Disney Channel

Disney Channel is a cable network owned by the Walt Disney Company. Its first broadcast was on April 18, 1983, as a 16-hour-a-day pay cable channel. It soon changed to a 24-hour-a-day channel, and in 1997, it became a basic cable channel.

Various Henson productions have aired on the channel. The Muppets have appeared in Disney Channel bumpers -- in 1997, when the channel began airing episodes of Muppets Tonight, and in 2005, after the Disney Company bought the Muppet characters.

Senior Vice President of Original Programming Nancy Kanter was once a Sesame Workshop employee, executive producing various videos.

Henson productions first aired in the US on Disney Channel

 * Mother Goose Stories, The Secret Life of Toys, Muppets Tonight (the second season), Bear in the Big Blue House, and Breakfast with Bear.

Henson productions broadcast on Disney Channel

 * Big Bird in China, Fraggle Rock, Fraggle Rock (animated), Big Bird in Japan, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Witches, Buddy, The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets from Space, Don't Eat the Pictures, Dinosaurs, The Muppets At Walt Disney World, The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson, John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland and Muppets Tonight (first season).