The Walt Disney Company Portugal (formerly Fox Networks Group Portugal) was created in 2003 with headquarters located in

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, and is the owner of many Portuguese versions of Disney channels.

History

The group's first localized channel, Fox, started on March 1, 2003. In 2005, Fox and Fox Life launched on TV Cabo's Funtastic Life package with the aim of attracting more subscribers to its digital network. Investment in the channels was strong, without revealing the exact amount of money invested in marketing actions, acquisition of formats or the creation of a local team. It already had set a strategy to launch more channels in Portugal. A channel for Angola and Mozambique, Mundo Fox, started in October 2015. In January 2016, 21st Century Fox announced reorganization of Fox International Channels Portugal. The heads of FIC's regional divisions was report to CEO

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and COO Randy Freer at Fox Networks Group in the United States, instead of the outgoing FIC CEO Hernan Lopez and division was renamed Fox Networks Group Portugal. On 20 March 2019, The Walt Disney Company acquired

21st Century Fox Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., which did business as 21st Century Fox, was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was formed on June 28, 2013, as the legal successor ...

, including Fox Networks Group Portugal and then rebranded and reorganized it to The Walt Disney Company Portugal in 2020. On November 27, 2023, Disney has announced that Fox branded channels would rebrand to Star on 7 February 2024.

Channels

Current

BabyTV BabyTV (stylised as Baby''tv'') is a multilingual, international television channel for babies, toddlers and preschoolers aged 4 or lower. In Israel, the channel is owned and operated by Talit Communications while The Walt Disney Company Lim ...

Disney Channel Disney Channel is an American pay television television channel, channel that serves as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company ...

(HD) *

Disney Junior Disney Jr. (formerly Disney Junior) is an American pay television network owned by the Disney Branded Television sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Aimed mainly at children two to seven year ...

(HD) * Star Channel (HD) * Star Life (HD) * Star Crime (HD) *

Star Comedy Star Comedy (formerly FX and Fox Comedy) is a Portuguese pay television channel that broadcasts comedy series and films, owned by The Walt Disney Company Portugal. Programs are mostly imported, mainly from the United States, occasionally also Ca ...

(HD) * Star Movies (HD) * Star Mundo (HD) (Only in Angola and Mozambique) *

National Geographic Channel National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Enter ...

(HD) * Nat Geo Wild (European TV channel) (HD) * 24 Kitchen (HD)

Former

* Fuel TV (Portugal) (HD, sold to FYC) * BemSimples (defunct) *

Nat Geo Music Nat Geo Music was a television music channel operated as a part of National Geographic Global Networks, which is a business unit of National Geographic Partners (a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Societ ...

(defunct) *

Nat Geo People Nat Geo People (short for National Geographic People) is an international pay television channel owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). Targeted a ...

(defunct) *

Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City, U.S. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ow ...

(formerly distributed, owned by

Fox Corporation Fox Corporation (commonly referred to as Fox Corp or simply Fox) is an American multinational mass media company headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, with offices also in Burbank, Cali ...

) *

Sky News Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel, live stream news network and news organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of ...

(formerly distributed, owned by

Sky The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the planetary surface, surface of the Earth. It includes the atmosphere of Earth, atmosphere and outer space. It may also be considered a place between the ground and outer space, thus distinct from ...

) * Phoenix Chinese News and Entertainment Channel (formerly distributed) *

Phoenix InfoNews Channel Phoenix InfoNews Channel is a Hong Kong pay television news channel owned by Phoenix Television. It is the first channel to report news across the Greater China region, which includes mainland China, Macau, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The channel fi ...

(formerly distributed)

References

External links

Official website
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