Jetix (US)

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Jetix

Type	Cable programming block
Country	United States
Availability	United States Latin America
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Launch date	February 14, 2004
Website	http://www.jetix.tv/

Jetix is a children's television programming brand run on Toon Disney, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

It was formerly aired on ABC Family also, but following the August 31st broadcast, ABC Family dropped the Jetix block, which continued to air on its other home, Toon Disney.

1 Fox Kids
2 Current programming
3 Former programming
4 External links

[edit] Fox Kids

Main article: Fox Kids

Before October 2001, Fox Kids was a 50-50 joint venture between News Corporation and Haim Saban. The ABC Family Channel was at that point known as the Fox Family Channel, and all the channels now branded Jetix were called Fox Kids. Fox Kids itself had been founded in 1996 as a merger between the US Fox Children's Entertainment and Haim Saban's Saban Entertainment. In October 2001, Saban and News Corp sold the group to The Walt Disney Company. The brand announced the change of name to Jetix in January 2004.

Until 2002, the brand had the rights to the children's programming slot on the Fox Broadcasting Company television network, however after the sale, that slot was sold to 4Kids Entertainment. The slot, initially known as the "FoxBox", is now named 4Kids TV. However, a few Jetix programs are broadcast on the ABC television network, under the ABC Kids brand. It is mainly broadcast on the Toon Disney network. This decision has been met with much controversy by Disney fans, for it was with the addition of Jetix that the classic Disney cartoons, the very programs that Toon Disney was made with the intention of airing, were taken off the air shortly following Jetix's inception.