Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment. It first launched on October 1st 1992 and primarily broadcasts animated television series geared towards kids that range from action to comedy.

## **Summary**

Founded by Ted Turner (who appointed Betty Cohen as the first president of the network), the channel was launched on October 1, 1992, and primarily broadcasts animated television series, mostly children's programming, ranging from action to animated comedy. It currently operates from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET/PT on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET/PT on weekends. Cartoon Network primarily targets children 7–14, while its early morning Cartoonito block is aimed at preschoolers aged 2–6, and its overnight daypart block Adult Swim targets older teenagers and young adults, 18–34 (the latter is treated as a separate entity for promotional purposes and as a separate channel by Nielsen for ratings purposes).

Cartoon Network was not the first cable channel to have relied on cartoons to attract an audience, however, it was the first 24-hour single-genre channel with animation as its main theme. Turner Broadcasting System had defied conventional wisdom before by launching CNN, a channel providing 24-hour news coverage. The concept was previously thought unlikely to attract a sufficient audience to be particularly profitable, however the CNN experiment had been successful and Turner hoped that Cartoon Network would also find success. As of March 2021, Cartoon Network is available to approximately 94 million paid television households in the United States.

The network's first exclusive original show was The Moxy Show, an animation anthology series first airing in 1993. The first series produced by Cartoon Network was Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1994, but the show mostly consisted of "recycled animation cells" from the archives of Hanna-Barbera, being an ironic deconstruction of a talk show. It featured live-action guests, mostly consisting of celebrities which were past their prime or counterculture figures. A running gag was that the production cost was dubbed "minimal". The series found its audience among young adults who appreciated its "hip" perspective. Since then, more than 200+ original cartoons have aired on the network thanks to the *What a Cartoon!* block that first began in 1996 and works like *Looney Tunes*, *Tom & Jerry*, and much of Hanna-Barbera's library air on Cartoon Network due to Turner Broadcasting also owning them.

## **Action Figures**

Given that much of the programming that airs on the channel is toyetic by nature, its no surprise that any Cartoon Network cartoon will have several toylines made to support its funding and attract even more fans. Though not every cartoon is lucky enough to earn this favor as there have been some toylines for CN originals that were either shot down before making it out of the factory floor, or had expansions planned before production on a pre-existing series ended. These are their stories down below:

* Palisades (adult swim) Series 2

## **External Link**

* Wikipedia (Retrieved 2021, November 24th). *Cartoon Network*.