DreamWorks Channel
DreamWorks Channel (commonly shortened to DreamWorks) is a pay television network owned and operated by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. It first launched in Southeast Asia on August 1, 2015, and later expanded to the rest of Asia as well as Europe, Africa, Oceania and Latin America. DreamWorks Animation programming, both in new and archive forms, make up the primetime and early day schedules of new sister network Universal Kids, which launched in the United States on 9 September 2017 (a format evolution of an earlier version of the channel named "Sprout"). The rights for DreamWorks Animation's  programming in the United States are also handled by Netflix and other networks. History. As a standalone DreamWorks Channel. DreamWorks Animation announced on 9 December 2014 plans to launch its own TV channel starting in Asia rolling out over 19 countries in the second half of 2015. Singapore-based broadcaster HBO Asia was contracted to handle marketing, sales and technical services for the channel in Southeast Asia. DreamWorks Channel launched on 1 August 2015 in Thailand. The channel represents DWA's first foray into operating its own television channel in any part of the world as a result of a  joint venture through CTH. A Middle East and North Africa channel launched on 1 August 2016 in partnership with beIN Network. The channel(s) were placed under NBCUniversal The channel was placed under the NBCU International executive vice president, lifestyle and kids Duccio Donati in August 2017. This paired the channel with E! international channels and NBCU lifestyle channel content. On 1 January 2018, NBCUniversal International Networks took over HBO Asia's role with DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia. The channel launched on KPN in the Netherlands on 23 July 2019. A pop-up version was launched in Australia via pay  television provider Foxtel from 1 to 30 June 2020, on channel 700 until a full version in 2021. The channel launched in Sub-Saharan Africa through African pay-television operator StarTimes on 3 August 2020. The channel was removed from Startimes on 17 February 2022, while being available on Dstv starting on 18 March 2022 in the process, replacing the Africa version of Disney XD, which has been shutdown back in 1 October 2020. The channel was available on all of DStv's packages (down to DStv Access) in South Africa until April 18 to promote The Bad Guys. The  channel launched in the Philippines through Filipino-dubbed version via Cignal on 11 September 2021, the channel was also launched on SkyCable in mid-November of the same year, though SkyCable uses its original English feed instead, replacing the Southeast Asian version of Disney Channel in the country, which has been shutdown back in 1 October. Universal+ launch with DreamWorks. The channel launched in Spain with two television providers Movistar+ and Orange on 21 February 2021. The channel launched in India in English via Jio TV on 25 November 2021. The channel launched in Latin America on 31 March 2022 . Programming. The content on the channel mainly consists of series produced by DreamWorks Animation SKG and DreamWorks Classics library including some of DWA's content produced for Netflix. However, DWA's films only air in the international versions.