Playhouse Disney (UK)
| Disney Junior | |
|---|---|
| Launched | As Playhouse Disney: 28 September 1999 (Block) 29 September 2000 (Channel) As Disney Junior: 7 May 2011 |
| Owned by | Disney–ABC Television Group |
| Picture format |
576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.24% 0.11% (+) (April 2017, BARB) |
| Country |
United Kingdom Ireland |
| Headquarters | Chiswick, London |
| Formerly called | Playhouse Disney (29 September 2000 – 7 May 2011) |
| Replaced | Playhouse Disney + / Disney Junior + ABC1 Disney Junior HD Disney Cinemagic HD |
| Sister channel(s) |
Disney Channel Disney XD |
| Timeshift service | Disney Junior + |
| Website | Disney Junior |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Sky | Channel 611 (SD/HD) Channel 612 (+) Channel 628 (SD) |
| Cable | |
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Virgin Media (UK) |
Channel 727 |
| Virgin Media Ireland | Channel 616 |
| WightFibre | Channel 107 |
| IPTV | |
| TalkTalk Plus TV | Channel 481 |
| BT | Channel 481 |
| Plusnet | Channel 481 |
| Streaming media | |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (United Kingdom) |
| Sky Go |
Watch live (UK and Ireland only) |
| Virgin TV Anywhere Ireland | [1] (Ireland) |
Disney Junior is a British television channel owned by Disney–ABC Television Group.
The channel launched on 29 September 2000 as Playhouse Disney, on the same day as the now defunct sister channel, Toon Disney.
Presenters were added to the channel in September 2009; they appear on air between 6pm and 8pm.
The Playhouse Disney brand, which existed as 22 channels or blocks in 156 countries and territories, rebranded as Disney Junior in 2011. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Disney Junior began on 7 May 2011, with its first show as Handy Manny. At the same time the channel started broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen.
The last show to be airing on Playhouse Disney UK before it became Disney Junior is Jojo's Circus.
A high-definition simulcast of Disney Junior was made available to Sky+ HD subscribers on 9 April 2013.
On 30 May 2017, the channel went 24/7.
When Playhouse Disney was launched, it had the same logo style as Disney Channel, with some of the 2D idents from Disney Channel being used as idents, except the "Disney Channel" text was replaced with a "Playhouse Disney" text.
In September 2007, the channel logo in the external promotionals (programme press releases, promos for terrestrial television) were changed to include the inscription "Channel" as in all Playhouse Disney Europe channels, but on the channel itself the logo was not changed. This move probably is to differentiate the channel from the "Playhouse Disney" block, shown all mornings on the American Disney Channel.
A one-hour timeshift service of the channel, Disney Junior +, launched on 30 October 2007 as Playhouse Disney +, replacing the now defunct channel ABC1. It launched on the same day that the Disney Channels were reshuffled on Sky, involving Disney Cinemagic and Disney Cinemagic +1 moving down the EPG, to enable Playhouse Disney to move up the EPG to allow Playhouse Disney + to launch next to it on Sky 611 and 612 respectively. Playhouse Disney + was initially a 25-minute timeshift service until 11 April 2011 when it became a 1-hour timeshift service.
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