The Walt Disney Company has announced that it will be closing the FOX channel in Africa at the end of September this year. Viewers losing access to The Walking Dead, The Simpsons, War of the Worlds, BONES, Family Guy, American Dad! and more. 

Last Year, Disney took away Disney XD and FOX Life channels for no reason. And now, this year, Bob Chapek, the Chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, is planning to shut down 100 of its Disney Channels in order to focus on the streaming service, Disney+, which launched in November 2019, and in some international countries last year, closing some Disney Channels. 

• "Well, we closed 30 channels in FY2020 or in 2020. We plan to close 100 in 2021. So yes, we will continue and continue at a robust rate. And then the content to your question, we’ll continue to migrate to Disney+, the great majority of that content will migrate to Disney+. And again, the decisions that we make in individual channels and individual markets, and the timing of such are sort of framed up by existing deals that we’ve gotten some of the constraints we’ve got there, but as you can see, that continues to be a core strategy for us as we pivot towards direct-to-consumer".

As the channel closes on Thursday 30 September at 23:59, a spokesman of the Walt Disney Company said:

• "As the television landscape and viewer consumption evolve, we continue to develop and review our products and services to ensure we are offering the best possible experience for consumers. We look forward to bringing consumers across Africa a vast array of factual, sports, and kids programming from our channels, including National Geographic, National Geographic Wild, ESPN, ESPN 2, Disney Channel, and Disney Junior."

I urge you to sign up for this petition before it is too late. Won't you be disappointed in losing a channel with popular American content, and be switching to Disney+ which you have to spend so much money to watch these shows? Please, do this before it is too late.