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Jetix

Country	USA
Availability	Various countries
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Past names	Fox Kids

Jetix is a children's television programming brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. It was previously known as Fox Kids.

1 Organization and ownership
2 Fox Kids
3 Shows aired on Jetix
4 Coming soon to Jetix
5 Magazine
6 External links

[edit] 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 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 25% of the shares are listed, 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. This move has been met with much negative criticism from Toon Disney's older viewers, for it was because of Jetix that Toon Disney had removed the animated programs it was originally intended to show.

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.

[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 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. It is also broadcast on the Toon Disney network, much to the chagrin of many of the network's older viewers who prefer the older shows the network was originally intended to show

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).

Fox Kids Original Logo.

Original Jetix Logo.

[edit] Shows aired on Jetix

Main article: List of programs broadcast by Jetix

[edit] Coming soon to Jetix

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (July 4th)
Digimon Savers Expected if Bandai brings the series to the US, Late 2007
Fighting Foodons Coming in 2008
K-9 Adventures Comming in 2008

[edit] Magazine

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.