Disney standalone programming TV blocks are blocks of Disney shows on non-Disney channels or TV stations around the world for audiences that do not have access to cable or satellite.
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 of total programming per year. These blocks had various names, including: 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, and Dragon Club (China). 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 closedA–B Argentina Playhouse Disney an Artear channel 2007 Australia Total Girl 7Two weekday mornings 2.5 † K-Zone 7mate Saturday Disney Seven Network/7flix Saturday 3 Playhouse Disney Seven Network weekly .5 Brazil Disney on TV (Disney en TV) TV Globo Disney World (Mundo Disney) Translated. SBT Translated.daily2 Disney Movies (Cine Disney) 1980s Success Screen (Tela de Sucessos) 1997 2004C–D Canada The Disney Afternoon (DA) CITV-DT weekday 2/day (scroll timeline image)Czech Republic Disney ClubTV Nova weekly 22006China Disney Adventures provincial broadcasters, free-to-air and cable Disney Club 12 stations (8/1997) 1995 Dragon Club ‡ 80% of cable providers daily 2/day January 1, 2019 Panda Club ‡ four of China's five regional broadcasters 3 blocks 2/block 1999DenmarkDR 1weekly on Fridays1 25 October 1991 - 31 December 2022G–HGermany unnamed (or unrevealed name) Kirch Media's ProSieben Sunday afternoon movie 2002 Disney Club RTL Saturday and Sunday 2002 ProSieben Saturday 2002 Disney Filmparade RTL movie 2000 2005 ProSiebenSat.1 Group channel 2005 Disney Time RTL -2000- ProSieben Sunday 2late December 2004 Kabel 1 3 late December 2004HungaryWalt Disney BemutatjaM1Sunday Afternoon19911998 Disney Klub RTL Klub Saturday morning 1 I–KIndia Disney Time Star Plus 1 -2005- unnamed or unmentioned DD National -1994- unnamed or unmentioned Zee TV's Alpha language channels, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Bengali ↑Disney Fun TimeDD Metro20002001 Disney Jadoo DD National (purchased time) Saturday 10am .5 Good Morning Disney Zee TV morning 2 2000Sony TV 2000 2002 Disney Hour Zee TV afternoon 2000Sony TV 2000 2002 unmentioned STAR Utsav -2005-Disney Sandhya Eenadu TV daily Telugu dubbed ItalyDisney ClubRai 1 (1991–1993, 1994–2000) Rai 2 (2000–2006)weekend19912006A tutto DisneyCanale 5Saturday AfternoonsOctober 2, 1993June 18, 1994 Disney Cinemagic Sky Cinema Family weekend movies20112019 Japan Disney Time Dlife Jennifer Wolfe. (December 2, 2013). Loyalkaspar Helps Bring Dlife’s Disney Time to Life. AWN News (AWN, Inc.). Accessed on December 19, 2013. Kazakhstan Disney ClubKTK weekly - 2006 (renewed) - 2014M–P Mexico Disney Club Azteca 7 1998 2001 new format 2001 2016 New Zealand Disney Club TVNZ Philippines Disney Club TV5 PolandWalt Disney PrzedstawiaTVP1weekendJanuary 5, 1991January 1, 2005PortugalClube Amigos DisneyRTP1Sunday AfternoonsFebruary 23, 1986July 2, 1989Clube DisneyCanal 1/RTP1 RTP2weekend19912001Disney KidsSICweekend mornings2001August 30, 2015R–T Romania Disney Club RTV Spain Club Disney TVE 1/La 1 (1990–1998) Telecinco (1998–2002)weekend 19902002Zona DisneyTelecinco (2002–2003) TVE 1/La 1 (2003–2007)20022007 Thailand Disney Club BBTV Saturday 1 2002 1.5 2002 2006 100-minute 2006 2018weekend 35-minute 2018U–V UAE Disney ClubDubai TV daily .5; Thu. & Fri. 1 2006United Kingdom Diggin’ It ↔ GMTV Playhouse Disney ABC1 weekday mornings 1.5 Summer Saturday Disney GMTV USA ABC Kids (formerly Disney's One Saturday Morning) ABC Saturday morning 2September 13, 1997August 27, 2011 The Disney Afternoon (DA) syndication weekday afternoons 2/day The Disney Films, by Leonard Maltin, 1995. Page 300. Via Chronology of the Walt Disney Company. Late 1990. Disney's Come On! CBS weekday afternoons 1.5/day Disney's One Too (formerly DKA) UPN & syndication Sunday mornings & weekdays 2/day That's So Throwback Freeform Monday-Thursday late night 2 Treasures from the Disney Vault TCM quarterly classics ~9 Vietnam Toon Disney HCMC TV
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: † 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. ↑ under a one-year revenue-sharing agreement with Zee marketing the block and guaranteeing a minimum revenue to Disney.
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