. Jetix Play. Jetix (formerly Fox Kids in most countries) is a defunct worldwide children's television programming block owned by, Jetix Latin America and. The Jetix brand was used for children's blocks and channels featuring action-related and adventure-related live-action and animated programming, most of which had previously aired on, as well as some original programming. In the, the block aired on (from 2004–2009) and on (from 2004–2006). The Jetix brand (alongside Toon Disney) switched over to in 2009 (or in certain European countries) in accordance with the company's focus on its Disney, and brands. The last remaining Jetix in the world in, switched over to on August 10, 2010.
Contents. History In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, Fox Kids Latin America and agreed to rename its then current operations under a single umbrella name Jetix, which helped strengthen its then operations into a single force. The Jetix name was applied to its programming blocks which aired on ABC Family and Toon Disney, its television channels in Europe and Latin America, along with its programme library and merchandising. The Jetix name was chosen after the company conducted international research specifically with a number of children focus groups.
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Many of the children picked the name as it implied action and adventure, and the company was able to use the name internationally due to its ambiguity. Bruce Steinberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Kids Europe, said that Jetix would help strengthen Fox Kids Europe's partnership with Disney while building new alliances to continue to successfully leverage its programming library and distribution. On February 14, 2004, and launched their Jetix blocks with Jetix Cards Live, the world's first concurrently online and television, with Toon Disney having 12 hours of weekly prime time programming to start and ABC Family with 2 hours weekday and 4 hour on weekends all in the morning. Fox Kids U.K. Channel added a Jetix block in April.
Fox Kids blocks started to change over in April and the first channel in France was changed over in August 2004. In fall 2004 with the addition of three new shows, Toon Disney's U.S. Block was expanded to 16 hours. After Jetix Europe was purchased by Disney in December 2008, they announced that all Jetix operations would be replaced with a Disney branded channel. In the United States, Toon Disney and Jetix were merged to form in February 2009. The rest of the Jetix channels were ether merged with Toon Disney to create Disney XD, replaced with Disney XD or or simply closed down, depending on the region.
Jetix Europe Jetix Europe N.V. Number of employees 362 (75.7%, 1999-2001) (2001-2009, 75.7% until 2008) Jetix Europe Limited Jetix Europe N.V. (Formally known as Fox Kids Europe N.V.), was a television broadcasting company based in that ran children's oriented channels and programming blocks across the European and Middle East markets. History The first Fox Kids channel in the was launched in October 1996 and Fox Kids Europe (FKE) was incorporated in November 1999 with 75.7% being held by (FFW) with the balance of ownership listed on.
In 2000, Fox Kids channels were launched in, and the. These launches made Fox Kids the only children's entertainment company with a local channel in every major European market. In February 2001, A Fox Kids channel launched in, while the Hungarian feed extended to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while launching in Russia as a Programming Block. In June 2001 Fox Kids Europe announced that the Fox Kids brand had become the most widely distributed children's channel in Europe and the Middle East, reaching 24.9 million households and broadcasting in 54 countries via 11 channel feeds in 16 languages. By 2003 this had extended to 34.8 million households in 57 countries via 12 channel feeds in 17 languages. In October 2001, Fox Kids Europe's major owner was purchased by and renamed K2 started out as a syndicated block for several local stations in Italy. In December 2002, the company signed with BMG Europe for two Fox Kids Hits music compilation albums per year for 10 European markets.
In July 2003, Fox Kids Europe launched an Interactive Channel on titled. The name was eventually used for a sister channel under the same name, which first launched in Central and Eastern Europe in October 2003.
During the Jetix rebranding, Fox Kids channels across Europe started to introduce Jetix branded blocks. Added the Jetix block in April.
Fox Kids blocks across the worlds started to change over in April and the first channel in France was changed over in August 2004. In May 2005, Jetix Europe subsidiary Jetix Italia launched a male teen channel called on co-produced a few animated series with Jetix Europe during the 2000s. Jetix India added a temporary branding to the channel of Action Vacation starting May 7, 2007 while running two contests, WWE 24x7 and Jetix Action Vacation, while adding a WWE and other new series, martial arts movies and some Disney movies.
After Jetix Europe picked up for its France and Spain channels, Jetix Latin America picked it up in January 2007 from BRB International. In 2008, Jetix Europe licensed out Jetix France to The Walt Disney Company France and Disney-ABC-ESPN Television became its channel distribution partner. In February 2008, Jetix Europe was in talks to join affiliated companies, Disney Channel Europe, ESPN Europe and (DAIT), in their combined distribution sales unit. In June, Jetix Europe agreed to have DAIT take over distribution sales for all channels across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In November, the Central and Eastern European channel team won gold in the U.K. Promax Awards for Jetix Max idents.
On December 8, 2008, Disney made an agreement to increase ownership in Jetix Europe to 96%, with intentions to purchase the remainder and have Jetix Europe delisted from the Amsterdam exchange. In 2009, became a TV channel. With full Disney control over Jetix Europe, Disney indicated in February 2009 that Jetix blocks and channels would be switched over to Disney branding starting with the Jetix France channel with on April 1, 2009. Jetix Italy management agreed to purchase the Jetix Italy company, renamed as, GXT and K2 from Jetix Europe in July 2009 while managing the Jetix Italy channel unit it re-brands as Disney XD in the fall. The final Jetix channel to switch over to Disney XD was the Dutch version on January 1, 2010, while the last Jetix channel to close was the Russian version, which was replaced with. The channels soon followed suit in 2010/2011, being replaced with in some countries. This section needs expansion.
You can help. Further information: Jetix owned the library which included shows from. Jetix Animation Concepts, also Jetix Concepts Animation, was a brand used for animation co-produced by and for the Jetix global group by the American partner, ABC Cable Networks Group.
Magazine In the U.K., published the official Jetix Magazine. Published every four weeks, it featured puzzles and features based on the channel's shows.
The magazine also came with a free DVD featuring shows from the channel. In other countries, including, the and, similar Jetix magazines were also produced. Jetix Magazine was launched in early September 2004 by Jetix Consumer Products and Future Publishing. Cavan Scott was the magazine's initial editor. With the purchase of the remaining Jetix Europe shares by The Walt Disney Company and the change over of the channels to a Disney branded channel, Future renamed the magazine to Nitro!, to become an independent magazine with the same general focus.
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