Disney Channel (Spain)

Disney Channel (Spain)

Country	Spain
Broadcast area	Spain Andorra
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom (formerly) Calle de José Bardasano Baos, Madrid, Spain (current)
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish (dubbing/subtitles) English
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	The Walt Disney Company Iberia S.L. Disney Branded Television (Disney Entertainment)
Sister channels	Disney Jr.
History
Launched	17 April 1998; 26 years ago (1998-04-17) (pay television) 1 July 2008; 16 years ago (2008-07-01) (terrestrial television)
Replaced	Fly Music (on DTT)
Closed	7 January 2025; 8 days ago (2025-01-07)[1]
Replaced by	Squirrel (on DTT)
Links
Website	tv.disney.es
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	Channel 23 (Madrid, HD)

Disney Channel was a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Iberia and a localized version of the original U.S. subscription channel of the same name.

It was launched on 17 April 1998 as a pay television channel, aimed for children to teenagers. In 2001, Disney launched a timeshift channel, 'Disney Channel +1', broadcasts the same programming one hour late. And on 1 July 2008, it was launched and replaced Fly Music on Spanish digital terrestrial television, thus becoming the Disney Channel that broadcasts in free TV,^[2] a practice that would be replicated in other markets in the following years.

An HD feed of the channel is available and until February 2024 was exclusive to pay TV operators; until then on DTT it only broadcast at a standard definition of 576i.^[3]