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Disney Channel (post-2009)
Disney Channel (originally called The Disney Channel from 1983 to 1997 and commonly shortened to Disney from 1997 to 2002) is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of owner Disney Channels Worldwide unit of the Walt Disney Television subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Disney Channel used to be an awesome channel, for about 26 years, being another great children’s network. When post-2009 came about, however, Disney Channel started to lose their charm and began to go downhill, which is very sad, and that’s what we are talking about here.

Why They Suck Now

 * 1) One of the main reasons the network went through a downright spiral is because of it's president since 2011, Gary Marsh, while definitely not as bad as other TV channel presidents like mh:terribletvshows:Cyma Zarghami, he wasn’t exactly the best either, as the choices he made weren’t that good.
 * 2) * He canceled never aired shows that could have been good, those titles were ‘Zombies and Cheerleaders’, ‘Keke & Jamal’, ‘The Odd Cousins’, ‘Madison High’, ‘Housebroken (or Arwin!)’, ‘Gulliver Quinn’, ‘Growing Up and Down’, and ‘Forever Boys’. As quoted by the website J-14, "between the awesome ideas and huge stars that were supposed to appear in them, these shows sound like they would have been seriously epic!"
 * 3) * The shows he did allow were mostly bad such as mh:terribletvshows:Bizaardvark, mh:terribletvshows:Dog with a Blog, mh:terribletvshows:Fish Hooks, mh:terribletvshows:Shake it Up, mh:terribletvshows:A.N.T. Farm, mh:terribletvshows:So Random!, etc, as well as milking mh:besttvshows:Phineas and Ferb to the max until 2015, while leaving other good shows, mostly imfamously mh:besttvshows:Best Friends Whenever, at the corner after airing a small amount of episodes.
 * 4) * And to add insult to injury, since 2008, the channel, resulting from its multi-platform marketing strategy using television and music, has become "the major profit driver for the Walt Disney Company."
 * 5) As mentioned before and like Cartoon Network with mh:terribletvshows:Teen Titans Go!, Disney Channel has milked Phineas and Ferb to death without taking a break from it for a while, due to those show being the network's cash-cow, as it continued to take up almost the entire time-slot, with other shows get little to no airtime before the show ended in 2015.
 * 6) As mentioned before, the network also aired some pretty mediocre-to-bad shows during this era, such as Bizaardvark, Dog with a Blog, Jonas, mh:terribletvshows:Gabby Duran & the Unsittables, Fish Hooks, mh:terribletvshows:Go Away, Unicorn!, Shake It Up, mh:terribletvshows:Space Chickens in Space, mh:terribletvshows:Star Wars Resistance, mh:terribletvshows:V 4 Viraat, A.N.T. Farm, and So Random!.
 * 7) Speaking of which, one of the channel’s main problems now is that they started to focus more on sitcoms than cartoons. While that isn’t really a bad thing (unlike Cartoon Network’s case), the main issue is that this is handled VERY poorly, and it feels like the cartoons were almost wiped out of existence from Disney Channel, even though they are still standing.
 * 8) During the recent years, they've also been involved in many controversies:
 * 9) *The channel has also pulled episodes (even once having to reshoot an episode) that have featured subject matter deemed inappropriate due to its humor, the timing of the episode's airing with real-life events, or subject matter considered inappropriate for Disney Channel's target audience.
 * 10) *In November 2008 (before the channel went downhill), the Hannah Montana episode "No Sugar, Sugar" was pulled before its broadcast after complaints from parents who saw the episode through video on demand services due to misconceptions regarding diabetics and sugar intake (the Mitchel Musso character of Oliver Oken is revealed in the episode to have been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes). Portions of that episode were subsequently rewritten and re-filmed to become the season three episode "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)," which aired in September 2009 (which is after the channel started going downhill).
 * 11) *In December 2011, Disney Channel pulled episodes of two of its original series from the network's broadcast cycle – the season one Shake It Up episode "Party It Up," and the So Random! episode "Colbie Caillat" – after Demi Lovato (star of So Random! parent series Sonny with a Chance, who was treated for bulimia nervosa in 2010) objected on Twitter to jokes featured in both episodes (the Shake It Up episode, in particular) that made light of eating disorders.
 * 12) *On May 17, 2013, the channel pulled "Quitting Cold Koala", a second-season episode of Jessie, prior to its scheduled premiere broadcast, due to parental concerns over a scene in which a character's gluten-free diet leads to him being ridiculed.
 * 13) Beginning in 2020, Disney began shutting their Disney channels down in certain countries to make people buy Disney+, which is not good.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) They still air (or aired) a few decent/good shows during this era, such as Phineas and Ferb, Bunk'd (the first two seasons), mh:besttvshows:1001 Nights, mh:besttvshows:101 Dalmatian Street, mh:besttvshows:Amphibia, mh:besttvshows:Andi Mack, mh:besttvshows:Austin & Ally, Best Friends Whenever, mh:besttvshows:Big City Greens, mh:besttvshows:Big Hero 6: The Series, mh:besttvshows:Cars Toons, mh:besttvshows:Coop & Cami Ask The World, mh:besttvshows:DuckTales (2017 TV series), mh:besttvshows:Elena of Avalor, mh:besttvshows:Girl Meets World, mh:besttvshows:Good Luck Charlie, mh:besttvshows:Gravity Falls,mh:besttvshows:Hannah Montana, mh:besttvshows:I Didn't Do It, mh:besttvshows:It’s Unbungalievable!, mh:besttvshows:Jessie, Just Roll with It, mh:besttvshows:K.C. Undercover, mh:besttvshows:The Lion Guard, mh:besttvshows:Liv and Maddie, mh:besttvshows:Milo Murphy's Law, mh:besttvshows:Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, mh:besttvshows:Pair of Kings, mh:besttvshows:Raven's Home, mh:besttvshows:Sonny With A Chance, mh:besttvshows:Star vs. the Forces of Evil, mh:besttvshows:Stuck in the Middle, mh:besttvshows:Sydney To The Max, mh:besttvshows:Tangled: the Series, mh:besttvshows:The Owl House, mh:besttvshows:The Suite Life on Deck, mh:besttvshows:Violetta, mh:besttvshows:Whisker Haven, and Wizards of Waverly Place.
 * 2) Their international versions are still good.

Reception
While the first 26 years of the channel, pre-2009, received mostly positive reception, it started to go downhill since post-2009, and nowadays, the channel has been receiving mixed to negative reception from many old fans of the channel, with many saying that it’s current programming is what made the channel lose its charm, suffering a similar problem with Cartoon Network since the similar time period.

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsCUrXpxrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfs9Oe_4Af4