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xtaurus33x

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Imagine if Cartoon Network, Nick and Disney became one company. You can move this to a different category if this is the wrong place. Anyways What would happen to the cable channels they have. Here is what I think would happen.
Nick and Disney merge all their live-action shows together on one network making one of the two a 24 hour live action network named Nick Disney Live.
The other network could be used for Nick, Disney and Cartoon Network new original animated series 24/7 called Today's Toons. Then the old cartoon network could become a toonami, jetix and adult swim channel 8 hours for each Toonami starting at 6am, Jetix at 2pm and Adult Swim at 10pm and it can be called The Toon Mixer. Now on with digital channels Toon Disney, Boomerang and Nicktoons Network can showcase older toons from each company. Nick Gas can become Sitcom Rewind for older Disney and Nick live action shows. This what I think would happen what does everyone else think. :zoidberg:
 
I think a little competition is healthy. If these networks merged, within six months they'd be showing nothing but homogenized, gray crap for programing (even more than they do now).
 
CN, Nick and Disney will merge into a single company the same day that scientists prove that the Boogey Man exists, and Jay Leno books Boogey for a guest stint on The Tonight Show. There's a little thing right now called free enterprise, and as long as that's around, these companies will continue to be rivals. Right now, none of these companies would stand to gain anything from a merger.
 
wouldn't merging all the kids/animation channels be a form of monopolizing?
For the sake of the industry, competition is needed in order for them to try to outdo each other by making better programming for us to enjoy.
 
*Looks at title thread . . . keeps comments to self.

I like that there are many brands out there. I like that there are many others out there. But to merge Cartoon Network, Disney, and Nickelodeon would not only be the end of kid-vid as we know it, but it would also destroy competition.

Trying to get third-party productions is already hard for the likes of Nelvana, DiC, Entertainment Rights, Studio B, Cosgrove-Hall, or anybody else. Anime producers have no problem because they're "exotic" and marketable. Nelvana would have to make their own outlet in order to get something like Ruby Gloom or Class of the Titans stateside. You think CN, Disney, and Nick are homogenized now, imagine if they were all one unit. Boring, childish, and wrong on so many levels.
 
Only if they're dealing with Shonen Jump or stuff with pre-existing tie-ins, or if Adult Swim is feeling friendly. Much of the more interesting anime out there that doesn't fit Adult Swim's profile (shows like Fruits Basket, Kino's Journey, BECK, Zeta Gundam, pretty much anything from the '80s and earlier outside of Dragonball, etc.) will never be on basic cable. Heck, even SGT Frog hasn't found a TV deal yet, and if any anime were to be a hit on American TV, SGT Frog would be it.
 
If only, if only. If only shrink rays existed, think of how much easier moving would be...

Anyhow, this just as likely to happen as Burger King, McDonald's and Wendy's merging into a single chain. Or someone creating one universal console that plays every game. And one reason that this will never happen is that all of these companies are doing just fine on their own, so they would have no reason to combine into one single conglomerate. It would be extremely difficult to get all of those different execs and different programmers to agree on one approach and schedule. And if it ever did happen, I imagine that it would be very boring, for competition creates the drive necessary to make things better. Like David Foley said in a Kids in the Hall sketch, "Utopia isn't profitable."
 
Yeah, but it will be seen in some form in this country. Even if it's on The Anime Network or FUNimation Channel, anime will be always have a home in the States.

Something like Bean, Yvon of the Yukon, Being Ian, Zentrix, Di-Gata Warriors, or Delilah and Julius would have a rougher time landing an American spot than any of those shows you've mentioned. And, at least those shows you mentioned are or will become available on DVD, and only Bean and Zentrix are on the format Stateside.
 
I do believe that Jetix should get the crappy time (6 am) and Toonami should get the prime spot of 2pm. But.... it wouldn't work for me anyways, simply because Jetix isn't great... and AS repeats everything. So all in all, I'd only be watching...... MUCH less than half of the shows.
 
Yes, it'd be violating what's known as antitrust laws---laws designed to prevent monopolization of industries and keep *some* competition present.

Disney, Time-Warner and Viacom merging? Doubt the FCC/federal govt. would approve such a thing (even in their most free-market-frenzied state)...

As it is IMO, media is already too concentrated into too few owners *now* (such vertical integration being one reason you don't see Warner Bros.-made stuff on networks they don't own, or Disney stuff on networks *they* don't own, etc.)... having even fewer companies controlling everything would be disastrous, and not just for watching cartoons...
 
More like what would happen if Time Warner, Viacom and Disney merged into one megacororation. Keep in mind most of the networks we watch are owned by 4 or 5 megacorporations anyway. So there would probably be no noticeable difference.
 
Combining those companies would never be an option I figure but combining those networks and having them owned by multiple companies could have at least turned out... interesting.

Only the strongest brands would survive. I'd like to believe Toonami would be the be the action venue as it's certainly a stronger player than Jetix even without having channels named after it (though it use to have at least 1). But who knows?

One thing is for certain though. Not nearly as many shows would exist today and if Disney channel is any indication... not even half the programs would likely be cartoons.
 
Perhaps this could happen without the parent companies actually merging, through a joint venture. Each company would be allowed to provide a proportionate amount of programming to the venture. Of course, what about those companies that aren't part of the actual joint venture, like Sony Pictures Television, NBC-Universal, 20th Century Fox (News Corporation) or other outside companies? Would they be allowed to supply programming to this venture as outside suppliers?
 
Hasn't it happened already to some extent? Jackie Chan Adventures started as WB (IIRC) Then moved to Cartoon Network for a while, and is now on Toon Disney. Cartoon Network is showing Disney animated movies. Nick still seems to be totally inhouse but once Avatar and Danny Phantom are gone, I'll have lost all interest in that channel unless they get moving on something other than Sponge Bob and Jimmy Neutron. (Somewhere along this time line I need to see 6Teen)

Most of Disney's animated series I like come from overseas through Jetix.

At this point, given that I can't see Jetix/Disney, and CN has stopped getting new overseas shows (I'm bigtime surprised Storm Hawks came to CN) as well as their willingness to simply drop good shows and pretend everyone can stream CNVideo, I'd be ecstatic if they got off their collective posteriors and released DVD's so we wouldn't have to put up with "Nooo, they canceled my favorite show and ran yet another KND marathon block".
 
Grammar Police! The past tense of buy is bought. Tsk tsk. :sad:

Anyway, Comedy Central was originally the result of a merger between the MTV-owned HA! and the HBO-owned Comedy Channel.
 
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