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I just feel whoever is handling the schedules for the Italian feeds of CN and Boomerang doesn’t really know what they’re doing. In fact the FTA Boing and Cartoonito channels which are under a different management are handled way better. Back in May 2023 they advertised The New Scooby Doo...

It depends in which country. In northern Europe countries English knowledge is much higher than let’s say France or Italy. Then it also depends what programs. If they’re airing an old theatrical cartoon like Looney Tunes and such you don’t really need to have everything dubbed. It’s preferable...

I'm a bit late joining the discussion, but in any case I see this new western Europe feed already having 8 audio tracks, which is the maximum allowed amount of mono audio tracks in pretty much any broadcast standard, including XDCAM and XAVC. These days though software sometimes allows a certain...

@Moleoman From an old recording I recently found I indentified the song Latin Eyes (Warner Chappell) in a Looney Tunes promo from February 2001 on Cartoon Network Italy

In Italy since the Discovery merge Boomerang became basically the paid version of Cartoonito (except it's even worse), while they moved everything over CN. I wish they'd use at least the On Demand service and Now in Italy and the UK to put old programming in there. Tooncast was on autopilot...

The EU quota is just a directive, and according to multiple court cases it doesn't even apply to theme-oriented TV networks. A directive aims at a result, it's not a law. That's up to national governments. For an example France has a French quota law on free to air TV. Discovery's channels in...

Of course in Italy they're doing a whole Barbie pop up channel in October... How about a Scooby Doo one instead hey

In Italy we had a late night schedule back in 2016, with The Flintstones and Wacky Races. Then they moved them over CN for a while. The one that worked best imo was the Ka Boom slot on the French Boomerang. In any case, isn't an entire channel aimed at preschoolers a bit overkill these days? If...

I have no idea what they're even trying to do with it. Besides Tom and Jerry anything from the WB library has been moved to Cartoon Network. LT Cartoons premiered on Boomerang but now air on CN. Scooby Doo is on CN now, and next monday they're doing a Where Are You marathon (first time I see...

A few months I jokingly called Boomerang IT the Barbie channel. I didn't realize I shouldn't give them ideas because they're actually doing a Barbie pop up channel :eek:

Me neither. It reminds me of what it used to be in the past 7 years before the 2015 rebrand. The schedule looks like a poor attempt at replicating Cartoonito.

Even though they're modern series, at least they have WB properties airing at graveyard slots. I wish they'd put KaBoom in there. @Francisque How is the market that different today? The only difference I see is on demand services such as Netflix and D+.

I assume they removed many shows from Tooncast in order to push for HBO Max subscriptions. I think they'll be back in some months. Anyway, here's a CN Italy schedule from 2002: cartoni animati in tv I posted this here to show you how they totally managed to keep new series, classics and...

Last time I checked CN and Boomerang Italy aired with an Ofcom licence, but they do have their studios in Rome for various marketing operations and such. I remember looking at a list of Sky TV channels and they were among the few which aired from London. And licence aside, the only WB property...

All I know is they broadcast from Mediaset's broadcast studios, even though the channels themselves are handled by WarnerMedia. They air with an Italian license anyway. Speaking of Discovery, they have two youth oriented FTA networks in Italy, and I see they air most of the same European stuff...