Disney Channel

Disney Channel is a cable television network that is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The channel shows programs that are made for family audiences, most of it for pre-teens and teenagers.

The channel began on the morning of April 18, 1983. Its programs ran for eighteen hours a day until December 1986.

It received a special citation from President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Disney Channel currently airs such popular shows as Good Luck Charlie, Wizards of Waverly Place, The Suite life on Deck, Phineas and Ferb, Shake It Up, Fish Hooks, So Random!, A.N.T. Farm, and more.

They also make their own original movies called DCOM'S Disney Channel tries its level best to make great movies like Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie, and Hannah Montana the Movie.

Programming blocks

Disney Junior

Disney Channel currently programs shows targeted at preschool-age children on Monday through Fridays from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. ET/PT and weekends from 7-11 a.m. ET, called Playhouse Disney. During the summer months, the Playhouse Disney block ends at 10 a.m. ET on weekdays. As of 2010, the only programming featuring classic Disney characters is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the Playhouse Disney block.

Programming in this block includes Special Agent Oso, Imagination Movers, Handy Manny, Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Jungle Junction and My Friends Tigger & Pooh.

On May 26, 2010 it was announced that the Playhouse Disney block will be rebranded under the name Disney Junior which will later become its own digital cable and satellite channel in January 2012, replacing SOAPnet. The Disney Junior channel will be a direct competitor to Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. network and PBS and Comcast's PBS Kids Sprout.

Disney XD

See also: Disney XD