Jetix Play (formerly Fox Kids Play) was a preschool entertainment brand, owned by

Jetix Europe Jetix Europe N.V. (formerly known as Fox Kids Europe N.V.) was a European television broadcasting company that owned children's television channels and programming blocks across Europe and Asia, such as Jetix and Jetix Play. History Fox Kids Eu ...

. The Jetix Play name was primarily used as a sister channel to

Jetix Jetix (stylized in all caps) was a children's entertainment brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. The brand was for a slate of action and adventure-related programming blocks and television channels. Jetix programming mainly originated fr ...

in a small number of regions, such as

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, and

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History

The channel originally launched as Fox Kids Play in January 2003 in Poland, and later launched in October 2003 in CEE (Including Russia) and MENA regions (including Turkey). Fox Kids Play was aimed at a younger audience than the main Jetix channel and primarily showed archived programming from BVS Entertainment and Fox Kids Europe's catalogues. The channel was available for 12 hours per day, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. On 1 January 2005, Fox Kids Play was rebranded as Jetix Play. On November 1, 2008, Jetix Play increased its broadcast period from 12 to almost 17 hours per day, from 6 A.M. to 10:45 P.M. After

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increased their ownership in

, they planned to rebrand the channels after Jetix's rebranding into

Disney XD Disney XD is an American pay television television channel, channel owned by the Disney Branded Television and Disney Entertainment units of The Walt Disney Company. The channel is aimed primarily at older children ages six to eleven years old ...

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. Near its closure, the channel progressively ceased its carriage on operators in Poland, while stopping to air commercials in late May 2010. The channel closed on 1 August 2010Wkrótce nowy kanał Disneya w Polsce
''New Channel by Disney Soon in Poland'' in Poland and in Middle East on 1 September 2010. The channel was replaced with

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in most regions.

Programming

Programming on Jetix Play consisted of archive programming of animated cartoons and television series from

BVS Entertainment BVS Entertainment, Inc., previously known as Saban Productions, Saban Entertainment and Saban International, is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. Founded on April 24, 1980, as a music production company by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, it ...

's catalogue, which included shows from

Saban Entertainment BVS Entertainment, Inc., previously known as Saban Productions, Saban Entertainment and Saban International, is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. Founded on April 24, 1980, as a music production company by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, it ...

and the pre-1990 catalogue of

DIC Entertainment DIC Entertainment Corporation (; also known as DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, DIC Animation City, DIC Entertainment, L.P., and DIC Productions, sometimes stylized as DİC) was a French American film and television production company that ...

, which BVS/Fox Kids Europe owned international rights to at the time.

Shows

* '' Around the World in 80 Dreams'' * '' Bad Dog'' * ''

Bobby's World ''Bobby's World'' (originally known as ''The World According to Bobby'') is an American animated comedy children's television series that aired on Fox Kids from September 8, 1990, to February 23, 1998. The show was created by Canadian actor/come ...

'' * '' Button Nose'' * '' Camp Candy'' * '' Captain Flamingo'' * '' Dennis the Menace'' * '' Diplodo'' * '' Eek! The Cat'' * '' Gadget and the Gadgetinis'' * ''

Gulliver's Travels ''Gulliver's Travels'', originally titled ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'', is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clerg ...

'' * '' Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch'' * '' Heathcliff'' * '' Huckleberry no Bōken'' * '' Hutch the Honeybee'' * ''

Inspector Gadget ''Inspector Gadget'' is a media franchise that began in 1983 with the DIC Entertainment animated television series '' Inspector Gadget''. Since the original series, there have been many spin-offs based on the show, including additional animated ...

'' * '' Jim Button'' * '' Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol'' * ''

Journey to the Heart of the World ''Journey to the Heart of the World'' () is an animated series that ran from September 6, 1993 to 1994. It was based on the Franco-Belgian comic strip '' Corentin''. Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids ...

'' * ''

Lady Lovely Locks ''Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails'' is a character property created by American Greetings subsidiary Those Characters from Cleveland (creators of Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears and Popples among others) in the mid-1980s which soon expa ...

'' * '' Life with Louie'' * '' Little Mouse on the Prairie'' * '' Little Wizards'' * '' Peter Pan and the Pirates'' * ''

Pinocchio Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel, ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a poor man named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...

'' * '' Princess Sissi'' * '' Rainbow Brite'' * '' Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist'' * '' Sylvanian Families'' * '' Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic'' * ''

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, th ...

'' * '' The Adventures of the Little Mermaid'' * '' The Kids from Room 402'' * '' The Littl' Bits'' * ''

The Littles ''The Littles'' is a series of children's novels by American author John Peterson, the first of which was published in 1967. Sixteen years later, Peterson's books were adapted into '' The Littles'', an animated series by DIC Entertainment. T ...

'' * '' The Get Along Gang'' * '' The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs'' * '' The Tofus'' * '' The Why Why Family'' * '' Three Little Ghosts'' * '' Walter Melon'' * '' Wunschpunsch''

Other uses

Fox Kids Play was used by Fox Kids Europe as an interactive VOD in France and Israel, and expanded in the United Kingdom when it was added to

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in July 2003. The service consisted of various television games based on Fox Kids programmes and third-party properties. The service extended to Sky Digital in March 2004. In the Netherlands, a Jetix Play branded block was featured on

. Unlike the channel, this block was strictly pre-school-focused and aired acquired shows aimed towards younger children, including '' The Koala Brothers'', ''

Bob the Builder ''Bob the Builder'' is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment which ran from to in the United Kingdom through the CBBC strand and later CBeebies. The series centres on the adventures ...

'', ''

Hamtaro ''Hamtaro'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga and storybook series created and illustrated by Ritsuko Kawai about a hamster. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Shōgaku Ninensei'' (''Second Grade'') magazine in April ...

'', and ''

Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry shortcake may refer to: * Strawberry shortcake (dessert), a shortcake served with strawberries * Strawberry Shortcake, a cartoon character and franchise created by American Greetings ** Strawberry Shortcake (TV series), ''Strawberry Sho ...

''. In September 2009, the block began airing '' In the Night Garden...'', Between 2006 and 2007, in

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and other CEE countries, a Jetix Play programming block was broadcast on Jetix, which similarity to the named channel aired archived programming from BVS's catalogue.

References

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