Then somewhere between November and December 2005, Disney Channel Scandinavia and Middle East started to add dubbing credits to its programming through subtitles.

Disney Channel Scandinavia and Middle East started gradually becoming individual feeds in 2006, starting with a different rotation of films (that gradually got more different), though this did not stop Arab satellite provider Orbit from adding a Swedish audio track to the Middle Eastern feed on 16 April 2007 (which was subsequently removed years later).

The Middle Eastern feed became a pan-regional network, as the channel was launched in Sub-Saharan Africa on 25 September 2006,[12][4][13] Poland on 2 December 2006,[5][4] Turkey on 29 April 2007;[6][14] and Greece along with Cyprus on 8 November 2009.

On 12 January 2012, Disney Channel EMEA in Turkey was replaced by an independent Turkish feed,[8] and became a free-to-air network.

[15] Between 2009 and 2012, Disney Channel EMEA began broadcasting in the former Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia,[16] Montenegro, North Macedonia,[17] Bosnia, Slovenia) and Albania.

[19] On 24 June 2022, Disney Channel EMEA, Israel, Spain and Portugal rebranded with a new graphics,[20] with the customized wordmark logo; designed by Flopicco from Rome, Italy.

Expanded between 2009 and 2012 with multiple distributors through Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia (including the disputed Kosovo) and Slovenia.

It was launched in the MENA, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia and Slovenia[25] in 2009;[26] and in Sub-Saharan Africa in May 2011.

[27] In South Africa in June 2014, Multichoice fined R5000 (around $300) after failing to provide a warning before airing an advertisement for the fantasy drama series WolfBlood, containing horror scenes on the morning of 31 December 2013.

[29] The channel was later closed in Sub-Saharan Africa on 1 October 2020;[30] the MENA region and in the Balkans, on 31 December 2020;[31][32] and Greece on 31 January 2021.