Disney XD (Latin America)

Disney XD was a Latin American pay television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company and Disney Branded Television in Latin America and the Caribbean, based from the United States. It is broadcast throughout the region into five feeds, and features animated programs, sitcoms, and some selected programs from Marvel and Lucasfilm. Primarily marketed to kids and teenagers from 7 to 14 years old. It is directly operated by Disney Media Networks and The Walt Disney Company Latin America, which are originally owned by the company itself.

Despite having a larger audience in the region than in the United States, on January 10, 2022, an alleged letter sent in the City of Buenos Aires announcing the closure of the channel was leaked.

Why has it closed?

 * Few premieres and reruns: Due to Disney's carelessness, there are few premieres, since not even season 3 of Amphibia was released. It makes it an unprofitable rerun channel anymore. In February 2022 only new episodes of The Owl House were released.
 * Few original series: Disney XD is said to be just an experiment and not a Disney cartoon-only channel trying to compete with Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. Which would explain the few original series out there. Some new Disney XD original series like G.O.A.T. from 2021 or the most recent Roman to the Rescue from 2022, have not even been released on the Latin American version of the channel.
 * For reviving Disney Channel: With the arrival of Disney XD, few people watched Disney Channel since it had pure Live-Action series and many people wanted to watch Disney cartoons and the best option was Disney XD. It started as an experiment in Oceania in 2019 to see if Disney Channel viewers would increase.
 * Removal of Marvel and Lucasfilm movies and seriess from programming: In 2020, Marvel movies will be removed from the channel's programming as a Disney strategy to have more Latin American subscribers on Disney+, which harmed the channel since it accommodates that contents. Funny how it's lasted 2 years without it.
 * Focus on Disney+: Disney XD began to shutdown in Oceania, then in some countries in Europe, India, Southeast Asia and Japan, due to the launch of Disney+ in those countries, in addition, Disney XD was too similar to Disney+ in terms of content, so Disney had to choose which of the two to focus its content on. The shutdown is continuing in Latin America, which was the only region where Disney XD co-existed with Disney+. Nobody knows why they do that if in Latin America it has more audience than in the United States, it is believed that it could be an experiment to see if Latin Americans have gotten used to change or not. If you want to see their content on television, fortunately they moved their content to the Disney Channel for April 2022 (but only some series), along with their Saturday block, Sabatón.

Probability of returning
The closure of Disney XD in Latin America was very worrying because the majority of households in Latin America do not have access to the Internet, in addition to the fact that some inhabitants do not have money to subscribe to the Disney+ service. From what we see, it will not be replaced like the other countries, unlike its predecessors, Fox Kids and Jetix, so don't think it will be replaced by Marvel HQ like in India. The only use that Disney XD had was to make room for Marvel and Lucasfilm's series and movies.

There has been speculation of his possible return when Bob Chapek leaves the company and the new CEO is responsible for gradually repairing the damage caused by him. Let's hope it is like that!

The channel will always be one of the most loved and remembered in the region.

It is unknown if it will happen in the United States, since from what we see, Disney will only use the American versions of Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD as original series factories for Disney Television Animation and that they will be distributed internationally on Disney+, which it will make those new Disney XD series inaccessible to some people outside of the US. Fortunately Disney XD will continue to exist in other countries where it has shutdown as the Disney XD Originals logo, which since 2016, is shown at the beginning and end of an original series from the channel.