International Disney Networks Thread Part 17

[Markus]

Surprised to see the Disney Classics block still exists on DC Nordic on Fridays. I've been actively watching and enjoying the old shows. I thought after unifying schedules it wouldn't survive but probably they got a special permission.

 

[RegularMan]

I don't know if I've asked this before and if I have I apologise in advance, but:

Why did DC DE even go on a month-long hiatus when becoming FTA? Every other feed that did this just switched on the day.

 

[RegularCapital]

I don't know if I've asked this before and if I have I apologise in advance, but:

Why did DC DE even go on a month-long hiatus when becoming FTA? Every other feed that did this just switched on the day.

Likely due to the timing of contracts:

Likely reasons why:

- The existing pay-TV carriage deals expired, and there was no point renewing Disney Channel just for a month and a half, but continued carriage for Disney XD and Disney Junior (and an upgrade in HD) which would last the full length term of the new contract.

- Allow time for Das Vierte to wrap up their operations and fulfill their existing contracts.

- Disney's programming contract to Super RTL expired on 31st December 2013, they wanted to make sure Disney had full FTA rights before the FTA launch.

- The time gap allowed Disney to prepare and test the brand new worldwide branding before going live.

 

[Markus]

The break allowed Disney to rebrand the channel, apply for a new broadcasting license, and prepare a fresh 24/7 lineup for the whole family. Everything was going to be as smooth as possible and perfect.

 

[PinkieLopBun]

Just wanted to note a couple things on what happened. I'm not fully up to speed on what lead up to the argument, but I did read through it. If you feel someone is crossing a line, please report them and then leave it. Engaging with the user is only good for derailing the thread further (as I feel what happened shows pretty well). Not only did the thread get derailed, but no one that was taking part in it reported anything. Another thing you can do is use the ignore function on people that bother you, which I see one person did (although I'd advise against announcing it). Honestly, I should probably be giving infractions to everyone involved on both sides, but I'm just going to leave this in thread notice for now. I will not hesitate to issue infractions if this happens again. There will be no further discussion of this in this thread. Anyone that continues it will be given an infraction. If anyone has any questions, feel free to PM me.

 

[RandomMe]

@PinkieLopBun thank you for your intervention. Me and zzman will likely start a DM with you later this week.

 

[RegularMan]

Likely due to the timing of contracts:

Oh, apologies.

 

[AllDayEveryDay]

Anyone aware of what the point of this 'long night' block was?

Oh yeah, Lange Nächte, the very block where Atomic Betty and The Proud Family had their last airings on DC Germany in November 2013.

Speaking of Lange Nächte, there was even a rare time in the early 2000s where I think the block had a Playhouse Disney show from 0:00 to 6:00. I had an April 2003 DC DE schedule posted on the old international Disney Channel schedules thread and the show featured on Lange Nächte on there was... Bear in the Big Blue House.

 

[RandomMe]

Is it me or were there no credits? Or just bits and pieces from the show?

 

[MagiaDiWinx]

DC Germany should have just closed down overnight honestly, that block sounds awful.
And you're right, no credits. German and Dutch channels have always been allergic to them

 

[JulianRO]

Disney Channel CEE continuity from 10.09.2011 in Bulgarian:

 

[RandomMe]

DC Germany should have just closed down overnight honestly, that block sounds awful.
And you're right, no credits. German and Dutch channels have always been allergic to them

Except that in this phase it was a pay-TV channel. FTA channels are allergic

 

[MagiaDiWinx]

I'm surprised Disney never bothered to bring their blocks to S4C (they did make Welsh books in the late 90s), TG4, TV3 Catalunya (there are Catalan dubbed Disney films as early as 1996 though), and ETB1

 

[Markus]

The same episodes overnights reminds me of the DC EMEA feed that I temporarily had a few years ago. They used to be so repeative for airing the same episodes multiple days in a row. Even during daytime. They only aired certain seasons. I complained about that here.

 

[MagiaDiWinx]

Normal DOG with translucent inscription in use in Germany in 2008.

Also here they are airing credits

 

[Francisque]

DC Germany should have just closed down overnight honestly, that block sounds awful.
And you're right, no credits. German and Dutch channels have always been allergic to them

Not that awful

It was rotated shows, not the same show every night or the same episodes every night. As for credits, AFAIK they did show them most of the time though, maybe not with some special blocks though

 

[RandomMe]

Normal DOG with translucent inscription in use in Germany in 2008.

Also here they are airing credits

Movie-specific Gleich bumpers.

DC PT could never

 

[AllDayEveryDay]

It was rotated shows, not the same show every night or the same episodes every night. As for credits, AFAIK they did show them most of the time though, maybe not with some special blocks though

Like Atomic Betty (which, BTW here in the Philippines, was on Cartoon Network) as an example of a rotated show as I already said earlier. As far as end credits go, I actually saw a late night Disney Channel Germany continuity from June 18, 2012 (from the HD feed) on YouTube that had a clip from Atomic Betty at the beginning and there weren't any end credits for Atomic Betty in the continuity (episode was "Wizard of Orb") as it went straight to the Gleich bumper after the last scene of the Atomic Betty episode (the movie that came on after it was Brother Bear) and said continuity also had Lizzie McGuire at the end (oddly with the Shake It Up ident right before Lizzie started), so I assume there weren't any end credits for Lizzie McGuire on DC Germany in 2012 either, but I'm not sure since right before the end credits of Lizzie McGuire, there was a blooper reel in I think almost every episode.

 

[RandomMe]

Unusual for what was a pay-TV channel

 

[Rrr]

I'm not that knowledgable about Disney Channel Germany's 2000s presentation however at least by 2012 a form of split-screen credits were used alongside a promo - here is a saved snapshot: