I actually haven't heard anything like that. While I'm not discounting FUNimation's side of the story, I would also like to hear some more concrete from CN themselves before pointing fingers.
While the marathon does make sense to air when Platinum comes out in less than a month, I also think that it shows that they do give Pokemon at least decent treatment. I wouldn't mind them showing more episodes of Pokemon, especially some of the Advance episodes, it does make sense to air the more recent seasons too since that's drawing in more kiRAB into the franchise, not to mention the fact that it promotes the current games too. While it would be good to air more episodes, I wouldn't immediately discount one airing a day either.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I understand you here. You're saying that the high ratings for Pokemon are against their will because they know that they'll get high ratings, right? They do get toy sales from Bakugan, but I don't think its anywhere near as much as the popularity and success of Pokemon.
Yeah, I did think of Naruto after I made that post. The thing is though that the success from both of those series are pretty different.
Okay, I'm not a mod here and I apologize to those who are, but I do suggest as a meraber here, not as a mod, to keep this thread on topic and not turn it into a "CN hates anime" thread since that just would not turn out well.