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Would you pay for The Disney Channel again?
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dxwwf3
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I never knew it wasn't a pay channel anymore. Our Comcast cable has never picked it up for regular cable. Now they put it on Digital Cable but it's not worth the upgrade for us.
And no I wouldn't pay for it from what I've seen from the resort tv. Now if I lived with someone under 10, then maybe. But definately not for my own personal viewing. The only way I would is if they went back and showed more stuff from the parks.
And no I wouldn't pay for it from what I've seen from the resort tv. Now if I lived with someone under 10, then maybe. But definately not for my own personal viewing. The only way I would is if they went back and showed more stuff from the parks.
EmeraldDolphin
New Member
no way... I agree, the only way I would be interested in watching it, would be if they were to show more about the parks.
Wilt Dasney
Well-Known Member
I remember when watching the Disney Channel used to be something kinda special. Maybe it was because it was way up on the dial, all by itself (Channel 96) or maybe it's just because I was a kid, but I remember watching it and really getting a special feeling from it.
These were in the days when they would run the first-person perspective interludes where you were Mickey doing things like driving around town or riding around in a mine car and they always ended with the Mouse ears logo on the screen. They showed stuff like Welcome to Pooh Corner and Dumbo's Circus and reruns of Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck. They never interrupted shows to promote other shows, and in between programs, they would show a few promotions and then go into 5-minute segments on Imagineering or behind the scenes at the parks and such.
The whole channel just had a Disney "feel" to it. I would pay for that, I think, but I never even watch the channel now, since they decided they want to be Nickelodeon.
These were in the days when they would run the first-person perspective interludes where you were Mickey doing things like driving around town or riding around in a mine car and they always ended with the Mouse ears logo on the screen. They showed stuff like Welcome to Pooh Corner and Dumbo's Circus and reruns of Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck. They never interrupted shows to promote other shows, and in between programs, they would show a few promotions and then go into 5-minute segments on Imagineering or behind the scenes at the parks and such.
The whole channel just had a Disney "feel" to it. I would pay for that, I think, but I never even watch the channel now, since they decided they want to be Nickelodeon.
SpongeScott
Well-Known Member
Why pay for it if you don't watch it? The format is definitely different than it used to be. I remember getting it back in the mid 80's as a premium channel. Movies ran uncut and it was very different. But, they changed in order to survive, I guess. My daughter watches it some, but I rarely ever see anything on there to entice me.
guwag
Active Member
In England, the Disney Channel is still a pay channel and costs £5 a month I think ($8.50 US). With that, you get Disney Channel, Disney Channel +1, Playhouse Disney and Toon Disney (Off the top of my head, think that's correct, anyone know??). Because of the extra cost on top of our normal Digital Satellite subscription, we've never bothered with it....
General Grizz
New Member
Everyone knows where I stand. Until I see good programming (and none of this stupid Nickelodeon Brandy and Wisker crap), this channel is not getting a CENT out of me.
I'd pay for Vault Disney 
and I'd pay extra for a nostalgia park ( Mr. Toad, 20,000 Leagues, Horizons 
etc).
Vault was on here after midnight. I taped it every night
, Zorro, the "real" Mickey Mouse Club, the Wonderful World of Disney :wave:
The check book is out. Bring it on. :sohappy:
and I'd pay extra for a nostalgia park ( Mr. Toad, 20,000 Leagues, Horizons etc).Vault was on here after midnight. I taped it every night
, Zorro, the "real" Mickey Mouse Club, the Wonderful World of Disney :wave: The check book is out. Bring it on. :sohappy:
imagineer boy
Well-Known Member
I like some of the things on the current Disney channel now, like That's So Raven, Proud Family, Kim Possible, Dave the Barbarian, Stitch, and some of the original movies, but I really wish they'd add more thats based on the famouse movies and the theme parks, and of corse, vault disney!
surfsupdon
Well-Known Member
tigsmom said:
Those were two ultimate Disney channel shows!! Avonlea was also highly enjoyable.
The channel was "special" back then, watching it made me feel that I was a part of WDW and Disney in general.
General Grizz
New Member
prberk
Well-Known Member
Sad part is, I did pay for it for about 10 years; and just as it became part of our Comcast basic cable service, it was reprogrammed to this 24-hour 'tweenfest.
I believe that the programming change was a part of their overall strategy to make the channnel a basic cable service, eventually set up to have commercials (after all pay cable franchise agreements have been converted to basic or digital tiers). See, I think they pulled their "premium" Disney classics from the channel, thinking in part that these movies were more valuable on DVD or premium service. This thinking, I believe, coincided with the press reports of Lizzy McGuire being a true '90s phenomenon. So, if you have a bona fide TV (read, "cheap") phenomenon, why not completely exploit the idea and go full-time with copies and reruns, especially if you are going to be basic cable now and need to pull back your classics?
In basic cable, they are aiming for a broad, catch-all 'tween and preschool demo, instead of focusing on paying customers who are true Disney fans paying for a difference.
What they do not realize, I believe, is that along the way they are actually confusing and cheapening the Disney "brand" (a word they love to say) for the long run. It is already becoming evident in the lack of box office pull for the name. People may now come to associate new Disney entertainment as the cheap, throw-away stuff that they see daily on TV. Fun for the moment, but not worth paying extra for... at the box office or premium cable.
For contrast, check out Pixar's cheap TV series and the Pixar Channel, and Toon Pixar... Oh, wait... Pixar doesn't do cheap. Hmmm.... Wonder why people go out of their way to see Pixar's movies? Hmmmmmm.... :lookaroun
I believe that the programming change was a part of their overall strategy to make the channnel a basic cable service, eventually set up to have commercials (after all pay cable franchise agreements have been converted to basic or digital tiers). See, I think they pulled their "premium" Disney classics from the channel, thinking in part that these movies were more valuable on DVD or premium service. This thinking, I believe, coincided with the press reports of Lizzy McGuire being a true '90s phenomenon. So, if you have a bona fide TV (read, "cheap") phenomenon, why not completely exploit the idea and go full-time with copies and reruns, especially if you are going to be basic cable now and need to pull back your classics?
In basic cable, they are aiming for a broad, catch-all 'tween and preschool demo, instead of focusing on paying customers who are true Disney fans paying for a difference.
What they do not realize, I believe, is that along the way they are actually confusing and cheapening the Disney "brand" (a word they love to say) for the long run. It is already becoming evident in the lack of box office pull for the name. People may now come to associate new Disney entertainment as the cheap, throw-away stuff that they see daily on TV. Fun for the moment, but not worth paying extra for... at the box office or premium cable.
For contrast, check out Pixar's cheap TV series and the Pixar Channel, and Toon Pixar... Oh, wait... Pixar doesn't do cheap. Hmmm.... Wonder why people go out of their way to see Pixar's movies? Hmmmmmm.... :lookaroun