Disney Junior (Southeast Asia)

Disney Junior was a Southeast Asian preschool pay television channel owned by the Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia that was active from 2 April 2004 to 31 December 2021.

Aimed mainly at children between ages 2 to 7 years old,[1][2] its programming consisted of original first-run television series and theatrically released and made-for-DVD movies, as well as other select third-party programming; some of which originally having aired on PBS Kids in the United States.

[3] It later launched as a channel for Hong Kong and Indonesia on 2 April 2004, with the aim of reaching more territories (in South East Asia and Korea) in due course.

[6] It was followed by Korea in June 2004, Malaysia in early July 2004,[7] Brunei in late August, in tandem with Disney Channel, on Kristal-Astro,[8] Cambodia in June 2005, in tandem with Disney Channel,[9] Vietnam in December 2005, also in tandem with Disney Channel, on Hanoi Cable and Ho Chi Minh Cable, entirely in English without Vietnamese dubbing, in a market that at the time had an under-14 population of 24 million[10] and the Philippines in the same month, with a separate feed.

On 1 January 2021, the channels ceased operations across Astro and Astro-owned TV providers (including NJOI and Kristal-Astro) in Malaysia due to the launch of Astro's Refreshed Kids Pack that announced back on 14 December 2020.