Jetix (UK & Ireland)
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| Jetix (United Kingdom) | |
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| Launched | October 19, 1996 |
| Owned by | The Walt Disney Company (74%) Public Shareholders (26%) [1] |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 4:3 |
| Audience share | 0.1% (0.1% for +1) (February 2008, [2]) |
| Headquarters | Hammersmith, London, UK |
| Formerly called | Fox Kids (until January 1, 2005) |
| Timeshift service | Jetix +1 |
| Website | Jetix.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 607 Channel 608 (+1) |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 707 Channel 708 (+1) |
| Chorus | Channel 20 |
| UPC Ireland | Channel 610 |
| IPTV over ADSL | |
| Tiscali TV | Channel 328 |
Jetix is a television programming brand owned by The Walt Disney Company broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was previously known as Fox Kids.
The United Kingdom and Ireland channel became Jetix on 1st January, 2005 at midnight. Most Jetix channels are basic cable or satellite pay channels. Jetix is also available as a timeshift hour-delay channel named Jetix+1. The UK and Ireland channel is carried on Sky Digital, Virgin Media, Tiscali TV and Chorus.
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[edit] Jetix Block on Fox Kids
The Jetix brand was gently introduced to the UK in the form of a programming block on the 24/7 channel of Fox Kids. Beginning in April 2004, it aired every day between the hours of 3pm and 7pm. In September of 2004, the block was also included in the morning line-up, airing between 7am and 9am.
The Jetix block featured the following programs; Shaman King, Sonic X, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jackie Chan Adventures, Totally Spies, Black Hole High, Goosebumps, MegaMan: NT Warrior, Martin Mystery, Robot Wars, and Power Rangers Ninja Storm plus 2-minute shorts of Shin Chan episodes.
When Fox Kids formally rebranded as Jetix on January 1, 2005, the Jetix block was dropped, and the shows that it contained were integrated into the normal programming schedule.
[edit] Shows aired on Jetix UK
[edit] Current Shows
- A.T.O.M. (late at night)
- Dinosaur King
- Galactik Football
- Jackie Chan Adventures
- Martin Mystery (late at night)
- Naruto - Heavily edited
- Power Rangers Generations (Mighty Morphin - DinoThunder)
- Power Rangers SPD
- Power Rangers Mystic Force
- Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
- Pucca
- Shaman King
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 series)
- Totally Spies
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise
[edit] Former Shows
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Action Man
- The Avengers: United They Stand
- Bad Dog
- Beast Wars
- Big Bad Beetleborgs
- Big Garage
- Big Wolf On Campus
- Biker Mice From Mars (90's Series)
- Black Hole High
- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
- Braceface (Now showing on Pop Girl)
- Breaker High
- Captain Flamingo
- Casper
- C Bear and Jamal
- Dennis The Menace (UK Version) (Now showing on CBBC)
- Dennis The Menace (US Version) (Now showing on POP)
- Dark Oracle
- Di-Gata Defenders
- Diabolik
- Digimon: Digital Monsters (Note: Did not air "Frontier" series although it was advertised to be coming to the channel before it's rebranding. Data Squad Series was status unknown.)
- Donkey Kong Country
- Eek The Cat
- Escaflowne
- Fantastic 4 (1994 series) (to be returned)
- Flint the Time Detective
- Funky Cops (Note: Some Funky Cops shorts were appear during a break)
- Gadget and the Gadgetinis
- Get Ed
- GI Joe
- Gogs
- Goosebumps
- Grossology
- Hamtaro
- Heavy Gear
- Iggy Arbuckle
- Iron Man
- The Incredible Hulk (to be returned)
- Inspector Gadget (Now showing on POP)
- Jacob Two-Two
- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
- Jellikins
- Jim Button
- Kids from Room 402
- Life with Louie
- Lockie Leonard
- Lucky Luke
- M.A.S.K.
- Masked Rider
- Medabots (Now showing on Kix!) (Note: Did not air "Sprits" Season, "Sprits" aired on GMTV in the UK)
- MegaMan: NT Warrior (Note: Did not air "Axess" series)
- Macdonald's Farm
- Mon Colle Knights
- Monster Buster Club (Premiered in August, but it's been taken off the air)
- Monster Rancher (Note: Only aired part of Series 3 (Largely believed to be as much as was dubbed in English)
- Monster Warriors (To Be Returned)
- Moville Mysteries
- The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
- NASCAR Racers
- The new Addams Family
- The New Woody Woodpecker Show
- Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
- Ōban Star-Racers
- Oggy and the Cockroaches
- Pecola
- Pee Wee's Playhouse
- Pig City
- PXG
- Rayearth
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Robocop
- Roboroach
- Robot Wars (now showing on Challenge)
- Sailor Moon (Note: only Series one and Sailor Moon R aired. Sailor Moon S was rumored but never aired along with SS and Stars (To date, Stars has not been dubbed to English))
- Sam & Max: Freelance Police!!!
- Samurai Pizza Cats
- The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs
- Serven
- Shin Chan
- Shinzo
- Ship to Shore
- Shuriken School
- The Silver Surfer (to be returned)
- So Little Time
- Sonic X
- Spider-Man
- Spiderwoman
- Super Mario Brothers Super Show!
- Super Pig
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
- Sweet Valley High
- Team Galaxy
- Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (1987 series)
- Teknoman
- The Terrible Thunderlizards
- The Tick
- Tutenstein (Note: Premiered in December 2006, but it has been taken off the air)
- Uh Oh!
- Ulysses 31
- Urban Vermin
- VR Troopers
- Viewtiful Joe
- Walter Melon
- What's With Andy
- W.I.T.C.H.
- World Of Tosh
- Wunschpunsch
- X-Men (to be returned)
- X-Press
- Yin Yang Yo!
- The Zack Files
[edit] Jetix VOD
Since the launch of Pucca on Jetix (mid way though July 2006), Jetix has offered an online "Video On Demand" service [3], allowing viewers to watch "Exclusive to web" Pucca Shorts (Titled "Pucca: Funny ♥ Love"). Adverts for the TV episodes of Pucca run before and after each short. Since the UK TV airing of Power Rangers: Mystic Force, all Pucca: Funny ♥ Love episodes have been replaced with clips of Power Rangers: Mystic Force (Interestingly enough, on AOL Browsers, debug information is also shown).
Similarly to Toonami (US)'s Toonami Jetstream Service, Jetix VOD is exclusive to the United Kingdom and Internet Explorer (5.0 and later) users. Attempting to launch the service ether from outside the UK (Or rather, not using a UK IP address) or using a non Internet Explorer web browser will lead to an error message being displayed and the service not running.
[edit] Editing practice
Jetix UK has edited some shows for content that is considered too violent for Jetix's target audience. These edits are usually of a time-cut nature, omitting the offending scene. Examples of edits include
Digimon (Season 1): A shot of Leomon grabbing Tai by the neck (whilst he was still in his underwear) was cut
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The silhouette shot of Splinter's owner being cut down by The Shreeder was also cut
Shaman King: Any shot of Anna slapping anyone (happens twice, once to June Tao and once to Zeek/Hao Asakura) has been omitted.
Power Rangers: Strobe lighting, scenes which kids may imitate and even entire episodes are cut.[1]
Megaman NT Warrior (Rockman.exe): A shot of Mayrl stamping on Lan's toe before elbowing him in the stomach in responce to his flirting in episode 2 was cut and edited to make the toe stamping to be the only thing she does.
Whilst these edits have been of quick, unnoticeable shots and thus would not have been picked up on had they not aired on other channels with out the edits or made note of elsewhere, the most noticeable case for Jetix UK's editing practices has been their editing of Naruto for which Jetix caught a lot of bad press for editing episodes beyond Viz's relatively lenient edit and not informing anyone of such being a case until the show aired.
[edit] Magazine
Future Publishing publishes the official Jetix Magazine. Published every four weeks the magazine features puzzles and features based on the channel's characters plus a six page Power Rangers comic. The magazine also comes with a free DVD featuring shows from the channel.
New issues contain an Sonic X comic which are basically copies of the current Sonic X comic series by Archie.
[edit] Special Holiday Events
Both Fox Kids and Jetix have had a history of special holiday programing events, typically comprising of marathons or back-to-back episodes of various shows, such as Jackie Chan, Power Rangers or other similar popular franchises. On some occasions, certain special events have been known to feature an additional on-screen graphic during the day in question, as well as other specially created promotional channel idents. These special events are usually placed around public holidays or school breaks.
Some examples of past Jetix holiday events are;
- December 2002-January 5, 2003 - Cheeky Xmas
- February 15, 2003-March 2, 2003 - Chantastic Challenge
- May 2003 - Marvellous Half-term
- July 26, 2003-August 31, 2003 - Get Away With It
- December 20, 2003-January 4, 2004 - Action Xmas
- June 24, 2006 - Super Sonic Saturday
- December 16, 2006-December 27, 2006 - 12 Days of Jetix
- February 12 2007-February 24, 2007 - Yin Yang Yoverthrow!
- April 2, 2007-April 13, 2007 - Totally Ninja Easter
- July 21, 2007-August 31, 2007 - It's My Summer!
- October 22, 2007-November 2, 2007 - October Overdrive
- January 7, 2008-February 22, 2008 - Power Rangers Fan Force
[edit] Jetix Max
As of the 2005 rebranding, Jetix included an early-evening slot of shows named "Jetix Max". The Jetix Max slot included such shows as; W.I.T.C.H., Totally Spies, Martin Mystery, Funky Cops, Power Rangers, PXG and Black Hole High. The Jetix Max slot was dropped in June 2006.
[edit] Anime Block
Everynight from 8PM to 10PM there is a block of anime shown. It consists of;
8PM-8:30PM - Shaman King
8:30PM-9PM - Naruto
[edit] Time Extensions
When Fox Kids initially launched in October 19, 1996, it aired between the hours of 6am and 7pm and timeshared with National Geographic Channel. Eventually, broadcasting hours were extended to 10pm, and, on the 3rd November 2003, the channel began to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The 24 hour broadcasting continued until March 2006. Shortly after Fox Kids rebranded as Jetix, the station reduced its broadcasting hours, and began broadcasting Tele-shopping Presentations from 11pm - 2am.
[edit] Jetix DVD
In May 2007 DVDs started to be released under the jetix logo. These where previously released by maximum entertainment who went bust. They are now directly released by jetix them self and are distributed by lace group.
[edit] Jetix (release by lace group)
[edit] Current released DVDs
[edit] May 2007
Thor 2 DVD
Sub Mariner 2 DVD
M.A.S.K. Volume 1
Iron Man 2 DVD
Inspector gadget Volume 1
Huckleberry Finn Volume 1
Heathcliff Volume 1
Captain America 2 DVD
Avengers 2 DVD
Gadget and the Gadgetines Volume 1
Digimon Volume 1
Care Bear Volume 1
Care Bear Volume 2
[edit] June 2007
Sylvanian Families Volume 1
Super Mario Bros Super Show Volume 1
Robocop Volume 1
Rainbow Brite Volume 1
Pinocchio Volume 1
Little Mermaid Volume 1
Amazing Adventures of Peter Pan Volume 1
[edit] July 2007
Transformers Robots in Disguise Volume 1
Transformers Robots in Disguise Volume 2
Transformers Robots in Disguise Volume 3
Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation Volume 1
Transformers Robots in Disguise 3 DVD Box Set
Transformers/Mask/Robocop 3 DVD
Transformers/Action Man/Ninja Turtles 3 DVD
Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation Volume 1 - 3 DVD box Set
Care Bear Volume 3
Care Bear Volume 4
Care Bears/Rainbow Brite/Sylvanian Families 3 DVD
[edit] August 2007
Heathcliff Volume 2
Digimon Volume 2
[edit] October 2007
Iron Man (90's) Complete Series
Transformers Robots in Disguise Season 1
Transformers Robots in Disguise Season 2
Transformers Robots In Disguise 2 DVD - Special Edition
Marvel Box Set 8 DVD
[edit] November 2007
M.A.S.K. Box Set Volume 1
Biker Mice from Mars Season 1 Part 1 (80's)
Dino Riders Complete Series
Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation Volume 2 - 3 DVD Box Set
[edit] Coming soon
[edit] January 2008
Super Mario Bros Super Show Volume 2
RoboCop complete series
New Addams Family Volume 1 - 2 DVD
Inspector Gadget Volume 2
Heathcliff Volume 2
Digimon Volume 2
Digimon 3 DVD Box Set
Conan the Adventurer season 1
Care Bears 2 DVD
Action Man Season 2
[edit] February 2008
Peter Pan and the Pirates Volume 1
[edit] March 2008
Super Mario Bros Super Show 3 DVD
Pinocchio Volume 2
Oliver Twist Volume 1
Little Mermaid Volume 2
Inspector Gadget 3 DVD
Heathcliff 3 DVD
Gadget and the Gadgetines Volume 1
Dennis the Menace (80's) Volume 1
[edit] Maximum entertainment
VR Troopers Volume 1
VR Troopers Volume 2
VR Troopers Mega Disc
Captain America Volume 1
Captain America Volume 2
Sub-Mariner Volume 1
Sub-Mariner Volume 2
The Might Thor Volume 1
The Might Thor Volume 2
Iron Man Volume 1
Iron Man Volume 2
The Avengers Volume 1
The Avengers Volume 2
Robocop Volume 1
Robocop Volume 2
Action Man Volume 1
Action Man Volume 2
Action Man Volume 3
Action Man Mega Disc
Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation Volume 1
Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation Volume 2
Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation Mega Disc
Pinocchio Volume 1
Pinocchio Volume 2
Digimon Volume 1
Digimon Volume 2
Digimon Mega Disc
Adventures of Little Mermaid Volume 1
Adventures of Little Mermaid Volume 2
Inspector Gadget Volume 1
Inspector Gadget Volume 2
Inspector Gadget Volume 3
Peter Pan Volume 1
Super Mario Bros Super Show Volume 1
Super Mario Bros Super Show Volume 2
Super Mario Bros Super Show Volume 3
Super Mario Bros Super Show Mega Disc
Heathcliff Volume 1
Heathcliff Volume 2
Rainbow Brite Volume 1
Rainbow Brite Volume 2
Rainbow Brite Volume 3
Care Bears Volume 1
Care Bears Volume 2
Care Bears Volume 3
Tranformers Robots in Disguise 3 DVD
King Arthur And The Knights Of Justice Volume 1
Digimon/King Arthur/VR Troopers 3 DVD
Dennis the Menace (80's) Volume 1
Dennis the Menace (80's) Volume 2
M.A.S.K Volume 1
Care Bears/Sylvanian Families/Rainbow Brite
Gulliver's Travels [1991] Volume 1
Gadget And The Gadgetinis Volume 1
Huckleberry Finn [1992] Volume 1
Adventures Of Oliver Twist [1997] Volume 1
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics [1989] Volume 1
[edit] Logos
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Nuttynet - SuperHeroes Online. Power Rangers Edits.
[edit] External links
- Jetix United Kingdom and Ireland
- Jetix Europe Info
- Jetix - UK TV Listings and Schedules
- Fashion Spies
- Press Release of the launch of Fox Kids from prnewswire.co.uk
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