History Creator / JetixEurope

* ''Manga/ShamanKing'' (Licensed from Creator/TVTokyo)

The company got its start in 1995 when the Fox Broadcasting Company and Creator/SabanEntertainment announced a partnership in September to launch Creator/FoxKids networks outside North America. In October 1996, the first international Fox Kids network launched in the United Kingdom, being the third network to launch outside North America after the Australian[[note]]This version was fully owned by Foxtel, and was not included in the Disney sale[[/note]] and Latin American[[note]]This was fully owned by Fox (in partnership with Saban), although it went to Disney as well[[/note]] feeds.

The rebranding proved to be a success and allowed Jetix Europe to commission more original series. Alongside this, Jetix Italia launched an additional sister network - GXT, in May 2005, which aired programs aimed towards a teenage audience. The company also operated K-2, a syndicated block that replaced the Fox Kids branded block in that country, which would convert into an FTA channel in 2009.

Then, the association began a step forward, following the announcement of Creator/DisneyXD in August 2008 (which would launch in the United States in February 2009), as in December 2008, Disney announced they would officially acquire the rest of Jetix Europe that they didn't own, taking it off the Dutch Euronext, and 100% owning the company. The purchase was so the Jetix networks would be officially under the Disney umbrella, and in order to rebrand them under the Disney XD banner. As with Jetix, the Disney XD rebranding was done in phases, beginning with France in April 2009, and ended with the Netherlands in January 2010. However, the CEE and Israel feeds were instead rebranded as Disney Channel, as the brand had not yet been offered up in those territories. The Russian feed on the other hand, split away from the CEE feed and remained as Jetix until permission was granted by Russian authorities to rebrand it as a standalone Russian version of Disney Channel in August 2010, followed by a wide FTA launch in that region the following year. The Jetix Play networks soon followed suit, being closed between August-September 2010, and replaced with standalone Playhouse Disney channels. This brought an end to the Jetix brand worldwide.

Meanwhile, Saban and Fox decided to fully turn Fox Kids into a joint venture between both companies, forming Fox Kids Worldwide to help control distribution and management for the Fox Kids and Saban programs. Eventually, it rebranded as Fox Family Worldwide after the purchase of International Family Entertainment (which owned [[Creator/{{Freeform}} The Family Channel]]). Meanwhile for the international joint-venture, within the course of seven years, there were seven Fox Kids networks across the world. In November 1999, Fox Family Worldwide spun off the EMEA networks as a separately-operated public company based in the Netherlands, named '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.'''. FFW owned 74.7% of the business while the rest of the ownership was floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (later known as Euronext Amsterdam). Fox Kids Europe held all rights to the Fox Kids and Saban catalogue in Europe, Israel, and MENA, while Saban International handled television distribution services. Saban Entertainment itself retained the remaining rights to the library outside these regions and distributed FKE's own content elsewhere. Their licensing was done through co-owner Saban's UK Consumer Products division, which itself was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE.

In July 2001, the Creator/{{Disney}} purchase of Fox Family Worldwide included Fox Kids Europe, with Disney deciding what to do with the company. Disney initially had plans to rebrand the channels under the Toon Disney brand but decided against the idea. Meanwhile, [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]] allowed FKE to remain trading under the name under a non-term no-cost licensing agreement. By the end of 2001, FKE operated over 13 different networks across 54 countries and 16 languages.

Then, the association began a step forward, following the announcement of Creator/DisneyXD in August 2008 (which would launch in the United States in February 2009), as in December 2008, Disney announced they would officially acquire the rest of Jetix Europe that they didn't own, taking it off the Dutch Euronext, and 100% owning the company. The purchase was so the Jetix networks would be officially under the Disney umbrella, and in order to rebrand them under the Disney XD banner. As with Jetix, the Disney XD rebranding was done in phases, beginning with France in April 2009, and ended with the Netherlands in January 2010. However, the CEE and Israel feeds were instead rebranded as Disney Channel, as the brand had not yet been offered up in those territories. The Russian feed on the other hand, split away from the CEE feed and remained as Jetix until permission was granted by Russian authorities was to rebrand it as a standalone Russian version of Disney Channel in August 2010. The Jetix Play networks soon followed suit, being closed between August-September 2010, and replaced with standalone Playhouse Disney channels. This brought an end to the Jetix brand worldwide.

!!Programs aired on Jetix channels internationally:

! Original programmes:

! Disney Licensed programmes:

! Non-Disney Licensed programmes:

Meanwhile, Saban and Fox decided to fully turn Fox Kids into a joint venture between both companies, forming Fox Kids Worldwide to help control distribution and management for the Fox Kids and Saban programs. Eventually, it rebranded as Fox Family Worldwide after the purchase of International Family Entertainment (which owned [[Creator/Freeform The Family Channel]]). Meanwhile for the international joint-venture, within the course of seven years, there were seven Fox Kids networks across the world. In November 1999, Fox Family Worldwide spun off the EMEA networks as a separately-operated public company based in the Netherlands, named '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.'''. FFW owned 74.7% of the business while the rest of the ownership was floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (later known as Euronext Amsterdam). Fox Kids Europe held all rights to the Fox Kids and Saban catalogue in Europe, Israel, and MENA, while Saban International handled television distribution services. Saban Entertainment itself retained the remaining rights to the library outside these regions and distributed FKE's own content elsewhere. Their licensing was done through co-owner Saban's UK Consumer Products division, which itself was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE.

Meanwhile, Saban and Fox decided to fully turn Fox Kids into a joint venture between both companies, forming Fox Kids Worldwide to help control distribution and management for the Fox Kids and Saban programs. Eventually, it rebranded as Fox Family Worldwide after the purchase of International Family Entertainment (which owned [{Creator/Freeform The Family Channel]]). Meanwhile for the international joint-venture, within the course of seven years, there were seven Fox Kids networks across the world. In November 1999, Fox Family Worldwide spun off the EMEA networks as a separately-operated public company based in the Netherlands, named '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.'''. FFW owned 74.7% of the business while the rest of the ownership was floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (later known as Euronext Amsterdam). Fox Kids Europe held all rights to the Fox Kids and Saban catalogue in Europe, Israel, and MENA, while Saban International handled television distribution services. Saban Entertainment itself retained the remaining rights to the library outside these regions and distributed FKE's own content elsewhere. Their licensing was done through co-owner Saban's UK Consumer Products division, which itself was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE.

'''Jetix Europe N.V.''' was a publicly-traded children's media company based in the Netherlands that operated channels branded under the "Jetix" name in Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Israel. The company also operated consumer products globally outside North America.

The company got its start in 1995 when the Fox Broadcasting Company and Creator/SabanEntertainment announced a partnership in September to launch Creator/FoxKids networks outside North America. In October 1996, the first international Fox Kids network launched in the United Kingdom, being the third network to launch outside North America after the Australian[[note]]This version was fully owned by Foxtel, and was not included in the Disney sale[[/note]] and Latin American[[note]]This was fully owned by Fox, although it went to The Walt Disney Company as well[[/note]] feeds.

Meanwhile, Saban and Fox decided to fully turn Fox Kids into a joint venture between both companies, forming Fox Kids Worldwide to help control distribution and management for the Fox Kids and Saban programmes. Eventually, it rebranded as Fox Family Worldwide after the purchase of International Family Entertainment. Meanwhile for the international joint-venture, within the course of seven years, there were seven Fox Kids networks across the world. In November 1999, Fox Family Worldwide spun off the international networks as a separately-operated public company based in the Netherlands, named '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.'''. FFW owned 74.7% of the business while the rest of the ownership was held on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (later known as Euronext Amsterdam). Fox Kids Europe held all rights to the Fox Kids and Saban catalogue in Europe, Israel, and MENA, while Saban International handled television distribution services. Saban Entertainment itself retained the remaining rights to the library outside these regions and distributed FKE's own content elsewhere. Their licensing was done through co-owner Saban's UK Consumer Products division, which itself was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE.

In July 2001, the Creator/{{Disney}} purchase of Fox Family Worldwide included Fox Kids Europe, with Disney deciding what to do with the company. Disney initially had plans to rebrand the channels under the Toon Disney brand but decided against the idea. Meanwhile, [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]] allowed Fox Kids Europe to remain trading under the name under a non-term no-cost licensing agreement. By the end of 2001, Fox Kids Europe operated over 13 different networks across 54 countries and 16 languages.

In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, ABC Family Worldwide and the management of Fox Kids Latin America announced a three-way brand partnership; '''Jetix'''. This new brand would consist of branded blocks and channels, with Fox Kids Europe securing rights in Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Israel. The company also teamed up with Walt Disney Television Animation to form Jetix Animation Concepts, which would consist of Disney-produced cartoons that would air on the Jetix networks and blocks.

The start of transition began with a Jetix-branded block that aired on Fox Kids, and mainly broadcast new programmes and acquisitions. In May 2004, Active Licensing Europe was rebranded as Jetix Consumer Products (JCP) and soon Fox Kids Europe followed suit in July, rebranding as '''Jetix Europe N.V.'''. Then, the Fox Kids networks transitioned fully to the Jetix brand in a planned phase, beginning with France at the end of August 2004, and ending with Germany in June 2005. Fox Kids Play was rebranded to Jetix Play within the same time.

The rebranding proven to be a success and allowed Jetix Europe to commission more original series. Alongside this, Jetix Italia launched an additional sister network - GXT, in May 2005, which aired programmes aimed towards a teenage audience. The company also operated K-2, a syndicated block which replaced the Fox Kids branded block in the country.

As the years progressed, Jetix Europe began a larger partnership and association with it's majority parent Disney. One example of this was in June 2008, when Jetix Europe transitioned the operations of Jetix France over to Disney France, putting the channel in line with it's own networks. Jetix networks also began airing Disney-branded blocks that aired programmes from Disney Channel, mainly in areas where the respective network was not offered up. Disney soon took over distribution sales for all Jetix Europe-owned networks within this year as well.


Then, the association began a step forward, following the announcement of Creator/DisneyXD in August 2008 (which would launch in the United States in February 2009), as in December 2008, Disney announced they would officially acquire the rest of Jetix Europe that they didn't own, taking it off the Dutch Euronext, and 100% owning the company. The purchase was so the Jetix networks would be officially under the Disney umbrella, and in order to rebrand them under the Disney XD banner. As with Jetix, the Disney XD rebranding was done in phases, beginning with France in April 2009, and ended with the Netherlands in January 2010. However, the CEE and Israel feeds were instead rebranded as Creator/DisneyChannel, as the brand had not yet been offered up in those territories. The Russian feed on the other hand, split away from the CEE feed and remained as Jetix until permission was granted to rebrand it as a standalone Russian version of Disney Channel in August 2010. The Jetix Play networks soon followed suit, being closed between August-September 2010, and replaced with standalone Playhouse Disney channels. This brought an end to the Jetix brand worldwide.

Meanwhile, Saban and Fox decided to fully turn Fox Kids into a joint-venture between both companies, forming Fox Kids Worldwide to help control distribution and management for the Fox Kids and Saban programmes. Eventually rebranding as Fox Family Worldwide after the purchase of International Family Entertainment. Meanwhile for the international joint-venture, within the course of seven years there were seven Fox Kids networks across the world. In November 1999, Fox Family Worldwide decided to spin-off the international networks as a separately-operating public company based in the Netherlands, named '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.''' FFW owned 74.7% in the business while the rest of the ownership held on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (later known as Euronext Amsterdam). Fox Kids Europe held all rights to the Fox Kids and Saban catalogue in Europe, Israel and MENA, while Saban International handled television distribution services. Saban Entertainment itself retained the remaining rights to the library outside these regions and distributed FKE's own content elsewhere. Their licensing was done through co-owner Saban's UK Consumer Products division, which itself was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE.

The start of transition began with a Jetix-branded block that aired on Fox Kids, and mainly broadcast new programmes and acquisitions. In May 2004, Active Licensing Europe was rebranded as Jetix Consumer Products (JCP) and soon Fox Kids Europe followed suit in July, rebranding as Jetix Europe. Then, the Fox Kids networks transitioned fully to the Jetix brand in a planned phase, beginning with France at the end of August 2004, and ending with Germany in June 2005. Fox Kids Play was rebranded to Jetix Play within the same time.

Then, the association began a step forward, following the announcement of Creator/DisneyXD in August 2008 (which would launch in the United States in February 2009), as in December 2008, Disney announced they would officially acquire the rest of Jetix Europe that they didn't own, taking it off the Dutch Euronext, and 100% owning the company. The purchase was so the Jetix networks would be officially under the Disney umbrella, and in order to rebrand them under the Disney XD banner. As with Jetix, the Disney XD rebranding was done in phases, beginning with France in April 2009, and ended with the Netherlands in January 2010. However, the CEE and Israel feeds were instead rebranded as Creator/DisneyChannel, as the brand had not yet been offered up in those territories. The Russian feed on the other hand, split away from the CEE feed and remained as Jetix until permission was granted to rebrand it as a standalone Russian version of Disney Channel in August 2010. The Jetix Play networks soon followed suit, being closed between August-September 2010, and replaced with standalone Playhouse Disney channels.

This plan was made for Disney to introduce their then-new brand overseas, or Creator/DisneyChannel in areas that didn't offer it. This brought an end to the Jetix brand worldwide. The ownership of the majority of

In July 2001, the Creator/{{Disney}} purchase of Fox Family Worldwide included Fox Kids Europe, with Disney deciding what to do with the company. Disney initially had plans to rebrand the channels under the Toon Disney brand but decided against the idea. Meanwhile, [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]] allowed Fox Kids Europe to remain trading under the name under a non-term no-cost licensing agreement.

On May 1, 2002, Saban's television distribution arms were folded into Buena Vista Television, and with that, Buena Vista International Television took over TV distribution servicing. The following year, Saban Consumer Products Europe was rebranded as Active Licensing Europe. By then, Fox Kids Europe began a process of acquiring distribution rights to a number of action-focused programmes from third-party companies, most famously ''Anime/SonicX'', for the Fox Kids networks. This was the start of a major change for the networks.


In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, ABC Family Worldwide and the Latin American Fox Kids channel introduced the '''Jetix''' brand, which would be the new name for all the Fox Kids networks worldwide. Fox Kids Europe was renamed Jetix Europe in July 2004, with the consumer products division following suit, rebranding as Jetix Consumer Products (JCP). By then, this division took over its own licensing from Disney, including home video.

In December 2008, Disney announced they would officially acquire the rest of Jetix Europe that they didn't own, taking it off the Dutch Euronext, and 100% owning the company. This plan was made for Disney to introduce their then-new Creator/DisneyXD brand overseas, or Creator/DisneyChannel in areas that didn't offer it. This brought an end to the Jetix brand worldwide. The ownership of the majority of co-produced programmes or licensing have gone back to their original owners.

'''Jetix Europe N.V.''' was a publicly-traded children's media company based in the Netherlands that operated channels branded under the "Jetix" name in Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Israel.

The company was first formed as '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.''' in 1999 to help control the ever-expanding Creator/FoxKids networks. It was 74.7% owned by Fox Family Worldwide, with the rest of the ownership held on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (later known as Euronext Amsterdam). Their licensing was done through co-owner Creator/SabanEntertainment's UK Consumer Products division (Which was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE) and it held all rights to the Fox Kids library in Europe, Israel and MENA. Saban retained the remaining rights to the library in other regions (as well as distributing FKE's own content outside Europe and MENA), as well as distributing FKE's content to terrestrial networks in Europe and MENA.

The company remained as it was after Disney purchased Fox Family Worldwide in 2001. Disney initially had plans to rebrand the channels under the Toon Disney brand but decided against it, and [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]] allowed Fox Kids Europe to remain trading under the name under a non-term no-cost licensing agreement. On May 1, 2002, as a consequence of Saban International being folded into Disney's Buena Vista International, the latter took over the former's distribution rights to FKE library.

In 2003, Saban Consumer Products Europe was renamed Active Licensing Europe.

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The company was first formed as '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.''' in 1999 to help control the ever-expanding Fox Kids networks. It was 74.7% owned by Fox Family Worldwide, with the rest of the ownership held on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (later known as Euronext Amsterdam). Their licensing was done through co-owner Creator/SabanEntertainment's UK Consumer Products division (Which was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE) and it held all rights to the Fox Kids library in Europe, Israel and MENA. Saban retained the remaining rights to the library in other regions (as well as distributing FKE's own content outside Europe and MENA), as well as distributing FKE's content to terrestrial networks in Europe and MENA.

The company remained as it was after Disney purchased Fox Family Worldwide in 2001. Disney initially had plans to rebrand the channels under the Toon Disney brand but decided against it, and 20th Century Fox allowed Fox Kids Europe to remain trading under the name under a non-term no-cost licensing agreement. On May 1, 2002, as a consequence of Saban International being folded into Disney's Buena Vista International, the latter took over the former's distribution rights to FKE library.

* ''Anime/SonicX'' (Licensed from Creator/TMSEntertainment)

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (Co-funded production for Disney-era seasons, Home Video rights in some Non-English territories, North American/British/Australian/Latin American home video rights, and all consumer product rights held by Disney/Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

* ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat'' (2008-2010, Series 1, co-produced with Creator/StudioBProductions)

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (Co-funded production for Disney-era seasons, Home Video rights in some Non-English territories, North American/British/Australian/South American home video rights, and all consumer product rights held by Disney/Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

* ''WesternAnimation/UrbanVermin'' (Licensed from [[Creator/WildBrain DHX Media]], excluding France)

The company was first formed as '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.''' in 1999 to help control the ever-expanding Fox Kids networks. It was 74.7% owned by Fox Family Worldwide, with the rest of the ownership held on the Dutch Euronext. Their licensing was done through co-owner Creator/SabanEntertainment's UK Consumer Products division (Which was soon reconsolidated at the end of 2000 as a subsidiary of FKE) and it held all rights to the Fox Kids library in Europe, Israel and MENA. Saban retained the remaining rights to the library in other regions (as well as distributing FKE's own content outside Europe and MENA), as well as distributing FKE's content to terrestrial networks in Europe and MENA.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ShurikenSchool'' (2006-2007, co-produced with Creator/Xilam and Zinkia Entertainment)

The company was first formed as '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.''' in 1999 to help control the ever-expanding Fox Kids networks. It was 74.7% owned by Fox Family Worldwide, with the rest of the ownership held on the Dutch Euronext. Their licensing was done through co-owner Creator/SabanEntertainment's UK Consumer Products division and it held all rights to the Fox Kids library in Europe, Israel and MENA. Saban retained remaining rights to the library in all media (as well as distributed FKE's own content outside Europe and MENA), as well as distributed FKE's content to terrestrial networks in Europe and MENA).

The company remained as it was after Disney purchased Fox Family Worldwide in 2001. By then, Saban's European consumer products division went under Fox Kids Europe and was renamed Active Licensing in 2003. On May 1, 2002, as a consequence of Saban International being folded into Disney's Buena Vista International, the latter took over the former's distribution rights to FKE library.

In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, ABC Family Worldwide and the Latin American Fox Kids channel introduced the '''Jetix''' brand, which would be the new name for all the Fox Kids networks worldwide. Fox Kids Europe was renamed Jetix Europe in July 2004, with the consumer products division following suit, rebranding as Jetix Consumer Products (JCP). By then, this division took over their own licensing from Disney, including home video.

The company was first formed as '''Fox Kids Europe N.V.''' in 1999 to help control the ever-expanding Fox Kids networks. It was 74.7% owned by Fox Family Worldwide, with the rest of the ownership held on the Dutch Euronext. Their licensing was done through co-owner Creator/SabanEntertainment's UK Consumer Products division and it held all rights to the Fox Kids library outside North America.

The company remained as it was after Disney purchased Fox Family Worldwide in 2001. By then, Saban's European consumer products division went under Fox Kids Europe and was renamed Active Licensing in 2003.

In December 2008, Disney announced they would officially acquire the rest of Jetix Europe that they didn't own, taking it off the Dutch Euronext, and 100% owning the company. This plan was made for Disney to introduce their then-new Creator/DisneyXD brand overseas, or Creator/DisneyChannel in areas that didn't offer it. This brought an end to the Jetix brand worldwide. The ownership of the co-produced programmes or licensing have gone back to their original owners.

* ''WesternAnimation/RoboRoach'' (Licensed from Creator/PortfolioEntertainment)

! Licensed programmes:

* ''WesternAnimation/Roboroach'' (Licensed from Creator/PortfolioEntertainment)