[7] The venture launched their first international Fox Kids Network branded channel in the United Kingdom on October 19, 1996.
[12] These launches made Fox Kids the only children's entertainment company with a local channel in every major European market.
In the summer of 2001, the Italian Fox Kids channel launched a syndicated block for several local stations in Italy.
[23] In December 2002, the company signed with BMG Europe for two Fox Kids Hits music compilation albums per year for 10 European markets.
[27] On 11 June 2003, Fox Kids Europe announced that due to the low amount of original content being supplied following the October 2001 purchase of FFW, the company would increase the level of coproduction work with Disney to produce new programmes aimed at a young male audience that would air on Fox Kids networks in Europe and the Middle East and Disney networks in all other territories; alongside the increase of third-party acquisitions.
The first agreement made out of the new strategy was a three-year deal with Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment to release Power Rangers and select Marvel shows in English-speaking territories.
In January 2004, Fox Kids Europe, Fox Kids Latin America and the ABC Cable Networks Group agreed to rename its then current operations under a single brand, called Jetix,[30][31] which helped strengthen its then operations into a single force.
The Jetix name was chosen after the company conducted international research specifically with a number of children's focus groups.
Bruce Steinberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Kids Europe, explained that Jetix would help strengthen Fox Kids Europe's partnership with Disney while building new alliances to continue to successfully leverage its programming library and distribution.
[32] The pre-launch period began with the launch of Jetix branded blocks on the Fox Kids networks which would transition to the rebrand once the name would become more familiar.
[43] In November, the Central and Eastern European channel team won gold in the U.K. Promax Awards for Jetix Max idents.
On September 19, 2009, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Slovakia.
[51] As a legal entity, the UK subsidiary (which was mostly responsible for the operational side of Jetix) ceased to exist on March 11, 2019.