How much Cartoon Network aired each show from 2004 onward?

[Space Cadet]

Does anyone know why Tom and Jerry and A Pup Named Scooby Doo were the only classic cartoon mainstays on the channel during this time?

Ratings were very steady for those shows at the time. Tom and Jerry was parked in that 1 PM slot for years.

 

[Stumpos]

And now here's the 2009 breakdown on how often each show aired. Half hours are the measurement for this, 0.5 being a 11-minute segment and 0.33 being a 7-minute segment.
Same sources as 2007-08.

2009:
Originals by Cartoon Network:

1. Chowder: 579.5
2. The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: 513
3. Ben 10 Alien Force: 315
4. Ed Edd n Eddy: 259
5. Ben 10 2005: 241
6. Transformers Animated: 222
7. The Secret Saturdays: 195
8. The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: 168.5
9. Courage the Cowardly Dog: 137
10. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: 79
11. Camp Lazlo: 73
12. The Powerpuff Girls 1998: 41
13. Johnny Bravo: 23
14. Cow and Chicken: 22
15. Squirrel Boy: 6
16. Codename Kids Next Door: 3

Originals by Warner Bros:

1. Batman the Brave and the Bold: 368
2. Teen Titans: 204
3. What's New Scooby Doo: 168
4. Mucha Lucha: 72
5. Krypto the Superdog: 67
6. Baby Looney Tunes: 60
7. Justice League Unlimited: 4

Live action shows:

1. Destroy Build Destroy: 79
2. BrainRush: 56
3. The Othersiders: 37
4. Survive This: 36
5. Dude, What Would Happen: 35
6. Goosebumps: 33
7. Bobb’e Says: 23
8. SlamBall: 14
9. Re:Evolution of Sports: 6
10. 10 Count: 5

Acquired shows from others:

1. Johnny Test: 1062
2. Total Drama: 592
3. 6teen: 349
4. Star Wars The Clone Wars: 341
5. League of Super Evil: 198
6. Chaotic: 193
7. George of the Jungle 2007: 153
8. The Mr. Men Show: 124
9. The Super Hero Squad Show: 89
10. Stoked: 86
11. The Garfield Show: 85
12. Skunk Fu: 78
13. Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return!: 58
14. Casper's Scare School: 56.5
15. Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: 45
16. Robotboy: 38

Anime:

1. Pokemon: 413
2. Bakugan Battle Brawlers: 295
3. Yu-Gi-Oh: 184
4. Naruto: 5

Classic cartoons:

1. Tom and Jerry: 554
2. A Pup Named Scooby Doo: 114
3. Looney Tunes: 87
4. Scooby Doo Where Are You: 83
5. Pink Panther: 38
6. The Smurfs: 5
7. The Flintstones: 4
8. The Jetsons: 2

Since the CN originals aren’t the most aired shows this year again, here’s the top 5 most aired this year:

1. Johnny Test
2. Total Drama
3. Chowder
4. Tom & Jerry
5. The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

2009 was quite an interesting year for the channel.

On the classic cartoons side of things, Looney Tunes returns after initially leaving in 2004 (or 2005 if you count The Bob Clampett Show and ToonHeads rerunning on Adult Swim). It aired on New Year's Day 2009 and November 15 2009 for all day marathons before airing regularly in November. The Flinstones, The Smurfs, and The Jetsons also make a surprising brief return in December to air their Christmas episodes during the holidays for the first time since 2004. Kind of a shock knowing all three aired during the Nood era.

The last remnant of Toonami disappears with Naruto officially leaving after February.

On the Cartoon Network originals side of things in terms of ended shows, The Powerpuff Girls returned for one day on January 19 for an all day marathon leading up to The Powerpuff Girls Rule special in honor of its 10th anniversary and again on August 17. Similarly, Cow and Chicken would also return for one day on April 1 for an all day marathon. Ed Edd n Eddy would return on a more regular basis in February after being removed in the big summer 2008 revamp (outside of holiday specials). Foster’s Home would also return in February, but much more brief, only airing one day every couple of weeks before being removed again (outside TV movies) after the final episodes aired on May 3 with only a brief return in September and October. Squirrel Boy and Johnny Bravo also made brief returns for about a month in February and November respectively. Camp Lazlo would be removed after May and Billy & Mandy and Courage left in November.

Despite the initial improvement in the first five months in the year with the initial decreased live action and return of some of the older shows on the schedule, June was when things pretty much went down again. CN Real began, with Cartoon Network going all in on live action shows. Initially airing a lot in its first two months, the CN Real shows would get a decrease in airing as it went on and by August, they remained exclusively on Wednesday nights with only Destroy Build Destroy getting one weekly rerun outside that depending on the week with reruns of the older shows returning as a result. So it seems they were quick at realizing that spamming a schedule with live action wasn’t working.

For the originals that were airing new episodes this year, Foster’s Home and Ed, Edd, n Eddy would take their final bows this year, though at least the latter was still getting a decent amount of reruns each week even when it ended. Transformers Animated also ended this year and stopped rerunning entirely by October. Officially it was due to low toy sales, but there was also a chance that the development of The Hub (which would launch the following year) also played a role in that too since Hasbro probably didn’t want to help potential competition to The Hub and opted to move on to Transformers Prime on The Hub instead. The Secret Saturdays initially started off with a decent amount of airtime but by summer, it pretty much took a hit with the show only airing on the Saturday Crushzone block (and sometimes the You Are Here block on Fridays). The Ben 10 franchise still gets a decent amount of airtime this year and continues being one of Cartoon Network’s cash cows. Chowder still soldiers on as the most aired CN original this year and third most overall. Flapjack continues to get a solid amount of airtime, being the second most aired CN original and fifth most aired overall.

The number of acquired cartoons not from Cartoon Network or Warner Bros increases a lot this year, probably the most they’ve had so far up to this point. Guessing they were compensating for the lack of new original cartoons this year. Johnny Test and Total Drama in particular were the channel’s biggest favorites of the year and the top 2 most aired, especially with Cartoon Network now commissioning new seasons of the former.

Quite a rollercoaster year. One gets the sense they were partially trying to fix things with increased regular airings of their older shows (Ed, Edd, n Eddy in particular got more airings than the still in production The Secret Saturdays this year), bringing back Looney Tunes, and even bringing in non-Scooby Doo Hanna Barbara content for December. On the other hand, live action really starts to take its peak with more live action shows premiering this year. Thankfully most of them didn’t survive past October, with only Destroy Build Destroy and Dude What Would Happen making it to 2010 and none of them got to 100 airings. Still, quite a jarring year.

Even as one of their lowest points (before 2015 onward proved how much lower they’d sink), Cartoon Network was about to bounce back from this. While Adventure Time had already been greenlit the previous year, 6 more original cartoons would be greenlit over the course of the year and were about to bring the channel out of its first slump.

 

[Dr.Pepper]

Literally the only time I watched CN in 2009 was to watch Ed Edd n Eddy’s Big Picture Show. I would occasionally watch Flapjack and Chowder on my cable’s On Demand (I did that in 2008 too but I forgot to mention it in my other post). The days of leaving CN droning in the background were long over for me.