Cartoon Network International News Thread 25.0

[Checkerboard]

 

[RandomMe]

Recorded from the soon-to-be-condemned ITV Digital, as seen by the interface at the beginning.

Toon Heads wouldn't be cleared for CN EMEA because of the post-1948 LT shorts and other shorts that the feed didn't have the rights to.

And this clearly contradicts what I thought: it's January 2002 and still no sign of the legendary Squares bumpers. For years I thought CN UK was the first to have them (before even CN ES), but this proves otherwise.

 

[ares]

Even if This Thread is about Cartoon Network, Don't Forget that, Today is The 10th Year Anniversary of Boing Spain's 2016-2020 Rebrand

I feel like spain got the better end of the deal in this: a FTA cartoon network that didn't have to merge feeds with the rest of western europe.

 

[RandomMe]

I feel like spain got the better end of the deal in this: a FTA cartoon network that didn't have to merge feeds with the rest of western europe.

Yeah, being terrestrial also meant that it wasn't bound by complicated feed mergers, as well as the backing of Mediaset

 

[[Tails swim]]

I feel like spain got the better end of the deal in this: a FTA cartoon network that didn't have to merge feeds with the rest of western europe.

Boing in spain got their best programming from their linear . All because of how improval of that channel is . Thy even aired some peak anime shows like pokemon . Beyblade. And much more of that . They're also reairing 2010s CN shows For that channel . And of course their best commercial . Rebrand . And anything but celebrating the channel feels a peak

Funny enough : boing used to exist as a part of the block in CN Turkey . But yeah . It's been deacade for that

If we wish to see boing being launched in arab world . Then they would gave us a peak animated and cartoon shows in their schedudle or even airing classic shows as well for their lineup than CN in arab world for airing king shakir non stop .
But yeah . we could at least make some peak animated shows being aired on the tv again . And also pokemon being aired on arab world as well . But because of the pokemon ban in Middle east . It'll never happen sadly . Non or anything else for that

 

[Markus]

If we wish to see boing being launched in arab world .

We can wish but another Boing launching won't be happening. Realistically.

 

[RegularCapital]

GAS isn't even commonly used to refer to the Germany–Austria–Switzerland region outside of this forum and some of its users.

DACH (Deutschland/Austria/Confoederatio Helvetica) is much more common in both English and German as a shorthand for the three German-speaking markets, and is generally considered the standard term in practice.

Austria should really be Österreich in the acronym if using native languages (DOCH), but the acronym is using the international vehicle codes so DACH it is (means "Roof" in German), it would be DEATCH if using ISO codes, which would be too close to Dutch or Deutsch.

Confoederatio Helvetica is the perfect neutral Latin term for Switzerland, and it's always known as CH by everyone. CN Germany is known as CN GAS (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) internally, as someone who used to work for Turner part-time patroned the international threads on here years ago said it was, and it's also self-evident on the WBD website (see the URLs for press releases from that region "de-gas", and also the country switcher).

WARNER BROS. ANIMATION, CARTOON NETWORK STUDIOS, AND HANNA-BARBERA STUDIOS EUROPE RETURN TO ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL | Pressroom

press.wbd.com

WarnerMedia Names New Head of German Local-Language Production

Hannes Heyelmann, already Warner Bros.' executive vp programming for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will oversee production for German-language Europe, including theatrical titles and local-language originals for HBO Max.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Regarding ad sales for Nordic, as far as I know, it has always been in-house: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bofalkostergaard

 

[RandomMe]

You know, I long had the idea that single-language feeds were named after the primary target country. Meaning that CN Germany would omit Austria and Switzerland, CN France would omit Belgium, Switzerland and Africa and CN Portugal would omit Angola and Mozambique and so on.

Part of it mostly depended on the sites they had, xb

 

[zakawer2]

Oh, now I get it. Warner Bros. Discovery (and before that, WarnerMedia) internally uses GAS. Now I understand its use better.

 

[Markus]

Or again, just call it Germany. There's no wrong answer. We don't use the CEE name used in their official documents but use GAS which is questionable because by that logic we should use official names for every single country. I refuse to use GAS to not confuse it with the actual gas.

 

[Ati]

June-July 2006, assuming from the football ident, which was played during the FIFA World Cup (and later reused for UEFA Euro 2008).

And also in 2010 as well.

 

[Rackey Zun]

We can wish but another Boing launching won't be happening. Realistically.

Speaking of which, is there a reason Boing launching meant Cartoon Network and Cartoonito had to shut down in Spain?

 

[The Bloo Lagoon]

And also in 2010 as well.

So, another remnant of CN City surviving into the Arrow era, alongside some fillers.

 

[Markus]

Speaking of which, is there a reason Boing launching meant Cartoon Network and Cartoonito had to shut down in Spain?

Cartoon Network Spain shut down its pay-TV channels on June 30, 2013 due to declining ratings and pay-tv crisis. They decided to have Boing on FTA but they still have the CN block at least. Boing is basically just CN so the people in Spain can still enjoy the shows.

 

[Daffyrocks]

So, another remnant of CN City surviving into the Arrow era, alongside some fillers.

When Poland still didn't separate from CEE yet, when the Arrow branding took over officially in 2009, the Romanian sub-feed still used the City versions of the ad break bumpers. I remember it well.


Anyways, I have noticed how the current rotation of episodes of Adventure Time on Cartoon Network CEE is beyond ridiculousness. While the normal evening airings at 21:30 CET still refuse to go past season 5 (are they still that scared to air "Wake Up/Escape from the Citadel", even though they could make the effort to unban almost all the episodes from the earlier seasons??), the newer 17:45 CET airings just started over from season 1 after only showing the first two seasons. Really? What's more, the daytime slot just skipped certain episodes which did air at 21:30, which doesn't make any sense. At 17:45 CET they went over all of season 1, no episode skipped, while after they aired "Loialty To The King" (from season 2), they skipped all over to "Her Parents" (!) While those skipped segments are still being rotated as normal in the primetime airings. While they aired "Mortal Folly", only to then show "Slumber Party Panic" and go over with the same (way more) limited selection of 11-minutes segments to this day.

The fact that they do want to care about Adventure Time, by now promoting it and also making filler clips for it (they aired two of them in the RO sub-feed three weeks ago or so), while not really knowing how to, is annoying because of how better CEE treats the show but still being too paranoic over kids being traumatised by certain more violent scenes. Because yes, in the daytime 17:45 CET slot they air only pure light-hearted episodes that don't have any serious conflict or complex plotline. It is easy to understand, but also frustrating. And over at the 21:30 CET airings they actually air almost the entirety of S1-5 (they still skip "Princess Cookie" for some reason, as I noticed), while they are too of scaredy cats to make the "bigger step" of showing the most important part of the show, the season 6 premiere.

Regular Show isn't doing any better. While they promote it way more along with the Lost Tapes sequel coming very soon, they also skip quite a lot of episodes from the original show, which is the case even in the 21:55 airings. They basically aired very few season 4 episodes without even finishing it or even showing "Exit 9B", while after a random S4 episode they just aired season 5 finale ("Real Date") and then went over right to season 6 episodes. The same being said for the weekend daytime reruns (they at least air the same episodes in the 12:15 CET weekend slot which they rotate in the evening, with no skipped segment in a part or another, but still)

 

[RandomMe]

Or again, just call it Germany. There's no wrong answer. We don't use the CEE name used in their official documents but use GAS which is questionable because by that logic we should use official names for every single country. I refuse to use GAS to not confuse it with the actual gas.

I always called it CN Germany, xb

 

[Daffyrocks]

I also never used "GAS" myself to refer to the formerly separated German feed. And not because of the reason you would think of. I always call the feeds targeted to a certain country by that name purely

 

[RandomMe]

I also never used "GAS" myself to refer to the formerly separated German feed. And not because of the reason you would think of. I always call the feeds targeted to a certain country by that name purely

Like I said, I owe it to the ccTLDs too

 

[Daffyrocks]

I barely follow those either

 

[Markus]

Yeah, the feed was targeted towards the German audience. They never look and looked numbers from other countries that get the same feed. But call it what you want. It doesn't affect me and I can keep calling the feed CN Germany, or at least when it was local. Now I refer the merged feeds as WE that we all use at least.