Disney Channel Latin America

**Disney Channel Latin America** is an cable television channel and is an edition of the The Walt Disney Company-owned Disney Channel, broadcasting to Latin America and the Caribbean. It is broadcast in five feeds, *North Zone*, *Center Zone*, *South Zone*, *Pacific Zone* and *Brazil*. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience. Disney Channel Latin America is operated by *Disney & ESPN Media Networks Latin America* and *The Walt Disney Company Latin America Inc.*, which are owned by The Walt Disney Company (Template:NYSE). It started broadcasting in 2000 as a *premium* channel and it became a *basic cable* channel in 2004.

Chris Ross, president of *Disney Channel Worldwide* has stated that the channel might be launched on Digital Terrestrial Television someday soon.

## History

In 2000, while Disney Channel from the United States was changing from *premium* to *basic*, the channel began broadcasting in Latin America with a different design but same programming from the U.S. version, and being *premium*. In the beginning, the channel was transmitted in three different feeds, the *North Zone Feed*, the *South Zone Feed* and the *Brazilian Feed*, each one with different schedules according the countries. The channel also launched its first original production, *Zapping Zone*, with hosts bringing news and introducing the Disney Channel Original Series. In 2004, Anne Sweeney, a veteran cable executive, took control of Disney-ABC Television Group and changes the design from the channels worldwide. The same year, Disney Channel Latin America becomes a *basic* cable channel and gets the same design of the United States' version.

Along with the new design, the channel started to air new series, mainly focused on teenagers and placing the original animated cartoons in earlier schedules. The new series includes the very successful Disney Channel Original Series *Lizzie McGuire* and *Even Stevens*. In the morning schedule, *Playhouse Disney* was aired with programming for children from age 2-6.

In 2005, the channel became one of the most viewed channels from the region, premiering Disney Channel Original Series as *That's So Raven*, *Phil of the future* and some others. A fourth feed, known as *Central Zone Feed* was also created for Central America and the north part of South America.
In 2006, very successful series and movies as *Hannah Montana*, *The Cheetah Girls*, *High School Musical* and *Jump In!* premiered.

In 2007 the channel changed once more to a more "hip" ident. Successful series and movies as *Cory in the House* and *High School Musical 2* premiered that year.

On June 1, 2008 *The Walt Disney Company Latin America* launches *Playhouse Disney Channel* a 24-hour independent channel focused on young children in age from 2 to 6. The Playhouse Disney block in the morning is still broadcast in the same schedule.

In 2008, *Disney Mobile* is re-branded *Disney Mobile Studios* with content of the channel for cell-phones.

On October 1, 2008 the channel launches its fifth feed, *Pacific Zone Feed* and changes schedules, idents and promos in all the feeds.

## Premiere History

The Disney Channel Original Movie, *Camp Rock* premiered on July 6, 2008 in the North Zone, July 11, 2008 in the Central Zone and August 11, 2008 both in the Pacific and South Zone.

The French series, *A Kind of Magic* premiered in August, 2008. New episodes of *Cory in the House* and the Disney Channel Original Movie *Life is Ruff* premiered August 22, 2008 on a special called *"Cory Todoterreno"*.

The 2008 Disney Channel Games premiered September 5, 2008 and a new episode was aired every Friday. The Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media movie *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe* premiered September 7, 2008. The Walt Disney Pictures animated movie *Chicken Little* premiered September 21, 2008.

The Disney Channel Original Movie, *The Cheetah Girls: One World* premiered in November, 2008. The first episode of *Cars Toons* premiered on December 17.

The Disney Channel Original Series *The Suite Life on Deck* aired a preview episode on December 14, 2008 and premiered on January 16, 2009 and a new episode is aired every Friday on *Zapping Zone*.

On January 23, 2009 the first trailer of *Hannah Montana: The Movie* was aired, and the videoclip "Let's Get Crazy" premiered on January 30, 2009. The first trailer of *Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience* premiered on February 6, 2009 during a new episode of *The Suite Life on Deck*.

On February 8, 2009 the Walt Disney Pictures movie *The Shaggy Dog premiered. On February 16 the Disney Channel short series* Brian O'Brian *premiered, with a new episode being aired every Monday.*

On February 21, 2009 the special *"El Día Más Pop del Rock"* (*The Most Pop Day of Rock*) was aired. The special included a marathon of the Disney Channel Original Series *Hannah Montana*. At the end of the marathon the first episode of the third season of *Hannah Montana* premiered. After that, the premiere of the videoclip "Lo que Soy" performed by Demi Lovato was aired. "Lo Que Soy" is the Spanish version of *This Is Me* from *Camp Rock* both performed by Demi Lovato.

After that, *Camp Rock Around the World* premiered with international versions of the songs and interviews in the premiere of the movie in the United Kingdom, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. The special ended with *High School Musical 2 Pop-Up Version*.

On March 5, 2009 during "Zapping Zone" premiered the music video by the Jonas Brothers "BB Good". The Walt Disney Pictures movie *Cars* will premiere on March 15, 2009 while the third season of *Hannah Montana* premiered on March 18, 2009 on "Zapping Zone" and a new episode is aired every Wednesday.

The second season of *Pass the Plate* premiered on April 5, 2009 while the Walt Disney Pictures' movie, *Sleeping Beauty* premiered on April 12, 2009. Along with a premiere of Pass the Plate, and the first promos for the Disney Channel Original Movies *Read It and Weep* and *Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior* also started being aired. The first promo for the Disney Channel Original Series *Sonny With a Chance* also started to air.

The promos for *Sonny With a Chance* aired on April, 2009 announced that the series will premiere on May, 2009. On May 1, 2009 a special programming was aired, celebrating International Workers' Day. It was called *Wen-Día* ("Wen-Day", with *Wen* as a variation of *buen* which means *good*) and it included a marathon of *Phineas and Ferb* and *The Suite Life on Deck*, with a new episode of this one at the end. The movie *Toy Story* was aired at the beginning of the marathon and *Herbie: Fully Loaded* at the end. The marathon ended with the premiere of *Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior*.

New music videos, backstage specials and recording shorts from *Hannah Montana: The Movie* premiered on the channel on April and May. The special "Chicas con actitud" (*"Girls with attitude"*) started on May, 2009 and allows the viewers to vote for their favorite episodes of series where the main character is a girl (series as *Hannah Montana* or *Wizards of Waverly Place*). The special will be aired on May 24 and will end with a preview episode of *Sonny with a Chance*. The new Disney Channel Original Series *Sonny with a Chance* premiered on May 29 and a new episode is aired every Friday.

The first promos for Disney XD Latin America started airing on the channel on May 15, 2009. That same day, the promos for the Disney Channel Original Series *JONAS* started being aired, announcing that the series will premiere "Coming soon".

The *Buena Vista International* movie *El Ratón Perez* premiered on June 7, 2009 along with a special programming. The Disney Channel Original Movie, *Cow Belles* premiered on June 12. The Disney Channel Original Movie, *Princess Protection Program* premiered on July 12, 2009. The Disney Channel Original Series *JONAS* premiered on August.

In October, the channel celebrated Halloween with *"Abracadubre"*, that had special programming and premiere episodes of *Wizards of Waverly Place*. The Disney Channel Original Movie *Return to Halloweentown* premiered during this special. The Disney Channel Original Movie *Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie* premiered on October 11, as a part of this special.

## Feeds

Disney Channel Latin America is divided in five feeds for its different transmissions, each one with different schedules and different hosts.

* *Disney Channel North*: Aired in Mexico.
* *Disney Channel Central*: Aired in Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Panama, Cuba and Central America.
* *Disney Channel Pacific*: Aired in Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
* *Disney Channel South*: Aired in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
* *Disney Channel Brazil*: Aired in Brazil.

## Launch date

* July 27, 2000 launched North feed, Central feed and South feed.
* April 5, 2001 launched Brazilian feed.
* October 1, 2008 launched Pacific feed.

## Programming

*Main article: List of programs broadcast by Disney Channel*
Series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel Original Series takes most of the schedule. Some non-original series are also aired, as January 2009 the non-original productions aired are *Patito Feo*, *Casi Ángeles*, *Mortified*, *Life With Derek* and *The Fairly OddParents*. Former non-original series include *Floricienta*, *Chiquititas*, *A Kind of Magic*, and *George of the Jungle*.
The Playhouse Disney block airs daily from very early in the morning until 9:00am. On weekends, it ends at 10:00am. After the Playhouse Disney block, the *catoon block* is aired, with cartoon series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation (as *House of Mouse*) and Disney Channel Original Series (as *Lilo & Stitch: The Series*, *American Dragon: Jake Long*, *Kim Possible*, *Brandy & Mr. Whiskers*, *The Replacements*, *The Emperor's New School*, and *Phineas and Ferb*).

Once the cartoon block has ended, the *Zapping Zone* starts. It's an original production of Disney Channel Latin America, an its programming, hosts and schedules varies depending of the feed. The Zapping Zone can be consider the primetime of the channel.

In the commercial pauses, some video clips from Disney Channel stars are aired.

### Notable Programming

These are the shows broadcast on Disney Channel Latin America.

* JONAS
* Sonny with a Chance
* The Suite Life on Deck
* Hannah Montana
* Wizards of Waverly Place
* Brian O'Brian
* The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (also aired on Disney XD)
* That's So Raven (out of the air, still on air on Brazilian Disney Channel)
* Zapping Zone
* Disney Planet
* Wonderful World of Disney
* Película Disney Channel/Filme Disney Channel (in English: *Disney Channel Movie*)
* Pass the Plate
* As the Bell Rings(out of air) (except on Brazilian Disney Channel who has its own version )
* Art Attack
* Disney Channel Games (once a year)
* Phil of the Future (out of the air)
* Cory in the House (out of the air)
* D-Clips (out of the air)
* Lizzie McGuire (out of the air)
* Express Yourself (out of the air)
* Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream (out of the air)

* Phineas and Ferb
* The Replacements
* American Dragon: Jake Long
* Brandy & Mr. Whiskers
* Raffina And Rulue Adventures
* Lilo & Stitch: The Series
* Cars Toons (out of the air)
* Kim Possible (only aired on Disney Channel Pacific and Disney Channel Brazil)
* The Proud Family (out of the air)
* House of Mouse (out of the air)
* Arle (out of the air)
* Timon & Pumbaa (out of the air on Disney Channel North and Disney Channel Pacific)
* The Little Mermaid (out of the air on Disney Channel North and Disney Channel Central)
* The Buzz on Maggie (out of the air)
* Aladdin (out of the air on Disney Channel Central, Disney Channel Pacific and Disney Channel South)
* Dave the barbarian (out of the air)

* Casi Ángeles (only on the North and Central feed)
* Mortified
* What's New, Angels?
* Patito Feo(out of the air on the Brazilian and South feed)
* Atrevete a Soñar
* Shuriken School
* George of the Jungle
* The Fairly OddParents (also aired on sister channel Disney XD, but with newer episodes airing on Nickelodeon)
* A Kind of Magic (out of the air)
* Andrew the Magic President
* Floricienta (out of the air)
* Floribella (out of the air)
* Chiquititas (out of the air)
* Baby Potter: The Series (out of the air)
* The Adventures of Roco & Abyss
* Shaun the Sheep
* Secret Mission: Zero Gravity
* Bernard
* The Landry Sisters

* Imagination Movers
* Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
* The Doodlebops
* Higglytown Heroes
* The Wiggles (out of the air)
* Handy Manny
* Little Einsteins
* Johnny and the Sprites
* Alexei: The Series
* JoJo's Circus
* Bear in the Big Blue House (out of the air)
* Shanna's Show
* Trulli Tales
* Stanley

* So Far, So Great ; Demi Lovato (Sonny With a Chance)
* La La Land ; Demi Lovato (Sonny With a Chance)
* The Climb ; Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie
* Butterfly Fly Away ; Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie)
* Hoedown Throwdown ; Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie)
* Don't Forget ; Demi Lovato (Don't Forget)
* Let's Do This ; Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie)
* BB Good ; Jonas Brothers
* Let's Get Crazy ; Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie)
* Tonight ; Jonas Brothers

## Programming blocks

### Playhouse Disney

*Main article: Playhouse Disney Channel Latin America*
Programming block focused on children from 2 to 6 years old. It's aired everyday in the morning. Playhouse Disney Original Series aire aired. Formerly, two hosts (different depending the feed) introduced the different series and told stories to the kids. In June 1, 2008, along with the launch of the independent channel *Playhouse Disney Channel*, those hosts were replaced by Ooh and Aah, two monkey hosts.

Some series aired in this block include *Mickey Mouse Clubhouse*, *Little Einsteins*, *The Doodlebops* between others.

### Cartoon block

The space between the ending of Playhouse Disney and the beginning of the Zapping Zone is used as a "cartoon block" with animated Disney Channel Original Series and series from Walt Disney Television Animation. Some series aired in this block are *House of Mouse*, *Reces*, *Lilo & Stitch: The Series*, *American Dragon: Jake Long*, *The Replacements*, *Kim Possible*, *Brandy & Mr. Whiskers*, *The Emperor's New School*, and *Phineas and Ferb*. The series that are aired and their schedules are different depending the zone.

On Disney Channel South and Disney Channel Pacific, the cartoon block is interrupted at noon with a non-original serie, *Patito Feo* and is followed by two original series, *Hannah Montana* and *Wizards of Waverly Place*. Then, the cartoon block continues with *Recess* and some others.

### Zapping Zone

Disney Channel Latin America produces an original show called *Zapping Zone* where different hosts, depending the region, interact with the viewers with games and trivias. It is aired only on weekdays. They also give news about Disney Channel, upcoming Walt Disney Pictures films and new Disney Channel Original Movies. It is transmitted live, and the viewers can call to participate in different games, all of them containing questions and trivia about Disney. Only for participating they can win T-shirts and caps, however if they win the awards include DVDs, soundtracks and video games of different Disney movies and characters.

The hosts of the Zapping Zone present the series, Disney Channel Original Series that are aired in the block as a *primetime*. New episodes of the series are aired in this block. New music videos or trailers also premiere in this block, introduced by the hosts.

* *JONAS*. Every Monday.
* *Sonny With a Chance*. Every Monday and fridays.
* *Wizards of Waverly Place*. Regular episodes from Tuesday to Friday.
* *The Suite Life on Deck*. Regular episodes from Monday to Friday.
* *Hannah Montana*. Regular episodes from Tuesday to Friday
* *Phineas and Ferb*. From Monday to Friday.
* *Raffina And Rulue Adventures*. A new episode from Monday to Friday.
* *Bernard*. Short series, an episode every Wednesday.
* *Brian O'Brian. Short series, a new episode every Monday.*
* *Quando Toca o Sino*. Brazilian version of *As the Bell Rings*, is aired only on the Brazilian feed(out the air).
* Music video clips
* *Stop* or *Contratiempo* (game)
* *torpezones* bloopers every fiday

*Zapping Zone* is the second original Disney Channel Latin American production aired currently, along with *Disney Planet*.

### Wonderful World of Disney

*Main article: Wonderful World of Disney*
*"El Maravilloso Mundo de Disney"*/*"O Maravilhoso Mundo de Disney"* (*Wonderful World of Disney"*) is the block after the *Zapping Zone* where different Walt Disney Pictures are aired. The block is dispensable, so it is used when specials need to be aired. In normal seasons from Monday to Thursday it is aired after the Zapping Zone, and on Fridays it is replaced with *"Película Disney Channel"*/*"Filme Disney Channel"* (*Disney Channel Movie*) and it's aired after this(but regular films air during the mornings every weekday). The early-afternoon weekday movie block is named *Cool After School*. On weekends, an all-day movie block named *Cine Mágico* (*Magic Theater*) is aired. Movies can ocassionally be aired on the early morning hours as part of the Playhouse Disney block.

In winter and summer specials, it also airs at noon. Most movies airing on Disney Channel usually run in the 95 to 105-minute range, promos included.

Because of this, Disney airs programming following the film:

* If it lasts 1:25 to 1:35, an Original Series will air (series as *Hannah Montana* or *Wizards of Waverly Place* are often aired).
* If it lasts 1:40 to 1:45, a miniature episode of an Original Animated Series will air (most likely an 11-minute episode of an Animated Original Series, the most common to air are *Phineas and Ferb* and *American Dragon: Jake Long*. Sometimes, *Art Attack* is air instead).
* If it lasts 1:50 to 1:55, either a music video with air along with Disney Channel promos music video, or an episode of a Disney Channel Short Series such as *Shaun the Sheep*, *The Road to The Cheetah Girls 3: One World*, *As the Bell Rings,*, *Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream* or *Disney Planet*.

### Película Disney Channel/Filme Disney Channel

*"Película Disney Channel"*/*"Filme Disney Channel"* (*Disney Channel Movie*) is a movie block aired on Fridays after *Zapping Zone*, Saturdays, Thursdays and sometimes any other weekday after Wonderful World of Disney. In this block, Disney Channel Original Movies aire aired. In the last years, the Original Movies had increased its popularity in the region, bringing many viewers on its premiere dates. The Disney Channel Original Movies usually premiere on Sunday, but some had premiered on Friday.
Some very successful Disney Channel Original Movies include *The Cheetah Girls 2*, *Jump In!*, *High School Musical*, *High School Musical 2* and *Camp Rock*.

The highest rated original movie in Latin America was *High School Musical 2* with 3.3 million viewers.

### Nights

The programming block after Wonderful World of Disney or *Película Disney Channel* airs both original and non-original series. Formerly, the name of the block was *"Tus Noches en Disney Channel"* (*Your night on Disney Channel*) but it was dropped early in 2008. In the June, July, August vacations special *"Vacaciones a todo rock"* (*Totally Rockin' Vacations*, the Latin American version of *Totally Rockin' Summer*) its name was changed to *"Noches rockeras"* (*Rocking nights*). Currently, it does not have a name.

* Casi Angeles (only on Disney Channel North and Disney Channel Central)
* Life With Derek
* Mortified
* Cory in the House

Since July, 2009, the schedule at nights in Disney Channel Center is this:

* 9:00 pm Col Hannah Montana
* 9:30 pm Col Wizards of Waverly Place
* 10:00 pm Col Mortified
* 10:30 pm Col Casi Angeles

### Pixarama

It's a block aired sometimes, it does not have a regular schedule. It airs some Disney Pixar movies as *Finding Nemo*, *The Incredibles*, *Toy Story* and others.

### Mouse, Cámara, ¡Acción!

*"Mouse, Cámara, ¡Acción!"* (*Mouse, Camera, Action!*) its a event aired once a month where viewes can vote between three different movies, and the winner is aired at the end of the month. The viewes can vote in the website or via the cellphones.

## Seasonal blocks

### Vacations

Due the season differences in Latin America (when it's Summer in the North and Central Zone, is Winter in the South and Pacific Zone and in Brazil) the "summer special" is changed for "vacations special" for all the region. It starts late in June and ends early in September. It includes the premiere of new movies and series and new episodes or re-runs.

In 2008, it was called *"Vacaciones a todo rock"* which means *Totally Rocking Vacations* and is the Latin American version of the *Totally Rockin' Summer*, aired in the United States version of Disney Channel. It included the airing of movies in a special schedule and the premiere of the Disney Channel Original Series *As the Bell Rings*. The Disney Channel Original Movie *Camp Rock* and the Walt Disney Pictures movie *Herbie: Fully Loaded* also premiered in this special.

### Summer

In January, 2009, Disney Channel Latin America started airing a "summer special" and not a "vacations special". The special included the premiere of *The Suite Life on Deck* on January 16, 2009.

### Halloween events

Disney Channel Latin America does not have a big event celebrating Halloween, it just airs some Halloween themed movies and series the same week that Halloween is. In 2008 it included new episodes of *Wizards of Waverly Place* and aired *Twitches 2*.

### Christmas events

The Christmas events of Disney Channel Latin America are related with the New Year's events, with the same logo and name. In 2008 it aired different specials with different names, as *"Jueves Especiales"* (*Special Thursdays*) airing a new Christmas movie every Thursday, and *"Suma tu voz"* (*Join your voice*) airing "sing-along" versions of *High School Musical*, *The Cheetah Girls 2*, *High School Musical 2*, *Camp Rock* and *The Cheetah Girls One World*. It also included the premiere of the first episode of *Cars Toons* and previews of *The Suite Life on Deck*.

### New Year Events

Disney Channel Latin America, differently of internationals Disney Channels, does not air the New Year events of Disney Channel of the United States (called *Totally New Year* in 2008). Its new year event is an original production of the channel, named *Celebratón*. It lets its viewers vote for the best series and movies under certain categories. The most voted ones are aired December 31. The *Celebratón* is hosted by the cast of the *Zapping Zone* from all the regions (included Brazil). The new year countdown and the preview of new series and movies for the next year are also hosted by them.

#### Celebratón 2008

The *Celebratón 2008* was hosted by the cast of Zapping Zone and let the viewers vote for their favorite series and movies during December, 2008. The winners were aired December 31, 2008 starting at noon, same time when *Celebratón* started. It lasted until midnight with the final New started.Year countdown. Once it ended, an special called *Disney Channel 2008*
New movies and series announced in *Disney Channel 2009*:

* **New series**: *The Suite Life on Deck*, *Stitch!*, *Casi Ángeles* and *J.O.N.A.S.*.
* **New seasons**: *Wizards of Waverly Place*, *Hannah Montana*, *Art Attack* and *Phineas and Ferb*.
* **New movies**: *Cars*, *Brother Bear 2*, *The Wild*, *El Ratón Perez*, *Meet the Robinsons*, *Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert*, *To the Center of the Earth*, *Sleeping Beauty*, *101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure*, *The Fox and the Hound 2*, *The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning*, *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest*, *Star Bleech*, *The Shaggy Dog*, *Eight Below*, *Invincible*, *Colegionales* and *Glory Road*.
* **New Disney Channel Original Movies**: *Cow Belles*, *Camp Rock What's What? Edition*, *Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior*, *Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board*, *Return to Halloweentown*, *Read It and Weep* and *Princess Protection Program*.

As on October, almost all the series, seasons, movies and Disney Channel Original Movies have premiered, excepting *Stitch!*, *Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert*, *Invincible* and *Glory Road*.

## Past events

### Popcorn

Former New Year Event that was replaced by *Celebratón*. The last time it was aired was in December 31, 2006 along with an special called *Disney Channel Pop* which aired the best music video clip of the year.
It aired movies from Walt Disney Pictures and showed previews for the next year.

## Original productions

Disney Channel Latin America has its own original productions, which are aired on the channel.

### Current

* *Zapping Zone*. The primetime of the channel with hosts, games, and Disney Channel Original Series. Broadcasts live.
* *Disney Planet*. Short series very similar to *Disney's Really Short Report* where different hosts talk about upcoming DVD and videogame releases, there are interviews with casts of Walt Disney Pictures movies, between others.

### Former

This original productions were discontinued or dropped of the channel.

* *Zapping Sports*. A variation of the Zapping Zone with the same hosts but just half hour of duration. It had news and information about the different sports. It was dropped of the channel, and now the Zapping Zone also gives information about sports sometimes.
* *Zapping Music*. A variation of the Zapping Zone with the same hosts but just half houst of duration. It had news, interviews and premieres of musical video clips. It was dropped of the channel and now the Zapping Zone premieres the video clips and has interviews.
* *Disney Xtreme*. Reality about teenagers doing extreme sports in different zones of Latin America.
* *The Playhouse Disney House*. Series with two different hosts aired on the Playhouse Disney block. They told stories and played games with kids. In 2008 they were replaced with Ooh and Aah, two monkey hosts. The *Playhouse Disney House* now airs on Playhouse Disney Channel.

## Disneylatino.com

*The Walt Disney Company Latin America* has its own website for the Latin American audience, named Disneylatino.com
It had an original design, tha was not similar to any other Disney website around the world (some Disney websites have the same design repeated). It was created with Adobe Flash.

It was divided into *Films*, where people could see the pages and trailers of current and upcoming Walt Disney Pictures movies. It had categories for the different channels, Disney Channel, Disney XD Latin America, and Playhouse Disney Channel.

It also had sections for DVD releases (called *En DVD*), the different parks of Disney, the Radio Disney section, live shows and mobile content.

In September, 2009 the website had a major change with all the site getting a new design. This new design, including also a new Disney Channel section, is similar to the American version of the website. It has almost the same sections as the American website, those are *Games*, *Videos*, *Characters*, *Movies*, *TV* (Disney Channel, Disney XD and Playhouse Disney Channel), *Music*, *Shows*, *Parks* and *Mobile*. The *My Page* section was replaced by *Specials* (using the same logo) and the *Store* section is missing.

### Disneylatino.com/TV

Formerly, the website was divided into *Disneylatino.com/DisneyChannel*, *Disneylatino.com/DisneyXD* and *Disneylatino.com/PlayhouseDisney*, all of them accesible from the main page. Since September, 2009 users have to first click on the *TV section*, and they will be redirected to the Disney Channel website, where they can choose to stay on that channel or change to Disney XD or Playhouse Disney Channel. On Disney Channel's website users can see videos, play games and see "mini-sites" from the different series and movies.

The website of the channel is divided into feeds, as the original channels are. There are four feeds, *North Zone*, *Central Zone*, *Pacific Zone* and *South Zone*. Brazil has its own website which is not part of Disneylatino.com

Inside the website, each show, series and movies have its own mini-website, with info, games and downloadable content for the PC and for the cellphones, this last one under the label "Disney Mobile Studios" (now is placed into the category *Mobile*).

### Disney Xtreme Digital

Disney Xtreme Digital (named *Videos* on the website) is a video service where users ccan see the programming of the channel (series, video clips and specials). It is very similar to the same service (*Disney Xtreme Digital*) in the United States website. As November, 2009 *Disney Xtreme Digital Latin America* is still not available for the whole region.

Until September, 2009 (when the whole website was redesigned) the video service was called *"Disney Channel Play"* and had a different design and more limited options. The first movie premiering on Disney Channel Play was *Camp Rock*, which premiered July 12, 2008 on Disney Channel Play North and Disney Channel Play Central and August 9, 2008 on Disney Channel Play South and Disney Channel Play Pacific. The movie was available for watching just some days.

*Disney Channel Play* replaced in June, 2008 the section *"Videos"* (now available again) on the website.

### Online games

In December, 2008 Disneylatino.com opened its first original online game, named *High School Musical: El Intercolegial* where users can create its own characters and join different groups and play minigames. In June, 2009, Disneylatino.com launched its second online game, the Latin American version of *Club Penguin*.

## Disney Mobile Studios

In July, 2008 Disney Latin America updated "Disney Mobile" to *Disney Mobile Studios* where different services are available in all Latin America. The users can download content from Disney Channel, Disney XD, Playhouse Disney Channel, Radio Disney and content from movies.

## See also

* Disney Channel
* Disney Channel around the world
* Jetix (Latin America)

## References

1. ↑ http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/09/12/comunicacion/1221219878.html
2. ↑ http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney\_Channel\_Latinoamérica#Historia de Estrenos
3. ↑ http://disneylatino.com/disneychannel
4. ↑ http://www.terra.com.ar/feeds/notas/154/154751.html
5. ↑ http://disneylatino.com
6. ↑ http://disney.go.com

## External links

* Disneylatino.com Official Disney website for Latin America.
* Disney Channel Latin America Official website