JETIX

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This article is about a brand Jetix. For Jetix in United States, see Toon Disney. For Jetix in United Kingdom, see Jetix (UK). For Jetix in Russia, see Jetix (Russia)

Jetix is a children's television programming brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. It was previously known as Fox Kids.

Contents

1 Organization and ownership
2 Fox Kids
3 Shows aired on Jetix
4 Magazine
5 Movies on Jetix
6 See also
7 External links

Organization and ownership

The brand broadcasts in the United States as a block of programming on the ABC Family and Toon Disney television channels. In Europe and Latin America, the brand broadcasts as television channels in their own right, owned by subsidiary companies Jetix Europe and Jetix Latin America. These channels are branded as Jetix. All previous Fox Kids channels were rebranded to Jetix by January 2005. The United Kingdom and Ireland channel became Jetix on 1 January, 2005 at midnight.

The European subsidiary, Jetix Europe NV, is listed on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. [link] However only 25% of the shares are listed, Disney owns the remainder. The Latin American company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney.

In fall of 2006, ABC Family will drop the Jetix block, which will continue to air on two of its homes, Toon Disney and Disney Channel. This move has been met with much negative criticism from Toon Dsiney's older viewers, for it was because of Jetix that Toon Disney had removed the animated programs it was originally intended to show.

Fox Kids

Before October 2001, Fox Kids was a 50-50 joint venture between News Corporation and Haim Saban. The ABC Family Channel was at that point known as the Fox Family Channel, and all the channels now branded Jetix were called Fox Kids. Fox Kids itself had been founded in 1996 as a merger between the US Fox Children's Entertainment and Haim Saban's Saban Entertainment. In October 2001, Saban and News Corp sold the group to The Walt Disney Company. The brand announced the change of name to Jetix in January 2004.

Until 2002, the brand had the rights to the children's programming slot on the Fox Broadcasting Company television network, however after the sale, that slot was sold to 4Kids Entertainment. The slot, initially known as the "FoxBox" is now named 4Kids TV. However some Jetix programs are broadcast on the ABC television network, under the ABC Kids brand. It is also broadcast on the Toon Disney network, much to the chagrin of many of the network's older viewers who prefer the older shows the network was originally intended to show.

Shows aired on Jetix

To See Shows were aired on Jetix See:

Magazine

Future Publishing publishes the official Jetix Magazine. Published every four weeks the magazine features puzzles and features based on the channel's characters plus a six page Power Rangers comic. The magazine also comes with a free DVD featuring shows from the channel.

Movies on Jetix

[Digimon Movies 1, 2 & 3]...
[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie]
[Back To The Future Part 3]

External links

The Walt Disney Company

Annual Revenue:

.8 billion USD (2004) | Employees: 129,000 | Stock Symbol: NYSE: [DIS] | Website: [disney.go.com]

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