DreamWorks Channel, commonly known as DreamWorks, is a

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network owned and operated by the

NBCUniversal International Networks NBCUniversal International Networks, formerly NBC Universal Global Networks and Universal Networks International, is a part of NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast. History When NBCUniversal was formed in 2004, it owned many entertainment television ch ...

division of

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, a division of

Comcast Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...

. First launched in

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland ...

on 1 August 2015, it expanded to the rest of Asia as well as Europe, Africa, Oceania and Latin America. Its programming is dominated by productions from

DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA, also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios and simply known as DreamWorks) is an American animation studio that produces animated films and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a divisio ...

. Its counterpart in the United States is

Universal Kids Universal Kids is an American children's television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented channel joint ...

, which launched on 9 September 2017, with the rights to DreamWorks Animation's programming in the country also handled by

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and other local networks.

History

As a standalone TV Channel

announced plans to launch its own TV channel on 9 December 2014 starting in Asia, rolling out over 19 countries in the second half of 2015.

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-based broadcaster

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was contracted to handle marketing, sales and technical services for the channel in Southeast Asia. The studio's first foray into television channel operations in any part of the world was represented with the launch of its first dedicated channel on 1 August 2015 in

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through a joint venture through with CTH. A Middle East and North Africa feed of the channel launched on 1 August 2016 in partnership with the

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. The channel was placed under the NBCU International executive vice president of Lifestyle and Kids, Duccio Donati, in August 2017, following the NBCU/Comcast takeover of DreamWorks Animation. This paired the channel with E! international channels and NBCU Lifestyle Channel content. On 1 January 2018, NBCUniversal International Networks took over HBO Asia's role with DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia. The channel launched on

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in the Netherlands on 23 July 2019. The channel launched as a one-month pop-up channel in Australia via

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on channel 700 throughout June 2020 and returned as a regular 24/7 network the following year. The

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n feed of the channel originally launched on

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on 3 August 2020, but closed/shut down on 17 February 2022 and was supplemented by

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on StarTimes ON in July 2022.

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and NBCUIN jointly announced on 8 March 2022 that the channel would launch on

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a week later on 18 March. On its launch, the channel took over the service channel number slot previously held by

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which was shut down on 1 October 2020 and supplement

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alongside

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. The Sub-Saharan African channel is available on the ''DStv Compact'', ''DStv Compact Plus'' and ''DStv Premium'' subscription packages in South Africa and on the ''DStv Premium'' and ''DStv Compact Plus'' subscription packages in the rest of Africa, although the channel was made available on the lower-tiered ''DStv Family'' and ''DStv Access'' subscription packages until 18 April to promote

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, The Bad Guys and The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib. From 27 June to 15 July 2022, the channel was made available on ''DStv Family'' alongside

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to promote Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight and Illumination's Minions: The Rise of Gru. The Philippines feed of the channel launched via

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on 11 September 2021, with aired productions dubbed in the

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. It was also launched on

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in mid-November that same year, though SkyCable uses its original English feed instead. Like the Sub-Saharan African DStv channel feed, it replaced on launch the country channel feed of Disney Channel, which shut down on the same date as the Southeast Asian Disney Channel feeds, i.e. on 1 October.

Universal+ launch with DreamWorks

The channel and Universal+ launched in Spain with two television providers

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and Orange on 21 February 2021. The Indian feed of the channel was launched in English via

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on 25 November 2021. The Latin America feed of the channel was launched on 31 March 2022. DreamWorks Channel Africa's programming are currently available to stream on Universal+ which launched as an on-demand service on DStv Catch Up and DStv App on 14 October 2022. The channel was launched along with Universal+ in France on

SFR SFR (; ''Société française du radiotéléphone'', ) is a French telecommunications company. As of December 2015, it had 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services, and provided 6.35 million households with high-spee ...

on 17 November 2022 and on

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in December 2022.

Programming

The content on the channel mainly consists of productions from the libraries of

DreamWorks Animation Television DreamWorks Animation Television (abbreviated as DWATV or simply DAT) is an American animation studio that serves as the television production arm of DreamWorks Animation, itself a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and a division of Comcast' ...

and

DreamWorks Classics Classic Media, LLC, doing business as DreamWorks Classics, is an American entertainment company owned by DreamWorks Animation, which is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and a division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It was founded as Classic Media ...

including some of the former's content originally produced for

; films and specials from DreamWorks Animation, Illumination and sometimes from third parties only broadcasts in the international versions.

Programming blocks

*''DreamWorks Junior'' - This block is composed of shows targeting preschool-age children every morning and is a direct competitor to

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Nick Jr. Nick Jr. (known on-air as the Nick Jr. Channel) is an American pay television channel spun off from Nickelodeon's long-running programming block of the same name. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Gr ...

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Disney Junior Disney Junior is an American pay television network owned by the Walt Disney Television (part of Disney General Entertainment Content) unit of The Walt Disney Company through Disney Branded Television. Aimed mainly at children two to seven ...

and Warner Bros. Discovery's

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. Programs currently seen in this block include '' Guess with Jess'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Current programming

Future programming

Versions

Notes

References

External links