
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS) is pulling the plug on its free-viewing Disney Channel Turkey and will be replacing it with the subscription-based Disney+ streaming service.
What Happened: The company launched the channel in April 2007 as a satellite television offering, with its U.S.-produced contents dubbed into Turkish. In 2011, it switched to a free-to-air (FTA) television presentation, making it Disney’s third FTA channel in Europe after similar launches in Spain and Russia.