Cartoon Network (Germany)
{{Short description|Former German pay TV channel}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name = Cartoon Network
| logo = Cartoon Network 2010 logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| launch_date = {{Start date|1993|9|17|df=y}} (as Cartoon Network Europe)
{{Start date and age|2005|9|3|df=y}} (as a block on Kabel eins)
{{Start date and age|2006|12|5|df=y}} (as an independent channel)
| closed_date = {{Start date and age|2013|12}} (as a block on Kabel eins)
{{End date and age|2024|9|25|df=y}} (as a channel)
| picture_format = 1080i HDTV
{{small|(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)}}
| network =
| owner = Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
| slogan =
| motto =
| country = Germany
| area = Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Liechtenstein
Italy (South Tyrol)
Luxembourg
| affiliates =
| headquarters = Munich, Germany
| former_names =
| replaced = Cartoon Network Europe
| replaced_by = Cartoon Network (Western Europe)
| sister_channels = Warner TV Comedy
Warner TV Serie
Warner TV Film
Cartoonito
CNN International
| timeshift_service =
| website = {{URL|www.cartoonnetwork.de}}
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Cartoon Network was a German pay television channel which primarily broadcasts cartoons. It is based in Munich and is available in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Broadcasting
In August 2013, SES Platform Services (later MX1, now part of SES Video) won an international tender by Turner Broadcasting System to provide playout services for Cartoon Network, Boomerang, glitz*, TNT Film and TNT Serie (in both SD and HD) for the German-speaking market, digitization of existing Turner content, and playout for Turner on-demand and catch-up services in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux region, from November 2013.{{cite press release |title=Playout and video-on-demand: SES Platform Services wins international tender by Turner Broadcasting |date=28 August 2013 |publisher=SES Platform Services GmbH |url=http://www.ses-ps.com/15889196/30-08-2013-Turner |access-date=31 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130902173713/http://www.ses-ps.com/15889196/30-08-2013-Turner |archive-date=2 September 2013}}
M7 Group's Kabelkiosk stopped broadcasting of Cartoon Network on 1 March 2017.
History
Unlike the other Big Four countries in Western Europe, and even Spain, Germany did not receive a localized version of Cartoon Network during the 1990s. Instead, programming from Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios was licensed to the various free to air broadcasters in Germany, with later reruns happening on the German kids channel Junior during the 2000s, for shows such as Animaniacs and Cow and Chicken.
Kabel eins would launch a Cartoon Network themed Saturday morning programming block on 3 September 2005. In December 2013 Kabel eins cancelled the programming block,{{cite web|url=https://www.wunschliste.de/tvnews/m/kabel-eins-beendet-samstaeglichen-zeichentrickblock| language=de |title=Kabel eins beendet samstäglichen Zeichentrickblock |publisher=TV Wunschliste |access-date=17 November 2017}} but its programming contiues to be available on German terrestrial television through channels like Super RTL and even Disney Channel Germany.
In June 2006, a German version of Boomerang was launched; this was followed by the simultaneous launch of Cartoon Network Germany as a 24-hour channel and TCM Germany on 5 December 2006.{{cite news |date=23 November 2006 |title=Turner schaltet Spielfilm- und Trickfilmsender auf |url=http://www.digitalfernsehen.de/news/news_118620.html |publisher=Digital Fernsehen}} On 1 September 2016, Cartoon Network Germany re-branded using graphics from the Check It 4.0 branding package.{{cite web|title=Cartoon Network Germany And Cartoon Network Poland Rebranded To Check It 4.0 Today|url=http://www.regularcapital.com/2016/09/ccartoon-network-germany-and-cartoon-network-poland-rebranded-to-check-it-4-0-today/|website=RegularCapital: Cartoon Network International News|access-date=1 September 2016}}
File:Cartoon Network logo (2004-2010).svg
On 25 September 2024, Cartoon Network Germany merged with the French, Dutch, Portuguese and Scandinavian feeds.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-17 |title=Cartoon Network fusiona varias de sus señales en Europa |url=https://www.tvlaint.com/2024/09/cartoon-network-fusiona-varias-de-sus.html?m=1 |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=TVLaint |language=es}}
Programming
= Final =
- Adventure Time
- Batwheels
- Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
- Ben 10 (2016 TV series)
- Craig of the Creek
- DC Super Friends
- Jade Armor
- Lego Monkie Kid
- Looney Tunes Cartoons
- New Looney Tunes
- Regular Show
- Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
- Teen Titans Go!
- The Amazing World of Gumball
- The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe
- Total DramaRama
- We Baby Bears
- We Bare Bears
References
{{reflist|30em}}
External links
- [http://www.cartoonnetwork.de Official Site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080313194342/http://www.cartoonnetwork.at/ Austrian Official Site] (Redirects to German)
- [http://www.cartoonnetwork.ch Swiss Official Site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100327225911/http://www.europe.turnerinfo.com/CN/DE/home/index.jsp Press office]
{{Cartoon Network}}
{{Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA & Poland}}
{{Television in Germany}}
Category:Children's television networks
Category:Television stations in Germany
Category:Television stations in Austria
Category:Television stations in Switzerland
Category:German-language television stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 2006
Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 2024
Category:Turner Broadcasting System Germany
Category:2006 establishments in Germany
Category:2024 disestablishments in Germany
Category:2006 establishments in Austria