Jetix

Jetix

Jetix (stylized as JETIX) was an international children's entertainment brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. The Jetix brand was mainly used for a slate of programming blocks and television channels, which aired action and adventure-related programming, most of Jetix's programming being composed from the Saban Entertainment library, airing both live-action and animated series, and it did air some original programming as well. Jetix was first launched as a programming block in the United States on Toon Disney on February 14, 2004, to compete with Cartoon Network's Toonami block, and in Europe in April 2004. By the end of 2004, Jetix started to completely replace the international Fox Kids channels around the world, the first ever Fox Kids channel to be entirely replaced by Jetix being the French version in August 2004, and the last one being the German version, in June 2005.Although it had a large commercial success, the Jetix brand was later discontinued in 2009, and starting from that year, all international Jetix channels were rebranded as Disney XD or Disney Channel, due to The Walt Disney Company's focus on its Disney, ABC, and ESPN brands. After the shutdown of the very last Jetix channel, which was the Russian version (which was replaced with Disney Channel Russia) on August 10, 2010, and with the shutdown of Jetix Play in the Middle East on September 1, 2010 (which was replaced with Playhouse Disney) the Jetix brand officially went extinct.

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