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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Headquarters | 3 Queen Caroline Street,Hammersmith, London W6 9PE |
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Disney Channel is a British-managedchildren'spay televisionchannel owned and operated byThe Walt Disney Company Limited, the international business division ofthe Walt Disney Company servingtelevision markets across theMiddle East (exceptIran,Israel,Syria, andTurkey),North Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,Greece,Cyprus, theBaltics,Balkans (excludingAlbania,Bulgaria,Romania andMoldova, includingCroatia andSlovenia).
Originally launched on 2 April 1997 as a channel in theMiddle East and North Africa; exclusively forOrbit TV (nowOSN) subscribers,[1][2] it began expanding to markets inSub-Saharan Africa in 2006[3] and the Balkans.
The channel previously used to coverPoland[4] andTurkey,[5] with respective audio tracks for the two markets, until 2010[6] and 2012[7] respectively when two fully-localized feeds were launched for the two countries. InAlbania, the EMEA feed was previously available from 2012 to 2018, withAlbanian subtitles available for programs.[8]
Majority of programming from Disney Channel are also available onDisney+ throughout the regions andSouth Africa.
Disney Channel, then known asThe Disney Channel began broadcasting on 2 April 1997 on satellite providerOrbit (nowOSN) in theMiddle East and North Africa region.[1][2][9] At first, the channel was only available in English, but on 1 April 1998, a separateArabic sub-feed was added. Animated films and series were dubbed in Arabic,[10] while live-action films and series were subtitled. Disney Channel Middle East was then picked up by satellite providerShowtime in fall 2001. The channel featured the logos (resembling Mickey Mouse head) in two versions (the one with the channel's name written in English and the other in Arabic for each feed), until June 2003 when it adopted the 2002 US Disney Channel logo.
Somewhere at that time, both the Arabic and English feeds of the channel were merged. In consequence, on 3 January 2005 Disney Channel Middle East started to simulcastDisney Channel Scandinavia, including its schedule and the prints of the series and movies for this feed (which were modified to also include Arabic dubbing credits). Then somewhere between November and December 2005, Disney Channel Scandinavia and Middle East started to add dubbing credits to its programming through subtitles.
Disney Channel Scandinavia and Middle East started gradually becoming individual feeds in 2006, starting with a different rotation of films (that gradually got more different), though this did not stop Arab satellite providerOrbit from adding aSwedish audio track to the Middle Eastern feed on 16 April 2007 (which was subsequently removed years later).
The Middle Eastern feed became a pan-regional network, as the channel was launched inSub-Saharan Africa on 25 September 2006,[11][3][12] Poland on 2 December 2006,[4][3] Turkey on 29 April 2007;[5][13] andGreece along withCyprus on 8 November 2009.
In September 2009, when the feed separation from Disney Channel Scandinavia was complete, the Middle East feed (now broadcasting in most of the EMEA region) started to share promotions and events withthe CEE feed.
On 1 August 2010, the EMEA feed in Poland was separated and replaced with afully localized Polish feed.
On 12 January 2012, Disney Channel EMEA in Turkey was replaced by anindependent Turkish feed,[7] and became a free-to-air network.[14]
Between 2009 and 2012, Disney Channel EMEA began broadcasting in theformer Yugoslavia (Serbia,Croatia,[15]Montenegro,North Macedonia,[16]Bosnia, Slovenia) andAlbania.[8]
The channel adopted a new logo and underwent a rebrand on 21 July 2014.[17] In 2015, Disney Channel EMEA switched its aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9.
In 2017, a high-definition feed of the channel was launched. It includesArabic subtitles for live-action films and TV series. Also in that year, Disney Channel EMEA rebranded using the 2017 European branding package. And in August 2018, the Albanian transmission ceased.[18]
On 24 June 2022, Disney Channel EMEA,Israel,Spain andPortugal rebranded its graphics with the new graphical branding Signature Strokes,[19] and with the customized wordmark logo; designed by Flopicco fromRome,Italy.[20]
The Middle East sub-feed is the oldest sub-feed, and began broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa on 2 April 1997.[1][2][9] The feed is currently available in bothEnglish andArabic. The vast majority of all animated series can be watched with Arabicdubbing, but live-action programs are almost always aired in English only with Arabicsubtitles instead. It also has its own website, which is offered withEnglish andArabic versions. On 31 December 2023, Disney Channel was removed off the OSN cable provider because OSN did not renew its contract with Disney to offer its channels in its catalog, and was replaced byCartoon Network later that night.[21]
On 27 February 2025, Disney Channel and Disney Jr were added tobeIN Channels Network packages.[22]
Launched on 25 September 2006 onMultichoice'sDStv,[11] it later went 24 hours since 2007.[12] Broadcasting in most ofSub-Saharan Africa. This feed airs programs inEnglish only, without foreign-language subtitles.
Launched inGreece andCyprus on 8 November 2009 onNOVA. The feed is currently available in bothEnglish andGreek. Most programs, whether animated or live-action, are generally dubbed intoGreek on this sub-feed, although some programs are aired with Greek subtitles instead. It also has a Greek-language website.
Expanded between 2009 and 2012 with multiple distributors through Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia (including the disputedKosovo) and Slovenia. All programs are exclusively aired withEnglish audio, withSerbian,Croatian andSlovene subtitles. On February 28, 2023, the feed launched in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), replacing the Scandinavian feed (which was distributed on television providerAllente). The Scandinavian feed was itself replaced in the Nordics by the EMEA feed on 5 June 2023. The Scandinavian feed would relaunch on 2 April 2024 replacing the EMEA feed.
Disney Jr. is a British-managed pan-regional and sister channel; focused on toddlers and preschoolers, aged 2–6 years old. It launched on September 1, 2010, in MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Greece & Cyprus asPlayhouse Disney. On June 1, 2011, Disney Junior was launched, replacing Playhouse Disney.[23]
On 31 May 2016, Disney Junior was launched in a fullArabic language counterpart; exclusively onOSN.[24]
Disney XD was a British-managed pan-regional and sister channel; focused on older kids and teenagers (mostly boys). It was launched in theMENA,Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia and Slovenia[25] in 2009;[26] and in Sub-Saharan Africa in May 2011.[27]
In South Africa in June 2014,Multichoice finedR5000 (around$300) after failing to provide a warning before airing an advertisement for the fantasy drama seriesWolfBlood, containinghorror scenes on the morning of 31 December 2013.[28]
In 2018, an Arabic language counterpart launched.[29]
The channel was later closed in Sub-Saharan Africa on 1 October 2020;[30] the MENA region and in the Balkans, on 31 December 2020;[31][32] and Greece on 31 January 2021.[33]
Note: Some programs are available onDisney+.
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