JETIX

''For specific versions of Jetix, please click the corresponding link. American Jetix, British Jetix, Russian Jetix, Brazilian Jetix, Polish Jetix, Hungarian Jetix, Romanian Jetix, German Jetix, Israelian Jetix and Canadian Jetix ''.''
'Jetix' is a television programming brand aimed at children ages 7-13 and is owned by The Walt Disney Company (In Europe the brand whose majority shareholder (74%) is Disney). It was previously known as 'Fox Kids'.

Contents

Organization and ownership

Fox Kids

Shows aired on Jetix

Coming soon to Jetix

Magazine

External links

English

Organization and ownership

The brand broadcasts in the United States as a block of programming on the Toon Disney television channel. In Europe and Latin America, the brand broadcasts as television channels in their own right, owned by subsidiary companies Jetix Europe based in Netherlands Hilversum and Jetix Latin America. These channels are branded as Jetix. All previous Fox Kids channels were rebranded to Jetix by January 2005. The United Kingdom and Ireland channel became Jetix on 1 January, 2005 at midnight.
The European subsidiary, Jetix Europe NV, is listed on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. [1] However only 26% of the shares in free float, as Disney owns the remainder. The Latin American company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney.
Following the August 31st broadcast, ABC Family dropped the Jetix block, which continued to air on its exclusive home, Toon Disney.
Starting September 10th, 2006 at 6:03 am, viewers of Family Channel in Canada can watch Jetix in Canada. This new block replaced the then current "Power Box" block on Family, and introduced "Get Ed" and "Oban Star Racers". "W.I.T.C.H." and "Power Rangers Mystic Force" remained unchanged, however, Retro "Spiderman" and "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!", was no longer be shown at that time. Jetix airs from 6:03 am until 7:45, commercial free weekend mornings.
Brian Donovan is the current Jetix announcer in Jetix America.

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 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 some Jetix programs are broadcast on the ABC television network, under the ABC Kids brand. As of 2007, however, the only Jetix show to air on ABC Kids is the ''Power Rangers''.
Notably, all shows produced before the sale to Disney in 2002 (including the pre-2002 ''Digimon'' and ''Power Rangers'' shows) still have the Saban and Fox Children's Productions logos (one example is ''The Tick'' which still has the latter logo). In Europe most old Fox Kids shows retain their original Saban and Fox logos, but the Buena Vista International logo is put after them (although, very often when such a show is aired on Jetix's European channels, the film stops right before it).

Shows aired on Jetix

Main articles: List of programs broadcast by Jetix

Coming soon to Jetix

★ ''Digimon Data Squad'' Coming Autumn 2007.

★ /The New Batman Adventures Coming October 2007

★ Coming October 2007

★ Pinky and the Brain Coming October 10 2007

★ Sonic X Coming November 2007

★ Power Rangers Jungle Fury Coming February 2008

★ ''K-9 Coming 2008''

Magazine

In the UK, Future Publishing publishes the official Jetix Magazine. Published every four weeks the magazine features puzzles and features based on the channel's characters plus a six page Power Rangers comic. The magazine also comes with a free DVD featuring shows from the channel.

External links

English

★ Jetix United States

★ Jetix Europe corporate

★ List of Jetix websites in European countries

★ Jetix Latin America

★ Jetix United Kingdom and Ireland

★ Jetix India (although its address was still in the toon disney website)

★ DisneyIn.com