Disney stand alone programming TV blocks are block of Disney shows on non-Disney channels or TV stations around the world. Disney puts together stand alone TV block to reach those audiences that do not have access to cable or satellite.[1][2]
By the end of March 2000, Disney was in 35 countries in three regions, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific (13 countries) with 82 blocks with more than 9,000 hours total per year. The block were under various names: Disney Club, Disney’s FilmParade, Disneytime, Disney!, DisneyKid, Club Disney, Saturday Disney, Disney Adventures, Disney Animation Hour, Disney Fun Time, Good Morning Disney, Disney Hour, Disney Sandhya, Disney Toontown, Sunday Club Disney, I Love Disney, Disney Animation Time, Dragon Club (China).[3]
Disney also had a series of channels and blocks called Jetix, originally called Fox Kids, acquired in the purchase of Fox Family Worldwide, now ABC Family Worldwide.
List of blocks
| Market | block | channel/network | type | length (hrs) | premiered | closed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | |||||||
| Argentina | Playhouse Disney | an Artear channel | 2007[4] | ||||
| Australia | Total Girl | 7Two | weekday mornings | 2.5 | Template:Dts † | ||
| K-Zone | 7mate | ||||||
| Saturday Disney | Seven Network/7flix[5] | Saturday | 3 | Template:Dts[6] | Template:Dts[7] | ||
| Playhouse Disney | Seven Network | weekly | .5 | Template:Dts[8][9] | Template:Dts | ||
Brazil | |||||||
| Brazil | Disney on TV (Disney en TV) | TV Globo[10] | Template:Dts | Template:Dts[11] | |||
| Disney World (Mundo Disney)[12] | SBT[11] | daily | 2 | Template:Dts | Template:Dts[13] | ||
| Disney Movies (Cine Disney) | 1980s | ||||||
| Success Screen (Tela de Sucessos) | 1997 | 2004 | |||||
C | |||||||
| Canada | The Disney Afternoon (DA) | CITV-DT | weekday | 2/day | Template:Dts[14] | ||
| Czech Republic | Disney Club | TV Nova | weekly | 2 | 2006[15] | ||
|
China |
Disney Adventures | provincial broadcasters, free-to-air and cable[16] | |||||
| Disney Club | 12 stations (8/1997) | 1995[17] | Template:N/a | ||||
| Dragon Club ‡ | 80% of cable providers | daily | 2/day | Template:Dts[18][19] | |||
| Panda Club ‡ | four of China's five regional broadcasters | 3 blocks | 2/block[20] | Template:Dts[18][19] | |||
D | |||||||
| Denmark | Template:Ill | DR 1 | weekly on Fridays | 1 | -early 1990s- | ||
G–H | |||||||
|
Germany |
unnamed (or unrevealed name) | Kirch Media's ProSieben | Sunday afternoon movie | 2002[21] | |||
| Disney Club | RTL | Saturday and Sunday[22][23] | 2002[21] | ||||
| ProSieben | Saturday | 2002[21] | |||||
| Disney Filmparade | RTL | movie | 2000[22] | 2005[24] | |||
| ProSiebenSat.1 Group channel | 2005[24] | ||||||
| Disney Time | RTL | -2000-[22] | |||||
| ProSieben | Sunday | 2 | late December 2004[24] | ||||
| Kabel 1 | 3 | late December 2004[24] | |||||
| Hungary | Disney Klub | RTL Klub | Saturday morning | 1 | Template:Dts[8] | ||
India | |||||||
| Disney Time | Star Plus | 1 | -2005-[25] | ||||
| unnamed or unmentioned | DD National | -1994-[1][2] | |||||
| unnamed or unmentioned | Zee TV's Alpha language channels, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Bengali | Template:Dts | Template:N/a ↑ | ||||
| Disney Fun Time | DD Metro | 2000 | 2001 | ||||
| Disney Jadoo | DD National (purchased time) | Saturday 10am | .5 | Template:Dts[1][2] | |||
| Good Morning Disney | Zee TV | morning | 2 | 2000[1][2][26] | |||
| Sony TV | 2000 | 2002[1][2][26] | |||||
| Disney Hour | Zee TV | afternoon | 2000[1][2][26] | ||||
| Sony TV | 2000 | 2002[1][2][26] | |||||
| unmentioned | STAR Utsav | -2005-[1][2] | |||||
| Disney Sandhya' | Eenadu TV | daily Telugu dubbed | Template:Dts[27] | ||||
I–N | |||||||
| Italy | Disney Cinemagic | Sky Cinema Family | weekend movies[28] | ||||
| Japan | Disney Time | Dlife | Template:Dts[29] | ||||
| Kazakhstan | Disney Club | KTK | weekly | - 2006 (renewed) -[30] | |||
| Mexico | Disney Club | Azteca 7[31] | 1998 | 2001[32] | |||
| new format | 2001[32] | 2016 | |||||
| New Zealand | Disney Club | TV NZ | Template:Dts[9] | ||||
R–T | |||||||
| Romania | Disney Club | RTV[8] | |||||
| Spain | Club Disney | Tele 5 | -1991-[33] | ||||
| Thailand | Disney Club | BBTV | Saturday | 1 | 2002[9] | ||
| 1.5 | 2002[9] | 2006[15] | |||||
| 100-minute | 2006[15] | 2018 | |||||
| weekend | 35-minute | 2018 | |||||
U–V | |||||||
| UAE | Disney Club | Dubai TV | daily | .5; Thu. & Fri. 1 | 2006[34] | ||
|
United Kingdom |
Diggin’ It ↔ | GMTV | Template:Dts[35] | ||||
| Playhouse Disney | ABC1 | weekday mornings | 1.5 | Template:Dts Summer[36] | Template:Dts[37] | ||
| Saturday Disney | GMTV | Template:Dts[38] | |||||
| USA | ABC Kids (formerly Disney's One Saturday Morning) | ABC | Saturday morning | 2 | September 13, 1997 | August 27, 2011 | |
| The Disney Afternoon (DA) | syndication | weekday afternoons | 2/day | Template:Dts[39] | Template:End date[40] | ||
| Disney-Kellogg Alliance, unbranded (DKA; formerly DA) | syndication | weekday afternoons | 1.5/day | Template:Start date[40] | Template:End date[41] | ||
| Disney's One Too (formerly DKA) | UPN & syndication | Sunday mornings & weekdays | 2/day | Template:Dts[42] | Template:Dts | ||
| That's So Throwback | Freeform | Monday-Thursday late night | 2[43] | Template:Dts | |||
| Treasures from the Disney Vault | TCM | quarterly classics | ~9 | Template:Dts[44] | |||
| Vietnam | Toon Disney | HCMC TV | Template:Dts[45] | ||||
Notes
†Seven launched two weekday blocks (from 6:30am–9:00am) with mostly Disney programming on March 5, 2012 named after and aligned with affiliated Pacific Magazines's two tween magazines:[46][47]
- † Total Girl: is a girl focused block on 7Two with launch programs of Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, Jonas LA, Sonny With a Chance, Good Luck Charlie, Shake it Up and The Fairies.
- † K-Zone is a boy aimed block on 7mate with launch programs of Handy Manny, Stitch!, Kick Buttowski, Phineas and Ferb, Pair of Kings, Zeke and Luther and I'm in the Band.
‡These two Chinese clubs found by ABC and DIC Entertainment before Disney's purchase of CC/ABC.
↔ This block had a companion website, www.diggit.co.uk, created in 2000 that allowed for personalization and creation of a "Dink", a custom virtual character.[48]
↑under a one-year revenue-sharing agreement with Zee marketing the block and guaranteeing a minimum revenue to Disney.[49]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Disney takes up weekend branded block on DD. Indian Television.com(November 15, 2005). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Disney takes up weekend branded block on DD. AnimationXpress(November 17, 2005). Retrieved July 25, 2014.
- ↑ Where the blocks are Majors' block-building global reach. Kidscreen(April 1, 2000). Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ↑ 'High School' remake for Argentina. Variety(April 25, 2007). Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ↑ Happy Easter!. Yahoo7 TV(2016). Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ↑ 1990: January 27-February 2. Television.AU(26 January 2010). Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ↑ Farewell to Saturday Disney, Knox, David. TV Tonight(25 September 2016). Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Disney signs raft of output deals. Screen Daily(October 9, 2002). Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Blocks and packages for Buena Vista Asia-Pacific. C21 Media(October 9, 2002). Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media: TWO-VOLUME SET{{#if:Moran|, Moran}. SAGE Publications(December 14, 2006). ISBN 9781452265513
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 For 18 years, SBT and Disney closed first major agreement; recall how it was. NaTelinha(July 21, 2015). Retrieved August 29, 2016. Translated.
- ↑ Disney announces schedule "Disney World," which opens in SBT. NaTelinha(August 27, 2015). Retrieved August 29, 2016. Translated.
- ↑ Flávio Ricco - Fim da parceria: Contrato da Disney não será renovado no SBT.
- ↑ Timeline: 40 Years of 'Our' TV. Global News(August 28, 2014). Retrieved March 30, 2015. (scroll timeline image)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 BVITV ties up with European & Asian broadcasters. Indiantelevision.com(April 4, 2006). Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ Disney Live! Presents Three Classic Fairy Tales Worldwide Premiere in Shanghai. Press Release(April 22, 2008). Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ↑ Has Disney Become The Forbidden Studio?. Businessweek(August 3, 1997). Retrieved July 14, 2014.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 ABC will launch. (children's television programs in China). Mediaweek(August 22, 1994). Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 ABC, DIC target children in China; two-form programing venture to create kids programing channels there. Broadcasting & Cable(August 22, 1994). Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ↑ U.S. nets grow their Asia footprint. Kidscreen(May 1, 1999). Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Kirch bounces back with Disney deal. C21Media(November 25, 2002). Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 People in new jobs. Kidscreen(November 1, 2000). Retrieved August 6, 2014.
- ↑ Kidcasters vie for eyeballs in the 'shark's basin' that is the German market. Kidscreen(October 1, 1999). Retrieved March 26, 2015.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 BVITV, ProSieben Sign New Licensing Pact. Animation Magazine(January 19, 2005). Retrieved August 4, 2014.
- ↑ Buena Vista inks deal with Star One for 'Jetix' block. Indiantelevision.com(June 6, 2005). Retrieved February 26, 2014.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 SONY : THE BIG PICTURE. Indian Television.com(December 30, 2000). Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ↑ Buena Vista Television to launch Disney cartoons in Telegu. India Today(June 7, 1999). Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ↑ Disney Cinemagic - Tutti i week end su Sky Cinema Family. Sky Mag. Sky Italy. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
- ↑ Jennifer Wolfe. (December 2, 2013). Loyalkaspar Helps Bring Dlife’s Disney Time to Life. AWN News (AWN, Inc.). Accessed on December 19, 2013.
- ↑ KTK Kazakhstan, BVITV ink deal for 'Desperate Housewives'. Indiantelevision.com(April 5, 2006). Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media: TWO-VOLUME SET{{#if:Moran|, Moran}. SAGE Publications(December 14, 2006). ISBN 9781452265513
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 New Azteca topper. Variety(October 11, 2001). Retrieved May 18, 2014.
- ↑ Kids clubs dominate the Spanish TV scene. Kidscreen(September 1, 1999). Retrieved August 7, 2014.
- ↑ BVITV signs deals with Dubai TV for 'Disney Club' branded block. Kidology(April 4, 2006). Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ GMTV renews Disney output deal. C21 Media(October 14, 2004). Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ New kid on the U.K. Freeview block. Kidscreen(April 1, 2006). Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ↑ ABC News Now to launch in the UK(5 November 2007). Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ↑ Morning Glory: A History of British Breakfast Television{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Kelly(2004). ISBN 190305320X
- ↑ The Disney Films, by Leonard Maltin, 1995. Page 300. Via Chronology of the Walt Disney Company. Late 1990.
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 Tooning in the Fall Season. Animation World Magazine({Template:Date).
- ↑ Disney kids to play UPN. Variety(January 20, 1998). Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ↑ It's Show Time! The Fall TV Preview. Animation World Magazine({Template:Date).
- ↑ Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven to Air on Freeform. TVGuide.com(2 May 2016). Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ↑ Disney Pairs Up With Turner to Promote TCM and Great Movie Ride. New York Times(November 25, 2014). Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ↑ Disney's BVITV-AP brings 'Toon Disney' block to Vietnam. Indiantelevision.com(February 1, 2007). Retrieved March 10, 2014.
- ↑ New Kids line-up coming to 7TWO and 7mate. TV Tonight(February 23, 2012). Retrieved August 7, 2014.
- ↑ Pacific Magazines stretches into tween TV. Ad News(2 March 2012). Retrieved May 10, 2016.
- ↑ Disney links with GMTV for animated kids site. Brand Republic(December 13, 2000). Retrieved March 27, 2015.
- ↑ Walt Disney signs one-year pact with Zee Telefilms for animation content. Indian Express(September 23, 2000). Retrieved August 12, 2014.