You wont believe this, but that actually calms me down. Its not that they are trying to make it a kids net but rather adults also like Cereal (And at this point, cereals arent marketed at kids anymore) and maybe the play doh ad was for grandparents to buy it for their lil wuns.
Yes, it is true. I was convinced that a 24/7 TV channel that showed nothing new wouldn't last longer than a year or 2. This hypothesis was based on the fact that retro programming blocks such as Votrexx and The 90s Are All That fizzled out after their initial 2 years of airing. Mind you, those were program blocks, not channels, and both were targeted to kids specifically.
I've seen Frosted Flakes during the Olympics.
Well the 90's Nick block wasn't targeted towards kids , it aired at Midnight eastern, with earliest being 10pm ET, but Teennick stuck with a retro block for 10 years , almost reached 11 years. I feel the rebrands count , they were just trying to expand into early 2000's kids stuff and 90's name didn't fit as well.
And despite that, MeTV Toons is already in 70% of the country.
Despite having received gangbuster ratings on the main MeTV, outranking Seinfeld and The Office on Comedy Central, Law and Order on USA, and Friends on Nick at Nite among adults 18-49.
Yes, I said that, by the fact that Weigel owns stations including in the top markets of the country and the help of CBS, Maranatha, and few others.
Yes, the main METV has a decade head start, classic TV formats were coming out heavily in the early 2010's, and the that METV has wide market place pick up and easier access, it also beats the CW. METV doing helps them sell H&I, Catchy, Story, etc. but again doesn't mean everything will be successful.
No it isnt, how Me TV profits is important and should be discussed here. You misunderstood, WE KNOW these are kids shows, this is a nostalgia channel for people who want to relieve the best years of their lives. OF COURSE they are kids shows. What we are worried about is that MeTV will go full kids channel and make itself dependant on an extremely fickle and unreliable demographic or that they DO stay an adults or at least family oriented channel but airing too many toy commercials would get the FCC to classify them as a kids channel, which would be a death sentence, since kids ad time is WAY more strictly regulated.
Obviously not, ironically even the toys could be for adults, kids just play with Ipads...
Weigel didn't say about not air toys at all, but some members issued their opinions about toy ads are unlikely to air on MeTV Toons.
It seems that I haven't watched big name ads. In the times I watch the channel I get those ads for the elderly, Balance of Nature, Consumer Cellular and an online fashion retailer whose name I forgot. Those are the moneymakers of the channel.
Believe or not, Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 series) haven't released on full DVD before and haven't went to streaming before, so if Weigel is able to make deal with WBD to carry this show - it will be on broadcast and cable, so it has to substitute with other show for streaming like Weigel did substitute Nash Bridges to Police Story on H&I. I dubbed this show as an huge copyright nightmare (expensive music rights), along with 1980s Muppet Babies.
In my post, I referred as whole seasons and complete series.
