What are the pros and cons of a network acquiring a show vs an in house production?

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This came to my mind while observing CN's treatment of The Secret Saturdays. They've exiled the cartoon to Saturday nights with no reruns and very little promotion if any at all. It seems to me like the CN execs are getting ready to cancel the series which is a real shame because it's a very unique and well wriiten cartoon and I enjoyed it. I don't want TSS to go in the way of Megas XLR. I'm wondering why CN doesn't want to promote TSS anymore to begin with. You'd think they would push their own in house creations more since they would make the majority of the profits from them( dvd sales, merchandise, etc). I see TSS having huge potiental to be a big moneymaker for CN but they're sleeping on it. Unless you guys know something I don't which brings me to my two questions.

What are the pros and cons of a network creating their own productions?

What are the pros and cons of a network acquiring a show?
 
The pros of acquiring a show is that it's cheaper, as the episodes have already been made, and it had moderate success in other markets. The cons is that the network that acquired it must share the money with the original studio on merchandise sales. Sometimes they might not even be getting that.

And if I recall The Secret Saturdays did get a lot of advertisement during its first season, but the network didn't get the ratings they wanted, so they decided not to bother with promotions as much in its second season. From what I was told by CN execs visiting my college, the show was just not that popular with kids.
 
Star Wars The Clone Wars seems to do well for CN, despite being an acquisition. It's heavily promoted and airs on Friday nights. The only thing I think CN might have a problem with is that the show is a little more violent than most other action shows geared for their target audience (last Friday's episode had a character kill himself on-screen).
 
Also didn't help that they banished the final episodes of the first season to Saturday mornings at the buttcrack of dawn (7:30 am). No matter what anyone says about the terrible timeslot it got, what they did for the show in its second season was MUCH better than the original plan (which was to strip the show on weekdays at 6am for two weeks to burn off the episodes in one shot).



The only anime that have ever been "screwed up" for television have been shows licensed by 4Kids and some Viz/ShoPro (both before and after they merged) dubs, and even then not all 4Kids dubs are necessarily bad. Dubs by Funimation and Bandai have faired well on television in terms of quality.
 
4Kids takes an anime meant for an older audience, dumbs it down for a younger audience, and in the process, upsets the real fans. A perfect example is what they did with Maria in Sonic X. Had they actually played Sonic Adventure 2, they'd realize early on in the Dark Story that she was shot by G.U.N. troops. Instead, they don't even mention her death, and even if they did "take Maria away", she'd die anyway because of her disease.
 
And how do you handle a little girl getting shot to death on a dub that airs on Saturday mornings? That isn't dumbing it down, that's called playing by the network's rules.

Besides, it was VERY vague if she was killed from being shot or not in the game (many of SA2's story details, such as Maria's disease, weren't all that clear until the Japanese novelization came out). They didn't blatantly show her being shot until Shadow the Hedgehog.
 
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