Does anyone think it's time for Adult Swim to leave Cartoon Netowrk?

*Drtooth* · 04-27-2008, 08:19 AM

In a world of Puppys, rainbows and kitty cats... yeah, maybe Adult swim can be its own network. But there are multiple reasons why it's not so.

One is, and let's repeat it all together people, the idiotic notion that Animation is a child only medium. And I'm not making this one up, I've been given this reason multiple times. Afternoon cartoons would be percieved as a "children's TV network" by the masses, no matter how many big bold red warning lables they would put on it. Somewhere, some kid would turn the TV on and watch it, and their parents would start whining to the network that they're trying to push Assy McGassy or whatever it is onto children.

Secondly, AS is basically the only success that CN has right now. Sure, Ben 10 is doing alright, and I hear good things about Chowder, but CN is losing kiddy TV ground to the Disney Channel. basically that explains their backwards idea of putting live action on that network (much as I'd like to see Kamen Rider, It's CARTOON network, by George). Oddly enough, ratingwise AS counts as a sepperate network, not just a block of programming. Similar to how Nick at Nite is counted differently to Nickelodeon.

Thirdly, Time Warner would have to have an extra channel to toss the shows onto, all the while deleting that channel's previous programming. Like how Viacom split Noggin and the N, but only after getting rid of Nick GAS. In a perfect world, there would be Cartoon Network, Cartoon Cartoons (or cartoon Network Classic), Boomarang, Toonami, and AS all as sepperate channels. But finanically, that would be impossible.

So, as bad as the programming could get, it hits hard in the ratings. They definately got the drunken frat boy crowd.

04-27-2008, 08:19 AM	#3
Drtooth Foot Elite Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 4,439	In a world of Puppys, rainbows and kitty cats... yeah, maybe Adult swim can be its own network. But there are multiple reasons why it's not so. One is, and let's repeat it all together people, the idiotic notion that Animation is a child only medium. And I'm not making this one up, I've been given this reason multiple times. Afternoon cartoons would be percieved as a "children's TV network" by the masses, no matter how many big bold red warning lables they would put on it. Somewhere, some kid would turn the TV on and watch it, and their parents would start whining to the network that they're trying to push Assy McGassy or whatever it is onto children. Secondly, AS is basically the only success that CN has right now. Sure, Ben 10 is doing alright, and I hear good things about Chowder, but CN is losing kiddy TV ground to the Disney Channel. basically that explains their backwards idea of putting live action on that network (much as I'd like to see Kamen Rider, It's CARTOON network, by George). Oddly enough, ratingwise AS counts as a sepperate network, not just a block of programming. Similar to how Nick at Nite is counted differently to Nickelodeon. Thirdly, Time Warner would have to have an extra channel to toss the shows onto, all the while deleting that channel's previous programming. Like how Viacom split Noggin and the N, but only after getting rid of Nick GAS. In a perfect world, there would be Cartoon Network, Cartoon Cartoons (or cartoon Network Classic), Boomarang, Toonami, and AS all as sepperate channels. But finanically, that would be impossible. So, as bad as the programming could get, it hits hard in the ratings. They definately got the drunken frat boy crowd. __________________ [Insert mildly amusing banner here]