Chiclete

Chiclete is a Portuguese pay television channel operated by ComuChi Multimédia.

Chiclete programming consists of Anime series and movies, East Asian series, movies and music.

The channel is known for dubbing 100% of its programs into European Portuguese (and many more languages, through its international channels), and that the dubs always presents a quality that is highly appreciated and recognized.

History
Chiclete was launched on April 15, 2013, at 4:30 pm. It began by being available in Portugal on MEO and Vodafone operators, and in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe on DStv operator.

Thanks to long and much discussed negotiations, in July 2013, Chiclete and the RTP streaming service (RTP Play) signed an agreement to broadcast the channel on-demand and make some of its content available on the platform and on free-to-air TV through RTP2. Despite this, to access Chiclete content it would have to be paid the amount of €2.95/month, unlike other RTP channels and content which are all free.

On March 20, 2014, the channel underwent throa rebrand of its graphic identity.

In May, 2016, prior to the replacement of Crunchyroll by the new streaming service owned by ComuChi, Chiclick, in Portugal, the partnership with RTP Play was definitively terminated, but the broadcast of some Chiclete content on RTP2 continues normally.

On July 6th, the channel makes its first international expansion creating an entirely localized feed in Galician exclusively for the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia.

In March 2017, an agreement was signed with for the broadcast of some dubbed anime in a programming block on the  channel that premiered in May of that year.

Also in May, the channel was was released in several European countries, Andorra received a fully localized feed in Catalan and also Greece and Cyprus received their own feed in Greek; Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden received the newly Northern European feed ; Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia debut the CEE feed. Georgia begin the broadcast of EMME feed with only subtitled programming in Georgian and continuity in English. In June the CEE feed was launched in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro with Albanian, Croatian and Serbian audio tracks, and in Moldova and Romania was launched the EMME feed (in Romanian).

In July, the czech channel, also premiered a programming block similar to the Polsat Games one.

In September, the portuguese telecommunications provider NOWO, was acquired by Gomacom, which now includes Chiclete in its channel list on the 30th. In October, Prima Cool ended the block's broadcast without prior notice, terminating the agreement between the companies.

On November 2nd, the channel began broadcasting on the operator NOS, in Portugal and on the digital satellite television provider ZAP, in Angola and Mozambique. On the 7th, the CEE feed was launched in Czechia and the broadcasts of CEE and Northern Europe feeds were transferred to the country (Previously, all feeds were broadcasting from Greece).

The block on left the channel's grid in July, 2018. On August 5th, a Polish localized feed of the channel was launched in the country.

On November 7, after the purchase of the Aniplus Asia channel, Chiclete created two feeds to replace the channel on the countries who received it, Hong Kong and Singapore received the Mandarin feed, while Philippines and Thailand received the Asia feed. In Indonesia and Malaysia, the channel's broadcasts ended on the 5th.

On December 14th, a new feed in European Portuguese was created exclusively for Macau and Timor-Leste, the Mandarin feed also debuted in Macau (in Cantonese) and the Asia feed debuted a Mongolian audio track and arrived in Mongolia on the same day.

On February 25, 2019, Taiwan now receives Mandarin feed and the Asia feed is now broadcasted in Vietnam. On the 28th, the channel debuted a completely localized version in Hebrew for Israel.

In April, EMME feed gained an audio track in Modern Standard Arabic exclusive for Lebanon.

On August 11th, Chiclete begins its broadcast on GOtv in Mozambique.

On October 3rd, Asia feed reached Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos and Nepal with English continuity and subtitles in local languages.

In March 2020, a Bulgarian and Albanian audio track on the EMME feed premiered in Bulgaria and North Macedonia, respectively.

In December, the Baltic countries now receive dubbed programs instead of subtitles and a separate Albanian localized feed of Chiclete was created for Albania and Kosovo replacing the CEE feed which stopped broadcasting the Albanian audio track since then.

On December 9, 2022, the channel was launched on the Angolan and Mozambican operator tvcabo, and in Mozambique throughonly, the operator StarTimes.

On August 12, 2023, EMME feed received a fully audio track in Georgian and was replaced in North Macedonia by the Albanian feed with a newly Macedonian audio track.

On September 20th, the EMME feed was renamed to Chiclete Europe, Middle East & Asia (EMEA).

Programs
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Dubbing Studios
Listed below are the dubbing studios responsible for dubbing the programs of the channel.