Minimax (Netherlands/Belgium)

Minimax was a Dutch children's channel owned by C More Entertainment (then known as Canal+ Television AB), that launched in July 2002, and closed on 1 August 2007. It mostly airs animated programs dubbed in the Dutch language.

Programming
Some of the notable series aired on the Dutch Minimax include Twipsy, Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat, Digimon Adventure, Doraemon, Crayon Shin-Chan, Hamtaro, Mirmo Zibang, Tiny Toon Adventures, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Bibi Blocksberg, Bear in the Big Blue House, Arthur, and many others.

Controversy
A Dutch dub of Digimon Adventure started airing on Minimax on 19 June 2003, and it gained up to 80% of the channel's market share. There were complaints from parents over the fear of the show being seen as violent (despite many advertisements for the channel claim the channel to be a non-violent channel). This resulted in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting banning further airing of the series as-is in 2004, and requiring the series to be toned down to remove the realistic violence in order to air again on the network.

Trivia

 * Similar to Scandinavia, while Nicktoons quickly became an extremely popular channel in the Netherlands, the initial reaction to the replacement from some Minimax fans was quite negative, one reason being the removals of Doraemon and Crayon Shin-Chan in favor of Nickelodeon produced programming. One of the most notable examples was a picture from a Swedish DeviantArt user from September 2007 called "Doraemon versus de stomme spons (Doraemon vs. the stupid Sponge)" involving Doraemon beating up SpongeBob, which is ironic considering the fact that the 2005 anime (along with Crayon Shin-chan, and then Super Shiro in 2021) would start airing on the channel in 2015.