Teletoon (Canada)
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| Type | Cable television specialty channel |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Availability | National |
| Founder | Michael Hirsh (co-founder) |
| Owner | Astral Media (50%) Corus Entertainment (50%) |
| Key people | Len Cochrane (President) |
| Launch date | October 17, 1997 (English) September 8, 1997 (French) |
| Website | teletoon.com |
- For the French-Canadian version of this television channel, see TÉLÉTOON (Canada).
Teletoon is a Canadian cable television specialty channel that specializes in animation programming, not limited by age. It has been known as Canada's answer to the American Cartoon Network, with which it shares several series. However, Teletoon is required to show a certain percentage of Canadian content. Ownership of Teletoon is divided between Astral Media (50%) and Corus Entertainment (50%). The name is a portmanteau of television and cartoon.
There are separate English and French language versions of the channel as well the English channel operates two timeshifted feeds, East (Eastern Time) and West (Pacific Time).
Teletoon has no apparent connection to the television channel in France of the same name.
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[edit] History
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When Teletoon first launched in 1997, it had several time blocks devoted to certain content and showed more mature fare as the day progressed, with a strong commitment to air diverse and international programming, as well as the ability to air a great majority of material uncut. A typical broadcast day would start with preschool content at 7:00 am and end with adult content after midnight, airing more adult cartoons such as Æon Flux, Duckman and various Original Video Animation.
However, Teletoon had an incident during their first year when they accidentally broadcast adult content, including cartoon nudity, during a time normally devoted to preschoolers (thus outside of Watershed).[citation needed] The backlash from the government and parental groups[citation needed] resulted in Teletoon cutting back on almost all programming aimed at teens and adults, alienating those viewers. Teletoon is trying to regain that demographic, starting with the creation of the time block The Detour on Teletoon. Its newest programming block, presenting shows for adults and teenagers. The Detour on Teletoon includes 12 oz. Mouse, Squidbillies, Stroker and Hoop, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Tripping the Rift, The Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, and Futurama.
On February 5, 2007 Teletoon's network layout was dramatically changed as was its website, and The Detour's website was moved to teletoon.com, and the aesthetic appearance of both the normal block and The Detour changed.
[edit] Programming
- Further information: List of programs broadcast by Teletoon
Note: The French version of Teletoon contains a different schedule of programs than the English version, some being a French-dubbed version of well-known television shows, such as South Park. For a full list of their programs, please see TÉLÉTOON (Canada).
[edit] Current primetime schedule
Spin Cycle is in blue; The Detour is in orange.
[edit] Teletoon Original Productions
This a list of Teletoon Original Productions.
- Atomic Betty
- Carl Squared
- Gerald McBoing Boing
- Kid Paddle
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
- Planet Sketch
- Wayside
- What's With Andy?
[edit] Program blocks
[edit] Teletoon Presents
Teletoon Presents (formally Cinetoon) is a block on Saturdays that airs animated movies, such as Tom and Jerry: The Movie, and in a few cases, live-action movies, such as the recent version of Scooby-Doo. The movies currently air on Saturday afternoons at 5:00 p.m.
[edit] The Detour on Teletoon and F-Night
The Detour on Teletoon is the name for the animated programming block targeted towards teen and adult audiences. It was launched in fall 2002. Much of which is in the vein of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim; however, unlike Adult Swim, although there was a strong early commitment to air diverse and international programming, as well as the ability to air a great majority of material uncut. The Detour has never incorperated Anime into its lineup, as YTV's Bionix block on Friday nights contains most of the recent Toonami and Adult Swim anime properties.
The Detour was an amalgamation of the old The Detour block, aimed at teenagers, and the former Teletoon Unleashed block, aimed at adults, which had been dropped due to lack of new content.
For the start of the 2006-2007 season, a new Friday night companion block "F-Night" debuted, featuring a slightly different lineup consisting of more of the Adult Swim comedies such as Tom Goes to the Mayor and Squidbillies.
[edit] Current Programs
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[edit] KAPOW!
Launched in September 2003, KAPOW! is an action type block, currently featuring the shows Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider Riders, and The Batman. KAPOW! is usually shown on weekend mornings in big sections, although it does show smaller sections during the weekdays.
[edit] Spin Cycle
Originally, Spin Cycle was a new Friday Afternoon block debuting in 2006 aired from 4pm to 6pm, containing new randomly selected programming every week. Shortly after the February 2007 revamp, the name was repurposed as the branding for the daily 7pm-8pm Action Block.
[edit] Teletoon Retro
Teletoon Retro was a block which showed some older programming. Although these one-hour blocks have recently disappeared, The Flintstones and The Jetsons remained in their timeslots until January 8, 2007 but just without the commercial bumpers.
A new digital service of the same name has been approved in August 2005 by the CRTC ([1]) for broadcast in both French and English. The Teletoon Retro channel was originally scheduled to debut in spring 2007 ([2]), but has been delayed until further notice. The new channel will feature a mixture of older animated programming, including anime. More information on this should be forthcoming.
[edit] Trivia
- In its second year, Teletoon was supposed to air the cult favorite series, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and even had the show referenced in many promotional materials. However, despite being printed in television listings for weeks, the show never actually aired on the station. The exact reason for the show's abrupt disappearance is unknown, but apparently it involved a royalty dispute with one of the actors interviewed on the show, which has also caused several episodes to be removed from the DVD release. It was thought that Teletoon would never air the series, but in 2004 they did begin airing its spin-off, The Brak Show. The show finally began airing in the fall of 2006.
- Teletoon's licence requires that 90% of all programs on the network are animated (151.2 hours per week). If the network were to do non-animated stunt programming, such as when Adult Swim aired Saved by the Bell on their schedule, they could only do so for 16.8 hours per week, or 2.4 hours per day. [3]
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