Voltaic (Sonshall Union)

**Voltaic** (aka. **Voltaic Channel**) is a Sonshallan television channel. The channel primarily broadcasts animated series and live action shows aimed at children and teenagers.

## History

### Origins (1995-2002)

In April 1994, Futurescope registered the "Voltaic" trademark with the Sonshall Intellectual Property Office. While in October 1994, it obtained the license to broadcast on cable television from Sonshall Union. While in December 1994, the "Gamatic" and "Zoog" trademark was registered.

The channel was launched on April 1, 1995. But it was planned as a preparation for an April Fools' prank, but it didn't happen.

In its beginnings, the channel only broadcast reruns of cartoons from Reydam, Acadia, Neipan and Nuslon Federation, while local animations were not planned in its original plans until months after its launch. As for, it became very similar to Nuslon Federation's Cartoon Network, since by Sonshall laws of 1977, the broadcast of Nuslon Federation channels in that country is prohibited, due to strengthening local content.

In March 1996, 3 original shows premiered on Voltaic. While "Toon Time" was released in July 1995 (from July 1995 to October 1996 it was called "Voltaic's Snacks", and it was also used as an intersitial for "Voltaic Theater" and "Saturday Smash"). Many of the planned animated projects (which were used as pilot episode shorts), were rejected projects from other networks (until the networks didn't show much interest, in favor of selling it to Voltaic). This showed the interest of Nuslon Federation channels in being able to acquire local shows for their programming in their international feeds. Regarding classic animation, it began to be reduced from 1999 and 2000, due to the interest in the acquisition of modern animation series (even in the inclusion of anime series where Gamatic cannot exhibit it because they are considered series for children).

### Animated expansion (2000-2010)

Between 2000 and 2008, Voltaic had increased its audience numbers, due to the broadcast of its series, both local and western animated and anime series. Where from 2001 it was called "the animated expansion", where more sponsors had been brought in and they responded directly to Supersoup and Funhouse by doing game shows.

During 2002 to 2006, Voltaic became interested in video game programs, even briefly becoming involved in an FM radio station as a replacement for Radio Disney (a product of Sonshall's boycott of NSF in 2003), under the name of Voltaic FM.

Regarding its expansion, the first decline of the channel began in 2007 after the infamous "That's Great" era, and the decision to broadcast unscripted programming to attract sponsors, which was received with low ratings during the first half of 2008, and the cancellations of local shows due to the rejection of said channel by cartoonists for destroying their original philosophy. Starting in May 2008, the "Habbz" era emerged, after the fashion of online avatars, and its attempt to save the channel from low ratings by rescuing original shows that were rejected by the competition as a "second chance." .

## International channels

Since its inception, Voltaic and its sister channels have set up various national and regional feeds. Usually these feeds only air original content from Voltaic and some other shows from rivaling networks, alongside local shows made for specific feeds.

### Latin Nuslon

From 1996 to 2021, many of Voltaic's original series aired on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, as acquired programming. As for 2021, as a result of the news that Disney plans to close Disney XD, and that Cartoon Network showed no interest in airing more Voltaic series. The launch of the Latin Nuslon feed of said channel had been announced, under the distribution of Ole Communications. As for co-productions with WB, they remain in legal limbo outside of Sonshall. They are the only ones that remain in the Cartoon Network and Boomerang programming, due to the distribution rights of the co-productions outside Sonshall Union.

## Controversies

### "Too real" (2007-08)

Product of the Nuslon writers' strike in 2007, and due to the lack of new episodes of original series. Voltaic tried to solve it by making non-scripted live-action programs (one of them, a reality show from a summer camp), until the announcement of an Interregional Dodgeball League. This was a total discontent of the faithful fans of the channel, for being a lack of respect for the ideas of the channel. Despite the fact that fans respect the broadcast of live action series (for respecting the mandatory quota of children's channels of a minimum of 10%, but in case of non-scripted, it is not considered as part of the quota). Something that many viewers boycotted not to see the new programs of the channel, in favor of watching Voltaic Zoog. Thing that the non-scripted programs did not take long, and many were canceled 6 months after their original broadcast. As for the Interregional Dodgeball League, the 2009/10 league was cancelled, as part of an attempt to clean up the channel's image. Currently the slogan "Too real", was considered as a dark time for the channel for a year.

## Related services

### Voltaic+

**Voltaic+** (formerly **Voltaic Snacks** between 2020-2022) is a subscription and advertising video on demand service (SVOD and AVOD) which launched on July 1st, 2020 on Amazon Prime Video Channels. The service features exclusive content acquired from Cartoon Network, DreamWorks Animation, Yaei Co. Ltd. (only tokusatsu series) and Warner Bros. Animation, including original animations from his film library. In April 1st, 2022, it was relaunched, but stays as a Amazon Prime Video Channel, and a independent streaming platform (launched in early 2021), with the inclussion of Voltaic's FAST channels (under the name of Voltaic Snacks) for the Sonshallan market.

### Voltaic Radio

In February 2003, Disney Sonshall had to sell Radio Disney's 4 AM and 10 FM radio concessions from all Sonshall Union to Futurescope Radio for a radio project. Where after 3 months of white march programming with instrumental music. The launch of Voltaic Radio, focused on youth audience, was announced on July 2003.

Due to unknown reasons, in 2014, Futurescope Radio had closed Voltaic Radio, in favor of converting it into Much Radio for FM, while in AM, it was left as a repeater of MBS Sports Radio.

In 2021, plans for Voltaic Radio were revived, after Futurescope partnered with T-Media for the Sonshall branch of Audacy. Where it partnered at the last minute with the Sonshall Audiovisual Institute for the preservation of old programs from the past.