{"id":126180,"date":"2025-11-09T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126180\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:03:12","slug":"sky-confirms-return-of-disney-jr-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126180\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky confirms return of Disney Jr HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of speculation online, Sky has now confirmed the return of children\u2019s channel Disney Jr to its satellite platform.<\/p>\n<p>In late September\/early October some viewers spotted a test channel on satellite, broadcasting programming previously associated with Disney linear channels.<\/p>\n<p>The channel will formally go live on Thursday 13th November on satellite, Sky Glass and Sky Stream. Its channel number is yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Disney Jr, along with Disney Channel and Disney XD, left UK linear TV in October 2020, with content moving exclusively to the newly launched DIsney+ streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Narrative Entertainment (UK) confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c21media.net\/news\/narrative-entertainment-to-shutter-pop-linear-channels-and-app-next-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">C21<\/a> that its linear TV kids\u2019 channels Pop and Tiny Pop will close in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Pop and Tiny Pop FAST channels will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Tiny Pop was removed from linear TV in March 2024, before being reinstated again in late summer.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the plan to drop the kids\u2019 channels from linear, Narrative managing director Paul Dunthorne said: \u201c\u2026free-to-air channels for this audience are simply not commercially viable without public service broadcaster-style funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n<p>FEATURE IMAGE:<br \/>PICTURED: Disney Jr logo. COPYRIGHT: Disney Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weeks of speculation online, Sky has now confirmed the return of children\u2019s channel Disney Jr to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[87778,156,111,139,69,87779,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-126180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-disney-jr","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sky-plc","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}