Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon

There lives this Really Awesome channel or television block in another country... which unfortunately does not exist in your native country. Alternatively, a show by one network is caught airing on a network completely different from said network's counterpart over there (if said counterpart exists there at all).

Comes in four flavors:

1. **Canadian-only Service**: Canadian services are meant to only be for Canadians, even if their originals are exported to other countries.
2. **Why Don't We Have That**: A channel that is unavailable in your country is available in other parts of the world (for example, one can receive Nicktoons in America but not Southeast Asia). If this variant is *enforced*, that's Offer Void Wherever Prohibited.
3. **Shut Down Entirely**: The service is shut down before it could reach other areas.
4. **Syndicated**: Syndicated after its original run, despite being owned by the company who owns the network the shows originally aired on.

Teletoon Isn't Cartoon Network is basically the term for when it's the *American* network doing this to its Canadian counterpart.

The following are exempt from this trope:

* Home media releases (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, SD on BD, etc) most of the time, considering a majority of direct-to-video works have (mostly) never been aired on TV to begin with. If a show doesn't have a physical release, that's another trope entirely.
* Shows that first aired on (non-English) networks that have no US counterpart.
* "Syndicated" examples do not apply to the original language for shows that first aired on (non-English) networks that have no US counterpart, including shows and anime that first aired on Japanese over-the-air networks, considering the majority of Japanese over-the-air networks only exist within Japan. The English dubs can still qualify for this trope, however.
* Anime streaming. For example, if a series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks, odds are it'll appear on HiDive.
* Likewise, anime licenses don't count, due to the way anime licensing works. This is why most Weekly Shonen Jump-based anime, such as *Dragon Ball Z* and *One Piece* only mention *Shonen Jump* in its English credits and aren't released under the *Shonen Jump* banner- Viz and Shueisha have the exclusive rights to use the branding. *Manga* licenses can still apply if they're from Shueisha or Shogakukan yet got picked up by a completely different company not affiliated with either.
* Cases of shows that were initially commissioned by one network before being moved to another due to the latter gaining production rights (ex. *Babylon 5*, *Disney's Doug*).
* Shows affected by The Write-off, especially if the commissioning network (including the channel space's blocks) was the only place it aired before it got written-off.
* Feature-length films (though those commissioned by Nickelodeon yet are broadcast by its competitors can still qualify). This is because film rights can get pretty messy between many parts of the world.
* Parodies and satire of certain series. This is because, under US law, parodies can fall under fair use.
* Shows airing on networks directly related to the parent network (for example, *Martin Mystery*, which aired on Nicktoons rather than Nickelodeon), provided it isn't otherwise played straight between other countries. No network can be able to fit in everything it has the rights to air in one day.
* Music videos. As long as you pay royalties to the original artist, band, etc. and everyone else that was involved, you can play any music video you want and never be accused of this trope. (That said, Cable Music Channel tried to play this trope straight in 1984, but it never got far off the ground; it was the only Turner channel that didn't even last a year as MTV beat them to the punch three years earlier.)
* Pilots that were created for a US network only to get rejected and picked up by another network. This is basically because once the network rejects a pitch (and if they do not own the characters used at the time it was), all the rights go back to the original creator(s) (Pendleton Ward used this knowledge to take *Adventure Time* to Cartoon Network, for example), meaning that listing pilots made for one network when the full series is on another network as examples is pointless unless it refers to the *export* of a pilot overseas.
* Any Teletoon shows that premiere on the English linear channel post March 27th, 2023 (when the channel space rebrands to Cartoon Network), unless they air on linear TV outside of Canada.

*Why Don't We Have That* also refers to a work being obscure in a particular country, whilst being well-known in the rest of the world. When the work is forgotten even in its home country, that's Obscurity, much?. *Why Don't We Have That* should also not be confused with No Home Release for You, which is about works not getting an official home video release. Though this can lead to angry people that say the show does not belong on the network it airs on, this trope should also not be confused with Rage Over the Airwaves.

As of 2020, most of this trope (except "Why Don't We Have That") is becoming an outdated trope, thanks to companies opting to stream shows from other countries rather than air them on TV, as well as the amount of the networks shutting down rather than launching, not to mention several media companies launching services of their own. To compound this, in February 2023, Corus announced that Teletoon *was* becoming Cartoon Network, therefore making the *name* of this trope outdated (it's only kept due to the Grandfather Clause). That said, examples may still be documented if the network's overseas equivalent still exists.

Now has a page to play with the trope.

Official examples only, please. There are now so many examples that Tropes Fanon decided it was best to cut the unofficial/fanon examples.

## Examples with their own pages

* Teletoon
* YTV
* Cartoon Network
* Anime and Manga
* Disney (including Fox examples)
* ViacomCBS (excluding examples involving YTV or Teletoon)

## Examples

### Canadian-only Service

* Family Channel (no, not THAT Family Channel) is known for this due to co-financing Nickelodeon shows; for example, they financed the final season of Are You Afraid of the Dark?. They even aired some live-action Nickelodeon shows, most of which were passed up by YTV the first time around.
	+ Speaking of Family Channel, Madeline aired on not only Disney (Disney Channel/Toon Disney/Playhouse Disney, etc.), it also aired on the Family Channel in Canada. As of 2014, Family Channel owns pretty much all Canadian broadcasting rights to Madeline (since Madeline was bought by Family Channel's current owner WildBrain (formerly DHX Media) when DHX bought over Cookie Jar) but chooses not to air it anyways (this could be due to their rights to Disney programs expiring).
		- Before the show ended up on Disney, the show was broadcast on HBO and later on what was that unrelated Family Channel at the time (Disney didn't buy the network until *2001*). And then its final known movie, "My Fair Madeline", was broadcast on Nickelodeon, then it was followed by the completely obscure "Madeline in Tahiti", followed by reruns being broadcast on non-Disney networks (again, this could be due to DHX Media owning the rights to the show).
	+ 16 Wishes subverts this trope by airing on both Disney and Family Channel at least once (in the latter's case, it's because the movie is a co-production).
	+ Katie and Orbie once played this straight before rerunning on Disney Channel. The network in question that acquired the rights? PBS.

### Syndicated

* This is the programming the BBC in the UK and Ireland airs / has aired. This is the programming BBC America aired. While it's true that both channels have shared programs, it's worth noting that outside actual BBC programming (such as *Are You Being Served?*), BBC America airs shows from *ITV* (*Law & Order UK*) and other shows (*CSI*, a show that *never* aired on BBC UK). Any show not from the BBC that subverts this tends to be syndicated rather than first-run on BBC America, and even then mostly due to British actors playing certain characters.
	+ Orphan Black started out subverting it by airing on BBC Three (and to an extent, BBC America) before moving to Netflix UK (the series still aired on BBC America for a few more seasons).
	+ Every single classic live-action Star Trek series have subverted this between BBC UK and BBC America as of 2020, despite the broadcasters airing them years or even *decades* apart of each other. The only remaining Star Trek television series that aired on BBC UK that plays this straight (between the UK and the US) is the animated adaptation, and even then it's justified as BBC America doesn't air a lot of animation (see below).
	+ Doctor Who (the 2005 series) started off on Syfy before moving to BBC America. Granted, though, the 1963-89 episodes also played this straight by airing on multiple networks *besides* BBC America (granted, BBC America didn't exist until 1998).
	+ Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares aired on ITV, not the BBC, in the UK. Since there is no ITV America, BBC America (and later the FYI network) aired the UK version.
	+ Outside of Doctor Who's animated serials, the *only* cartoon BBC America has aired is Bromwell High, which A). aired on Teletoon in Canada, and B). was never on BBC UK to begin with.
	+ Besides BBC America, The Office (UK) also aired on Adult Swim in the United States.
	+ In fact, name *any* syndicated programming on BBC America that *isn't* related to *Star Trek* and chances are a UK channel *besides* the BBC have shown it.
	+ Top Gear subverts this in America... but only the UK version (and *Top Gear America*). The (2010) US version aired on The History Channel.
	+ Name *any* children's programming that aired on BBC UK. Unless your cable provider happens to carry a Spanish version of *Cbeebies* in the United States, chances are you'd have to find BBC's childrens programs on non-BBC networks (*especially* programs from Nickelodeon, Disney, and Cartoon Network).
	+ The X-Files, as of 2018. That said, it's unlikely it'll be able to air on BBC America beyond the initial syndication contract because of the Disney-Fox deal (see here for more examples affected by Disney's actions).
	+ Rome is a justified example. The BBC's funding allowed HBO to produce the show. HBO programming is mainly seen on Channel 4 in the UK, so the BBC's funding made the show play this straight in the UK. Since HBO is the main producer (and provided whatever of the budget the BBC did not), this trope doesn't apply in the US or anywhere else outside the UK (unless it's on another network in a country where a localized version of HBO exists).
		- This trope was actually necessary to continue the show- around season 2, the BBC bailed out and took its funding elsewhere, which concerned HBO executives, who- in a rare non-anime example of The Kanade Effect- cut the entire second season to just *ten episodes*. HBO even warned the producers in advance, even admitting that cancelling it was a mistake.
* Enforced for Adult Swim programming between the US and UK, considering OFCOM regulations don't allow Adult Swim to air on the Cartoon Network feed there. Everywhere else, it's subverted (assuming it's allowed to air on television in other nations; some shows that would air in the US at late-night would get completely banned in most of Asia).
* Oggy and the Cockroaches... during its Fox Kids run in the 90's. When the show eventually returned to the US, it aired on Nickelodeon (that was, until a certain episode was caught by TMZ creeping through the censors). So this would be subverted between the Nickelodeon feeds in India, Russia, and Malaysia, and even between Canada.
* Ever since the shuttering of KidsClick in 2019 (which also marked the beginning of the end for over-the-air non-educational kids' cartoons in the US- Qubo lasted for another two years before getting axed too), Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir subverts this between the US and every country except France and Canada (though it should be noted that Miraculous airs on Family Channel in Canada, and they were once the importers of Disney series over there). Specifically, every country where it airs on Disney Channel.
* In a case of companies continuing to play this trope straight, Sinclair once tried to acquire Tribune and divest its networks to companies who have ties to Sinclair. The FCC saw through this and called out Sinclair for their actions. Further enforced by Tribune pulling out and changing their plan from being acquired to fighting Sinclair in court via a lawsuit.
	+ And that Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir example above is related to the entire Sinclair ordeal- Sinclair was the programmer of KidsClick and tried to discontinue some low-profile assets that weren't making enough money. This came after the lawsuit that would render them unable to continue KidsClick if they lost, so they shut it down abruptly.
* Outside of Qubo, Ion exists as a syndication-and-Private Eyes network, being used as a reason (alongside USA Network and Syfy) why so many rerun-only networks are getting pulled. However, aside from Private Eyes, only few series that are (or were at the time of its syndicated run on Ion) also aired on Global were aired on Ion, and even then mostly from the syndication market due to the first-runs being with (and produced by) other networks in the US. When E.W. Scripps bought the network in 2021, they also decided that Ion should continue this model because of the last time Ion tried to produce original programming.
	+ Qubo itself. Over its 14 years of operations (not counting the first couple of months that it was a block), Qubo was Teletoon, YTV, and Treehouse TV combined, but in 2021 Ion put the channel on the chopping block. No word on whether this applies to the Ion block, though.
* British network Trouble was once the UK's answer to UPN and The WB; any series not seen on either of those two networks in the US played this straight. Once UPN and The WB merged to become The CW, Trouble began airing *more* programs that play this straight entirely (even going so far as to add Kyle XY, a former ABC Family program, to its lineup). Worse still, this trope was the reason the executives at Virgin Media Television threw it off the air by 2009. What replaced it? Not another teen-oriented network (as what happened when The N was replaced with TeenNick) but rather a timeshift of Living.
* Speaking of Sky, subverting this trope could have cost Sky's networks everything from the WWE, so they put TNA on Challenge.
* In April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, *Sesame Street* had this trope enforced by one of its specials, *Elmo's Playdate*, airing on not just PBS Kids but also almost every WarnerMedia network, including Cartoon Network.
* Many shows on the Latin American Discovery Kids channel used to justify this. Its focus was heavy on preschool programming starting from 2003, which before then was airing exclusively in the mornings. Then came the launch of competitors, which caused most of the shows (including all of the shows broadcast by said competitors on the US feeds) to lose the justification of being on Discovery Kids in Latin America.
	+ This *did* have the nasty side-effect of shows such as *Tutenstein* playing this straight between the US and Latin America, and to balance things out, *Doki* was sold to Qubo for US broadcast (luckily, this was at a time when the US Discovery Kids had shut down and was replaced by The Hub).
	+ And to make things a little more interesting, Discovery Kids Latin America is carried on many US cable lineups, so many of the shows play this straight between the English and Spanish broadcasts in much of the US.
* Can a channel that once simulcasted a Canadian network fall into this? If so, Fuse fits the bill. Originally a simulcast of MuchMusic (with pretty much every MTV show gutted out due to rights issues), MuchMusic USA was great at averting this... in theory. Then came some new management, a name change to MMUSA, and eventually Fuse.
	+ And *then* Fuse went the route of being "MTV, but still playing music videos", and *still* averted this aside from the MuchMusic Video Awards (music videos avert this trope by default; all you need to do is to pay royalties to the original artist and anyone else involved, and you have the broadcast rights to the music video). It wasn't until they got bought by NuvoTV (and NuvoTV subsequently being shut down) that this trope really got complicated for the management at Fuse. As for sister channel FM, aside from airing old stuff from Fuse, it's also got a case of this trope as well.
	+ Crossing this trope with Financial Failure, this trope hit so hard, it forced Fuse Media into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019 (though the real reason was the fact that they lost coverage courtesy of Comcast and Verizon pulling them, not to mention their defaulting on a loan). Though they seem to have since emerged from it.
	+ Ironically enough, since Fuse no longer airs as many music videos, they eventually got their own Pluto TV channel (you heard that right; the same Pluto TV owned by ViacomCBS, owners of Fuse's competitor MTV).
* The biggest aversion in the entirety of US television is American Forces Network. We're not joking; AFN networks carry a big chunk of programming sourced from the US and elsewhere. If it's in English and from North America (rarely does dubbed stuff get shown on AFN), chances are AFN might pick it up. The only issue they have is the fact that they tend to air shows later than the originating network.
	+ AFN Family is even *more* of an aversion, as it's basically Disney Channel meets Nickelodeon with some Cartoon Network in-between.

### Why Don't We Have That

* Anime and manga examples have their own section on their own page.
* The 24/7 Fox Kids channel in the US. All the US had that was related to Fox Kids was the block and Fox Family.
* Toon Disney outside the US due to, what else, the 24/7 Jetix channels (Jetix itself didn't have a 24/7 US channel). Eventually subverted when Toon Disney and Jetix merged to become Disney XD.
	+ Even the Toon Disney channels that did exist outside the US were replaced by Disney Cinemagic at some point.

### Shut Down Entirely

* KidsCo suffered this before it can go to the UK or even the US.
* DreamWorks Channel is going toward this, due to DreamWorks Animation being bought out by NBC.
* The US network PBJ shut down in March 2016. That didn't give it enough time to reach other areas (in fact, some of its fare might end up on Qubo's Night Owl block in the future if you're lucky).
* The Spanish (the feed specific for Spain) and Greek feeds of Cartoon Network shut down in 2013.
	+ Some of Cartoon Network's output is now on Boing in Spain... which turns out to be partly-owned by the European division of Warner Bros. Greece, however, wasn't that lucky.
* As of 2020, Disney XD can be subject to this if you live outside of North America. Even the UK and Japan lost their feeds within months of each other.
	+ Disney XD was folded into Disney Channel in Australia and Italy, while also shutting down in Germany (despite a Marvel HQ being planned for the region), Spain, and France and its territories.
		- More than a year later, Disney Channel left Australian regions entirely due to Disney+.
	+ India's Disney XD became the action-only Marvel HQ while all the comedies (save for Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil) moved to Disney Channel.

### Unsorted/Fictional

* Kill la Kill isn't your normal magical girl anime. It's got a ton of action and some comedic moments inserted in-between.
* The entire United States soft drink industry, save for a few nasty cases of "Why Don't We Have That", is an aversion, considering they're consumable products. Pepsi and Coca-Cola bottlers even carry some Dr. Pepper products in certain US markets. However, merchandise based off some particular brands may play this straight, depending on who has the rights.
	+ A&W Root Beer is also an aversion, but the business that spun it off plays this straight (and has been since the late 1970s).
	+ However, some soft drinks play this straight, especially in other markets:
		- Coca-Cola once changed their formula up to *New Coke*. To no one's surprise, the little success it *did* find was at the Pepsi Challenges. This was why Coke re-introduced Classic Coke, just six months after New Coke was introduced. A rare example of this that wasn't pushed by rights issues- New Coke and Coca-Cola Classic were produced by the same company, using different variations of the same Coca-Cola concentrate- but due to corporate decisions.
		- Mountain Dew has an example, believe it or not. You see, prior to 2012, *Canadian* Mountain Dew had more similarities to Caffeine-free Mountain Dew than it did regular Mountain Dew. This was averted starting 2012; there are no CanCon requirements for soft drinks in Canada.
		- The Orange variant of Sunkist has a caffeine-free variant by the name of C'Plus... which is only available in Canada. C'Plus goes by simply Sunkist in Australia.
	+ Due to what was then Dr. Pepper/7-UP, Inc's messy rights tangle with Dr. Pepper and 7-UP, this is enforced with those two brands outside of the US. Doubly so for Dr. Pepper in Canada and Oceania, where it's distributed in whole by Pepsi (Keurig Dr Pepper licenses the product out to Pepsi bottlers in certain parts of the US), whereas in Europe and South Korea, Coca-Cola distributes it (again, Keurig Dr Pepper licenses the product to Coca-Cola bottlers in certain US areas).

TBA.