Disney have announced that the abc1 channel is to be pulled from Freeview owing to the lack of a prime time slot.
Since launch the channel has been restricted to a daytime-only slot on the service which has seen the channel ceasing broadcasting just as the majority of viewers are switching on.
Walt Disney Television EMEA executive vice president and managing director John Hardie said: “”While abc1 successfully found a strong audience in day time through introduction of day long fiction, the inability to get access to a Freeview primetime spectrum together with our focus on the Disney brand led us to the conclusion that it was best to move on”
It’s understood Disney have yet to take a decision on whether to sell the channel’s slot or use it for another channel.