The little kids (those with no sense of nostalgia) no longer cared for the old cartoons and just wanted to see more 'hip' stuff. If I recall, TD relegated all the old cartoons to small segments at bad timeslots while they pushed things like Jetix and Power Rangers in their place. Eventually, Disney killed TD and made Disney XD in its place.
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Toon Disney was a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by the Walt Disney Company that aired mostly children's animated television series. A spin-off of the Disney Channel, Toon Disney showed animated children's programming 24 hours a day (except for minimal live-action programming); its format had similarities to those of Cartoon Network and the later Nicktoons. Toon Disney's target audience were children ages 2–11, with the exceptions of programming used in a night time block aimed at children ages 6–15 called Jetix. A Spanish language audio track was available on Toon Disney through the SAP option; some cable and satellite systems also offered the Spanish language feed as a separate channel.
History1998-2008: Launch of the channel
Toon Disney launched on April 18, 1998 (coinciding with the Disney Channel's 15th anniversary), with its very first program being The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment from Fantasia. Originally, the channel's programming consisted primarily of older Disney animated television series, including those from The Disney Afternoon. Toon Disney also showed some other animated series that Disney owned the rights to (mainly shows produced by DIC Entertainment, which was owned by Disney at the time the network was launched). For the first year of the channel's existence, a block of the programs seen on Toon Disney would air on Sunday evenings on the Disney Channel as a 'sneak preview' of the channel for interested subscribers.
In the 2000s, Toon Disney gained a variety of new programming expanding the vast collection of Disney animation. Many programs from Disney's One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids joined the lineup, mostly without the expense of other programs. Firefox browser for windows xp sp2. However, in 2004, with the addition of Jetix and reruns of animated programs from the main Disney Channel, many of the older programs on Toon Disney gradually vanished.
Like most other Disney-owned cable channels, starting in 2008, Toon Disney began airing in High-Definition (the only ones which didn't were ESPN Classic & SOAPnet). Toon Disney, at launch, was commercial-free until September 2000. This was when the network reached two years of 'critical mass' in subscribers of over 15 million.
Toon Jetix Games Disney Xd2008-2009: Replaced with Disney XD
On August 6, 2008, Disney-ABC Television Group announced they would rebrand Toon Disney in early 2009 as Disney XD, which would be aimed at kids from ages 6 and up. Toon Disney ceased broadcast on February 13, 2009 (two months and five days shy of eleven years since it first started broadcasting), and was rebranded as Disney XD. Toon Disney/Jetix ran a preview night starting at 7:00pm on Thursday, February 12, 2009, the day before the network launched, the preview night included more promos about the new Disney XD shows. The final program on the channel was The Incredible Hulk, as part of Jetix. The first program to air on Disney XD was Phineas and Ferb on February 13, 2009 at Midnight.
![]() Shows broadcast on Toon DisneyDisney animated and live-action shows
Jetix Animation Concepts
Jetix Europe
Free Online Toon Disney Jetix GamesDIC Entertainment shows
Other non-Disney shows
MoviesDisney animated and live-action movies
Other non-Disney movies
ProgrammingLive-action programming
Although the majority of the network's programming was animation, live-action programming had become a part of Toon Disney during the later half of its life. Live children were featured in bumpers aired from 1998 to 2002, and fan-made animations done in live-action were aired in these bumpers. The Jetix block aired the show Power Rangers. Toon Disney also began airing Muppet movies in 2004, including Muppets from Space (one of the few Muppet productions that was not included in Disney's acquisition of the franchise).
During the network's existence, Toon Disney aired the Disney Channel Original MoviesJett Jackson: The Movie and Up, Up, and Away, and the theatrical films Max Keeble's Big Move, Snow Dogs, and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Toon Disney contained more than 10 short segments includes video/slideshow format. The short series Check This Kid Out aired randomly during the commercial breaks between July 7, 2008 and February 13, 2009. On September 7, 2008, one of Disney's only live-action short films, Frankenweenie, aired on Toon Disney. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody aired on the network in late 2008, as well as the original movie Minutemen in 2009, but this was likely part of the transition to Disney XD as the announcement had already been made.
Programming blocks
Toon Disney frequently aired groups of series in blocks; over the course of Toon Disney's broadcast history, it had several programming blocks that featured at least two of their shows.
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Toon Disney Jetix GameGallery
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See alsoDiscussions about Toon DisneyJetix Shows
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