In April 2015, Corus Entertainment announced that it had acquired Canadian rights to the program library of Disney Channel and its associated brands as part of a deal with the DisneyвЂ“ABC Television Group DHX's existing deal with Disney, which covered programming across the four DHX Television services, ended in January 2016. Nerd Corps Entertainment, a computer animation studio founded by former Mainframe Entertainment producers Asaph Fipke and Chuck Johnson, also the makers of Slugterra, was acquired by DHX Media on December 24. Other shows in the purchase included Lunar Jim, Beast Wars: Transformers and Cookie Jar's Emily of New Moon. Complex (two other Epitome productions), as well as distribution rights to an additional 34 series. The acquisition comprised about 1,200 half-hours including the international distribution rights to Degrassi, as well as Instant Star and The L.A. In November, DHX purchased 117 children's and family titles from US distributor Echo Bridge Home Entertainment. In early 2014, DHX Media acquired Epitome Pictures, the producers of Degrassi, but Epitome did not own international distribution rights. The channels were incorporated into a new unit, DHX Television. The deal was approved by the CRTC on July 24, 2014, and closed on July 31, 2014. The networks were being sold as a condition of Bell Media's 2013 acquisition of the remainder of Astral Media's assets its purchase of the networks marked DHX's first foray into television broadcasting. On November 28, 2013, DHX announced that it would acquire four children's specialty television channels from the former Astral Media for CA$170 million, consisting of Family Channel, Disney Junior (English), Disney Junior (French), and Disney XD. Expansion into broadcasting, subsequent partnerships On September 16, 2013, DHX acquired British Ragdoll Worldwide-a joint venture between Ragdoll Productions, BBC Worldwide and an investment group that managed and licensed Ragdoll Productions' properties (such as Teletubbies) outside the United Kingdom. DHX was among the first 30 content partners for YouTube's premium channel platform. DHX's then executive chairman Michael Hirsh stated that the offerings were meant to leverage the company's library and the growth of digital distribution in the children's television market. In May 2013, DHX introduced three premium, subscription-based channels on YouTube DHX Junior, DHX Kids, and DHX Retro. The acquisition was completed on October 22, 2012. On August 20, 2012, it was announced that DHX Media would acquire Cookie Jar Group for CA $111 million, a deal which would make DHX the world's largest independent owner of children's television programming. On September 14, 2010, DHX Media acquired the original WildBrain Entertainment.

On September 8, 2010, all related subsidiaries and divisions were rebranded under the label DHX Media. On March 25, 2008, DHX Media acquired Bulldog Interactive Fitness.

ДЄ reverse merger deal with Entertainment One was considered in 2008, but was dropped. The newly public company known as DHX Media, began trading in 2006, because the name, 'DHX', is an acronym for the combination of the names Decode and Halifa x. In 2006, the Toronto-based Decode Entertainment and Halifax-based Halifax Film Company merged so that the newly merged company would be named the Decode-Halifax Film Company.

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