Should old school toons be shown on other Networks?

Nostalgia can get tiresome, if done incorrectly. In the beginning, CN was handling their old shows rather well, and NTV is (no offense) a graveyard.



Understandable with said red tape and all




That's never stopped Seinfeld, that's shown many times in the day. As well as Friends, or Sex and the City. Someone must still be watching, because they're still airing. I'm sure they're still showing I Love Lucy somewhere.



Graveyards. That's the problem right there. The stigma created that nostalgia reeks, and todays viewers don't care about yesterday things, so they create a channel to show old things. Well, I love to watch Doug, and Cow and Chicken, but if there's a new episode of Heroes, what do you think I'll watch? So when ratings plummet, it reinforces the stigma that nostalgia reeks. This is an easy plan to fix it all

1) Most kids I grew up with, and adults I know now, have basic TV, so show old things on basic television, not on a channel you need digital for.

2) Find a time where you can give one hour, maybe two, to show old cartoons. Honestly, before a certain time, all they show is informercials on some channels, right? Take an hour before the normal television starts.

3) Add variety. Yes, showing a 50 episode cartoon is nauseating if shown constantly. However, show a 75 episode cartoon after, and another 50 episode cartoon, and eventually, go back to the first toon you showed. Then Nostalgia won't suck. It can be like I saw Batman TAS is Spring, and I'll see it again next Spring.

4) Weekend afternoons have been the plague since I was 8. If you can't find time on the weekdays, show them on weekends. You know people are only waiting for the premiers of that channel, so why bore them to death with infomercials.

Follow these, and people will watch, and that includes today's youth.
 
Those are good points, actually, Fool's Gil. If done in moderation, a channel like that could conceivably work, but the nostalgia factor would have to done in moderation. A 24 hour channel built entirely around nostalgia may get stale after a while, but if there is a variety and the schedule is constantly rotating, then it might have a chance.
 
I forgot about the nostalgia issue, but they can simply have a cartoon network, better than the current one, that shows old cartoon TV shows and movies one week, then newer ones another week, then etc. or maybe they can give one entire day to play oldies, then another to play newbies, whichever works. What about this idea? Does anyone have another idea?

Looneytunes (Disneytoons)
 
And no offense to you but so was cartoon Network back when they played old cartoons for the most part. In fact it is airing old shows and mostly old shows that make those channels as you say "graveyards" because only a few people actuallu want to watch those old shows all the time. That is the main reason channels A don't work, or B are changed very quickly.

Sadly you have to accept those "Graveyard" channels as they are your only options.
 
What you're proposing here is that Cartoon Network and Boomerang become a single channel and that they rotate between each channel's schedules every alternate day, which would never work. At all. Why? Because, 1) There's not enough new and original programming to air for an entire day or week, and 2) because such a drastic shift in programming would make it impossible for the channel to find an audience. CN wouldn't want to do that, and they have no reason to do it now that Boomerang exists. My question is: why must it be exclusively one or the other? Surely, a 24 cable channel is big enough to contain both classic and original programming. Devoting certain hours of the day to nostalgia would be a more realistic and economically feasible idea.

A channel that's going to contain both oldies-but-goodies as well as original programming could work, if properly handled, but being Boomerang one day and CN the next day would be a failure, both commercially and economically. How could one sponsor a channel that flip-flops it's format daily? As long as Cartoon Network is ad supported, it can never show nothing but but old stuff, not even for one day of for one week. And kids don't give a crud about nostalgia, because they didn't grow up with these shows, and therefore they have no nostalgic fondness for them. A block of nostalgia based programming that would only air for certain hours each day (or night) would be a much more realistic notion.

People tend to forget that Cartoon Network wasn't doing so hot ratings wise back when it was the Hanna Barbera Reruns Channel. That's why original programming was added to the channel in the 1st place. When I 1st got CN back in 1995, I thought that seeing these old cartoons for the 1st time in literally years was great for the 1st few weeks, but the novelty started to wear off after a month or so.
 
In the UK, we have a channel called POP which shows a majority of Dic and Fox Kids' cartoons such as Sonic, Mario, Sabrina Inspector Gadget, etc, we also have NickToonsters which shows stuff like Rugrats, Wild Thornberries, CatDog, Hey Arnold and a few others.
 
Honestly, I think it would be best to keep the retro and newer shows on separate channels; we saw them attempt to do sharsies before with early CN, Nicktoons TV and Toon Disney, and we all know how those turned out.

However, both old and new cartoons sharing a single channel might have a chance of working theoretically, if properly handled, however, the split could not be as dramatic as what you're proposing here. Like Blackstar said, one channel being all Boomerang for one day or week and then all CN for another would be too dramatic a switch back and forth, and audiences and sponsors would never be able to latch on to that.

Here's my proposal: have an ad-supported channel which airs original programming and 3rd party acquisitions throughout the week, but designate a Retro block which would air during non-peak hours of the weekend, when kids don't watch all that much TV. For example, CN from around 4 or 5 PM to Saturday afternoon to 4 or 6 PM Sunday evenings could be Retro Time. And yes, I'm suggesting that CN forego the Saturday night [adult swim], since the lineup is currently tanking because its' target demographic of 18-34 year old males don't stay home to watch TV. There would be no point in airing the Retro Block during weekday mornings, since no one would be home to watch it except for kids too young to appreciate the shows, and their stay-at-home moms (and dads) who'd be too busy to sit down and watch them. Weekday afternoons and evenings are peak viewing hours which couldn't be lost to such niche programming. Thursday and Friday nights would be out because of CN's big-time prime time blocks (Har Har Tharsdays and You Are Here).

I can see a network readjusting itself to accomodate oldies, but the oldies can't and shouldn't dominate the schedule, for the simple fact that nonstop reruns get old after a while. The best way to keep the oldies from getting stale is to pepper them sparadically throughout the schedule and limit the number of times that they're seen throughout the week.
 
ABC, CBS and NBC will probably never play cartoons on Saturday morning again in the same manor as they did in the 80s and early 90s. They wouldn't treat cartoons with the same flair that they used to so what would be the point? CW and Fox should still play after school cartoons, I used to love that. WB and Fox had great cartoons back in the day :)
 
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