On the heels of announcing it was moving into the Spanish free-to-air scene yesterday, Disney Channel is setting up a pay digital terrestrial (DTT) channel in Italy, as part of the new Mediaset Premium Gallery offer.
Disney Channel is presently part of MondoSKY on satellite (SKY), IPTV (Alice and Fastweb) and Vodafone-SKY’s Dvbh + UMTS offering in the territory.
In addition to offering current Disney Channel series such as Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody the channel will also features local productions such Quelli dell’intervallo’, its spin off ‘Fiore e Tinelli’ and ‘Life Bites’.
Like Disney Channel Spain, the new service is launching July 1.