This page details the international expansion ofDisney Channel since launching on 18 April 1983. Its first local variants were launched on 1 September 1995 in the United Kingdom & Ireland and on 22 March 1997 in France.

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.^[1] But Disney's channels in some markets were shut down due toBob Chapek's controversial strategy of closing them down in favor of Disney+ between April 2020 and up until his ouster in December 2022,^[2] which was later reversed byBob Iger after his return as Disney CEO, who confirmed that the linear TV channels will be able to coexist with Disney+ in synergy (excluding Spain where Disney Channel was shut down due to the failure license renewal withNet TV, and Brazil where Disney channels were shut down due to the pay TV crisis in that country).^[3]

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.^[4] Over the first six months of 2005, Disney Channel Asia along with sister channelPlayhouse 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.^[5] 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.^[6][7] It ceased transmissions by the end of 2021.

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.^[8] In December 2013, Dlife launched a children's programming block calledDisney Time.^[9] The channel was shut down on March 31, 2020, but was revived on March 1, 2024, as a replacement for the Japanese version ofFox.^[10]

Disney Channel does not have a localized version for China. However, many of its live-action and animated series aresyndicated on regional channels throughABC ownedDragon Club since 1994. It also has a Chinese website.^[11]

Previously, Disney programming was available through programming blocks starting as early as 1994 withDoordarshan then moving toZee TV until the early 2000s. Disney moved its block toSony Entertainment Television for three years.Star TV picked up the Disney TV blocks onStar Plus,Disney Time and onStar Utsav.^[12]

In December 2004, Walt Disney Television International India launched a Toon Disney channel with three language feeds (English, Tamil and Telugu)^[13] at the same time as the Disney Channel with Star TV network distributing the channels.^[14] Disney reached an agreement withDoordarshan (DD) in November 2005 for DD to carry a half-hour block calledDisney Jadoo. Thus Disney was up to 4 branded blocks in India.^[12]

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 launchedDisney Channel in Canada on 1 September 2015 —the first time that a Disney Channel-branded channel in operation in Canada.^[15]

Prior to this agreement, rights to Disney Channel programming had been held byFamily Channel, owned byWildBrain which is licensed as apremium service but is carried as a basic service by many television providers. Family was launched and formerly owned byAstral Media which was acquired byBell Media in 2013, with Family divested to WildBrain (at the time known asDHX Media) a year later. Family Channel was commonly considered to be ade facto Canadian version of Disney Channel (though it was often mistakenly assumed to be related to the American Freeform channel (at the time known asABC Family)) as a result of the fact that majority of Disney Channel US programming aired on Family, coupled with both channels developing similarly in their respective countries (as both began as premium services before adding basic subscription availability), , a sister channel to Disney Channel US which was formerly known asThe (emphasis added) Family Channel from 1988 to 1998; a Canadian version of ABC Family (now Freeform) launched in March 2012, calledABC Spark^[16] to avoid confusion with Family Channel, to which it does not share common ownership). Some Canadian-produced original series produced by Family (such asLife with Derek,Naturally, Sadie, andOverruled!) 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 ofDisney Junior as amultiplex channel, asCRTC rules allow pay-TV channels licensed as premium services to add multiplex channels consistent with the network's license.Disney XD and aFrench-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. andTélémagino) and October 9, 2015 (Family Chrgd, now known asWildBrainTV.).^[15]

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^a Relaunched viafree-to-air replacingDas Vierte. Originally launched between October 16, 1999^[1] toNovember 30, 2013^[45] while the HD channel between December 24, 2011^[46] toNovember 30, 2013 as well.^[45]

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

• ^c Initially went free-to-air on January 12, 2012^[74]
• ^d ReplacingJetix; later went free-to-air on December 31, 2011, replacingSeven TV.^[75]
• ^eSociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV is owned byVocento SA, The Walt Disney Company Iberia S.L. (20%) and Intereconomía Corporation SA. Which in addition to the Disney channels owns Intereconomia TV, ageneralist channel.^{[citation needed]}

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