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List of programs broadcast by Disney Channel. Third variant of the 2014 logo used since 2019. This article lists past, present and future television programming on American basic cable channel and former premium channel, Disney Channel, since its launch on April 18, 1983.
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List of Disney Channel original films. Since its launch on...
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This is a list of television programs broadcast in first-run or reruns, scheduled to be broadcast or formerly broadcast on Disney Channel, The channel is owned by The Walt Disney Company. It was launched on April 18, 1983. The Disney Channel airs animated and live-action family friendly programming. These programs range from action to drama to ...
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This article is a list of original television programming from Disney Branded Television, National Geographic and divisions of the Walt Disney Studios including 20th Century Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm which premiered on Disney+, an over-the-top subscription video on-demand service owned by the Disney Entertainment division of ...
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- Related Channels and Programs
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- Marketing Programs
- International
- Criticism
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- Bibliography
Disney Channel launched nationally as a premium channel at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time on April 18, 1983, under the name The Disney Channel. The channel's development with help from its founding president Alan Wagner, and formally announced the launch of its family-oriented cable channel in early 1983. The channel – which initially maintained a 16-hour-...
Movie library
Television films have also been produced for broadcast on Disney Channel since its launch under the banner of Disney Channel Premiere Films, with the first film released being Tiger Town in 1983, until October 1997, which is when they stopped using the "Premiere Films" label and renamed it the "Disney Channel Original Movies" (DCOM) thereafter. The first movie to be released under the Disney Channel Original Movie category was Under Wraps, a Halloween themed movie that aired for the first tim...
Bumpers
In between regularly scheduled programming and advertisement breaks, Disney Channel features bumpers. These bumpers have varied in content substantially throughout the history of the channel, created using a broad array of artistic methods such as traditional animation, digital animation, claymation, live action, and puppeteering. They have been praised for their high quality composition and ingenuity. However, they became especially iconic[according to whom?] in September 2002, when Disney C...
Sports
For a period, ESPN's broadcasts of the Little League World Series baseball tournament frequently featured cross-promotion with music-related Disney Channel properties, with past editions having featured collaborations with High School Musical, the Jonas Brothers, Camp Rock, and Phineas and Ferb. In March 2023, Disney Channel broadcast a live professional sporting event for the first time, carrying a youth-oriented alternate broadcast of a National Hockey League (NHL) game—known as the Big Cit...
Former sister channels
1. Toon Disney – Launched on April 18, 1998, during the 15th anniversary celebration of the launch of sister network, Disney Channel, this channel was aimed at children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and 18. The network's main competitors at launch were Cartoon Network from Time Warner (then WarnerMedia and now Warner Bros. Discovery) and Nickelodeon from Paramount Global (formerly the first and the second incarnations of Viacom and ViacomCBS). Toon Disney initially operated as a commerc...
Video games
In 2010, Disney Channel All Star Party was released for the Nintendo Wii. The four-player mascot party game, in which the stages resemble board games, features characters from Disney Channel programs such as Sonny with a Chance, Wizards of Waverly Place, and JONAS L.A. Several video games based on the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb were released by Disney Interactive Studios. The Disney Channel website also featured various Flash games incorporating characters from the channe...
In June 2012, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would stop advertising or promoting food or beverage products that do not meet strict nutritional guidelines. Disney Channel purportedly became the first media company to take such a stance on stopping the marketing of junk foodproducts to kids. Due to its commercial-free format, such advertis...
Disney Channel has established presence in various regions across the Americas, most of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, and Japan. Channels were also available in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, United Kingdom and Ireland, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Turkey, but ceased broadcast in the early 2020s, with most content moving to Disn...
Some critics disapprove of the Disney Channel marketing strategy led by Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney Channel from 1996 to 2014. Under Sweeney, the Disney Channel's programming was geared mainly towards preteen and teenage girls, with a decrease in animated programming. Criticism was also aimed at removing almost all Walt-era and pre-1990s ...
Grover, Ron (1991). The Disney Touch: How a Daring Management Team Revived an Entertainment Empire. Business One Irwin. ISBN 1-55623-385-X.
Disney Channel original programming. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disney Channel shows. This category includes television programs that have regularly aired their first-run episodes on Disney Channel. It does not include programs which first appeared on a different network.
Aug 31, 2021 · The following pages are a lists of series that aired on Disney Channel since its launch in 1983. The list includes each show's premiere date, as well as their final airing (or last known airing) on the Channel.
