Disney Channel around the world

Disney Channel, originally finalized as a cable channel in the United States, has expanded worldwide. There is a similar channel called Family which is only broadcast in Canada.

Africa

* Disney Channel South Africa
* Disney Channel Zimbabwe

Asia Pacific

Disney Channel Asia is broadcasted in the Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries from Southeast Asia.

India

Japan

Taiwan

Disney Channel (Taiwan)

Australia & New Zealand

Middle East & North Africa

It is broadcasts over the Orbit Network and Showtime Arabia platforms.

Europe

Adria

Disney Channel (formally Дизни на РТС) latin: Dizni na RTS) was launched on 2009 , 7 Ex-YU countries by subtitle: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosnian, Croatia - Croatian, Macedonia - Macedonian, Montenegro - Montenegrin, Serbia, North Kosovo - Serbian, Kosovo - Albanian, english not subtitles via broadcast by Aspect Ratio

France

Germany

Disney Channel was launched on October 1, 1999 and broadcast on Premiere.

Ireland

Italy

Poland

From December 2, 2006, Disney Channel is available on the Cyfra+ and Polsat satellite platforms.

Portugal

Disney Channel is available on TV Cabo on channel 40. The channel "Disney Cinemagic" is now avalible on Portugal.

Romania

Disney Channel will be launched on May 26, 2008 as a television block on Jetix and then as a television channel.

Russia

Disney Channel is available as a television block on Perviy Kanal, STS, and Jetix.

Scandinavia

Spain

Disney Channel, Disney Channel +1 and Playhouse Disney are available on the Digital+ satellite platform on channels 30, 31 and 32, and in cable plataforms. Also Disney Channel is available for free on digital terrestrial system since July 1 2008 (channel 66), and Disney Cinemagic is available since the same day in Imagenio, Ono, R & Orange TV. The channels broadcast in Spanish with an original language option, American and British programmes broadcast in English on the second track while anime broadcast in Japanese.

Turkey

Disney Channel was launched on April 29, 2007 and is available on Digiturk on channel 67.

United Kingdom

Latin America and the Caribbean

In the 90's Disney Channel started airing in Latin America via DirecTV and Multicanal Digital as a premium channel. Later, around the 2000s it became available in other cable companies like Intercable. In 2003, because of the crisis in Argentina and Mexico, DirecTV removed the channel from all the subscriptions (The gap was "covered" by a few period of time by Fox Kids, but later returned and BOTH channels were on DirecTV, as Fox Kids was previously exclusive to SKY) and it came back in 2004 as part of the basic channel grid. In Latin America, programming includes "Zapping Zone".

The channel clears all of the same series as the US network, down to the Playhouse Disney block in the morning. The shows over Disney Channel Latin America have Spanish and English soundtracks; it takes approximately 2 or 3 months (after the premiere in the US) to translate a season in Spanish, but it's very common that some episodes were shown before the US premiere.

Brazil has its own version because the official language there is Portuguese instead of Spanish.

Viewers in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and most of the Caribbean (except for Cuba and Dominican Republic) receive the US Disney Channel.

On September 23, 2007 as part of the network's 2007 re-brand campaign, the "Hip" brand name was dropped, and introduced its rectangular current logo along with cuadrilar new graphics.

Red Bee Media transformed the channel into a modern-looking scene and new promos started the week before. Idents started that next Sunday at midnight. Regional affiliates followed at 5pm.

References

* Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) (2004) [http://www.casbaa.com/news_releases/news_content.asp?news_id=430] . Retrieved Apr. 9 2006.

External links

* [http://www.disneyinternational.com/disneychannel-net Disney Channel International Sites]
* [http://www.disneychannel-asia.com/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Asia]
* [http://www.disney.com.au/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Australia and New Zealand]
* [http://www.disney.com.br/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Brazil]
* [http://www.disney.dk/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Denmark]
* [http://www.disney.fi/DisneyChannel/index.html Disney Channel Finland]
* [http://www.disney.fr/DisneyChannel Disney Channel France]
* [http://www.disney.de/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Germany]
* [http://www.disneyin.com/DisneyChannel Disney Channel India]
* [http://www.disney.it/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Italy]
* [http://www.disneychannel.jp/ Disney Channel Japan]
* [http://disney.co.kr/DisneyChannel/index.html Disney Channel Korea]
* [http://www.disneylatino.com/DisneyChannel/ Disney Channel Latin America]
* [http://www.disneyme.com/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Middle East]
* [http://www.disneychannel.co.nz Disney Channel New Zealand]
* [http://www.disney.no/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Norway]
* [http://www.disney.pl/DisneyChannel/index.html Disney Channel Poland]
* [http://www.disney.pt/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Portugal]
* [http://www.disney.ru/tv/ Disney Channel Russia]
* [http://www.disney.se/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Sweden]
* [http://www.disney.es/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Spain]
* [http://www.disney.co.za/DisneyChannel Disney Channel South Africa]
* [http://www.disney.com.tw/DisneyChannel/ Disney Channel Taiwan]
* [http://www.disneychannel.com.tr/DisneyChannel/ Disney Channel Turkey]
* [http://www.disney.co.uk/DisneyChannel Disney Channel UK]
* [http://www.disneychannel.com Disney Channel USA]