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Well, RTL now owns Sky Deutschland, and the UK is no longer subject to the European Commission due to Brexit, the only notable services that Sky has in the rest of Europe are Sky Italia and the SkyShowtime streaming service. This is why I think such a merger would be cleared. There's a lot of...

For a brief period in the early 2000's, Canal+ and Universal were used to part of the same company during the Vivendi Universal days, NBCUniversal buying Canal+ would be tough (but possible) due to European Commission competition rules.

It's all part of a plan to spin Sky off and merge it with the broadcasting side of ITV.

We never had STAR Channel, the channel closed as FOX, but I agree that its essentially the same thing. The early days of Disney Channel in Europe is so much more interesting compared to the channel later on in its life, which is why I enjoyed writing that history article a couple of years ago.

I'm sure that Boing Africa is for smaller providers and developing markets that can't afford the main CN channel, which is why it relies on older archived programming. Similar sort of story in France where a bunch of IPTV providers used to have Boing (now Cartoonito) but no Cartoon Network, due...

Cartoon Network UK, Boomerang UK, and Cartoonito UK July 2026 Highlights:

CN Africa's main office is in Issy-les-Moulineaux in Paris, CNN has a place on Owl Street, Johannesburg though. It seems that they partner with local companies on their behalf when doing filming or promotional events, including Multichoice.

This is why Cartoon Network and Cartoonito MENA are licenced, and not the African feeds. When CN EMEA (now just Africa) covered the rest of EMEA, it had a licence, MENA took up the licence.

There isn't one because of a couple of reasons: 1. The channel doesn't broadcast to any part of the European Economic Area (EEA)/European Convention on Transfrontier Television (ECTT) area. 2. In a weird sort of way, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the platform operators are responsible (acting as the...

Being hosted on the cloud is location agnostic, it's all about where the transmission and editorial administration takes place.

High cable penetration and TCC (The Children's Channel) and KinderNet already proved there was a market and a test case for a Benelux version, too bad their demise was just around the corner, and as @JulianRO pointed out Fox Kids was planning to launch too, also the fact the Dutch market had...

CN UK still have the next bumpers and the other presentation features, bumpers are rarely aired, but you do see sponsorship ones. The only big difference in recent years is the missing time on the promos, that's because they have been premiering episodes early in the morning with multiple...

Although some wikis are backed by a community that do excellent work, I still wouldn't trust Wikis unless what is mentioned has a valid source.

CBBC is drastically depending on imports and acquisitions nowadays as less and less kids are watching the channel, there's hardly any funds for original programming anymore for kids between 6-12 years old, the use of iPlayer is the last roll of the dice. There's also less options for pay-TV...

This is a warning for everyone before I consider handing out infractions: 1. Don't keep talking about the thread if it's about to reach 1,000 posts, it's incredibly trivial, and you don't get a prize for opening a new thread too early or for getting post 1,000. 2. Don't open a thread too...