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CountryLatin America
Broadcast areaLatin America
HeadquartersBuenos Aires, Argentina
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Santiago, Chile
Bogota, Colombia
Mexico City, Mexico
Lima, Peru
Programming
Language(s)Spanish
Portuguese
English
Picture format1080i HDTV
(rescaled to 4:3 480i/576i for standard definition feeds SD)
Ownership
OwnerWarnerMedia International (AT&T)
Sister channelsCartoon Network
Boomerang
WarnerTV
History
LaunchedDecember 1, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-12-01)
Availability
Terrestrial
Antina (Argentina)Channel 24

Tooncast is a Latin American pay television channel owned by AT&T's WarnerMedia under 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. Tooncast once played Powerhouse from Cartoon Network.

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 June 1-July 1, 2019 and they have recently been reinstated.

Programming

Current programming

As of January 2021[4]

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.
  4. ^ http://www.tooncast.tv/programacion.html
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