MeTV Toons - Network TALKBACK & Discussion Thread

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How Weigel's MeTV became a top-rated Nielsen network with memorable shows

Shows like "M*A*S*H" and "Svengoolie" are pulling in hundreds of thousands of viewers each week, according to Nielsen ratings.

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[LinusFan303]

I'm guessing that isn't the channel number in Xfinity markets where the network is on a subchannel of a non-Weigel owned station.

It's the national feed any local feeds would be in 240's range and 1150 to 1200 range

 

[Low Spark of Lyman]

I saw a promo about MeTV Toons-Xfinity yesterday morning during TIwM. It's not on the TV set* in my room, but it does air on the family room set. Downstairs that morning, I first saw the ending of a Beetlejuice episode, followed by Underdog and the opening bit of Bugs Bunny and Friends. I watched more that night, turning it off after TMNT.

*The cable box I have gets many less channels than the family room one. It's been this way for at least a few years (I remember Cartoon Network disappearing from it back in 2021), but the situation didn't become high priority for me until yesterday. We're currently looking to get it resolved.

 

[RandomMe]

I saw a promo about MeTV Toons-Xfinity yesterday morning during TIwM. It's not on the TV set* in my room, but it does air on the family room set. Downstairs that morning, I first saw the ending of a Beetlejuice episode, followed by Underdog and the opening bit of Bugs Bunny and Friends. I watched more that night, turning it off after TMNT.

*The cable box I have gets many less channels than the family room one. It's been this way for at least a few years (I remember Cartoon Network disappearing from it back in 2021), but the situation didn't become high priority for me until yesterday. We're currently looking to get it resolved.

If you ever catch Underdog again, its cycle restarts next week

 

[ToonRo]

Tonight's episode of TMNT ("Doomquest", final Season 9 episode) just aired, and is a PAL print, and also had motion interpolation (at 60FPS).
Also, this is the second episode I've seen that had the CBS Broadcast International logo (played without both PAL audio and motion interpolation) after the Westinghouse logo (First episode being "Donatello's Badd Time" from Season 5).

 

[RandomMe]

Tonight's episode of TMNT ("Doomquest", final Season 9 episode) just aired, and is a PAL print, and also had motion interpolation (at 60FPS).
Also, this is the second episode I've seen that had the CBS Broadcast International logo (played without both PAL audio and motion interpolation) after the Westinghouse logo (First episode being "Donatello's Badd Time" from Season 5).

This isn't the first time a PAL-pitched episode aired, happened once with Rocky and Bullwinkle.

 

[E-Scope]

This isn't the first time a PAL-pitched episode aired, happened once with Rocky and Bullwinkle.

It does happen at times with Discovery Family as they air Baby Looney Tunes PAL-pitched to save time on commercials. And I don't know if they left out the Italian dubbing credits in like Cartoonito CEE.

 

[Low Spark of Lyman]

Just got a new cable box today. I installed it in my room, and it works much like the one in the family room. I ended up having MeTV Toons on for the past couple of hours (~11:30 AM - 1:30 PM EST).

 

[Tommypezmaster]

Would it be hilarious if MeTV picked up The Christmas Tree (the one Nostalgia Critic made infamous), Rapsittie Street Kids and Elf Bowling the Movie for their holiday block, knowing their infamous reputations?

 

[Ju_mu]

Would it be hilarious if MeTV picked up The Christmas Tree (the one Nostalgia Critic made infamous), Rapsittie Street Kids and Elf Bowling the Movie for their holiday block, knowing their infamous reputations?

Would rapsitte kids even be possible to aquire. From what I understand the studio that animated it went out of business and it's director died in 2019 so I'm not sure who actually owns the film.

 

[RandomMe]

Would rapsitte kids even be possible to aquire. From what I understand the studio that animated it went out of business and it's director died in 2019 so I'm not sure who actually owns the film.

And Promark, which distributed it in 2002, also went out of business

 

[Corwin Haught]

Of course, the program was barely seen or popular during its original release, is of poor quality (far worse even then anything Hanna-Barbera ever did) and far too new for the network's demographics, so those are far more important strikes there. Same with Elf Bowling, but The Christmas Tree is at least from 1996, at the very edge of their time frame (Freakazoid! premiered a year earlier).

But yes, it would be funny.

 

[PinkieLopBun]

Of course, the program was barely seen or popular during its original release, is of poor quality (far worse even then anything Hanna-Barbera ever did) and far too new for the network's demographics, so those are far more important strikes there. Same with Elf Bowling, but The Christmas Tree is at least from 1996, at the very edge of their time frame (Freakazoid! premiered a year earlier).

But yes, it would be funny.

Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. is even newer and they air it (granted, it is tied to an older IP). Although I don't want to see them air Rapsittie Street Kids myself (don't really know much about the other ones that were mentioned).

EDIT: By the way, I looked up The Christmas Tree and the one he was talking about was actually from 1991 (the one from 1996 is a live action movie). Now that I've looked it up, I actually do remember watching it last year and I'm also not interested in seeing it on MeTV Toons.

 

[RandomMe]

Although I don't want to see them air Rapsittie Street Kids myself (don't really know much about the other ones that were mentioned).

To be fair, that is the sort of thing you would only expect from a hobby web channel.

 

[animegood]

It would be funny if MeTV Toons picked up Noel and Cranberry Christmas.

 

[powergate92]

In a post from Jerry Beck on Facebook, he mentioned this about MeTV Toons going into 2026.

"2026 will bring MORE shorts from more studios, more TV series, unseen in over 40-50 years. The TV channel of my dreams - and this is just the beginning"

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I wonder what shorts from more studios MeTV Toons will add in 2026?

 

[RandomMe]

And when I thought the channel was perfect just the way it was, it's getting better!

 

[Nexonius]

MGM/DePatie-Freleng? Shout Studios? Nelvana? Wildbrain? International shorts from International companies? .....Disney?

 

[RandomMe]

MGM/DePatie-Freleng? Shout Studios? Nelvana? Wildbrain? International shorts from International companies? .....Disney?

Aiming at the first, I'm expecting the Pink Panther shorts to come. Maybe as a themed block with nothing but DFE cartoons. They could put it on Saturdays akin to the Terrytoons ones on Sundays.

 

[PinkieLopBun]

Toon In With Me and MeTV's Saturday morning lineup used to have the DePatie-Freleng shorts, but the rights expired before MeTV Toons launched, which kinda surprised me. I don't know how likely it is that they'd be able to get the rights back. Granted, I don't know how hard it is to get them, but you'd think MeTV would still have them if it wasn't an issue.