Cable channels who used to air cartoons?

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Babygoo89

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The other day I was remembering how I used to watch Scooby-Doo and other cartoons on TBS. Also I think TNT aired cartoons at one time anyone remember? USA Cartoon Express was great to watch in the 90s too.

What other cable channels aired cartoons at one time but don't anymore?

I think History Channel aired Inspector Gadget's Field Trip through history in the late 90s.
 
Yeah, TNT was basically where Turner showed old Warner Bros. and Hanna Barbera cartoons until the creation of Cartoon Network.

Remember when MTV had cartoons? There was Beavis & Butt-Head, Liquid Television, Cartoon Sushi, The Head & The Maxx, Aeon Flux, Ren & Stimpy, Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, even the M-logo bumpers were animated. I remember one day they had a marathon of animation, including the top ten animated music videos, a bunch of the M-logos, and a showing of Wallace & Gromit's The Wrong Trousers.
 
That's pretty much the list. USA, BET, Syfy, TNT, and TBS used to show cartoons in daylight hours, but only TBS and Syfy is the only one of the three still airing animation. TBS airs animation in the form of Family Guy and planning on airing their first original animated series soon, and Syfy still shows a weekly Japanese animation showcase on Monday nights.
 
TNT showed cartoons until the mid to late 90's, several years after Cartoon Network was launched. It wasn't until the channel really caught on and started having more availability that TNT and TBS dumped their cartoons.

Anyways, TCM(Turner Classic Movies) had that show Cartoon Alley, which was similar to Toonheads, a few years back, but for some reason or another they canceled it. I really do miss that show, it was among the last outlets we had for the Looney Tunes on TV.
 
Yeah I totally forgot I used to watch Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria and Ren and Stimpy on MTV. I think VH1 aired Ren and Stimpy for a while too.

Edit: Jeff Harris what cartoons aired on BET?
 
And both MTV and VH1, as well as Spike TV and Comedy Central, aired SpongeBob for a while, particularly around the time the movie came out. Also, I believe MTV used to air Rocko's Modern Life for a period in the mid-90's.
 
They still do.

Aside from airings of Futurama and South Park reruns, they have the occasional original animated series now and then, most recently DJ and the Fro and Popzilla. They tend to be overshadowed by the cartoonish, overrated reality shows, which I won't mention by name.

In the past, they aired The Jackson 5ive, C-Bear and Jamal, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and an original from Tom Snyder Productions, Hey Monie.

Currently, they show The Proud Family and soon their co-production with Marvel Entertainment, Black Panther.
 
I think most Toon Zone members are too young to either remember TNT Toons or even appreciate it. Being a true `90s kid, TNT Toons and TBS' Disaster Zone were where I discovered (and fell in love with) the Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Tom & Jerry, and the other MGM characters. Plus, TBS was the home to Captain Planet.





Exactly. When CN launched it wasn't widely available, so TNT and TBS continued airing cartoons till the end of the `90s. Both channels even premiered the Real Adventures of Jonny Quest in the mid-`90s.
 
BET also used to air an animated series called Kimboo (pronounced Kim-boh), about an African boy. It used to air early on Saturday mornings. I haven't been able to find any information on the net about the series at all.

IIRC, The USA Cartoon Express gradually came to a stop after Turner bought up all the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons from USA network in order to run them on Cartoon Network. Without the H-B library, USA had a very limited array shows to air and the block was re-named USA Action Extreme Team which aired shows like Street Fighter, Wing Commander Academy, Savage Dragon and Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm before disappearing from the network entirely.
 
^And it's not a cable channel(at least in most areas), it's a broadcast network. The thread was for cable networks besides the usual CN/Nick/Disney that have aired cartoons in the past.

But yeah, The CW still does air cartoons.
 
*thumbs up* I remember TNT Toons all the way back to circa 1990, when it was primarly Warner Bros. (pre-1948) and MGM cartoons. (I can't remember what their Warner Bros. was called. They actually aired MGM shorts as part of the Warner Bros. block, and vice versa, believe it or not.) Hanna-Barbera stuff came into play a couple years later.



Yes. I remember that. It was on all three, Monday through Friday. All three aired the same episode during the same day, but at different times.

Similarly, I believe Dexter's Labrotory ran on all three, too. All three aired the same episode at some point over the course of the weekend.
 
I remember watching Cartoon Express every night circa 1985. The 7:30 PM slot alternated every other night between The All-New Fred and Barney Show and The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show. For a while, the 7 PM slot stripped Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Pixie and Dixie shorts, but eventually alternated every other night between Yogi's Space Race and Galaxy Goof-Ups.
 
I found a few things about it. It was co-created by Marie-Th?r?se Houphou?t-Boigny, who was once the first lady of the Ivory Coast. She felt that Africans needed a hero of their own. I barely remember it myself. Must've been watching Fox back when it was on.

Not quite. The USA Cartoon Express continued for another six years after Cartoon Network launched. Instead of being limited to just Hanna-Barbera shows, they began picking up more non-HB cartoons, most notably The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA was the only place where the rarely-seen European adventures aired), Dinosaucers, and others. They even aired original cartoons like Problem Child, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Highlander.

They added USA AXT: Action eXtreme Team, a block with on Sundays in the final years of the USA Cartoon Express. First, it was a block within the block airing on Sundays only in the first year with Street Fighter and Savage Dragon, added Saturday mornings with Mortal Kombat (you know, I wonder if Warner Bros. realizes they own that series now) and Wing Commander a season later, and eventually took over the daily morning run as well as the Sunday block until its end. But they did bring over Mighty Max, Sailor Moon (USA was the series' pre-Toonami home), and Gargoyles in their final months.

OH!

Just remembered. TV Land used to air cartoons as well.

For some weird period in the early 2000s (maybe it was the cusp in 1999), when TV Land was all about classic television and not completely warm gray goo yet, they did a couple of stunts involving classic kids programming. They aired Harlem Globetrotters, Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Mighty Mouse and Quackula, and a few of those trippy Sid & Marty Kroft productions. Fun times.
 
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