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Toon Disney was an American digital cable and satellite television channel that was owned by the Disney Channels Worldwide a subsidiary of Disney-ABC Television Group. A spinoff of Disney Channel, the channel mostly aired children's animated series and some live action programming. Its format had similarities to those of Discovery Kids, Cartoon Network, and Nicktoons. The channel's target audience was children ages 2–11, and children ages 7–14 during its nighttime block called Jetix. Toon Disney shut down on February 13, 2009, after a nearly 11-year existence, and was replaced by Disney XD, which has carried some programs previously seen on Toon Disney.

History

Toon Disney was launched at 3 PM on April 18, 1998, the Disney Channel's 15 anniversary, by Disney/ABC Networks on digital tiers of DirecTV, Marcus Cable and EchoStar. The first show was The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1940) and other Mickey Mouse shorts. At 7 PM that night, its night time block, "The Magical World of Toons" was launched. With five more cable operators and Americast following in the next few months. At its launch, the channel shared half of its assigned series with the Disney Channel. The channel had no advertising until viewership reach a set number. In January 1999, the first annual Pumbaa Bowl was broadcasted as counter programming to the Super Bowl.

In June 2001, Toon Disney launched its Most Animated Kid Search. The Santa Claus Brothers has its world premiere on the channel in December.

By September 2002, the channel was expected to reach 20 million subscribers thus would start showing advertising. Eight new shows joined the Toon's line up that month.

With its fifth year anniversary in April 2003, the channel held a Toon Disney's Magical Adventure Sweepstakes in which three winners along with 3 family members each would win a trip to Disneyland Resort to see Disney's Aladin - A Musical Spectacular.

On February 14 2004, Jetix programming blocks began on Toon Disney and as a part of the Jetix programming alliance of ABC Networks Group, Fox Kids Europe and Fox Kids Latin America. The UK channel switched over to Disney Cinemagic in March 2004.

In December 2004, Walt Disney Television International India launched a Toon channel with three language feeds (English, Tamil and Telugu) at the same time as the Disney Channel with Star TV network distributing the channels. A Hindi language Toon channel launched on September 1, 2005.

The Toon Disney/Big Movie Show premiere of The Polar Express on December 22, 2006 was the channel's highest primetime rating with 1.35 million viewers. On January 27, 2007, Toon launched its weekend afternoon programming block called “The Great Toon Weekend.” In February 2009, Toon Disney US switched over to the Disney XD format and name. Except for Toon Disney Arab, Toon Disney and Jetix were replaced by September 2009 with Disney XD or the Disney Channel.

Blocks

• Big Movie Show is an afternoon block of movies started in November 2004.
• Jetix was a block using programming from the Saban/Marvel library held by ABC Family Worldwide and additional original programming launched on February 14, 2004 with the block having 12 hours of weekly primetime programming to start.
• The Magical World of Toons was Toon Disney' prime time block upon the launch of the channel. During the week, shorts and series showcasing a Disney characters such as Mickey, Donald Duck, Goofy or Pluto. The block's week end consisted of animated features, mostly of those created for home video market, like The Return of Jafar, as well as some theatrical releases including A Goofy Movie, Alice in Wonderland and The Brave Little Toaster. (1998-2001-?)
• Princess Power Hour was a block featuring Disney Princess Jasmine and Ariel in showcasing episodes of "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid". (2000-
• Chillin' With The Villains ran on Sundays with mini-marathon featuring a villain. (2000-?)
• The Great Toon Weekend (GTW) was its weekend afternoon programming block for Saturday and Sunday starting at noon of seven hours of programming a day beginning on January 27, 2007. GTW started off with a two-hour movie under the banner of "Big Movie Show" followed by five hours of back-to-back episodes of the following shows: Aladdin, Timon & Pumba, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, The Emperor's New School and Lilo & Stitch.
• Hangin' with the Heroes began in January 2002 was a weekend block consisting of 2 hours of Aladdin, Hercules and the Gargoyles.

International versions

Market	type	launch date	replaced by	replaced by date
United States	channel	April 18, 1998	Disney XD	February 2009
Japan	channel	December 2005	Disney XD	August 2009
UK	channel	fall 2000	Disney Cinemagic	March 2004
India (English, Tamil and Telugu)	channel	December 17, 2004	Disney XD	November 14, 2009
India Hindi	channel	September 1 2005	Disney XD	November 14, 2009
Vietnam	block on HTV7	February 2007
France	channel	2004	none	2007
Germany	channel	2004	none	2011-10-14
Italy	channel	2004	none	2011
Italy	+1 time-shifted channel	2009	none	2011
Scandinavia (Danish)	channel	2005	Disney XD	2009
Scandinavia (Finnish)	channel	2005	Disney XD	2009
Scandinavia (Norwegian)	channel	2005	Disney XD	2009
Scandinavia (Swedish)	channel	2005	Disney XD	2009
Spanish	channel		none	2009

See also

• List of programs broadcast by Toon Disney

References

1. ^ Kirchdoerffer, Ed. (April 1, 1998). A Salute to Disney Channel: Drawing up Toon Disney. kid Screen.com. Accessed on March 4, 2014.
2. ^ "Toon Disney Launch". Animation World Magazine. May 1998. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
3. ^ "Toon Disney Timeline 1998-2003". Toon Disney. Archived from the original on December 10, 2003.
4. Hettrick, Scott (February 25 2000). "Stay Toon-ed For Ads On Disney Spinoff Channel". All Business. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 April 2014. {{cite news}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. ^ Welsh, James (January 9, 2004). "Fox Kids to be rebranded as Jetix". Digital Spy. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
6. ^ Ball, Ryan (February 13th, 2004). "Toon Disney Launches Jetix, Live Card Game". Animation Magazine. Retrieved March 3, 2014. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
7. ^ "ITV enters full U.K. kids mkt". Video Age International. March 1, 2006. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
8. "After Tamil & Telegu, Toon Disney goes Hindi from 1 September". Indian Television. August 22, 2005. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
9. Bajoria, Jayshree (December 17, 2004). "Disney launches India TV channels". BBC. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
10. ^ "Toon Disney to be launched in Hindi from September 1". Televisionpoint.com. August 23, 2005. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
11. ^ Ball, Ryan (January 12, 2007). "Toon Disney has 'Great Toon Weekend'". Animation Magazine. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
12. ^ Chmielewski, Dawn C. (August 7, 2008). Enough with the girls, tween boys get their own brand of Disney love. Los Angeles Times. Accessed on February 25, 2014. Google Cached. ARchived on March 31, 2014.
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15. Umstead, R. Thomas (March 19, 2004). "Disney Nets Bolster 'Jetix' Block". Multichannel News. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
16. ^ ABC Cable Network Group (July 10, 2001). +Takes+Her+Quest+for+Coolness+to+Toon+Disney...-a076432584 "Disney's Pepper Ann Takes Her Quest for Coolness to Toon Disney Beginning September 2001; All-Toon Channel Debuts New Schedule Sept. 3". Business Wire. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
17. "Toon Disney and Jetix head for Japan". C21Media. August 31, 2005. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
18. Schilling, Mark (June 7, 2009). "Disney XD to launch in Japan". Variety. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
19. Chapman, Iain (April 29, 2000). "Toon Disney". Digital Spy. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
20. "Walt Disney channels to be distributed by STAR". Economic Times. November 25, 2004,. Retrieved April 23, 2014. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
21. ^ "Jetix rebrands to Disney XD in India". Indiantelevision.com. November 12, 2009. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
22. "Disney's BVITV-AP brings 'Toon Disney' block to Vietnam". Indiantelevision.com. February 1, 2007. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
23. ^ "Channel listing: Toon Disney". MAVISE. European Audiovisual Observatory.

External links

• Beck, Jerry (March 17, 2004). "The Launch of Toon Disney". CartoonResearch.com. - includes the Launch program for Toon Disney which has the first week's programming guide

• Television channels and stations established in 1998
• Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
• Disney television networks
• Children's television networks in the United States
• Defunct television stations in the United States
• Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
• Defunct companies based in California
• Jetix
• 1998 establishments in the United States
• 2009 disestablishments in the United States