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Disney Channel is a cable network owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its first broadcast was on April 18, 1983, as a 16-hour-a-day pay cable channel. It soon changed to a 24-hour-a-day channel in 1986, and in 1997 became a basic cable channel.

Various Henson productions have aired on the channel. The Muppets have appeared in Disney Channel bumpers, first in 1997, when the channel began airing episodes of Muppets Tonight, and again in 2005, after The Walt Disney Company acquired the Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House characters from The Jim Henson Company.

On April 28, 1995, the channel aired The Muppets at Walt Disney World, The Muppet Movie, and The Great Muppet Caper as part of it's "Tripple Feature Friday" marathon.^[1]

The Muppets were featured in the Studio DC: Almost Live specials. Additionally Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Pepe the King Prawn appeared on an episode of Mike's Super Short Show; Miss Piggy guest starred on Take Two with Phineas and Ferb, a spinoff of Phineas and Ferb; and on the Disney Channel Show So Random; Jason Segel and Kermit the Frog appeared in a Movie Surfers segement on The Muppets; and the cast of The Muppets appeared to share "Movie Star Secrets" with the cast of A. N. T. Farm and promote the new film.

Senior Vice President of Original Programming Nancy Kanter was once a Sesame Workshop employee, executive producing various videos.

Their preschool lineup was called Playhouse Disney (now known as Disney Junior).

Contents 1 Appearances 2 Henson productions first aired in the US on Disney Channel 3 Henson productions broadcast on Disney Channel 4 External Links 5 Sources 6 See also

AppearancesEdit

• Jake Short interviewed Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Walter on the green carpet of The Muppets' premiere for a Disney 365 commercial on November 26, 2011. (YouTube)

Henson productions first aired in the US on Disney ChannelEdit

• Mother Goose Stories, The Secret Life of Toys, Muppets Tonight season two, Bear in the Big Blue House, Breakfast with Bear and Studio DC: Almost Live

Henson productions broadcast on Disney ChannelEdit

• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Big Bird in China, Big Bird in Japan, Buddy, The Dark Crystal, Dinosaurs, Don't Eat the Pictures, The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show, Fraggle Rock, Fraggle Rock (animated), The Frog Prince, The Great Muppet Caper, Hey Cinderella!, John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together, Labyrinth, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Muppet Movie, Muppet Treasure Island, The Muppets at Walt Disney World, The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson, Muppets from Space, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppets Tonight (first season), Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, The Witches.

External LinksEdit

• Official site

SourcesEdit

1. ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, April/May 1995 issue

See alsoEdit

• Disney Channel (Scandinavia)