Disney Channel (international)

Asia

Disney Channel Asia officially launched on January 15, 2000, as 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.^[4] 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 a launch of both in Cambodia, its 11th market, with Cambodia Entertainment Production Co. Ltd. as distributor.^[5] Disney Channel Asia was also made available on select cable providers in Bangladesh after Disney Channel India was banned in the country in 2013.^[6][7] It ceased transmissions at the close of 2021.

Canada

On April 16, 2015, Corus Entertainment announced that it had reached 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 1 September 2015 — the first time that a Disney Channel-branded channel in operation in Canada.^[15]

Prior to this agreement, rights to Disney Channel programming were held by Family Channel, owned by WildBrain which was licensed as a premium service but was carried as a basic service by many television providers. Family was launched and formerly owned by Astral Media which was acquired by Bell Media in 2013, with Family divested to WildBrain (at the time known as DHX Media) a year later. Family Channel was commonly considered to be a de facto Canadian version of Disney Channel (though it was often mistakenly assumed to be related to the American Freeform channel (at the time known as ABC Family)) as a result of the fact that majority of Disney Channel US programming aired on Family, coupled with both channels developing similarly in their respective countries (as both began as premium services before adding basic subscription availability), a sister channel to Disney Channel US which was formerly known as The (emphasis added) Family Channel from 1988 to 1998; a Canadian version of ABC Family (now Freeform) launched on 26 March 2012, called ABC Spark^[16] 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 the United States and globally 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 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, later known as WildBrainTV).^[15]

Current channels

^a Relaunched via free-to-air replacing Das Vierte. Originally launched between October 16, 1999^[1] to November 30, 2013^[46] while the HD channel between December 24, 2011^[47] to November 30, 2013 as well.^[46]

^b Initially became an independent feed on August 1, 2010.

Defunct channels

• ^c Initially went free-to-air on January 12, 2012^[75]
• ^d Replacing Jetix; later went free-to-air on December 31, 2011, replacing Seven TV.^[76]
• ^e 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 the Disney channels owns Intereconomia TV, a generalist channel.^{[citation needed]}