Disney Channel Hong Kong

Disney Channel Hong Kong
Launched	1 April 2010
Owned by	Buena Vista International Inc., The Walt Disney Company
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Country	Hong Kong
Language	English/Cantonese/Mandarin
Broadcast area	Hong Kong
Headquarters	Hong Kong
Sister channel(s)	Playhouse Disney Channel Asia
Website	Disney Channel Hong Kong Website
Availability
Cable
Cable TV Hong Kong	Channel 135
IPTV
now TV	Channel 441
HKBN bbTV	Channel 311

Disney Channel Hong Kong is a franchise of Disney Channel, airing in Hong Kong.

Programming

Main article: List of programs broadcast by Disney Channel Asia

Every month, Disney Channel is releasing one or more of new episodes or new seasons, new movies, new original movie, new original series as well as new Third-Party titles.

Upcoming premieres including the premieres of new DCOMs Starstruck and Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars on June 20 and June 27, respectively. Another new movie Taking Five premiered on June 13.

Motion pictures from Walt Disney Pictures are usually premiered sooner than US counterpart.

Schedules

Disney Channel Asia has made a lot of scheduling changes which started in July 2007 to present. This is due to a lot of series have been removed and they're replaced with a different show/s. The last change was made on April 10, 2009.

Movies are shown at 6.30pm (VIE/THAI) everyday and additionally at 1pm (VIE/THAI) everyday and at 9pm on weekend. In some special events, movies are shown at some different slots, thus, leads to changing showing time of other shows or sometimes, advancing to the next show on the uniformed schedule.

Several Disney Channel Original Series are currently being shown on very late time slots, starting at 10pm (VIE/THAI) with Phineas and Ferb, following by The Suite Life on Deck, Sonny with a Chance while Wizards of Waverly Place, Hannah Montana and JONAS is being shown in the afternoon time slots.

A detailed schedule is shown here.

Sister Channels

Current Channels

Playhouse Disney Channel

Main article: Playhouse Disney Asia

Playhouse Disney is the pre-schooler's channel that was once aired in Brunei, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Korea. On 1 January 1994, it was separated into a different channel called "Playhouse Disney Channel Asia".

Disney Junior

Main article: Disney Junior (Asia)

In 2011, Disney announced that Playhouse Disney would be replaced by a new channel, Disney Junior. Playhouse Disney Asia will be ceased broadcast on July 10, 2011 and was replaced with Disney Junior Asia launched on July 11, 2011.

Criticism

See also: Disney Channel#Criticism

Since Disney Channel Hong Kong mostly follows Disney Channel guideline, the channel has met similar criticism with its US counterpart: the channel moved from premium, more limited cable to more basic, widespread cable; pulled away from the characters that the networks parent company was based on and programs on Disney Channel geared only toward pre-teens and teenage girls.

As a channel of Disney, in Asia, Disney Channel Hong Kong did not air many teen-themed films of Walt Disney Pictures. It lost the premieres to STAR Movies in recent years.

Enchanted was only the first movie to issue this - which the fact is it featured animation, show the first time on the channel on January 9, 2010 though it first aired on STAR Movies about 2 years ago.

See also

• Disney Channel
• Disney Channel Asia
• Playhouse Disney
• Playhouse Disney Asia
• Disney Junior Asia

External links

• Disney Channel Hong Kong Website