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Disney Junior
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Disney Junior names head of content, sets senior leadership team
Disney Branded Television has promoted Alyssa Sapire to head up all content at pre-school brand…
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Disney+ makes double order for ‘Star Wars’ animation
Disney+ is boosting its animated Star Wars offering, with two news shows heading to the…
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Atomic Cartoons hires former Disney exec to head up development
Atomic Cartoons, the kids & family division of Canada’s Thunderbird Entertainment Group, has appointed former…
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Kids round-up: Wildbrain gets ‘Fabulous’; Jetpack to shop ‘Spookiz’; ‘Dino Ranch’ back for S2
Wildbrain gets ‘Fabulous’ Canada’s Wildbrain Television has commissioned a new cabaret-style kids series, The Fabulous…
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Disney to close 18 channels in Asia as streaming focus expands
Disney is closing 18 linear networks in Asia as it focuses its attention on nascent…
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Disney+ to become exclusive Disney Channels home in UK as Sky & Virgin deal ends
Streaming service Disney+ is to become the exclusive home of programming from Disney Channel, Disney…
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Kids round-up: Disney Junior couples up for more ‘Chuggington’; CITV acquires ‘Mighty Mike’; CMC reveals new dates
Disney Junior couples up to Chuggington Disney Junior has signed on for the sixth season…
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Sixteen South bolsters management with Brown Bag, ex-Planet 24 execs
Kids outfit Sixteen South has appointed three members to its senior management team including Emma Fernando…
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Disney Junior exhibits Gigantosaurus, Simon
Disney Junior Worldwide has pre-bought new Cyber Group Studios preschool toon Gigantosaurus, and acquired another…
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Disney acquires Belarussian toon
Disney channels around the world have acquired a 52×3.5mins non-dialogue toon hailing from the little-known…
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Sony Pictures buys into Genius
Sony Pictures’ home entertainment arm has bought into LA kids company Genius Brands International. Sony…
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Rai to put on PJ Masks
Rai has become the latest buyer of preschool superhero toon PJ Masks. The Italian pubcaster…
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Sky Kids App launches in Germany, Austria
Sky has launched its new Sky Kids App in Germany and Austria, offering content from…
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Disney Lat-Am buys Tip the Mouse
Disney Junior has taken regional rights to animated preschool series Tip the Mouse for Latin…
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Disney Junior buys first Chinese toon
Pay TV channel Disney Junior has acquired P. King Duckling, a US-Chinese coproduction from UYoung…
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Disney takes eOne toon global
The Walt Disney Company will launch an animated superhero toon from Entertainment One Family around…
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DHX preps share issue
Canada and US-listed DHX Media has launched a share offer and will use the proceeds,…
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Family Jr. adds to pre-launch line-up
Soon-to-launch Canadian kids channel Family Jr. has added another series to its line-up. The DHX…
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State of the industry: Canadian kids TV
Digital disruption and an end to regulatory protection has some in the Canadian kids business…
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Disney Junior sends Doc to Hulu
US streaming service Hulu has acquired exclusive streaming rights to Disney Junior toon Doc McStuffins….
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Sky Deutschland counters Netflix with OTT
Pay TV operator Sky Deutschland has launched an OTT TV service, Sky Online, that will…
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9 Story calls up Imagination Movers
Canadian kids firm 9 Story Entertainment has secured a development deal with musical act Imgaination…
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DHX closes channels deal, shuffles management
DHX Media has closed a deal for the Family Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior…
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DHX gets $158m Family Channel takeover approval
Canadian regulators have given DHX Media final approval to acquire Family Channel and three Disney-branded…
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Disney gives Nina, Didn’t Do it new runs
Disney Channel’s comedy I Didn’t Do it and Disney EMEA’s short-form toon Nina Needs to…
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Disney, Dish settle legal issues with ‘evolutionary’ deal
The Walt Disney Company and US satcaster Dish Network have ended their long-running legal dispute…
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German HD launch for Disney
Disney XD and Disney Junior are launching in HD in the German-speaking region for the…
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Disney’s new German channel catches Dino Train
The new Disney free-to-air channel in Germany will have Henson’s animated series Dino Train when…
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Disney Junior gets first Original Movie
Work has begun on Disney Junior’s first Original Movie, a music-themed animated telefilm about a…
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Reinventing the classics
Children’s TV is something that binds and defines peer groups. With new versions of Thunderbirds,…
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