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Disney Junior

Disney Junior is an American pay television network owned by the Disney Entertainment unit of the Walt Disney Company through Disney Branded Television.[1] Aimed mainly at children two to seven years of age,[1] its programming consists of original first-run television series, films, and select other third-party programming.

This article is about the 24/7 American channel. For the American morning block on Disney Channel, see Disney Junior (programming block). For international versions, see List of Disney Junior TV channels.

Country

United States

Nationwide

Burbank, California, U.S.

English
Spanish (via SAP audio track)

HDTV 720p
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SD feed)

Disney Entertainment (The Walt Disney Company)

Disney Branded Television

List

March 23, 2012 (2012-03-23)

Soapnet

Watch live

www.disneynow.com

As of January 2016, the channel is available to 74 million households in the U.S.[2]

On March 26, 2012, Cox Communications announced that it would carry Disney Junior, as part of the provider's "Variety Pak" package.

On April 3, 2012, Disney–ABC Television Group announced that it had reached a distribution agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative to carry Disney Junior, which negotiates carriage deals on behalf of many of America's smaller cable providers.

[13]

added the network to the digital tier of its systems around May 26, 2012.

Cable One

On June 21, 2012, began carrying the network on its systems.

RCN

On July 13, 2012, announced that the Disney Junior network would be added to its lineup the following day on the 14th, a Saturday.[14] Industry observers questioned both the unexpected announcement and untraditional weekend launch of the network as being timed to a nine-day carriage dispute between DirecTV and Viacom and the loss of the Nick Jr. Channel four days previously as a result of the dispute.[15]

DirecTV

On December 31, 2012, (later purchasing Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks and becoming Spectrum) came to terms with Disney–ABC Television Group on a new wide-ranging multiple-year carriage agreement for ABC, all of the U.S.-based Disney Channels Worldwide and ESPN networks and ABC Family, which included the addition of Disney Junior to Charter systems throughout the first quarter of 2013.[16] The channel ended carriage on August 31, 2023 as Disney and Spectrum were in dispute for several days, before coming to agreement on September 11 to restore Disney's networks to their service while removing several others, including Disney Junior.[17][18][19]

Charter Communications

On January 15, 2013, also reached a deal with The Walt Disney Company on a new wide-ranging multi-year agreement to carry the Disney–ABC Television Group family of networks and ESPN, which included the addition of Disney Junior.[20]

AT&T U-verse

the last major television provider to have not signed a carriage deal for Disney Junior, added the channel on April 10, 2014; after a long period of acrimony and a six-month extension of their past carriage agreement with The Walt Disney Company for a few select networks (some of which were not available in HD, partly as a result of a 2011 dispute with the company), Dish and Disney came to full terms on carrying all of Disney-ABC's networks in both standard and high definition on March 3, 2014, with the resolution of legal issues involving Dish's Hopper DVR system, which also included streaming rights for the networks as part of Dish's IPTV streaming service Sling TV.[21]

Dish Network

Official website

Archived January 4, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

Disney Junior Press