Cartoon Network (Flarland)

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Cartoon Network is a Flarlandian television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Flarland. It started broadcasting on April 1, 1994 and, until 1998, was also a "sustaining feed" for the other Ashtalaic countries.

History[edit | edit source]

Early years[edit | edit source]

Turner Broadcasting announced that it would launch a dedicated Flarlandian feed of Cartoon Network, as Flarland was outside of the satellite footprint it was going to use in Eurectipheria. To this end, it started building broadcast uplink and management facilities in Wembley in 1993 for a combined TNT-Cartoon Network joint. The regulatory body accepted a 13-11 split between the two channels, with Cartoon Network running from 6am to 7pm and TNT, from 7pm to 6am.

Licensing problems with Warner Bros. and the FBC; creation of Boomerang and CNX[edit | edit source]

The launch of BEdigital and its inclusion in the basic subscription package caused a licensing problem with Warner Bros., in which the channel was forbidden from carrying the back catalog that wasn't part of Turner (WB Animation series and the post-1948 Looney Tunes catalog).

At the center of the dispute was the Flarlandian Broadcasting Corporation, which had signed an agreement with Warner Bros. to supply animated content (on FBC 1 on Saturday mornings and on FBC Kids, at the time a subscription channel, in the afternoon hours). As consequence, Cartoon Network had to drop shows such as Freakazoid and Animaniacs from its schedule, and limit the airing of Looney Tunes shorts to pre-1948 episodes.

Until 2010, Cartoon Network was still affected by this agreement, even though the FBC's exclusivity contract was broken several times (Channel Ten aired Static Shock), its sister channels were not. Without the WB series, the main drawing card of the channel was CN's original productions, then known as Cartoon Cartoons. In September 2000, a two-hour Cartoon Cartoon Fridays block premiered in primetime (in order not to compete with K-Zone Direct Connection).