Old International Fox Kids/Jetix Channels Memorial Thread

[RegularCapital]

While it's perfectly normal to see a Turkish test card in Türkiye, I think it's absurd to see it in other countries. I think it could have been a screen with the Jetix Play logo directly on it. Also, does the presence of this Turkish graphics card mean that Jetix Play's broadcast center is Türkiye, and do the countries with Jetix Play receive broadcasts from Türkiye? (Apart from its headquarters being in the UK)

The Ofcom broadcast licence was called "Jetix Play Turkey", so I guess this was the master feed and the main target country which the other providers redistributed (with their chosen audio tracks) in Eastern Europe.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080728153621/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/main.htm

Licence Details for Jetix Play Turkey

 

[Two Two's]

The Ofcom broadcast licence was called "Jetix Play Turkey", so I guess this was the master feed and the main target country which the other providers redistributed (with their chosen audio tracks) in Eastern Europe.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080728153621/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs/main.htm

Licence Details for Jetix Play Turkey

This is one of those situations where I think if they decided to make sub-feeds, the closedown would of been more widely understood.

Starting from November 2008, Fun Channel would repeat Jetix Play programmes after 22:45PM

 

[TVArchive]

Fox Kids Play already existed in 2002? I just started looking at a Google Groups forum, which has a message archive starting from 1981

canal gratuit en novembre ?

groups.google.com

 

[RandomMe]

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Fox Kids Play already existed in 2002? I just started looking at a Google Groups forum, which has a message archive starting from 1981

canal gratuit en novembre ?

groups.google.com

It seems that the channel started as a by-product of Disney buying that back catalog

 

[Two Two's]

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Fox Kids Play already existed in 2002? I just started looking at a Google Groups forum, which has a message archive starting from 1981

canal gratuit en novembre ?

groups.google.com

On-Demand service in France

 

[Francisque]

On-Demand service in France

Indeed, nothing to do with an actual channel: I remember it quite well back in the days

If I don't get wrong, Fox Kids Play was also an interactive service in the UK

Fox Kids Play already existed in 2002? I just started looking at a Google Groups forum, which has a message archive starting from 1981

canal gratuit en novembre ?

groups.google.com

OT: people have always typed without "spelling awareness", but back then it was atrocious
Especially for a language like French

 

[RegularCapital]

Indeed, nothing to do with an actual channel: I remember it quite well back in the days

If I don't get wrong, Fox Kids Play was also an interactive service in the UK

Yes, Fox Kids Play launched as an interactive service on the short-lived and forgotten Brightblue interactive service (to rival Sky Active) in October 2001, later relaunched on PlayJam and became available on Two Way TV on NTL, and also via Telewest.

As @JulianRO, mentioned, in the UK, Fox Kids Play was an interactive service and not a channel, it was first available via Energis's Brightblue, a shortlived third-party interactive service available on Sky (as the company went bankrupt), later on PlayJam, available on Two Way TV on NTL, and directly through Telewest's service. In terms of extra channels, UK and Ireland had a one-hour timeshift, and that was it.

Bright Blue Launch - now October

According to Mediabullet, BrightBlue will be launching in October (not this month.

forums.digitalspy.com

Fox Kids goes interactive on Telewest

'Fox Kids Play' launches on Telewest's digital cable service, adding enhanced interactive functions.

www.digitalspy.com

Fox Kids Europe launches interactive games on Sky

LONDON - Fox Kids Europe is to launch four of its interactive games on the PlayJam channel on Sky Active in April taking its reach to more than 8m households in the UK.

www.campaignlive.co.uk

Fox Kids Europe blurs the line between on-screen and on-line

As interactive digital TV continues its push into European households, kid-centric networks are adopting new competitive strategies in an increasingly tight marketplace. Fox Kids Europe is hoping that melding its web and TV divisions will give it an edge. In July, the company relaunched its...

kidscreen.com

 

[Two Two's]

Considering Fox Kids UK took a sharp turn after 2003, I think Fox Kids Play was needed, even if it was just legacy shows

 

[Francisque]

Considering Fox Kids UK took a sharp turn after 2003, I think Fox Kids Play was needed, even if it was just legacy shows

Fox Kids Play (CEE) IMO was, at the end of the day, just a cheap reopeat channel, IMO
Clearly destined to become something else, with time

Clearly FK alone in the UK didn't rate well enough to justify launching a secondary channel

 

[Two Two's]

Fox Kids Play (CEE) IMO was, at the end of the day, just a cheap reopeat channel, IMO
Clearly destined to become something else, with time

Clearly FK alone in the UK didn't rate well enough to justify launching a secondary channel

While yes, it was just a cheap channel for Fox Kids Europe to open the floodgates of unwanted shows on Fox Kids Pan-Europe (when it was being split into CEE/Turkey & MENA.)

I do agree with your point but the main reason they were suffering was because most of their lineup was action, barely any comedies, because those shows were gone off the network

 

[RegularCapital]

Fox Kids Play launched in Eastern Europe as Fox Kids established themselves there early and localised before anyone else did, also a lot of Fox Kids Play programming is old (1980's to Early 1990's), shows that wouldn't have not been shown behind the Iron Curtain or at least couldn't be easily viewed.

The channel wouldn't have worked in the UK, there were already pre-school channels and POP soon launched (which originally aired older archive kids shows on the cheap when it first launched which was also FTA), we had a one-hour timeshift instead.

 

[RandomMe]

 

[Two Two's]

Fox Kids Play launched in Eastern Europe as Fox Kids established themselves there early and localised before anyone else did, also a lot of Fox Kids Play programming is old (1980's to Early 1990's), shows that wouldn't have not been shown behind the Iron Curtain or at least couldn't be easily viewed.

The channel wouldn't have worked in the UK, there were already pre-school channels and POP soon launched (which originally aired older archive kids shows on the cheap when it first launched which was also FTA), we had a one-hour timeshift instead.

Definitely, I think the UK feed of FK ATLEAST could of been more comedy-centric like they were prior to 2003. Look at how successful alot of the comedy stuff was earlier on

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Jetix on Fox Kids UK continuity from November 2004.

 

[Francisque]

Jetix on Fox Kids always looked like a very temporary solution (which it was): it would have been better for them to just rebrand to Jetix full stop, without a transition

 

[RegularCapital]

Jetix on Fox Kids always looked like a very temporary solution (which it was): it would have been better for them to just rebrand to Jetix full stop, without a transition

I guess it was just to get viewers more familiar with the Jetix brand name in a transition period (also to handle merchandising, Fox Kids/Jetix magazine, Fox Kids/Jetix Cup), from what I remember from the pre-rebrand blocks, the Fox Kids branding was sidelined and the Fox Kids DOG/Bug was whitewashed during primetime. I don't think Disney even realised how long Jetix would last, the same with Fox Kids, it took them a good three years to decide what to do with it in the first place.

 

[RandomMe]

I guess it was just to get viewers more familiar with the Jetix brand name in a transition period (also to handle merchandising, Fox Kids/Jetix magazine, Fox Kids/Jetix Cup), from what I remember from the pre-rebrand blocks, the Fox Kids branding was sidelined and the Fox Kids DOG/Bug was whitewashed during primetime. I don't think Disney even realised how long Jetix would last, the same with Fox Kids, it took them a good three years to decide what to do with it in the first place.

In Latin America there was no transitional phase. Jetix came when it came, because of the August 2004 launch.

 

[RegularCapital]

In Latin America there was no transitional phase. Jetix came when it came, because of the August 2004 launch.

They're more inline with the U.S. in their decisions, and was 100% owned by Disney.

 

[Two Two's]

I guess it was just to get viewers more familiar with the Jetix brand name in a transition period (also to handle merchandising, Fox Kids/Jetix magazine, Fox Kids/Jetix Cup), from what I remember from the pre-rebrand blocks, the Fox Kids branding was sidelined and the Fox Kids DOG/Bug was whitewashed during primetime. I don't think Disney even realised how long Jetix would last, the same with Fox Kids, it took them a good three years to decide what to do with it in the first place.

Yeah, what I noticed about alot of 2001-2002 FK UK schedules is that it was just repeats and new acquired low cost pickups such as Totally Spies and The New Adventures of Lucky Luke. And yeah, during nighttime hours they did go back to the former screenbug, the branding they used for about those like couple of months of FK was reused on Jetix Max internationally.

Jetix on Fox Kids always looked like a very temporary solution (which it was): it would have been better for them to just rebrand to Jetix full stop, without a transition

For what it is, Jetix on Fox Kids did get viewers used to the new look. I mean... it was the same shows!

 

[Two Two's]

As we know, most of you what you saw on International Fox Kids/Jetix was Fox Family shows. What I found very peculiar in the case of Fox Kids UK is how immediate the removal of shows were. Sure they brought back Ace Ventura and What's with Andy later on. But I feel like with this weird removal of shows to focus on action, there was an audience gap. This audience gap of not airing comedies in my opinion is the reason the ratings dropped hard for Fox Kids and later Jetix.