Cartoon Network (Canadian TV channel)
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| Country | Canada |
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| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Owner | Teletoon Canada Inc. (Astral Media - 50% Corus Entertainment - 50%) |
Teletoon (stylized as TELETOON) is a Canadian cable television specialty-channel that broadcasts animation programming. Teletoon is owned by Teletoon Canada Inc., a joint venture between Astral Media and Corus Entertainment. Its name is a portmanteau of television and cartoon and has no connection with the television channel in France of the same name.
There are separate English and French language versions of Teletoon. The English version is broadcast in two time-shifted feeds, East (Eastern Time) and West (Pacific Time).
History
Licensed in 1996 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the channel launched on October 17, 1997 with the first episode of Caillou. It was originally owned by a consortium made up of various other Canadian specialty services and producers; The Family Channel Inc. acting as managing partner at 53.3% (Astral Media & WIC), YTV Canada Inc. at 26.7% (Shaw Communications), Cinar and Nelvana with 10% each. Through various acquisitions over the years, ownership resulted in both Astral Media and Corus Entertainment owning a 50% stake in the service.
Initially when Teletoon launched in 1997, it had several blocks or planets devoted to certain content and showed more mature fare as the day progressed, with a strong commitment to air diverse and international programming, as well as the ability to air a great majority of material uncut. A typical broadcast day would start with preschool content at 7:00 a.m. EST and end with adult content after midnight, airing more adult cartoons such as Duckman and various Anime.
In its second year, Teletoon was supposed to air the cult favourite series, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and even had the show referenced in many promotional materials. However, despite being printed in television listings for weeks, the show never actually aired on the station. The exact reason for the shows abrupt disappearance is unknown, but apparently it involved a royalty dispute with one of the actors interviewed on the show, which has also caused several episodes to be removed from the DVD release[citation needed]. It was thought that Teletoon would never air the series, but in 2004 they did begin airing its spin-off, The Brak Show. The show finally began airing in the fall of 2006.
In 2000, Teletoon started airing bumpers with it's first mascot, Teletina. These bumpers were made by Spin Productions in Toronto. Several more bumpers using CGI animation premiered on the channel in 2002.[1] The bumpers were removed in 2007 due to the re-branding of Teletoon. As of 2010, these bumpers are still not airing.
On February 5, 2007, Teletoon's network layout was dramatically changed as was its website, and The Detour's website was moved to teletoon.com, and the aesthetic appearance of both the normal block and The Detour changed.
Teletoon was once again involved in controversy, when on December 8, 2007, the station aired Team America: World Police with viewer advisories that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council considered to not adequately describe the sexual content and violence within the film.[2]
Teletoon is rather unusual in its production schedule as it always has seasons of 26-28 episodes and will postpone the production of the succeeding season between a year: such as if a series premieres during the 2008-2009 season it will air another set of episodes during the 2010-2011 skipping an entire season between.
Programming
Teletoon predominantly airs animated television series with the occasional film broadcast through its programming block, Teletoon Presents, many television series of which come from the Cartoon Network from the United States.
Teletoon's licence requires that 90% of all programs on the network are animated (151.2 hours per week). The network airs non-animated stunt programming, which are usually in the form of movies, but they can only do so for 16.8 hours per week, or 2.4 hours per day.[3]
Note: The French version of Teletoon contains a different schedule of programs than the English version, some being a French-dubbed version of well-known television shows, such as South Park. For a full list of their programs, please see Télétoon (Canadian TV channel).
Teletoon original productions
Program blocks
Laugh Riot
The Laugh Riot block is one of the two newest blocks on Teletoon. It airs Weekday Mornings from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. EST and on Saturday mornings. It airs shows such as Chowder, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, and What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Action Force
The Action Force block is one of the two newest blocks on Teletoon. It airs on weekdays starting at 4:00 p.m. EST, and on Sunday mornings. It airs action-packed shows such as The Secret Saturdays, Bakugan, Chop Socky Chooks, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Wolverine and the X-Men, Johnny Test, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Generator Rex , Chaotic, and Super Hero Squad.
3 Hours of Awesome
3 Hours of Awesome is a block that airs on Sunday to Thursday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. On Thursdays, it's called Extra Awesome Thursdays, and it airs new episodes of Johnny Test, Skatoony, Jimmy Two-Shoes, Stoked and Total Drama World Tour.
Teletoon at Night
Teletoon at Night (formerly known as Teletoon Detour) is the name for the animated programming block targeted towards teen and adult audiences which airs from 9:00 p.m. to 4 a.m. ET/PT every night on the Canadian television channel Teletoon. It was launched in September 2002 as The Detour on Teletoon until September 1, 2008 when it was renamed Teletoon Detour. The block was renamed once again in September 2009 to Teletoon at Night. His French programming block counterpart is called "Télétoon la nuit" airs on Teletoon's French sister station called Télétoon[4] [5]
Teletoon Retro
This block aired classic cartoons Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers, more rarely - MGM Cartoons
References
- ^ http://www.animationmagazine.net/commercial/12_20.html
- ^ CBSC Decision|http://cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2008/080820.php
- ^ "CRTC Decision 96-598".
- ^ Teletoon Canada Inc.. TELETOON Canada inc. » Programming . . URL:http://corp.teletoon.com/en/?page_id=102. Accessed: 2010-12-25. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5vFEM1Hk0)
- ^ Text copied from 17:29, 25 December 2010 verion of the Teletoon at Night article. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Teletoon_at_Night&action=history for a list of authors.