Disney Junior (Euro Republics)

Disney Junior was a Euro Republican television block and television channel owned by EuroMedia and aired as a block n Fox & Disney Channel alonsgide it's own 24 hour channel, that focused on preschool programming. It was launched on 29 September 2000 as Playhouse Disney. The channel was rebranded as Disney Junior on 2nd September 2011.

A weekly Saturday morning block of the channel ran between September 2011 and December 2022 on FOX, on the same day as the rebrand, airing first-run episodes of currently airing Disney Junior shows, along with imported series. The lineup was mostly the same as the British version.

History
During the re-brand of Disney Channel ER in 1997, an unbranded block titled "Disney Channel Underfives" was added, featuring programming aimed towards a young audience. On 28 September 1999, it was rebranded as Playhouse Disney with the introduction of live presentation.

On 31st December 1999, EuroMedia launched a standalone Playhouse Disney channel alongside S2000 (now Spark Animation) on the ET1 Digital platform. Since the channel was exclusive to ET1 Digital at this time, the Playhouse Disney block continued to broadcast on Disney Channel during school-term weekdays. The channel was later launched on Multicable in 2002. The block on Disney Channel later reduced it's hours of programming featured and was eventually disposed of in July 2004. In June 2010, the Playhouse Disney on Disney Channel was resurrected and has stayed since.

The Playhouse Disney brand, which existed as 23 channels or blocks in 156 countries and territories, rebranded as Disney Junior in 2011. In the Euro Republics, Disney Junior began on Saturday 2nd September, 2011 with its first show as Handy Manny on the channel. At the same time the channel started broadcasting in HD, and in addition, a block began airing that same day on Viasat 4 (now Fox), with it’s first show being Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The last show that aired on Playhouse Disney ER before it became Disney Junior was JoJo's Circus. Throughout September 2017, Disney XD was turned into a pop-up channel titled Mickey and Pals, which aired various programming from this channel.

When EuroMedia signed a new ER content deal with Disney in 2022, it stipulated that as a compromise between Disney's desires to shut down all of it's linear TV in the country to allow for it to move to Disney+ and EuroMedia's wishes to remain on TV, that only one Disney branded channel would remain from 1st January 2023, and the Star strand on TV3 and FOX would be discontinued.

As a result, it was announced that the local feeds of Disney Junior, Disney XD and Disney Cinemagic would close from 1st January 2023, and that the Disney Junior strand on FOX would be dropped.

The channels would all be replaced with 3C branded channels.

Acquired from Disney Junior (US) (aired on all services)

 * Fancy Nancy (7 January 2019 – 31 December 2022)
 * The Lion Guard (13 April 2016 – 31 December 2022)
 * Muppet Babies (2018 series) (27 August 2018 – 31 December 2022)
 * Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures (September 2017 - 31 December 2022)
 * Miles from Tomorrowland (11 May 2015 – 31 December 2022)
 * PJ Masks (Spring 2016 – 31 December 2022)
 * Puppy Dog Pals (22 January 2018 – 31 December 2022)
 * The Rocketeer (20 July 2020 – 31 December 2022)
 * Sofia the First (8 March 2013 – 31 December 2022)
 * Vampirina (October 2017 – 31 December 2022)
 * Gigantosaurus (29 April 2019 – 31 December 2022)
 * T.O.T.S. (16 September 2019 – 31 December 2022)

Shorts (not aired on FOX)

 * Disney Tsum Tsum
 * Welcome To Trulli Land
 * Sunny Bunnies

Non-Disney series

 * Paprika (1 October 2018 – 31 December 2022)
 * Bluey (28 October 2019 - 31 December 2022)
 * Sesame Street (11 January 1999 - 31 December 2022)
 * Pikwik Pack (9 November 2020 - 31 December 2022)

Acquired from Disney Channel (UK) (only aired on Disney Channel block)

 * Elena of Avalor
 * Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
 * 101 Dalmatian Street