Disney Cinemagic


Disney Cinemagic was a European pay television network owned by Walt Disney Company Limited plus two programming blocks by Disney Channels Worldwide. It used to be broadcast on most countries in Western Europe; currently, formerly-branded Disney Cinemagic channels in France and the United Kingdom and Ireland are run by third parties which primarily airs films by the Walt Disney Studios.

History

Disney Cinemagic was launched in the UK and Ireland on 16 March 2006 on BSkyB's premium package. In November 2007, the France market version of Disney Cinemagic was launched.
On 30 November 2008 at 8:30 PM, Disney Cinemagic HD debuted in France broadcasting on CANALSAT from 6am to 1am daily making the channel the first "children and family HDTV channel in a French market". In December 2008, Cinemagic HD channel was launched in the UK with programming in high definition with initial availability through Sky+ HD with a Sky Movies subscription.
In 1 of October 2008 Disney Cinemagic Portugal was launched and in 1 January 2009 it launched an HD channel being the first and only Kids channel in Portugal to have an HD feed.
On 1 November 2012, Disney Cinemagic Portugal was replaced by Disney Junior, while its HD feed was rebranded as Disney Movies on Demand.
On 28 March 2013, Cinemagic was replaced in the UK with Sky Movies Disney, a BSkyB premium channel, as part of a deal between BSkyB and Disney which allowed Sky UK to stream Disney movies on Sky's video on demand services. In a similar move in Australia, Foxtel has launched Foxtel Movies Disney on 10 April 2014, along with Disney XD.
Disney Cinemagic in Spain closed on, despite protest on Twitter to save the channel. Disney Cinemagic in France was replaced by Disney Cinema in. Sky rebranded its Sky Movies channels to Sky Cinema, including its Disney channel, on 8 July 2016. Duplicating the Sky Movies Disney arrangement in the UK, Movistar+ launched Movistar Disney on 22 December 2017.
Disney Cinemagic along with all other international Disney Channels were transferred from Disney–ABC Television Group, half of Disney Media Networks segment, to Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International segment on 14 March 2018.
The final Disney Cinemagic channel, the Germany version, was replaced with Sky Cinema Special on 30 September 2019, thus bringing an end to the Cinemagic brand after 13 years. The first movie on Sky Cinema Special in Germany was The Greatest Showman at 12AM CET on October 1, 2019.

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