Can I just say how surprised I am that no action has been taken on the Jetix website to inform viewers that, effective tomorrow, the station will no longer exist.
There are people still joining (today!) the "hub" part of the website. Posts have not been made about the closure, and the website could possibly disappear without warning tomorrow, and presumably, re-direct to DisneyXD.co.uk.
I know that the advertising is now only for DXD on the site, and especially on the channel, which now seems to broadcast ads in 16:9 widescreen (presumably in the run up to the launch of DXD's HD content) and has replaced the Jetix logo with a DXD logo in the bottom-left saying how many days till launch.
People will be left stuck wondering what happened to Jetix if they think that Jetix is just advertising DXD as another channel, even with all the advertising saying "stick right here".
:-(
A former member
why is Disney re banding the channel? I know this comes form the Disney take over from the Fox family channel.
I would like to know how this fits in the Disney channel family, saying that Disney not that great in the first place now adays!
why is Disney re banding the channel? I know this comes form the Disney take over from the Fox family channel.
They took over Fox Family years ago, in the States, Fox Family became ABC Family. It was their decision to rename Fox Kids to Jetix, but AIUI the 'Disney XD' brand is being rolled out everywhere, so I guess they wanted to keep the service open albeit with the Disney name.
The main reason for the rebrand is it seems they're trying to make Disney Channel into more of a female targeted channel, with the more male shows being moved to Disney XD, and as part of that it seems they wanted a brand that was clearly Disney.
I would be surprised if there are many viewers that don't know about the change, they've been advertising it for a good few months now, particularly in the last week or so with many ads appearing on other channels (the Channel 4 ones off the top of my head), as well today on YouTube. Plus, it's hard to miss it with the large Disney XD countdown DOG on the channel.
Even though Jetix will technically no longer exist from tomorrow, it doesn't make much of a difference, as far as I can see it's the same shows they've always had with a few new ones.
The main reason for the rebrand is it seems they're trying to make Disney Channel into more of a female targeted channel, with the more male shows being moved to Disney XD, and as part of that it seems they wanted a brand that was clearly Disney.
Even though Jetix will technically no longer exist from tomorrow, it doesn't make much of a difference, as far as I can see it's the same shows they've always had with a few new ones.
Disney Channel UK copies so much of its American operation now it's hard to believe there was a time after its 1995 launch date that it aired a load of stuff that hadn't been made in America, in addition to more grown-up stuff. 8 Simple Rules and Home Improvement used to air on Disney Channel UK until both were farmed off to ABC1.
These days you look at the Disney offerings and it's solidly aimed at pre-teens and all built round Suite Life, Hannah Montana and Recess. Mind you, Nickelodeon seems to turn more and more into it's American counterpart every day with the amount of American programming showing.
It's a tragic show of the times when the only new mainstream children's programming in this country is being produced by CBBC. Nick UK doesn't make programming anymore, ITV scrapped their own department, Cartoon Network became too fragmented after CN2 and Boomerang, and Disney UK's only "production" if you like seems to have been the live-based Studio Disney presentation wrapper from a few years ago.
What kind of viewing figures do the Disney channels get here?
I'm sure they'd make more money in the long term if they closed their channels down and allowed the BBC, ITV, et al to start showing proper Disney films instead.
:-(
A former member
Disney Channel w/e 16 Aug 2009
1 PHINEAS & FERB (SPLITS) (Fri 16:00) 165000's
2 SONNY WITH A CHANCE (Fri 15:36) 157000's
3 PHINEAS & FERB (SPLITS) (Fri 16:23) 156000's
4 SONNY WITH A CHANCE (Fri 15:12) 145000's
5 PHINEAS & FERB (SPLITS) (Mon 12:26) 142000's
6 WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE (Wed 13:30) 136000's
7 THE SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY (Wed 14:20) 130000's
8 HANNAH MONTANA (Wed 13:04) 130000's
9 HANNAH MONTANA (Mon 13:05) 128000's
10 WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE (Wed 13:55) 125000's
Disney Channel +1 w/e 16 Aug 2009 000's
1 PHINEAS & FERB (SPLITS) (Sat 09:25) 170000's
2 HANNAH MONTANA (Sat 10:03) 170000's
3 THE SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY (Sat 09:37)144000's
4 WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE (Tue 21:34) 100000's
5 HANNAH MONTANA (Wed 20:22) 98000's
6 PHINEAS & FERB (SPLITS) (Sat 09:01) 94000's
7 SUITE LIFE ON DECK (Sun 11:55) 94000's
8 SUITE LIFE ON DECK (Mon 10:06) 92000's
9 SUITE LIFE ON DECK (Wed 19:57) 91000's
10 PHINEAS & FERB (SPLITS) (Tue 08:51) 87000's
Disney Cinemagic
w/e 16 Aug 2009
000's
1 FILM: DISNEY'S POCAHONTAS (Sun 15:00) 31000's
2 KIM POSSIBLE (Wed 22:47) 29000's
3 LILO & STITCH (TOON) (Fri 19:32) 26000's
What kind of viewing figures do the Disney channels get here?
I'm sure they'd make more money in the long term if they closed their channels down and allowed the BBC, ITV, et al to start
showing proper Disney films instead
.
I'm not that sure.. I think especailly in the staates these films are very succesful!
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