History
- February, 1999 - Fox Kids launches in Romania, Moldova, Russia, Bulgaria (Russian Version)
- November 2000 - Fox Kids launches in Hungary.
- February 2001 - Fox Kids launches in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
- January 1, 2005 - Fox Kids is rebranded as Jetix.
On August 11, 2008 Jetix started broadcasting a block of "Disney stars" in Romania and Bulgaria, featuring the series Kim Possible, Phineas and Ferb, American Dragon and Hannah Montana. High School Musical aired on August 22, 2008 and High School Musical 2 aired on November 1, 2008. It was fully dubbed into Romanian, and an old Bulgarian translation of Kim Possible (once aired on BNT Channel 1) was made available on October 20, 2008. High School Musical 2 was also dubbed. Subsequently, Phineas and Ferb and American Dragon were also dubbed by Media Link using voice-over dubbing (unlike all pre-2005 Disney cartoon series, which were all dubbed with synchronized voices). This way of dubbing is very common in Bulgarian television, because it costs less and takes less time to produce (as the voices of actors are just placed directly over a quieted original voice track). Usually, only theatrically or home video-released animated films are dubbed with synchronized voices, and in the 1990s only Disney's animated series were dubbed this way for television. Only starting in 2008, Disney allowed Bulgarian broadcasters to dub films themselves, and all of them were using voice-over dubbing.
After Disney XD successfully launched on February 13, 2009 in the US, it was expected to be rolled out to European territories in 2009. Later, however, Disney announced that the Jetix channel in certain countries (namely Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria) will be renamed to Disney Channel, marking that channel's first introduction in these countries. The change happened at September 19, 2009. Disney Channel Romania & Bulgaria are broadcast as a single video feed with two audio channels and there is also a Russian audio channel.
On September 19, 2009, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Slovakia. But the Russian feed was still broadcasting under the Jetix name til it was announced that a separate Disney Channel would launch.
On August, 10, 2010, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in CIS. On October, 16, 2010 Ukrainian version of channel was launched. Disney Channel Ukraine uses the video from Romanian version of Disney Channel and Ukrainian audio.
Read more about this topic: Disney Channel (Central And Eastern Europe)
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