Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution (ownership) Disney Branded Television (operations) (The Walt Disney Company)
Broadcast area:
Nationwide
Disney XD is an American pay television channel which is owned by The Walt Disney Company through Disney Channels Worldwide. Aimed primarily at children ages 6–15, its programming consists of original first-run television series, current and former original series and made-for-TV films from sister network Disney Channel, theatrically-released films, and acquired programs from other distributors. The channel offers an alternate Spanish-language audio feed, either via a separate channel with the English track removed as part of a package of Spanish-language television networks sold by subscription providers or a separate audio track accessible through the SAP option, depending on the provider. As of January 2016, Disney XD is available to 77.5 million households in the United States.
Unlike Disney Channel, which is a family-oriented TV channel, Disney XD is The Walt Disney Company's answer to the world's number one children's TV network owned by Paramount, Nickelodeon.
Their logo is very cool and creative.
The fact that Disney created a channel that focused about boys and girls' live-action shows, and boy-oriented animated comedies is great.
Since it was originally launched as a male-oriented TV channel, this channel became famous among every female audience, airing some girl-oriented programs, including Kim Possible, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and Pucca.
Since the success of the premiere of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, it quickly drifted from the male-oriented programming, to children's programming, in a favor of Nickelodeon and Universal Kids.
All 5 of their movies: Skyrunners, Bunks, Slugterra: Ghoul from Beyond, Pants on Fire and Mark & Russell's Wild Ride are all decent/good films from the channel.
Although it did went downhill in 2021, two new shows, G.O.A.T. and Eye Wonder, premiered on November 6 as their new original shows.
Bad Qualities
It replaced Toon Disney and Jetix because of business practices, but it's still good.
The channel is available in far fewer households than the Disney Channel, so shown on the network are often doomed to low levels of viewership.
While Phineas and Ferb, Gravity Falls, and Wander Over Yonder are all still really good shows for the channel, all three of them are now seen as an example that Disney turned the channel into a dumping ground for those shows.
While they did air Pokémon from 2016-2021, the only seasons from the anime that aired were only the Sun and Moon anime. No other seasons made a comeback to Disney XD.
After Sun and Moon finished broadcasting in March 2020, the anime no longer airs due to Season 23 going into Netflix. Of course, this is not 100% a bad thing all the time, but still it's actually quite sad to see the Pokémon anime not do both streaming and television anymore now that Disney got rid of their anime block since 2021.
D|XP was a horrible gaming block to the point where it showed highly inappropriate scenes for the targeted general audience and spawned some of the most infamous shows Disney XD had to offer, such as Player Select, Parker Plays (despite being decent), The IGN Show, Play with Caution and Polaris Primetime.
The channel went downhill for a bit in 2021, after their last original shows: DuckTales (2017) and Big Hero 6: The Series ended, so they no longer had original programming for a while (they had acquired shows during this period like 101 Dalmatian Street and GhostForce) until November 6, when G.O.A.T. and Eye Wonder premiered. Despite that minor dip in quality, 2021 was not a bad year for the channel.
The channel was not to be confused with Disney XD (Xtreme Digital), was a magic Web portal that has Disney content such as videos and music, it allowed registered users to created their own personalized channels back in 2007.