List of Disney TV programming blocks

Disney stand alone programming TV blocks are block of Disney shows on non-Disney channels or TV stations around the world. Disney puts together stand alone TV block to reach those kids that do not have access to cable or satellite.^[1][2]

By the end of March 2000, Disney was in 35 countries in three regions, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific (13 countries) with 82 blocks with more than 9,000 hours total per year. The block were under various names: Disney Club, Disney’s FilmParade, Disneytime, Disney!, DisneyKid, Club Disney, Saturday Disney, Disney Adventures, Disney Animation Hour, Disney Fun Time, Good Morning Disney, Disney Hour, Disney Sandhya, Disney Toontown, Sunday Club Disney, I Love Disney, Disney Animation Time, Dragon Club (China).^[3]

Disney also had a series of channels and blocks called Jetix, originally called Fox Kids, acquired in the purchase of Fox Family Worldwide, now ABC Family Worldwide.

List of blocks

Market	block	channel/network	type	length (hrs)	premiered	closed
Argentina	Playhouse Disney	an Artear channel			2007[4]
Australia	Total Girl	7Two	weekday mornings	2.5	March 5, 2012 †
	K-Zone	7mate
	Saturday Disney	Seven Network/7Two	Saturday	3	January 20, 1990	present
	Playhouse Disney	Seven Network	weekly	.5	2003[5][6]
Brazil	Disney en TV	TV Globo[7]
Canada	The Disney Afternoon (DA)	CITV-DT	weekday	2/day	August 9, 1991[8]
Czech Republic	Disney Club	TV Nova	weekly	2	2006[9]
China	Disney Adventures	provincial broadcasters, free-to-air and cable[10]
	Disney Club	12 stations (8/1997)			1995[11]	before 2008
	Dragon Club ‡	80% of cable providers	daily	2/day	September 19, 1994[12][13]
	Panda Club ‡	four of China's five regional broadcasters	3 blocks	2/block[14]	October 3, 1994[12][13]
Germany	unnamed (or unrevealed name)	Kirch Media's ProSieben	Sunday afternoon movie		2002[15]
	Disney Club	TRL	Saturday and Sunday[16][17]			2002[15]
		ProSieben	Saturday		2002[15]
	Disney Filmparade	TRL	movie		2000[16]	2005[18]
		ProSiebenSat.1 Group channel			2005[18]
	Disney Time	TRL			-2000-[16]
		ProSieben	Sunday	2		late December 2004[18]
		Kabel 1		3	late December 2004[18]
Hungary	unnamed (or unrevealed name)	RTL Klub	Saturday morning	1	January 2003[5]
India	Disney Time	Star Plus		1	-2005-[19]
	unnamed or unmentioned	DD			-1994-[1][2]
	unnamed or unmentioned	Zee TV's Alpha language channels, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Bengali			November 1, 2000	2001 contract was up ↑
	Disney Jadoo	DD (purchased time)	Saturday 10am	.5	2005[1][2]
	Good Morning Disney	Zee TV	morning	2		2000[1][2][20]
		Sony TV			2000	2002[1][2][20]
	Disney Hour	Zee TV	afternoon			2000[1][2][20]
		Sony TV			2000	2002[1][2][20]
	unmentioned	STAR Utsav			-2005-[1][2]
	Disney Sandhya'	Eenadu TV	daily Telugu dubbed		1999[21]
Italy	Disney Cinemagic	Sky Cinema Family	weekend movies[22]
Japan	Disney Time	Dlife			December 2013[23]
Kazakhstan	Disney Club	KTK	weekly		- 2006 (renewed) -[24]
Mexico	Disney Club	Azteca 7[25]			1998	2001[26]
			new format		2001[26]
New Zealand	Disney Club	TV NZ			October 2002[6]
Romania	unrevealed	RTV[5]
Spain	Club Disney	Tele 5			-1991-[27]
Thailand	Disney Club	BBTV	weekly	60 minutes		2002[6]
				90-minutes	2002[6]	2006[9]
				100 minute	2006[9]
UAE	Disney Club	Dubai TV	daily	.5; Thu. & Fri. 1	2006[28]
United Kingdom	Diggin’ It ↔	GMTV				February 2005[29]
	Playhouse Disney	ABC1	weekday mornings	1.5	2006 Summer[30]	September 26, 2007[31]
	Saturday Disney	GMTV			July 2, 1993[32]
USA	Disney's One Saturday Morning (Disney's ABC Kids)	ABC	Saturday morning	2
	The Disney Afternoon (DA)	syndication	weekday afternoons	2/day	September 10, 1990[33]	August 31, 1997[34]
	Disney-Kellogg Alliance, unbranded (DKA; formerly DA)	syndication	weekday afternoons	1.5/day	September 1, 1997[34]	August 1999[35]
	Disney's One Too (formerly DKA)	UPN & syndication	Sunday mornings & weekdays	2/day	September 6, 1999[36]	August 31, 2003
	Treasures from the Disney Vault	TCM	quarterly classics	~9	December 21, 2014[37]
Vietnam	Toon Disney	HCMC TV			February 2007[38]

†Seven launched two weekday blocks (from 6:30am–9:00am) with mostly Disney programming on March 5, 2012 named after and aligned with affiliated Pacific Magazines's two tween magazines:^[39][40]

† Total Girl: is a girl focused block on 7Two with launch programs of Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, Jonas LA, Sonny With a Chance, Good Luck Charlie, Shake it Up and The Fairies

† K-Zone is a boy aimed block on 7mate with launch programs of Handy Manny, Stitch, Kick Buttowski, Phineas and Ferb, Pair of Kings, Zeke and Luther and I'm in the Band.

‡These two Chinese clubs found by ABC and DIC Entertainment before Disney's purchase of CC/ABC.
↔ This block had a companion website, www.diggit.co.uk, created in 2000 that allowed for personalization and creation of a "Dink", a custom virtual character.^[41]
↑under a one-year revenue-sharing agreement with Zee marketing the block and guaranteeing a minimum revenue to Disney.^[42]

Saturday Disney

Saturday Disney
Saturday Disney title card used from 12 May 2012 onwards
Genre	Children's show
Presented by	Nathan Morgan Candice Dixon Teigan Nash
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	25
No. of episodes	1,253 (9 August 2014)
Production
Running time	3 hours per block (incl. commercials)
Production company(s)	Disney
Release
Original network	Seven Network (1990–present) 7Two (2012–present)
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	January 20, 1990 – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Seven's Super Saturday
Related shows	Disney Club
External links
[<span%20class="url"> Website]

Saturday Disney is an alternatively named Disney Club in Australia airing Saturday on Seven Network at 6 AM then continues at 7 AM on 7Two.^[43]

Regular interstitial segments including minute madness, double dog dare, question of the week and letter of the week.^[44] Other segments varied but an example is a visit to a Disney on Ice: Princess Classics production in Singapore in 2005.^[45]

History

The block was started in 1990^[46] with Seven's proviso that it not be called the Disney Club, being a take on the dated Mickey Mouse Club. In the fall of 2009, the block had its 1,000 episode and aired starting at 6:30 AM.^[46] On October 31, 2009, the block's start time was move to 7 AM.^[47] In February 2010, the block was moved to 9am -11am.^[48]

Nathan Morgan joined as a host in 2011.^[49] The program was a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Children's Program nominee in 2012.^[50] On March 31, 2012, Saturday Disney move from Seven to 7Two and airing at 7 AM with a new look opener and logo.^[44][51] Teigan Nash started presenting on July 27, 2013 replacing Shae Brewster.^[52]

• Former hosts: Sofie Formica, Marc Buhaj, Daniel Widdowson,^[46] Shelley Craft and Sara Groen,^[52] Jack Yabsley, Sally Stanton,^[47] Shae Brewster (2003-July 20, 2013)^[52]
• current hosts (as of July 27, 2013): Teigan Nash (July 27, 2013-), Nathan Morgan (2011-) and Candice Dixon^[52]

programming

Wizards of Waverly Place[44] Shake It Up[44] Pair of Kings[44] I'm in the Band[44] Sonny With A Chance[44] A.N.T. Farm (starting 2012[44])

former Phineas and Ferb Hannah Montana Jonas[47] The Emperor's New School[48]

External links

• Saturday Disney

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