Star Kids Jr. (Centralia)

Star Kids Jr. is an Centraliese junior (formerly kids among ages 8-18 until 2000) TV network owned by Disney International Centralia, and as of 2021 it was co-owned by Star TV Centralia.

History


In 1994, The owner of JuniorTV Italy launched an Centraliese junior television channel which is based of it's Italian counterpart.

In 1996, following JuniorTV Italy's rebrand, JuniorTV Centralia renamed to JTV Centralia, and changed it's focus to cartoons and anime.

In 1999, The Walt Disney Company Centralia bought the channel, and in 2000, JTV Centralia renamed to Playhouse Disney, with the final program before the rebrand is Dragon Ball, and the first program to air on Playhouse Disney Centralia is Madeline, and Playhouse Disney is now re-focused to programming aired from Playhouse Disney US and acquired programming.

In the same year, CTV4 ended time-shared with Disney Channel, and now time-shared with the new Playhouse Disney.

In October 2002, Playhouse Disney Centralia blocks started to focus on CBeebies-esque style, including which the Bedtime block. On the same date, the same schedule has been relaunched from the same block that aired on the Disney Channel, simulcasting the latter from 7am to 10am.

In 2003, all Disney Channels in Centralia rebranded, including Playhouse Disney Centralia.

In 2007, CTV "F" stopped timesharing with this channel, this resulted in Playhouse Disney moving from free-to-air service to basic-level subscription service, like how Disney Channel did 2 years ago. On the same day, the channel expanded it's broadcasting hours to 5am to 12am.

On June 21st 2011, as part of the worldwide rebranding from Playhouse Disney to Disney Junior, The Walt Disney Company Centralia announced that channel will rebrand to Disney Junior on July 18th, 2011 at midnight. On the same day, the channel will switch into the 16:9 HDTV format.

The final marathon before the channel rebrand that consists all episodes of Little Einsteins Season 1 until episode 17, and the final episode to air on Playhouse Disney (which exactly is the same Little Einsteins show) is How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story, and after that episode it aired few promos and then a promo from sister channels Disney Channel and Disney XD then an ident loop for 5 minutes (11:55pm CET) before it goes to black screen for 5 minutes (12am CET) until the Disney Junior bumper "The Magic Returns at 6am" plays (12:05am CET), this resulted in the end of the Playhouse Disney brand in Centralia which is used after 11 years.

During the channel relaunch, the extended Disney Junior ident plays, and after that ident, before Welcome to Disney Junior, and then Handy Manny.

Disney Junior Centralia relaunched as Star Kids Jr. Centralia since 1st October 2021, the shutdown sequence is the same as Disney Junior UK except for promos and final program (which is exactly Little Einsteins).

Current

 * (July 1st 2012-present)
 * (2007-present)
 * (July 11th 2011-present)
 * (September 30th 2021-present)
 * (2020-present; shares with Cartoon Network and Boomerang)
 * (May 1st 2013-present)

As JuniorTV/JTV

 * (seasons 1-3)
 * (seasons 1-3)
 * (seasons 1-3)
 * (seasons 1-3)
 * (seasons 1-3)
 * (seasons 1-3)
 * (seasons 1-3)

As Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior

 * (moved from Disney Channel)
 * (2000-2004)
 * (now on Cartoonito on Cartoon Network Centralia)
 * (Series 13) (2013-2017)
 * (Series 17) (2017-2019)
 * (2000-2005)
 * (moved to Cartoon Network)
 * (moved to CTV Kids)
 * (2002-2003)
 * (moved to Cartoon Network)
 * (moved to CTV Kids)
 * (2002-2003)
 * (2002-2003)

TV listings

 * /TV Listings/November 20th 2002