ABC Family aired Jetix on weekdays from 7am to 9am and weekends 7am to 12 noon ET/PT. On Valentine's Day 2004, Toon Disney and ABC Family launched Jetix with Jetix Cards Live, the world's first concurrently online and telecast trading card game. Bruce Steinberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Kids Europe, explain that Jetix would help strengthen Fox Kids Europe's partnership with Disney while building new alliances to continue to successfully leverage its programming library and distribution. Many of the children picked the name as it implied action and adventure, and the company was able to use the name internationally due to its ambiguity. The Jetix name was chosen after the company conducted international research specifically with a number of children's focus groups. After the end of Fox Kids in the US, much of the content previously aired on the block migrated to ABC Family and Toon Disney the international Fox Kids networks kept operating despite their US forerunner becoming defunct. The Jetix name was applied to its programming blocks which aired on ABC Family and Toon Disney, its television channels in Europe and Latin America, along with its programme library and merchandising. In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, Fox Kids Latin America and ABC Cable Networks Group agreed to rename its then current operations under a single brand, called Jetix, which helped strengthen its then operations into a single force. History The development of the Jetix brand and launch in the United States 1.2 International expansion and transition of the Fox Kids brand into Jetix.1.1 The development of the Jetix brand and launch in the United States.Īlthough it had a large commercial success, the Jetix brand, alongside Toon Disney, were later discontinued and both rebranded as Disney XD or Disney Channel in certain countries, after The Walt Disney Company increased their ownership in Jetix Europe, and in accordance with the company's focus on its Disney, ABC, and ESPN brands.Īfter the shutdown of the very last Jetix channel, which was the Russian version (which was replaced with Disney Channel Russia) on August 10, 2010, and with the shutdown of Jetix Play in Romania, on March 12, 2011, the Jetix brand officially went extinct. By the end of 2004, Jetix started to completely replace the international Fox Kids channels around the world, the first ever Fox Kids channel to be entirely replaced by Jetix being the French version in August 2004, and the last one being the German version, in June 2005. Jetix was firstly launched as a programming block in the United States on Toon Disney on 14th of February, 2004, and in Europe in April 2004. In addition, the CEE and MENA regions had an second channel called Jetix Play, which mainly aired programming from the Saban Entertainment library, which was also incorporated in Jetix. In most countries, Jetix was available as a 24-hour television channel which replaced Fox Kids, while in Europe its availability ranged from 8 to 17 hours per day, depending on the region. Jetix (stylized as JETIX) was a worldwide children's entertainment brand owned by The Walt Disney Company, mainly used for a slate of international programming blocks and television channels that aired action and adventure-related programming. Jetix Play (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, North Africa)ġ4 February 2004 17 years ago ( ) (as a programming block)Īugust 2004 17 years ago ( 2004-08) (as a channel)ġ3 February 2009 12 years ago ( ) (programming block in the US)ġ0 August 2010 11 years ago ( ) (as channel)ġ2 March 2011 10 years ago ( ) (as Jetix Play)."Some soldiers looked young, maybe 17 or 18, but some were really old. "They were tied up, beaten with stones and rifle butts and tortured all day," the survivor said. They asked the women, 'Are your husbands among them? If they are, do your last rites'."Ī man who managed to escape the killings said that soldiers inflicted horrifying abuse on the men for hours before they died. "We couldn't stand to watch it so we kept our heads down, crying," said one woman, whose brother, nephew and brother-in-law were killed. Witnesses in Yin, who were not named by the BBC, said the men were tied up with ropes and beaten before they were killed. The highest number of killings took place in Yin village, where at least 14 men were tortured or beaten to death and their bodies thrown in a forested gully. The BBC spoke to 11 witnesses in Kani and compared their accounts with mobile phone footage and photographs collected by Myanmar Witness, a UK-based NGO that investigates human rights abuses in the country.