cartoonnetworkpoke
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I've been thinking about this during the past few days. Before AT&T had acquired the company. 21st Century FOX had offered to buy Time Warner back in 2014. The offer was sent around June 2014. A full MONTH before Christina Miller had become president of CN (she became president in July of that year). Had the merger gone through it is very likely that they would've either delayed the search for a new leader, hired her and then eventually let her go as soon as the merger was fully completed (similar to what happened to Tom Ascheim) or she gets the job however the new higher ups that are in charge advise her to do something different when it comes to controlling CN. I think one positive thing about this merger would've been the integration of many different animation studios. For example, Cartoon Network studios, WB Animation, Williams Street, and 20th Century Animation would all be integrated. This could lead to more output of shows for various different forms of media platforms. With this merger we would've had a big empire when it comes to adult animation. The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, just to name a few. It's very likely that adult swim could've launched its own channel due to the fact they have more content to showcase. From my understanding FXX is a competitor of adult swim at the moment and they showcase a lot of animation on their channel. This scenario adult swim shows would probably be aired on it as well. This is where things get exciting. There's a chance that CN could return to being 24/7 again. This would because FXX and adult swim attract similar audiences, they air the same shows, and produce similar content. There would really be no reason in my eyes to have adult animation on CN at that point. That would also mean that Toonami would also move to FXX. Toonami could really take off because it would be on a channel where it has more time to air more anime throughout the week. I wouldn't be surprised if Toonami became daily instead of it being weekly. Imagine having new episodes of Attack on Titan at 10pm on a weekday. I would imagine ratings would be really good and lead to Toonami acquiring more anime as a result of that.
With CN being 24/7 there is a great opportunity for the network to showcase even more shows. We all know towards the end of 2014. CN started to air new episodes of shows at the 6am-7am time slot. This was mainly due to the fact that CN lost that primetime slot to adult swim. With CN being 24/7 there is a good chance that those shows could get better timeslots, which can then lead to better ratings, and certain shows continuing to air on the network. I don't think Beyblade, Ben 10 Omniverse, Sonic Boom, Pokémon XY, Tenkai Knights would all be shifted to 6am if the channel was 24/7. It is very likely that Pokémon and Beyblade would still stay on CN then. I know Disney XD puts their action oriented shows at good time slots so maybe we would see a similar type of model for CN. Another interesting note is, what would CN air during the late night and early morning time? CLASSIC SHOWS!! Your favorites like Codename Kids Next Door, Dexter's Laboratory, Juniper Lee, Powerpuff Girls, Pokémon Advanced just to name a few. Would all air during those time slots. Having experienced animators from shows like the Simpsons, Family guy, Bob Burgers could help CN when it comes to producing new content. A lot of these guys have experience in working in animation for a very long time and now having the opportunity to produce content for CN could open a whole new type of era for CN and animation as a whole. BlueSky Studios was owned by Fox at the time so I know for a fact that CN would have an Ice Age or Rio animated series in the works as well. My last point would be distribution and streaming. At the time Fox also owned a small percentage of Hulu and so every show they produced on TV would be uploaded there. We all know the issues HBO Max has when it comes to uploading classic CN shows. I feel like this process would be easier because there would already be an established service for shows to go on. Fox still puts a lot of focus on cable right now and so the channel could still be producing good content for viewers who still have cable(similar to what Nick and Disney are doing).
Now I know one elephant in the room is that Fox has contributed to a lot of controversy when it comes to politics. But seeing how AT&T has mismanaged WB and the aftermath with Discovery maybe it would've been better for FOX to own them. Maybe the likelihood of CN struggling within the past few years could have been avoided as well. Please let me know what you guys think. These are just some ideas that came to my head for the past few days.
With CN being 24/7 there is a great opportunity for the network to showcase even more shows. We all know towards the end of 2014. CN started to air new episodes of shows at the 6am-7am time slot. This was mainly due to the fact that CN lost that primetime slot to adult swim. With CN being 24/7 there is a good chance that those shows could get better timeslots, which can then lead to better ratings, and certain shows continuing to air on the network. I don't think Beyblade, Ben 10 Omniverse, Sonic Boom, Pokémon XY, Tenkai Knights would all be shifted to 6am if the channel was 24/7. It is very likely that Pokémon and Beyblade would still stay on CN then. I know Disney XD puts their action oriented shows at good time slots so maybe we would see a similar type of model for CN. Another interesting note is, what would CN air during the late night and early morning time? CLASSIC SHOWS!! Your favorites like Codename Kids Next Door, Dexter's Laboratory, Juniper Lee, Powerpuff Girls, Pokémon Advanced just to name a few. Would all air during those time slots. Having experienced animators from shows like the Simpsons, Family guy, Bob Burgers could help CN when it comes to producing new content. A lot of these guys have experience in working in animation for a very long time and now having the opportunity to produce content for CN could open a whole new type of era for CN and animation as a whole. BlueSky Studios was owned by Fox at the time so I know for a fact that CN would have an Ice Age or Rio animated series in the works as well. My last point would be distribution and streaming. At the time Fox also owned a small percentage of Hulu and so every show they produced on TV would be uploaded there. We all know the issues HBO Max has when it comes to uploading classic CN shows. I feel like this process would be easier because there would already be an established service for shows to go on. Fox still puts a lot of focus on cable right now and so the channel could still be producing good content for viewers who still have cable(similar to what Nick and Disney are doing).
Now I know one elephant in the room is that Fox has contributed to a lot of controversy when it comes to politics. But seeing how AT&T has mismanaged WB and the aftermath with Discovery maybe it would've been better for FOX to own them. Maybe the likelihood of CN struggling within the past few years could have been avoided as well. Please let me know what you guys think. These are just some ideas that came to my head for the past few days.
