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" Fox Kids channels around the world - including the one seen in the UK - will be renamed &amp;#039;Jetix&amp;#039; later this year as part of a global rebranding package by ABC Cable Networks Group, Fox Kids Europe and Fox Kids Latin America. The Fox Kids channels are currently operated as a programming alliance between the Disney-owned ABC Cable Networks Group and the regional Fox Kids operations. From April, Fox Kids seen in the UK will start airing &amp;#039;Jetix&amp;#039; programme blocks, followed by a full conversion to Jetix-branded channels in the autumn. In the US, Jetix-branded programming blocks will air on ABC Family and Toon Disney. Bruce Steinberg, Chairman and CEO of Fox Kids Europe, said: &amp;quot;Jetix propels Fox Kids&amp;#039; offering of high-energy entertainment to a worldwide kids audience. This will strengthen Fox Kids Europe&amp;#039;s partnership with Disney and enable us to develop exciting original programming to bring to this expanded audience and continue our success as the leading pan-European kids action-adventure entertainment company. We will build on this new alliance to continue to successfully leverage our programming library through our channels, consumer products, programme distribution and online and interactive businesses.&amp;quot; In a press release, it was explained that the name Jetix was &amp;quot;developed with the goal of finding a word that implied action and adventure and yet could be used in a number of international markets without being a proper name for something else.&amp;quot; Anne Sweeney, president of the ABC Cable Networks Group and Disney Channel Worldwide, said: &amp;quot;Jetix will be among the most widely distributed television brands for kids around the world and a showcase for new and existing action-adventure programs, including the new season of the best-known series in the genre, Power Rangers. Jetix is a strategic, ad-supported complement to Disney-branded television around the world, including our 22 Disney Channels.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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