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 audiences 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] A large number of these blocks served as international equivalents to The Disney Afternoon and Disney's One Saturday Morning.

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
A
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/7flix[5]	Saturday	3	January 27, 1990[6]	September 24, 2016[7]
	Playhouse Disney	Seven Network	weekly	.5	2003[8][9]	2008
Brazil
Brazil	Disney on TV (Disney en TV)	TV Globo[10]			2004	August 2015[11]
	Disney World (Mundo Disney)[12]	SBT[11]	daily	2	September 1, 2015	August 31, 2018[13]
	Disney Movies (Cine Disney)				1980s
	Success Screen (Tela de Sucessos)				1997	2004
C
Canada	The Disney Afternoon (DA)	CITV-DT	weekday	2/day	August 9, 1991[14]
Czech Republic	Disney Club	TV Nova	weekly	2	2006[15]
China	Disney Adventures	provincial broadcasters, free-to-air and cable[16]
	Disney Club	12 stations (8/1997)			1995[17]	before 2008
	Dragon Club ‡	80% of cable providers	daily	2/day	September 19, 1994[18][19]
	Panda Club ‡	four of China's five regional broadcasters	3 blocks	2/block[20]	October 3, 1994[18][19]
D
Denmark	Disney Sjov [da]	DR 1	weekly on Fridays	1	25 October 1991 - 31 December 2022[21]
G–H
Germany	unnamed (or unrevealed name)	Kirch Media's ProSieben	Sunday afternoon movie		2002[22]
	Disney Club	RTL	Saturday and Sunday[23][24]			2002[22]
		ProSieben	Saturday		2002[22]
	Disney Filmparade	RTL	movie		2000[23]	2005[25]
		ProSiebenSat.1 Group channel			2005[25]
	Disney Time	RTL			-2000-[23]
		ProSieben	Sunday	2		late December 2004[25]
		Kabel 1		3	late December 2004[25]
Hungary	Walt Disney Bemutatja	M1	Sunday Afternoon		1991	1998
	Disney Klub	RTL Klub	Saturday morning	1	January 2003[8]
India
India	Disney Time	Star Plus		1	-2005-[26]
	unnamed or unmentioned	DD National			-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 Fun Time	DD Metro			2000	2001
	Disney Jadoo	DD National (purchased time)	Saturday 10am	.5	2005[1][2]
	Good Morning Disney	Zee TV	morning	2		2000[1][2][27]
		Sony TV			2000	2002[1][2][27]
	Disney Hour	Zee TV	afternoon			2000[1][2][27]
		Sony TV			2000	2002[1][2][27]
	unmentioned	STAR Utsav			-2005-[1][2]
	Disney Sandhya'	Eenadu TV	daily Telugu dubbed		1999[28]
I–P
Italy	Disney Club	Rai 1 (1991–1993, 1994–2000) Rai 2 (2000–2006)	weekend		1991	2006
	A tutto Disney	Canale 5	Saturday Afternoons		October 2, 1993	June 18, 1994
	Disney Cinemagic	Sky Cinema Family	weekend movies[29]		2011	2019
Japan	Disney Time	Dlife			December 2013[30]	March 31, 2020
Kazakhstan	Disney Club	KTK	weekly		- 2006 (renewed) - 2014[31]
Mexico	Disney Club	Azteca 7[32]			1998	2001[33]
			new format		2001[33]	2016
New Zealand	Disney Club	TVNZ			October 2002[9]
Philippines	Disney Club	TV5			November 2010
Poland	Walt Disney Przedstawia	TVP1	weekend		January 5, 1991	January 1, 2005
Portugal	Clube Amigos Disney	RTP1	Sunday Afternoons		February 23, 1986	July 2, 1989
	Clube Disney	Canal 1/RTP1 RTP2	weekend		1991	2001
	Disney Kids	SIC	weekend mornings		2001	August 30, 2015
R–T
Romania	Disney Club	RTV[8]
Spain	Club Disney	TVE 1/La 1 (1990–1998) Telecinco (1998–2002)	weekend		1990[34]	2002
	Zona Disney	Telecinco (2002–2003) TVE 1/La 1 (2003–2007)			2002	2007
Thailand	Disney Club	BBTV	Saturday	1		2002[9]
				1.5	2002[9]	2006[15]
				100-minute	2006[15]	2018
			weekend	35-minute	2018
U–V
UAE	Disney Club	Dubai TV	daily	.5; Thu. & Fri. 1	2006[35]
United Kingdom	Diggin’ It ↔	GMTV				February 2005[36]
	Playhouse Disney	ABC1	weekday mornings	1.5	2006 Summer[37]	September 26, 2007[38]
	Saturday Disney	GMTV			July 2, 1993[39]
USA	ABC Kids (formerly Disney's One Saturday Morning)	ABC	Saturday morning	2	September 13, 1997	August 27, 2011
	The Disney Afternoon (DA)	syndication	weekday afternoons	2/day	September 10, 1990[40]	August 31, 1997 (1997-08-31)[41]
	Disney-Kellogg Alliance, unbranded (DKA; formerly DA)	syndication	weekday afternoons	1.5/day	September 1, 1997 (1997-09-01)[41]	August 1999 (1999-08)[42]
	Disney's One Too (formerly DKA)	UPN & syndication	Sunday mornings & weekdays	2/day	September 6, 1999[43]	August 31, 2003
	That's So Throwback	Freeform	Monday-Thursday late night	2[44]	May 2, 2016
	Treasures from the Disney Vault	TCM	quarterly classics	~9	December 21, 2014[45]
Vietnam	Toon Disney	HCMC TV			February 2007[46]

Notes

†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:^[47][48]

† 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.^[49]
↑under a one-year revenue-sharing agreement with Zee marketing the block and guaranteeing a minimum revenue to Disney.^[50]

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