113-401: Disney Branded Television is an American television production company and a unit of Disney General Entertainment Content which oversees development, production and acquisition of content geared towards children, teenagers and families for Disney+ , Disney Channel , Disney Jr. and Disney XD . The unit also oversees Disney-branded unscripted series, documentaries and specials for Disney+ and
226-584: A Kim Possible live action film which premiered on Disney Channel in 2019 and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers as a live-action animation hybrid film on Disney+ in 2022. In October 2023, it was reported that Atomic Monster and Disney Television Studios were developing a Gargoyles live-action series for Disney+. In February of that year, the studio greenlit two new shows Amphibia and The Owl House , to mark their return to animation. Big City Greens (initially intended to air on Disney XD) switched to Disney Channel. The remaining solely-produced shows by
339-478: A 10-year news provider licensing agreement with Citadel for ABC News Radio and the networks. In February 2007, the previous iteration of Touchstone Television was renamed ABC Television Studio as part of Disney's push to drop secondary brands like Buena Vista for Disney, ABC, ESPN, and most recently, A&E Networks . ABC1 in the UK was shut down on September 26, 2007 . On January 22, 2009, Disney–ABC announced
452-481: A Chinese website. Previously, Disney programming was available through programming blocks starting as early as 1994 with Doordarshan then moving to Zee TV until the early 2000s. Disney moved its block to Sony Entertainment Television for three years. Star TV picked up the Disney TV blocks on Star Plus , Disney Time , and on Star Utsav . In December 2004, Walt Disney Television International India launched
565-456: A Disney Channel in January 2014 as a 24-hour family entertainment network. Disney formed an in-house ad sales company called Disney Media + for the channel, given that two competitors control most ad sales companies. Disney India Media Networks shut down Bindass Play , a Hindi music channel, and replaced it with Disney International HD on October 29, 2017. This general entertainment channel
678-582: A Toon Disney channel with three language feeds (English, Tamil and Telugu) at the same time as the Disney Channel with Star TV network distributing the channels. Disney reached an agreement with Doordarshan (DD) in November 2005 for DD to carry a half-hour block called Disney Jadoo . Thus Disney was up to 4 branded blocks in India. On April 16, 2015, Corus Entertainment announced that it had reached
791-555: A channel featuring shows and movies from Marvel Entertainment as well as some acquired programming. Shortly after the November 2019 launch of Disney+ in New Zealand, Disney shut down its linear channels there. In June 2020, Disney Channels Worldwide announced that all three of the networks owned by Disney Channels Worldwide in the United Kingdom would be shut down on October 1, with content thereafter to be available via
904-671: A co-production with corporate sister studio Marvel Animation . The same year it was revealed that the studio was working on Monsters At Work a spin-off sequel series of the Monsters Inc. franchise from Pixar and Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe for the Disney+ streaming service. In February 2020, the studio announced that they were working on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
1017-483: A deal to program a new children's block for UPN , Disney's One Too , to replace that network's internal UPN Kids block. The syndicated block ran until the debut of One Too on September 6, 1999; which aired mainly the same shows as One Saturday Morning . By April 1998, Disney MovieToons was folded in with Walt Disney Video Premieres films and network TV specials of Disney TV Animation as Morrill moved to executive vice president over her pre-existing units. At
1130-467: A director of specials, Sharon Morrill, in 1993. The success of DuckTales also paved the way for a new wave of high-quality animated TV series, including Disney's own The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1988. Later, early that spring, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers debuted on March 4, 1989, and was paired with DuckTales in an hour-long syndicated show through the 1989-1990 television season . In
1243-527: A dozen dailies (including the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram , The Kansas City Star ) and more weeklies, and dozens more publications in the fields of farm, business and law trade journals plus LA Magazine to Institutional Investor . ABC Group pursued businesses in new and emerging media technologies, including the interactive television , pay-per-view , VOD , HDTV , video cassette , Optical disc , on-line services and location-based entertainment. In April 1996, due to
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#17327983464971356-462: A family-oriented cable television service. In 1982, Disney hired Alan Wagner to develop a cable channel. 20 months after the launch, the channel moved into the home satellite dish market thus scrambling its signal. By July 15, 1982, Disney incorporated Walt Disney Entertainment, Inc., which was renamed by January 28, 1983, to The Disney Channel, Inc. The Disney Channel was launched in April 1983 as
1469-486: A film titled School for Sensitive Souls as part of former Disney Branded Television president Gary Marsh 's overall deal with Disney. In November 2021 it was revealed that as part of Lisa Fragner's promotion as VP of development at Disney TVA an animated feature film adaptation of Confessions Of An Imaginary Friend was in the works. In April 2022, the studio announced that it will collaborate with sister animation studio 20th Television Animation on Rhona Who Lives by
1582-636: A launch of both in Cambodia, its 11th market, with Cambodia Entertainment Production Co. Ltd. as distributor. Disney Channel Asia was also made available on select cable providers in Bangladesh after Disney Channel India was banned in the country back in 2013. It ceased transmissions by the end of 2021. In April 2009, the Walt Disney Company Ltd. Japan and Disney Channels Worldwide started Broadcast Satellite Disney Co., Ltd. to broadcast
1695-463: A meeting at his home in which he brought up the concept of doing a series on the Gummi bear as his kids like the candy. Originally, the staff was told that they could not use the principal Disney cartoon characters in the new shows. The Walt Disney Television Animation department was formed in November 1984 with Gary Krisel as president and Michael Webster as senior vice president. This was considered
1808-670: A merger of ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios into ABC Entertainment Group. That April, ABC Enterprises took an ownership stake in Hulu in exchange for online distribution license and $ 25 million in the ABC network ad credits. The Live Well Network (LWN) was launched on April 27, 2009, by ABC Owned Television Stations on the stations' subchannels. Later that year, A+E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services with DATG ownership increasing to 42%. In November, Disney-ABC sells GMTV to ITV for $ 37 million. On March 24, 2012, following
1921-480: A multi-year agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group to acquire Canadian rights to Disney Channel's programming library, and launched Disney Channel in Canada on September 1, 2015—the first time that a Disney Channel-branded network has operated in Canada. Prior to this agreement, rights to Disney Channel programming had been held by Family Channel , a network owned by children's media conglomerate WildBrain which
2034-506: A new holiday special under the name Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol. The same month during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival as part of a panel in honor of the studio's 40th anniversary Meredith Roberts mentioned that the studio was looking in future strategies who will try to meet kids where they’re consuming content, which includes gaming and web-based content as well
2147-575: A premium channel with 16 hours of programming. The channel became profitable in January 1985. The channel started moving to the basic cable level on September 1, 1990, with TCI Montgomery Cablevision. In March 1995, the second Disney Channel began broadcasting in Taiwan while the third is launched in October for the United Kingdom. By September 29, 1997, the corporate name was shortened to Disney Channel, Inc. Disney had hired Geraldine Laybourne away from
2260-468: A result of these re-alignments, its Disney-branded networks were re-launched as spin-offs of the Family brand beforehand on September 18, 2015 ( Family Jr. and Télémagino ) and October 9, 2015 (Family Chrgd, now known as WildBrainTV .). ^b Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV is owned by Vocento SA , The Walt Disney Company Iberia S.L. (20%) and Intereconomía Corporation SA. Which in addition to
2373-411: A risky move because animated TV series was generally considered low-budget investments for most of the history of TV cartoons up through the 1980s . Many critics say that Disney's own animation studio had lost most of its luster during the period from Walt Disney's passing in the 1960s through the 1980s . However, the studio took several risks that paid off handsomely. The studio successfully gambled on
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#17327983464972486-504: A sequel series of Sofia The First as part of the 10th anniversary of the original series with the project being fully greenlit in August 2024. Later the studio debuted their first stop-motion project a Christmas special named "Mickey Saves Christmas" which aired on ABC, Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Jr.. Another stop-motion special “ Mickey And Friends Trick Or Treats" debuted in October 2023. A series of sequel shorts based on
2599-699: A sequel series to the original 2001 series for Disney+. In October 2020, the studio ordered a new series Hamster & Gretel for Disney Channel. In November 2020, it was announced that Point Grey Pictures would produce a Darkwing Duck reboot with Disney TVA for Disney+. The same month the studio debuted The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse , a sequel series to the original Mickey Mouse (2013) series. Late 2021 and early 2022 saw several changes in management at Disney TVA, with former Blue Sky Studios executive Lisa Fragner joining as vice-president of development for Disney+ in November 2021, alongside longtime Disney TVA executive Elizabeth Waybright Taylor, who
2712-690: A single video feed with an English audio track being the default and Mandarin audio and subtitle tracks also available. The channel became available in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. On June 1, 2002, the channel was launched in the South Korea market as a Korean-language feed. Over the first six months of 2005, Disney Channel Asia along with sister channel Playhouse Disney launched in Vietnam, Palau and Thailand and finishing off with
2825-738: A water coaster for the Disney Wish in 2021, the Disney Treasure for 2024 and the Disney Destiny for 2025, DuckTales : World Showcase Adventure for EPCOT in 2022 and the Mickey's Toontown refurbishment in 2023. Beginning in 2018 several productions from the studio have gotten live-action adaptations by the Disney Channel Original Movies and Walt Disney Pictures sister studios, including
2938-621: A women and family targeted channel, Dlife [ ja ] , with licensed received in October 2010 and debuted on March 17, 2012. In December 2013, Dlife launched a children's programming block called Disney Time . The channel was shut down on March 31, 2020, but was revived on March 1, 2024, as a replacement for the Japanese version of Fox . Disney Channel does not have a localized version for China. However, many of its live-action and animated series are syndicated on regional channels through ABC owned Dragon Club since 1994. It also has
3051-444: Is an American animation production company that serves as the television animation production arm of Disney Branded Television , a division of Disney General Entertainment Content , which is a division of Disney Entertainment , which is one of the three main divisions of The Walt Disney Company . The studio was originally established in 1984, by Gary Krisel during the reorganization and subsequent re-incorporation of Disney following
3164-560: Is in English and HD, targeted to ages 14 to 25 while only tapping Disney live action shows. With Disney's March 14, 2018 reorganization, all international channels including Disney Channel have been transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International , a new segment, while the US unit is still under Disney–ABC Television Group . On January 9, 2019, Disney India Media Networks shut down Disney XD India and replaced it with Marvel HQ ,
3277-472: Is licensed as a premium service but is carried as a basic service by many television providers. Family was formerly owned by Astral Media which was acquired by Bell Media in 2013. As a result of the fact that the majority of Disney Channel U.S.'s programs aired on Family, coupled with the fact that both channels developed similarly in their respective countries (as both began as premium services before adding availability via basic subscription), Family Channel
3390-458: The 1964 World's Fair , at which time Disney said he hoped to "make something just like" Tezuka's Astro Boy someday, but unfortunately, nothing came of it. The hiring of a new CEO for The Walt Disney Company in 1984, Michael Eisner, led him to push to expand Disney into new areas thus the establishment of a television animation division that year, whose output would be shopped to all markets: networks, Disney Channel and syndication. Eisner held
3503-689: The American Broadcasting Company , ABC News , Disney Branded Television , Disney Television Studios , ABC Signature , Freeform , Hulu Original Content Teams , FX Networks , FX Productions , and Nat Geo. Media conglomerate Capital Cities/ABC Inc. merged into The Walt Disney Company in 1996 and was initially re-branded as ABC Group . Acquired assets from the merged company included ABC Television Network Group, CC/ABC Broadcasting Group ( ABC Radio Network , 8 TV and 21 radio stations), ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group, CC/ABC Publishing Group and CC/ABC Multimedia Group to
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3616-470: The Jetix Play channels (internationally). Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil became the first Disney XD original animated show preceding Disney Channel's Fish Hooks . The following Disney XD cartoons were Motorcity , Tron Uprising , Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja , and Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero . All of which were co-produced by other animation resources except for The 7D (which
3729-493: The United Kingdom on September 27, 2004 as the first use of the ABC brand outside the US. While ABC News Now was launched that year in the US on digital subchannel of 70 ABC owned & operated and affiliates. On June 12, 2007, Disney spun off its ABC Radio Networks and merged it into Citadel Communications with Citadel Broadcasting while retaining its ESPN Radio and Radio Disney networks and stations and
3842-465: The "Fox" name from assets acquired from 21st Century Fox, with 20th Century Fox Television becoming 20th Television; Fox 21 Television Studios became the second incarnation of Touchstone Television to avoid brand confusion with Fox Corporation ; and ABC Studios merged with the original incarnation of ABC Signature Studios to form the current ABC Signature . In addition, the original syndication arm of 20th Century Fox Television also called "20th Television"
3955-500: The 1990–1991 season , Disney expanded the idea even further, to create The Disney Afternoon , a two-hour-long syndicated block of half-hour cartoons, which premiered much later on September 10, 1990. DuckTales was one of the early flagship cartoons in the block. On August 24, 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg 's resignation, Richard Frank became head of newly formed Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications (WDTT), which included WDTA, from units of The Walt Disney Studios . Morrill
4068-494: The Barbarian , Brandy & Mr. Whiskers , Mickey Mouse Clubhouse , My Friends Tigger & Pooh , and The Emperor's New School were in already in production. At this point, animated series would have to be produced solely by the network's animation division. So Disney Channel began experimenting with newer animation techniques to reduce costs under the re-established Disney Channels Worldwide . The Buzz on Maggie
4181-442: The Disney Channel's interstitial shorts hosted by characters from Big City Greens , The Ghost and Molly McGee , Hailey's On It! and Kiff under the name Shorts Spectacular . In 2022 the division launched a crossover series under the name Chibiverse based on Chibi Tiny Tales. In Summer 2019, long-time Disney Television Animation Head Eric Coleman left the studio to become development executive at Illumination . Coleman
4294-504: The Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premieres unit moved from Television Animation to Feature Animation . The studio was then renamed Disneytoon Studios. While Stainton took over as President of Disney Feature Animation from Schumacher, Blumberg returned to WDTVA as president. Kim Possible became the first cartoon produced by Disney Channel (as Jambalaya Studio produced The Proud Family for
4407-606: The Disney channels owns Intereconomia TV, a generalist channel . ^c Relaunched via free-to-air replacing Das Vierte . Originally launched between October 16, 1999 to November 30, 2013 while the HD channel between December 24, 2011 to November 30, 2013 as well. ^d Initially became an independent feed on August 1, 2010. Disney General Entertainment Content Disney General Entertainment Content ( DGEC ), formerly ABC Group , Disney–ABC Television Group and
4520-515: The Disney channels. Prior to the formation of Disney Branded Television, Disney Channels Worldwide oversaw all Disney television networks until the organization of the Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International segment on March 14, 2018, when the company was split into two. The U.S. unit operated Disney Channels, Radio Disney . The international unit operated various children and family-oriented TV channels around
4633-833: The Disney+ streaming service, as the extension of a carriage deal with Sky and Virgin Media could not be reached. Following a company restructuring in November 2020, the Disney channels became part of Disney Branded Television, a newly created unit of Disney General Entertainment Content . Headed by the former Disney Channels Worldwide president, Gary Marsh, the new unit oversees development and production of content made for kids, tweens, teens and families for Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD and Disney+ . Disney Branded TV also oversees all Disney+ unscripted series and specials. In December 2020, Disney announced that Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country would cease operations in early 2021. Following
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4746-524: The Gummi Bears , joined by an original concept The Wuzzles , both which are based upon talking animal -based conceptions. The third series in a similar vein, Fluppy Dogs , was produced as a single 45min-long TV movie pilot that aired on ABC on Thanksgiving 1986 and was loosely based a series of children's books and line of toys about a race of anthropomorphic pastel-colored dimension-hopping alien called "fluppy dogs." Dismal viewership ensured
4859-607: The March 14, 2018, Disney Company reorganization, in anticipation of integrating Fox assets from a proposed acquisition , all international channels including Disney Channels have been transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International , a new segment, with US channels remaining with Disney–ABC Television Group. All global sales units and distribution units have been transfer to the Disney Direct-to-Consumer segment. On October 8, 2018, Disney announced
4972-534: The Nickelodeon channel in 1996. She founded a kids channel codename ABZ, which the media speculated to be aimed at preschoolers. Laybourne dismissed this report. In December 1997, the Toon Disney channel was announced as a basic channel consisting of Disney animated programming. As of April 1, 1998, most of the international versions are pay channels while the Taiwan and Malaysia versions are ad supported and
5085-714: The Pooh primetime specials. DKN was placed under senior vice president of sales at ABC, Dan Barnathan, and would also work on some ads with Radio Disney , Disney.com and the Disney Adventures magazine. DKN added Toon Disney when the channel started accepting ads in September 2000. Iger was named president and chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company in January 2000. In 2000, with an investment by Bain Capital and Chase Capital Partners , Heyward re-purchased DIC Entertainment, L.P. from Disney, making
5198-567: The River for Disney+. The same month, the studio greenlit Robogobo as part of the Disney Junior Fun Fest event at Disney California Adventure . In May, the studio ordered Cookies & Milk , produced by Cinema Gypsy Productions & Jesse James Films. In June 2022, Disney Television Animation General Manager Meredith Roberts was promoted to Executive Vice President of Animation at Disney Branded Television. The same month
5311-450: The September 1, 1997 season started, the block dropped The Disney Afternoon (temporally rebranded as the "Disney-Kellogg Alliance" ), moving shows to Disney Channel . On September 13, 1997, Disney's ABC unit launched Disney's One Saturday Morning . The programming block included several new shows, such as 101 Dalmatians , Recess , Pepper Ann , Disney's Doug , and Mickey Mouse Works . In January 1998, Disney also reached
5424-532: The U.S. were also renamed to "Disney Junior" in 2011. In October 2011, Disney reached a joint venture agreement (49%/51%) with UTH Russia , in which UTH will turn its broadcasting network Seven TV into a Disney Channel starting in early 2012. On March 28, 2013, Cinemagic was replaced with Sky Movies Disney in the UK market under license to BSkyB . In April 2013, Disney announced that Das Vierte , its recent purchased broadcast station in Germany, would become
5537-661: The UK in March 2006 to of several Cinemagic channels, including timeshift and HD versions across Western Europe. ABC1 ceased broadcasting on all UK TV platforms at noon on September 26, 2007. In Spain, Walt Disney Company Iberia purchased 20% of Management Company Television Net TV SA (or NET TV) in February 2008. In late May 2008, the company announced the move of Disney Channel to the digital over-the air space, replacing NET TV's Fly Music on July 1, 2008. The company's Japanese unit, Walt Disney Television International Japan, started procuring its own animated series in March 2008, with
5650-791: The USA version is a basic channel. The Toon Disney Channel was launched on April 18, 1998, on the Disney Channel's 15th anniversary. In 2000, the Playhouse Disney preschool channel was launched in the United Kingdom. while in the US, in 1997, the Playhouse Disney block was launched on Disney Channel. In June 2001, Disney was looking into launch Playhouse Disney as a channel in the United States for 2002. Disney Channel, Inc. changed its name to ABC Cable Networks Group, Inc. by January 31, 2001. In October 2003, ABC Family Worldwide
5763-399: The United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform on September 27, 2004. In November 2005, Barry Blumberg resigned as president of Walt Disney Television Animation to allow the planned transfer of TV animation to Disney Channels Worldwide. In 2006, Disney Television India acquired Hungama TV from UTV Software Communications Limited Disney Cinemagic began broadcasting in
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#17327983464975876-547: The United States and in other countries in the past. In addition to its distribution agreement with Disney Channel U.S., Family also operated an English-language version of Disney Junior as a multiplex channel , as CRTC rules allow pay-TV channels licensed as premium services to add multiplex channels consistent with the network's license. Disney XD and a French-language version of Disney Junior were also owned by DHX Media, operating under separate licenses. DHX's program supply agreement with Disney ended on January 1, 2016; as
5989-779: The Vice channel with an indicated early 2016 launch. Disney also directly made two $ 200 investments in Vice Media in November 2015, then a week later in December, they directly invested in it again for 10% to assist in funding its programming. ABC Family became Freeform on January 12, 2016. On April 21, 2016, Disney–ABC sold its share in Fusion to Univision. In September 2016, the group's president Ben Sherwood named Bruce Rosenblum, Television Academy chairman and former head of Warner Bros. TV Group, as president of business operations in s
6102-599: The animation being provided by Mercury Filmworks , the collaboration as well included animations from different " The Wonderful World Of Mickey Mouse" characters for AR magnets within the Walt Disney World Passholder. In November 2022, the studio began developing workplace comedy series Intercats a co-production with Baobab Studios. The same month the studio started development in Sofia The First: Royal Magic,
6215-403: The arrival of then CEO Michael Eisner that year. The division is responsible for developing and producing animated television series , films , specials and short films for broadcast on the Disney branded networks; Disney Channel , Disney XD and Disney Jr. , as well as Disney+ . The Walt Disney Company first ventured into the television industry as early as 1950, beginning with
6328-477: The channel was replaced with Playhouse Disney . On May 26, 2010, Disney–ABC Television Group announced the launch of Disney Junior , which would replace the Playhouse Disney Morning block on sister network Disney Channel in February 2011, and extend to a standalone preschooler-oriented channel that would replace Soapnet in January 2012. All 22 Playhouse Disney channels and blocks outside
6441-488: The channel, as well as program licensing agreements reached with television networks not bearing the Disney Channel brand. Previous corporate names were: Walt Disney Entertainment, Inc. (1982–1983), The Disney Channel, Inc. (1983–1997), Disney Channel, Inc. (1997–2001), ABC Cable Networks Group (2001–2005) and Disney Channels Worldwide (2005–2020). On November 10, 1981, Walt Disney Productions and Westinghouse Broadcasting announced that they had joined up to start
6554-407: The company re-independent In September 2002, then-Disney Chairman/CEO Michael Eisner outlined a proposed realignment of the ABC broadcast network's daytime parts with the similar unit in its cable channels: ABC Saturday mornings with Disney Channel units ( Toon Disney & Playhouse Disney ), ABC daytime with Soapnet and ABC prime time with ABC Family. In October 2003, ABC Family Worldwide
6667-554: The development of non-scripted programming. On October 1, 2024, ABC Signature was folded into 20th Television. As of October 2024 , the following are the current units based on reporting structure: Transferred to Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution (DMED) Re-organizational transfers 2018 These assets were transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International (then Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution ) in 2018, which include: Others Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications (WDTT)
6780-544: The dissolution of Disney's joint venture with local broadcaster Media-1 on December 14, 2022. The closure of the global channels continued in 2022, as it closed Latin American and Turkish channels in the early months of that year. On March 15, 2023, Disney Channel HD was launched in India. The international on-air channel brand's look is consistent with the Disney brand. Individual channel managers can develop schedules and marketing programs to allow children's preferences in
6893-573: The dissolution of the ABC Daytime division, ABC Family Worldwide began taking operational control of Soapnet until that network was slowly discontinued for Disney Junior ; which would later rebrand to Disney Jr. on June 1, 2024. In July 2012, NBCUniversal confirmed plans to sell its 15.8% stake in A+E Networks to Disney for $ 3 billion (along with its previous owner Hearst Entertainment & Syndication , who became 50-50 partners in
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#17327983464977006-522: The division has also been used by Disney to cross-promote multiple live action film franchises produced by Disney Branded Television for Disney Channel Original Movies and Disney+ Original Films as well making shorts based on the live action films from the Walt Disney Studios library and rides and attractions from Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort. Additionally, the division has been produced several season-themed compilation specials of
7119-414: The division is boldly entering new territory, with projects in development in genres that Disney Television Animation has yet to explore for kids and family co-viewing audience. In September 2024, it was announced that Kiff would be getting a Halloween special named The Haunting of Miss McGravy's House which debuted on October 5, 2024 alongside another holiday special set for 2025. In November 2024,
7232-502: The division would be renamed into the second incarnation of Walt Disney Television following the completion of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox . The acquisition added 20th Century Fox Television , FX Networks and FX Productions , Fox 21 Television Studios , and National Geographic Global Networks to the division. Fox television executives Peter Rice , Dana Walden, John Landgraf , and Gary Knell joined The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019. On March 5, 2019, Craig Hunegs
7345-423: The first two series to debut at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008. The company produced Stitch! with Madhouse Company , while Fireball was produced with Jinni's Animation Studios. After two Disney Channel stars had various scandals, the company started a set of classes for their young stars in 2009 to adapt to the pressure of fame. Optional monthly life-skill classes were added in 2014. Disney XD (DXD)
7458-695: The fold. The Cable and International Broadcast Group contained ownership shares of ESPN Inc. (80%), A&E Television Networks (37.5%), DIC Productions, L.P. (Limited Partnership stake), Lifetime Television (50%) and its international investments. These investments included Telephone-München (50%, Germany; included 20% of RTL II ), Hamster Productions. (33%, France) and Scandinavian Broadcasting System (23%, Luxembourg). ESPN also had international holdings: Eurosport (33.3%, England), TV Sport (10%, France; Eurosport affiliate) and The Japan Sports Channel (20%). The Publishing Group including Fairchild Publications , Chilton Publications , multiple newspapers from
7571-520: The idea that a substantially larger investment into quality animation could be made back through both network television and over-the-air in syndication , as well as cable . The final result is a string of higher budgeted animated television productions which proved to be profitable ventures and raised the standard for the TV medium. The first productions to make it to air from the studio arrived in 1985, with Eisner's concept fleshed out into Adventures of
7684-520: The joint venture). On August 21, 2013, Disney–ABC announced it will lay off 175 employees. The layoffs are expected to hit positions among technical operations as well as the unit's eight local stations. On October 28, ABC News and Univision Communications launched Fusion , a cable Hispanic news and satire channel. In August 2014, A+E took a 10% stake in Vice Media for $ 250 million, then announced in April 2015 that H2 would be rebranded into
7797-404: The market. Additionally, local programming that meets Disney's standards, combined with difficulties, is acquired. If a program is thriving in a market, its format may be developed for other Disney Channels' market viewing tastes. But most of Disney's channels in their foreign markets were shut down since 2020, all in favor of Disney+. Disney Channel Asia officially launched on January 15, 2000, as
7910-507: The merger, ABC ended its ABC Productions division operations while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television , DIC Productions, L.P. , ABC/Kane Productions and Greengrass Productions . The international operations of Disney TV International and ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group were merged in June as Disney/ABC International Television . Under Disney, ABC Group sold various publishing companies in 1997. Chilton
8023-449: The network to switch to syndicating promotions for new original shows for Disney Channel and upcoming Jetix brand (which held the previous Fox Kids library). In January 2003, Disney initiated a reorganization of its theatrical and animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters and franchise development. Disney then transferred all Television Animation to Disney Channels Worldwide . In this reorganization,
8136-635: The network). In 2004, Walt Disney Television Animation formed a joint venture with partner Jetix Europe to produce animated series for the Jetix Europe-owned channels globally, titled Jetix Animation Concepts . Three shows were produced by WDTA under the banner: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! , Get Ed , and Yin Yang Yo! . Throughout the 2000s, Disney continued to create new animated Disney Channel (and Playhouse Disney ) Originals such as Lilo & Stitch: The Series , Dave
8249-517: The newly created position, to reduce the number of direct reports from 17 to about 8. Roseblum would oversee ad sales in conjunction with channel heads, affiliate sales and marketing, engineering, digital media, global distribution, IT, research and strategy and business development. This allows Sherwood to focus on content and direct operating units that continue to directly report to him, ABC network units, cable channel units (Disney Channels Worldwide, and Freeform), ABC Studios and ABC TV Stations. With
8362-473: The one-hour Christmas special, One Hour in Wonderland . This was followed by the 1951 Christmas special, The Walt Disney Christmas Show , the long-running (1954–2008) anthology series , The Wonderful World of Disney (which was Disney's first regular series as a whole), the children's variety show The Mickey Mouse Club , and the adventure series, Zorro (1957–1959). However, one element
8475-501: The ongoing post Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and retirement of its president, the Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications group's division was reassigned to other groups with Walt Disney Television International (including Disney Channels International and Buena Vista Television domestic syndication and pay-TV divisions, GMTV and Super RTL holdings) were transferred to Capital Cities/ABC. In May due to
8588-564: The only shows not moved to the sister channel. In 2016 Disney XD greenlit Big City Greens (then titled Country Club ). Disney announced Milo Murphy's Law for Disney XD that same year, along with a reboot of DuckTales as early as 2015 becoming the first reboot of the studio. However, to renovate marketing, Disney ceased production of all original shows for Disney XD. The last shows created were Pickle and Peanut , Future-Worm! and Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer were all announced, as early as 2014, but would air in
8701-426: The project never made it to series. In 1987, Disney finally unveiled the newest series yet in its cycle, and the first in their successful long-time line of syndicated animated shows, DuckTales . Though still forbidden from using the star characters, minor characters such as Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Dewey and Louie were allowed, and Disney did concede to allow for a brief appearance by Donald Duck to establish
8814-837: The reconstruction, Disney & ABC also rebranded its One Saturday Morning block to ABC Kids (a subtle tribute to the Fox Kids brand after being acquired by Disney through its purchase of Fox Family Worldwide in 2001) on September 14, 2002. On August 31, 2003, Disney discontinued the One Too block, thus ending their deal with UPN. After the relaunch as ABC Kids, many of the shows' premieres moved to sister network Toon Disney due to schedule constraints. The remaining shows included: The Weekenders , Teacher's Pet , House of Mouse , Lloyd in Space , Teamo Supremo , and Fillmore! . All new episodes finished airing by 2004, allowing
8927-431: The reorganization, the management of Disney XD was moved to Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution . On May 25, 2021, Disney announced that they would close 100 TV channels internationally by the end of 2021 following the 30 closures that occurred in 2020; this not only included Disney-branded channels, but also Fox Networks Group channels inherited from Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019. The closure
9040-498: The retirement of Hightower as president, WDTT's divisions were reassigned to other groups, with most of them transferred to either The Walt Disney Studios or CC/ABC. KCAL was sold to Young Broadcasting in May 1996 due to CC/ABC ownership of KABC-TV . Disney Television Animation Disney Television Animation ( DTVA ) (formerly known as Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group and Walt Disney Television Animation )
9153-549: The same casting division. After assuming full control over Hulu in May 2019, Disney reorganized Hulu's reporting structure in July 2019, placing Hulu's Scripted Originals team under Walt Disney Television. Under the new structure, Hulu's SVP of Original Scripted Content would report directly to the chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment. On August 10, 2020, Disney Television Studios rebranded all of its three studios as part of merger terms which required dropping
9266-452: The same time, Barry Blumberg was elevated to the executive vice president for network and syndicated animated TV series. Both reported to Disney Television president Charles Hirschhorn. In the second quarter of 2000, due to weak financial performance, Disney Animation Canada was closed. David Stainton took charge of the company as executive vice president in January 2000 then as president in February 2002 under Thomas Schumacher . Due to
9379-469: The second incarnation of Walt Disney Television , is part of Disney Entertainment , a division of The Walt Disney Company that oversees its owned-and-operated television content, assets and sub-divisions. Following the full acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney on March 20, 2019, the division was given the unification name Walt Disney Television and rebranded two years later as Disney General Entertainment Content . Sub-divisions of DGEC include
9492-540: The sequential years. Since 2017 the studio has collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products in providing character designs and animation for various attractions in Disneyland Resort , Walt Disney World and Disney Cruise Line from the Mickey Mouse universe and The Disney Afternoon . These include Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway in 2020, Aqua-Mouse,
9605-587: The series, allowing them to adapt the Duck universe adventure serials by Carl Barks into animation. The show was successful enough to spawn a feature film, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp , and two spin-off series: Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack . 1990 release Treasure of the Lost Lamp was the first movie from TV Animation Disney MovieToon unit. Disney Television Animation hired
9718-453: The specials " Mickey's Christmas Tales ", "Mickey's Spooky Stories" a nd "Mickey and Minnie's Christmas Carols" debuted in November 2023, October 2024 and November 2024. In January 2023, the studio announced that Phineas And Ferb would be getting a revival with two brand new seasons for Disney Channel and Disney+. In June 2023, the studio would announce StuGo , another co-production with Titmouse, for Disney Channel. The same month it
9831-667: The studio greenlit Zombies: The Re-Animated Series based on the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise . In Summer 2022 the studio started a collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Yellow Shoes for redesigns and animations of classic characters from the Walt Disney Animation Studios film and shorts library such as Dumbo , Orange Bird , Oswald The Lucky Rabbit , Hei-Hei , Stitch , Timon and Pumbaa . The redesigns where provided by Paul Rudish and Asia Ellington with
9944-403: The studio greenlit The Witchverse , a joint venture with Baobab Studios for Disney+. In January 2022, the studio announced that they had begun production on Big City Greens The Movie: Spacecation for Disney Channel and Disney+. In February 2022, it was reported that Disney TVA was developing an animated film based on Superfudge with AGBO for Disney+ . The studio is also developing
10057-454: The studio would order a slate of original series, the first ones where Kiff , a co-production with Titmouse, Inc. , Hailey's On It! and Primos for Disney Channel. Alice's Wonderland Bakery , Rise Up, Sing Out and Firebuds for Disney Jr.. In August 2021, the studio would announce two new holiday movies Mickey's Tale of Two Witches and Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas for Disney Jr. In December of that year
10170-608: The studio, such as Star vs. the Forces of Evil , DuckTales , Big Hero 6: The Series , and Milo Murphy's Law , moved their premieres as well, with many of their productions being wrapped up. In early 2019 the studio began making animated interstitial for Disney Jr. and Disney Channel based on the characters from the productions of the studio like Mickey Mornings , a revival of Minnie's Bow Toons and Me & Mickey Vlog for Disney Jr. and Chibi Tiny Tales , Broken Karaoke and How Not To Draw for Disney Channel. Since 2020
10283-623: The time the Walt Disney Company merged with Capital Cities / ABC , TV Animation was a unit of Walt Disney Television within the Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications group (WDTT). With the retirement of WDTT group president Dennis Hightower in April 1996 and ongoing post-merger reorganization, the unit (along with its Disney TV parent) was transferred to the Walt Disney Studios . When
10396-399: The world, including variations of the U.S. channels plus Disney International HD , Dlife , and Hungama TV . Disney Channel was originally established in the United States in 1983 as a premium channel , and has since converted to a basic service; in addition, Disney Channel's programming has also expanded internationally with the launch of various country-specific and regional versions of
10509-483: Was a division of The Walt Disney Company . At the time Disney and Capital Cities/ABC merged, WDTT's divisions were The Disney Channel , KCAL-TV Los Angeles, Walt Disney Television , Touchstone Television , Buena Vista Home Entertainment , and Disney Interactive . On August 24, 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg 's resignation, a reorganization of Disney took place in which Richard H. Frank became head of newly formed Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications, which
10622-568: Was also promoted as vice-president of development the same month. Fragner would oversee development on projects for Disney+, while Taylor would supervise Disney Channel projects. In February 2022, Sarah Finn was promoted to senior vice-president of production, overseeing physical production for projects across all three Disney networks. On July 22, 2022, Douglas Bensimon and Edward Mejia were both promoted to VP of current series; Bensimon will oversee development on original series, while Mejia will work on series based on preexisting Disney IP. In 2021,
10735-448: Was among the first Disney series to fully utilize Adobe Flash animation, thus saving costs and allowing experimentation. American Dragon: Jake Long (which premiered just months prior) and The Replacements received cleaner redesigns for their second seasons (noteworthy, as both series originated as their creator's storybooks) to ease the animation styles for fitting TV budgets. The success of Kim Possible also helped show that there
10848-498: Was announced that The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse franchise would be ending after the premiere of the special Steamboat Silly which debuted on July 28, 2023 on Disney+. In August 2023 the studio announced Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ , their first reboot based on a preschool property. In June 2024, it was announced that the studio would revive the Prep & Landing series who originated at Walt Disney Animation Studios in
10961-701: Was changed from a unit directly reporting to the Disney COO to a unit running within the ABC Cable Networks Group under Anne Sweeney . On April 21, 2004, Disney announced a restructuring of its Disney Media Networks division with Sweeney being named president of Disney–ABC Television Group, and then-ESPN president George Bodenheimer becoming co-CEO of the division with Sweeney, as well as president of ABC Sports. This move added ABC TV Network within Disney–ABC. ABC1 channel initially launched in
11074-627: Was commonly considered to be a de facto Canadian version of Disney Channel (though it was often mistakenly assumed to be related to ABC Family (now Freeform ), a sister network to Disney Channel U.S. which was formerly known as The (emphasis added) Family Channel from 1988 to 1998; a Canadian version of ABC Family (now Freeform) launched in March 2012, called ABC Spark to avoid confusion with Family Channel, to which it does not share common ownership). Some Canadian-produced original series produced by Family (such as Life with Derek , Naturally, Sadie , and Overruled! ) have aired on Disney Channel in
11187-473: Was folded into Disney-ABC Domestic Television . On October 12, 2020, the division was rechristened as Disney General Entertainment Content . In December 2020, Touchstone Television merged into 20th Television . On February 3, 2021, Disney Television Studios established a new unit known as "Walt Disney Television Alternative", which will be headed by former senior vice president of alternative, specials and late-night series at ABC, Rob Mills, to oversee
11300-486: Was in charge of the first Aladdin direct-to-video sequel launching Disney Video Premiere/Direct to Video unit. Three overseas Disney studios were set up to produce the company's animated television series. Disney Animation Australia was started in 1988. In 1989, the Brizzi brothers sold Brizzi Films to Disney Television Animation and was renamed Walt Disney Animation France. Also that year, Disney Animation Japan
11413-707: Was launched on February 13, 2009, taking over the channel space of Toon Disney in the US, while Jetix switched over to DXD (or for some Disney Channel) starting with France on April 1. In April, The Walt Disney Company Japan, and Disney Channels Worldwide started Broadcast Satellite Disney Co., Ltd. to broadcast a women and family targeted channel called Dlife with licensed content, received in October 2010 and debuted on March 17, 2012. Jetix Play closed down on August 1, 2010, in most countries, on September 1, 2010, in Turkey, and in Romania on March 12, 2011. In these countries,
11526-494: Was marketing value in Disney Channel cartoons as the network ordered a fourth season (opposed to the standard three seasons of 65 episodes). Disney soon launched Phineas and Ferb soon after the closure of Kim Possible (which surpassed it as their longest-running animated series). In 2009, Disney–ABC Television Group rebranded both Toon Disney and Jetix as Disney XD with the Jetix brand officially being retired by 2010. The goal
11639-426: Was missing from Disney's expansion into television: an original animated television series. Until the early '80s, the studio had never produced its own original animated shows in-house, because Walt Disney felt it was economically impossible. Nearly all pre-1985 TV animation was wrap-around segments made to bridge the gaps on existing theatrical material on The Wonderful World of Disney . Osamu Tezuka met Walt at
11752-659: Was mostly targeted in Asian countries. In December 2021, Disney acquired the documentary short Sophie and the Baron and brought it under its newly created Disney Original Documentary banner. On March 1, 2022, Marvel HQ in India was rebranded to Super Hungama. In March 2022, Disney announced it would suspend its operations in Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine . Its Russian channel however continued operating until
11865-435: Was named to lead the combined Disney Television Studios — ABC Studios, ABC Signature, 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios. He would report to Walden. Following the completed acquisition of the 21st Century Fox assets in March 2019, Disney reorganized its television division to align various operations. On June 10, 2019, Disney announced that both Disney Television Studios and FX Entertainment would share
11978-566: Was originally greenlit for Disney Jr.). In 2015, the studio debuted Descendants: Wicked World , their first project based on the live-action Descendants franchise by the Disney Channel Original Movies division. Despite still making original shows for the main channel by 2014, most animated shows such as Gravity Falls and Wander Over Yonder shifted as Disney XD Originals. Mickey Mouse , Descendants: Wicked World, and Tangled: The Series remained
12091-596: Was promoted from president and chief operating officer in February 1999 to chairman of ABC Group and president of Walt Disney International. In March 2000, ABC formed the Disney Kids Network (DKN) advertising group via consolidation to sell ads for ABC's " TGIF " primetime programming, Disney's One Saturday Morning , the Disney's One Too syndicated programming block, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire , The Wonderful World of Disney , Mickey Mouse and Winnie
12204-413: Was replaced by former general manager of DisneyToon Studios Meredith Roberts who served as senior VP animation strategy at Disney TVA since the shut down of DisneyToon Studios on 2018. The studio would inherit the former DisneyToon Studios building as a third animation unit for future productions. In 2019, Disney greenlit two new shows, The Ghost and Molly McGee and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur ,
12317-594: Was shifted from Disney COO Bob Iger's directly reporting unit to the ABC Cable Networks Group. In early 2004, Disney Channel's original programming leaders took over ABC Family's original movies unit temporarily as two ABC Family executives left the channel. In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe , Fox Kids Latin America and ABC Cable Networks Group created the Jetix programming alliance that would rebrand Fox Kids as Jetix for all blocks, channels and companies. ABC1 launched on
12430-724: Was sold to Reed Elsevier for $ 447 million and received $ 142 million from Euromoney Publications for Institutional Investor. In April, Knight Ridder purchased four newspapers including The Kansas City Star and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram for $ 1.65 billion. In August 1999, Fairchild Publications was sold to Conde Nast Publications for $ 650 million. In March 1998, ABC placed it shares of Scandinavian Broadcasting System up for sale. In late 1999, Walt Disney Television, along with other television units, were transferred again from The Walt Disney Studios to Disney–ABC Television Group and merged with ABC 's primetime division, ABC Entertainment , forming ABC Entertainment Group. Robert A. Iger
12543-456: Was split from its filmed entertainment business, Walt Disney Studios . On December 5, 1994, Walt Disney Computer Software was transferred within WDTT as Disney Interactive . At the end of his contract on April 30, 1995, Frank left Disney. Dennis Hightower , a marketing executive, was appointed by April 9 to succeed Frank. In April 1996, due to ongoing post-Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and
12656-407: Was started. Walt Disney Animation Canada was opened in January 1996 to tap Canada's animator pool and produce direct-to-video. As direct-to-video increased in importance, the overseas studios moved to making feature films. WDTT chair Frank left Disney in March 1995. With Krisel expecting to be promoted to head up WDTT but passed over, Krisel left WDTA at the end of his contract in January 1996. At
12769-515: Was to simplify the marketing of channels by merging the two brands. In 2011, the ABC Kids block closed as well. By the early 2010s, the television group started to create some original shows for newly sister channel Disney XD. The group renamed the animation studio to just Disney Television Animation (or DTVA ). Playhouse Disney was rebranded as Disney Jr. in 2011 and receiving standalone channels in 2012; by replacing Soapnet (domestically) and
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