Disney Channel (Russian TV channel)

Disney Channel
Country	Russia
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia;
Programming
Language(s)	Russian; English (from 2010 to 2011)
Picture format	SDTV 576i
Ownership
Owner	Media-1 (80%); The Walt Disney Company CIS (20%);
Key people	Vladimir Vereshchagin (Vice President, TV and Film Production); Svetlana Lysko (Editor-in-Chief);
History
Launched	August 10, 2010, 6:00 p.m. (replacing Jetix); December 31, 2011, 12:00 a.m. (free-to-air broadcast);
Replaced	Seven TV (free-to-air broadcast)
Closed	December 14, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.
Replaced by	Solntse
Former names	Jetix

Disney Channel (Russian: Канал Disney) was a Russian free-to-air television channel which was launched on August 10, 2010 on pay television, replacing kids channel Jetix, and was later launched as a free-to-air network, replacing Seven TV on December 31, 2011. The network was one of the few Disney Channel variations which renders the word 'Channel' in a native language (in Cyrillic) within its logo and vocally (in Russian).

According to MediaScope, the coverage of Disney Channel was 49.6 million viewers, with the average of 2.9 million people watching the channel on a daily basis.

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