To start the month of December off right, some bad news has just reached us: Disney Channel, a springboard for stars like Zendaya, Selena Gomez and Ryan Gosling, will soon close in France… The famous channel of our childhood will no longer be available from January 2025news that unleashed a wave of protests and grief among Internet users.
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According to The Wrap, in the United States, between 2016 and 2023, the audience of Disney Channel fell by 90%. Children's channels are no longer profitable, and the first consequences of this sad reality are starting to be felt… In 2020, the group Canal had signed a five-year contract with the studios with big ears to broadcast Disney Channel exclusively. A contract that takes end January 1, 2025signaling the shutdown of the channel in France. Indeed, Canal does not wish to continue its partnership with Disney, as our colleagues from the Disneyphile site announced in November. Faced with the disappearance of this emblematic channel of their childhood, Internet users cannot hide their sadness.
Internet users devastated
Since 1997, Disney Channel delights French children and adolescents with programs that have become cult, such as The Palace Life of Zack and Cody, Wizards of Waverly Place, Hannah Montana, Raven Phenomenon, Shake It Up, Austin et Ally… Series which have revealed several actors and actresses who are now essential in Hollywood, and have rocked the youth of Internet users. On many paid tribute to this cult channel:
I'm outside, I ran away from the table. I can't manage. I can't do it. I'm alone outside crying because damn it's Disney Channel CLOSING. https://t.co/NcUuVvk56g
— Lu' (@lusissi_) https://twitter.com/lusissi_/status/1863896879068577910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I don't have the words… pic.twitter.com/psLMVhlDJw
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— (@_yanni_ck) https://twitter.com/_yanni_ck/status/1864262207090913402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Remove BFM TV and Cnews but leave Disney Channel
— Modibo (@ModiboKone36065) https://twitter.com/ModiboKone36065/status/1864297692488229075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I will never forget what you did for me Disney Channel you changed my childhood thank you for this classic pic.twitter.com/k6Sf970yUh https://t.co/O90gX3Zhcz
— Eren.. (@hichembkhh) https://twitter.com/hichembkhh/status/1864256880995934608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And this is not the only bad news linked to the divorce between Disney and Canal…
