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Tooncast
Broadcast areaLatin America
HeadquartersAtlanta, United States
Buenos Aires, Argentina
São Paulo, Brasil
Santiago, Chile
Bogotá, Colombia
Mexico City, Mexico
Lima, Peru
Programming
Language(s)Spanish
Portuguese
English
Picture format1080i HDTV
(rescaled to 4:3 480i/576i for SDTV feed)
Ownership
OwnerWarner Bros. Discovery Americas
Sister channelsCartoon Network
Cartoonito
Discovery Kids
History
Launched1 December 2008; 15 years ago (2008-12-01)
Links
Websitetooncast.tv

Tooncast is a Latin American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its International division. It was launched on 1 December 2008;[1] its programming consists of classical animation, both from Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network. The channel is a commercial-free service.

History

The channel was launched on 1 December 2008, after all classic animation programming from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera and MGM were removed from Boomerang Latin America, to center the network towards the teen audience, and replacing it with live-action programming instead.

Tooncast follows the Boomerang US old channel line-up, which aired classic cartoons. Old Cartoon Network commercials are also broadcast on the channel, such as "Cartoons That Never Made It", Cartoon Network Groovies and Boomerang Shorties. Unlike other channels of Turner Broadcasting System Latin America, few pay-TV providers carry Tooncast. The only exception is Brazil, where the channel is available on most subscription TV providers, such as Oi TV, Claro TV, GVT TV, Vivo TV, Kiwisat and Nossa TV. Since 1 August 2014, Tooncast began to be carried on NET, the biggest cable television company in Brazil.[2][3]

Even though Tooncast remained with a single pan-regional feed with audio tracks in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and English, in November 2012 the channel started using the Brazilian content rating system.

On 26 September 2018, the channel was picked up by Sky Brasil.

On 1 April 2019, all classic programming from the Turner animation library, including productions from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera and MGM, were removed from the schedule making focus on Cartoon Network original productions, and also airing anime series like Pokémon and the Brazilian animated series Monica and Friends, following WarnerMedia's business restructure, that also affected programming on sister networks like Cartoon Network and Boomerang. However, it eventually returned from 1 June–1 July 2019 and they have recently been reinstated. The cartoons of Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. and MGM returned to the programming in June, however, that change was made again in July of the same year, and then returned in January 2020, where they were included for the first time in the program channel such as Batman Beyond, Teen Titans and ThunderCats.

On 1 June 2021, the channel's programming underwent a drastic change, being greatly reduced compared to previous months; However, this reduction in programs is also accompanied by some new releases. It is speculated that these changes came as an effect of the launch in Latin America of the streaming service HBO Max.

On 1 December 2022, after more than a year of being with the same programming, Tooncast changed its programming again, but withdrawing the series from Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. and DC and focusing again on Cartoon Network Studios series, but with this change, programming was further reduced.

Programming

Current programming

As of February 2023

Former programming

References

  1. ^ "Turner lanzó Tooncast, nuevo canal de dibujitos animados - Noticias de TV - Prensario Internacional". Prensario.tv. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
  2. ^ "1ф. Mсo Exclusiva: Tooncast entra na NET em agosto, com novo acordo da Turner". TV Magazine. 2014-06-30. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
  3. ^ ANMTV (2014-07-21). "Tooncast estreia na NET em agosto (AT) - ANMTV". Anmtv.xpg.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2015-03-08.

External links

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