C'est désormais officiel, Disney Television va lancer une nouvelle chaîne pour les jeunes enfants du nom de Disney Junior. Voici le communiqué officiel :

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DISNEY/ABC TELEVISION GROUP ANNOUNCES DISNEY JUNIOR, A NEW 24-HOUR CHANNEL FOR PRESCHOOLERS AND THEIR FAMILIES Disney/ABC Television Group will launch Disney Junior, a new multiplatform brand and 24-hour basic cable/satellite channel and online site devoted to preschool-age children. Scheduled to debut in the U.S. in 2012, Disney Junior will invite mom and dad to join their child in the Disney experience of magical, musical and heartfelt stories and characters, both classic and new, while incorporating specific learning and development themes designed for kids age 2-7. The new Disney Junior brand will also provide affiliate partners with a robust Video-On-Demand offering, a High-definition network and a Spanish language SAP feed. Disney Junior's animated and live action programming will blend Disney's unparalleled storytelling and characters kids love deeply with learning, including early math, language skills, healthy eating and lifestyles, and social skills. The 24-hour Disney Junior schedule will include 200 new episodes annually of both new series, including "Jake and the Never Land Pirates," and current hits, including "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse," "Handy Manny," "Special Agent Oso," "Imagination Movers" and "Jungle Junction." Disney's vast array of classic and contemporary movies, including among others "101 Dalmatians," "Aladdin" and "Little Mermaid," will be showcased. In the U.S., the new Disney Junior channel will take the place of the SOAPnet channel, currently available in 75 million homes. Prior to the launch of the 24-hour channel, the Disney Junior brand will be introduced on Disney Channel's daily programming block for preschoolers (currently branded Playhouse Disney). Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney/ABC Television Group, said: "The launch of Disney Junior in the U.S. is the next step in our global preschool strategy, which began 10 years ago with the premiere of our first dedicated preschool channel in the UK. The decision to ultimately transition SOAPnet to accomplish this was not arrived at lightly. SOAPnet was created in 2000 to give daytime viewers the ability to watch time-shifted soaps, before multiplatform viewing and DVRs were part of our vocabulary. But today, as technology and our businesses evolve, it makes more sense to align this distribution with a preschool channel that builds on the core strengths of our company." Carolina Lightcap, president, Disney Channels Worldwide, said: "Around the world, our Disney-branded channels are burgeoning, distinguished by the special place Disney has in the hearts of kids -- who delight in our characters and stories -- and parents who trust our commitment to entertaining and helping their preschoolers, kids and tweens grow through engaging, relevant programming." She continued, "By adding a dedicated U.S. channel for preschoolers to our global portfolio, we look forward to enhancing that sense of magical storytelling and parental trust, and expanding our offerings, locally and globally, from morning to night, to deliver more Disney-quality content that will resonate with generations to come." Outside the U.S., the 22 Playhouse Disney channels and blocks, currently available in 29 languages in 156 countries/territories, reaching over 45 million households, will be rebranded Disney Junior beginning in 2011. Disney's flagship TV content provider, Disney Channel, is the leader in the Kid and Tween (age 6-14) demographic with hit series (including "Hannah Montana," "Phineas and Ferb" and "Wizards of Waverly Place"), and the gold-standard in original movies for kids and families (including "Camp Rock," "High School Musical"). In the U.S., across all basic cable, Disney Channel Original Movies have produced basic cable's #1 movie with Kids 6-11 and/or Tweens from 2002-09. For 2009, Disney Channel U.S. was TV's #1 network in Total Day among Tweens 9-14, recording its largest annual Total Viewer and Kid 6-11 audiences in the channel's history, and tied 2007 as its top-rated year in Tweens 9-14. Disney Channel was cable's #2 channel in primetime in Total Viewers, the fourth consecutive year it has ranked either #1 or #2 among all cable networks. Among its target demos, Disney Channel primetime was #1 for the seventh consecutive year among Kids 6-11 and for the ninth consecutive year among Tweens 9-14. Disney Channel's daily Playhouse Disney block delivered all-time highs in Total Viewers, Kids 2-5, Girls 2-5, Boys 2-5 and Women 18-49 for the year. Disney XD was introduced in February 2009 with a demographic target of Kids age 6-14, especially boys, and has 2010-to-date exceeded the year-ago equivalent period by 32% in Boys 6-14, by 30% in Boys 6-11 and by 34% in Boys 9-14. AboutDisney Channels Worldwide: Disney Channels Worldwide is a portfolio of Disney's successful and burgeoning global kids' TV business -- Disney Channel, Disney XD and Playhouse Disney channels and blocks (soon to be rebranded Disney Junior), which in total reach more than 600 million viewers in over 100 countries in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa. This month the Company announced it plans to launch Disney Channels in Russia and South Korea. Radio Disney Network, which has set the radio industry standard for kid and family content over the past decade, is also part of the portfolio. Disney Channels Worldwide is part of the Disney/ABC Television Group and Disney Media Networks, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

La bonne nouvelle (pour les bambins) c'est que cette nouvelle chaîne devrait arriver chez nous avant les US, courant 2011.

Pourquoi fair une nouvelle chaine en France alors qu'il ya deja Playhouse Disney
En Amerique je compren car eux ils n'ont pas Playhouse Disney (enfete Playhouse Disney est sur disney channel entre 12h et 13h je crois)

"A NEW 24-HOUR CHANNEL FOR PRESCHOOLERS AND THEIR FAMILIES"

Simplement car Playhouse Disney va être renommé en Disney Junior à partir de 2011...

A Ok merci

Je ne l'avais pas compris comme ça, j'ai renommé le topic.

Oh, mais ils sont pénibles à changer les noms de leur chaînes tout les 2 mois. On va encore devoir changer les logos et enseignent du parc après ça.

Ils le disent bien clairement :

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Outside the U.S., the 22 Playhouse Disney channels and blocks, currently available in 29 languages in 156 countries/territories, reaching over 45 million households, will be rebranded Disney Junior beginning in 2011.

Et du coup es qu'il va y avoir ce changement sur les DVD Playhouse Disney déjà sortie ? (Je parle du logo Playhouse Disney sur les compilations Mes Amis Tigrou & Winnie ou encore La Maison de Mickey ?).

Ou sinon j'aime pas trop ce nouveau nom, je préfère largement Playhouse Disney !

esse qu'il vont changer un petit peu les programe

Bonne nouvelle pour les États-Unis qu'ils créent enfin une chaîne pour les préscolaires. Disney Junior y remplacera la chaîne SOAPnet selon l'article.

En revanche, je trouvais le nom Playhouse Disney plus sympa pour les anglophones, Disney Junior étant cela dit plus compréhensible pour les autres pays comme la France, par exemple.

Ça me fait penser qu'on va sûrement avoir droit tôt ou tard aux Disney Junior Original Movies !

Et pour l'attraction des DHS, DCA et des WDS, Disney va t'il renommé Playhouse Disney Live on Stage! en Disney Junior Live on Stage!

Bah oui sûrement et pas qu'au Parc Walt Disney Studios mais aussi à Disney California Adventure et Disney's Holllywood Studios.

Personnellement, je n'aime pas le nom "Disney Junior", trop basique à mon goût. Et j'aime encore moins le logo, éspérons que celui présenté est provisoire !

Site officiel : http://disney.go.com/junior/pre/index.html

Le logo légèrement modifier :

Je préfèrais l'autre logo mais celui-ci n'est pas mal non plus...

Tant qu'ils ne nous la nomme pas Disney JD (Junior Digital) et qu'il ne font pas la même chose en nommant Disney Channel : Disney CD (Channel Digital) Histoire de rester raccord avec la thématique des noms en appliquant "Disney + deux lettres" à l'exemple de Disney XD tout va bien !

AU fait c'était quoi SOAPnet ?

Une chaîne appartenant à Disney et qui ne diffusait quasiment que des séries télé vieillissantes.
En savoir plus.

Je suis d'accord sur le fait de remplacer le nom Playhouse Disney par Disney Junior à l'international, mais de là à remplacer SOAPnet quand même...

Sinon le logo de cette nouvelle chaîne ne me plait pas.

Lancement prévu en Février 2011 au USA.