Launched September 25, 2006 | Country United Kingdom | |
Owned by The Walt Disney Company Picture format 1080i HDTV
16:9 576i (SDTV) Language English
Greek
Arabic (selected programs)
Serbo-Croatian (subtitles) Broadcast area Balkans
Greece
Middle East
Sub-Saharan Africa | ||
Disney Channel is a 24-hour family entertainment channel broadcasting in the Balkans, Greece, the Middle East and Africa.
It previously used to cover Poland and Turkey with their respective audio tracks until 2010 and 2012 respectively, when two localised feeds were launched for those countries.
History
The broadcast of Playhouse Disney ceased on 1 June 2011 with the launch of Disney Junior as a separate channel. Disney XD was also launched in 2011. The station adopted a new logo from Disney Channel US, accompanied by the introduction of the current logo in 2011. In South Africa, on June 2014 Multichoice was fined R5000 for failing to provide a warning before airing an advertisement for the fantasy drama Wolfblood, which contained scenes of horror, on Disney XD on the morning of 31 December 2013.
The channel adopted a new logo and underwent a brand design on 21 July 2014.