List of Disney TV programming blocks

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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]

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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] A large number of these blocks served as international equivelents to The Disney Afternoon and Disney's One Saturday Morning.

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

Marketblockchannel/networktypelength (hrs)premieredclosed

A

Argentina Playhouse Disney an Artear channel2007 [4]
Australia Total Girl 7Two weekday mornings2.5March 5, 2012 †
K-Zone 7mate
Saturday Disney Seven Network/7flix [5] Saturday3January 27, 1990 [6] September 24, 2016 [7]
Playhouse Disney Seven Network weekly.52003 [8] [9] 2008

Brazil

BrazilDisney on TV (Disney en TV) TV Globo [10] 2004August 2015 [11]
Disney World (Mundo Disney) [12] SBT [11] daily2September 1, 2015August 31, 2018 [13]
Disney Movies (Cine Disney)1980s
Success Screen (Tela de Sucessos)19972004

C

Canada The Disney Afternoon (DA) CITV-DT weekday2/dayAugust 9, 1991 [14]
Czech RepublicDisney Club TV Nova weekly22006 [15]

China

Disney Adventuresprovincial broadcasters, free-to-air and cable [16]
Disney Club12 stations (8/1997)1995 [17] before 2008
Dragon Club ‡80% of cable providersdaily2/daySeptember 19, 1994 [18] [19]
Panda Club ‡four of China's five regional broadcasters3 blocks2/block [20] October 3, 1994 [18] [19]

D

Denmark Disney Sjov  [ da ] DR 1 weekly on Fridays125 October 1991 - 31 December 2022 [21]

G–H

Germany

unnamed (or unrevealed name) Kirch Media's ProSieben Sunday afternoon movie2002 [22]
Disney Club RTL Saturday and Sunday [23] [24] 2002 [22]
ProSieben Saturday2002 [22]
Disney Filmparade RTL movie2000 [23] 2005 [25]
ProSiebenSat.1 Group channel2005 [25]
Disney Time RTL -2000- [23]
ProSieben Sunday2late December 2004 [25]
Kabel 1 3late December 2004 [25]
HungaryDisney Klub RTL Klub Saturday morning1January 2003 [8]

India

India

Disney Time Star Plus 1-2005- [26]
unnamed or unmentioned DD National-1994- [1] [2]
unnamed or unmentioned Zee TV's Alpha language channels, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati and BengaliNovember 1, 20002001 contract was up ↑
Disney Fun TimeDD Metro20002001
Disney JadooDD National (purchased time)Saturday 10am.52005 [1] [2]
Good Morning Disney Zee TV morning22000 [1] [2] [27]
Sony TV 20002002 [1] [2] [27]
Disney Hour Zee TV afternoon2000 [1] [2] [27]
Sony TV 20002002 [1] [2] [27]
unmentioned STAR Utsav -2005- [1] [2]
Disney Sandhya' Eenadu TV daily Telugu dubbed1999 [28]

I–P

Italy Disney Cinemagic Sky Cinema Family weekend movies [29]
JapanDisney Time Dlife December 2013 [30]
KazakhstanDisney Club KTK weekly- 2006 (renewed) - 2014 [31]
MexicoDisney Club Azteca 7 [32] 19982001 [33]
new format2001 [33] 2016
New ZealandDisney Club TVNZ October 2002 [9]
PhilippinesDisney Club TV5 November 2010
PolandWalt Disney Przedstawia TVP1 weekendJanuary 5, 1991January 1, 2005
PortugalClube Disney Canal 1/RTP1

RTP2

weekend19912001
Disney Kids SIC weekend mornings20012016

R–T

RomaniaDisney Club RTV [8]
SpainClub Disney TVE 1/La 1 (1990-1998)

Telecinco (1998-2002)

weekend1990 [34] 2002
Zona Disney Telecinco (2002-2003)

TVE 1/La 1 (2003-2007)

20022007
ThailandDisney Club BBTV Saturday12002 [9]
1.52002 [9] 2006 [15]
100-minute2006 [15] 2018
weekend35-minute2018

U–V

UAEDisney Club Dubai TV daily.5; Thu. & Fri. 12006 [35]

United Kingdom

Diggin’ It ↔ GMTV February 2005 [36]
Playhouse Disney ABC1 weekday mornings1.52006 Summer [37] September 26, 2007 [38]
Saturday Disney GMTV July 2, 1993 [39]
USA ABC Kids (formerly Disney's One Saturday Morning) ABC Saturday morning2September 13, 1997August 27, 2011
The Disney Afternoon (DA) syndication weekday afternoons2/daySeptember 10, 1990 [40] August 31, 1997 [41]
Disney-Kellogg Alliance, unbranded (DKA; formerly DA)syndicationweekday afternoons1.5/daySeptember 1, 1997 [41] August 1999 [42]
Disney's One Too (formerly DKA) UPN & syndicationSunday mornings & weekdays2/daySeptember 6, 1999 [43] August 31, 2003
That's So Throwback Freeform Monday-Thursday late night2 [44] May 2, 2016
Treasures from the Disney Vault TCM quarterly classics~9December 21, 2014 [45]
Vietnam Toon Disney HCMC TV February 2007 [46]

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: [47] [48]

† 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. [49]
↑under a one-year revenue-sharing agreement with Zee marketing the block and guaranteeing a minimum revenue to Disney. [50]

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