
Little Einsteins
''Little Einsteins'' is an American animated children's television series based on the Baby Einstein line of videos. It was produced by The Baby Einstein Company (which, at the time, was owned by Disney) and animated by Curious Pictures. The ser ...
''
* ''
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse'' is an American interactive computer-animated children's television series which aired from May 5, 2006, to November 6, 2016 on the Disney Channel. Produced by Disney Television Animation, it is the first computer-a ...
''
* ''
My Friends Tigger & Pooh
''My Friends Tigger & Pooh'' is an American computer-animated children's television series on Disney Channel as part of the Playhouse Disney block. It was inspired by A. A. Milne's ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. The series was developed by Walt Disney T ...
''
* ''
Special Agent Oso
''Special Agent Oso '' () was an American computer-animated children's television series. The series was created by Ford Riley. It premiered on April 4, 2009 with 2 episodes airing that day as part of Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block," ...
''
* ''
Baby HITLO
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''
See also
*
Jetix
*
Jetix Play
Jetix Play (formerly Fox Kids Play) was a preschool entertainment brand, owned by Jetix Europe. The Jetix Play name was primarily used as a sister channel to Jetix in a small number of regions, such as Central and Eastern Europe, and Middle East ...
*
Disney Channel Bulgaria
Disney Channel is a British-managed Bulgarian pay television kids' channel, owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Limited. It was launched on 19 September 2009, replacing Jetix Eastern Europe.
History
The channel was launched in April ...
*
Disney Channel Romania
Disney Channel is a European children's television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Limited. broadcast in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria. It was previously known as Fox Kids, then Jetix. There are several va ...
*
Disney Channel Russia
Disney Channel ( rus, Канал Disney) was a Russian free-to-air television channel which was launched on 10 August 2010 on pay television, replacing kids channel Jetix, and was later launched as a free-to-air network, replacing Seven TV on 31 ...
*
Disney Channel Serbia
*
Disney Channel Hungary
Disney Channel is a European children's television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Limited. broadcast in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria. It was previously known as Fox Kids, then Jetix. There are several va ...
*
Disney Channel France
Disney Channel is a French private thematic television channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company France (''La Société Walt Disney''), a European division of The Walt Disney Company Europe Middle East & Africa.
The channel has been ...
References
External links
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