For Wiz-tober Disney Offers “Call In Your Haunt!”

If you are a parent, you miss the good old days of Halloween programming during the season. And it’s harder and harder to pass down that tradition to your children every year. Well, Disney Channel does not disappoint. Now, it may not be the programming RFR is going to queue up to kick off the Halloween Season, but if you are like some of us here at the show, then you have children you want to enjoy Halloween with.

Wiztober returns for the second year in 2009, with new Halloween and wizard-themed programming lineup hosted by the stars of the Emmy-nominated hit series “Wizards of Waverly Place”. The show is most known for its pop diva princess, who is gaining the steam of Hannah Montana, Selena Gomez. The month is in the Halloween Spirit as Season Three premieres of “Wizards of Waverly Place” on Friday, October 9th. And even if you are more in to gore, horror and such, remember your children and last year’s Wiztober delivered TV’s No. 1 rank in Total Day among Tweens 9-14.

“Wiz-tober” kicks off with a special encore presentation of “Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie” and follows quickly with other favorites like “Halloweentown” and “Twitches”, along with their respective sequels to follow. There is going to be non other than Harry Potter popping in and out all month long and for those of you parents who have Tween Daughters, cover your ears, because there will be a Special Halloween Edition of Jonas. Many of Disney Channel’s series will get spooky episode makeovers like “The Suite Life On Deck” and “Wizards of Waverly Place.”

Now here is where it gets fun for us in the Haunt Industry as parent to teach our children the importance of effects. I expect alot from those Ambient Haunt Musicians kids. Beginning September 16, your kids and go to DisneyChannel.com and print out instructions for “Call in Your Haunt,” where fans can record their own spooky haunted house sound effects. Select entries can be heard online in the Wizards of Waverly Place Haunted House, and will air on Disney Channel during the programming event.

Now as this may not be right up your ally, and you are more of a Freddy guy as myself, here in the Morgue, think about your kids and this is one way to “KEEP HALLOWEEN ALIVE” with new programming to pass it on to them every year.