Cartoon Network (United States)
Cartoon Network
Launched
October 1, 1992
Owned by
Time Warner
(through TBS)
Picture format
480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Country
United States
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
Sister channel(s)
Boomerang, Adult
Swim
Website
CartoonNetwork.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV
Channel 296 (SD/HD)
(East)
Channel 297 (West)
Dish Network
Channel 176 (East)
Channel 177 (West)
Cable
IO digital cable
Channel 32
Available on most
cable systems
Check local listings
for channels
The original Cartoon Network logo used from
October 1, 1992 to June 14, 2004. Still in use
as a legal production card for Cartoon Net-
work Studios, and as the ’teeth’ in the Adult
Swim ’skull’ production card.
Cartoon Network (abbreviated CN, cor-
porately known as The Cartoon Network,
Inc.) is a cable television network created by
Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows
animated programming. The original Americ-
an channel began broadcasting on October 1,
1992 with the Bugs Bunny short Rhapsody
Rabbit being its first-ever aired program.[1]
Cartoon Network originally served as a
24-hour outlet for classic animation proper-
ties from the Turner Broadcasting libraries
and is mainly youth-oriented, but shares
channel space with a late-night adult-ori-
ented channel programming block called
Adult Swim. Since 2003 however, Cartoon
Network began airing a small amount of live-
action programming, mostly movies.
In October 2008, Cartoon Network began
running a West Coast feed, with program-
ming airing three hours after it airs on the
main feed.
History
Late 1980s-1999
By the end of the 1980s, Ted Turner’s cable-
TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film
library (which included the older catalog of
pre-August 1948[2] color Warner Bros. car-
toons), and its cable channel Turner Network
Television had gained an audience with its
film library. In 1990, it purchased animation
studio Hanna-Barbera Productions and ac-
quired its large library as well as most of the
Ruby-Spears library. By October 1, 1992,
Cartoon Network was created as an