Which channel made the worst change?

Well, that person doesn't know what their talking about... Nickelodeon has only gone broader as time went on... you'd never see a show like Avatar back in the 90s, nor would you see references to ethnicity, sex, drinking, and other topics back in the 90s. The writing for all their shows has overall matured (actually giving the shows proper storylines/closure, for one) since the "toilet humor" days of Ren & Stimpy and Rocko.

Though I guess we don't need to see the same shows twice, so I voted Nicktoons Network.
 
I was rather upset when Jetix became the dominant block on Toon Disney, as I used to love watching all the old shows early in the AM before I went to sleep. However, I no longer think Jetix is that bad, and it seems like many people who routinely bash Jetix are merely being cynical. Would I love for Toon Disney to pay more respect to their older programs? Of course, but the network needs to be judged based on what it’s currently showing, rather than what it’s currently not. It makes me truly happy to actually see commercials for Pinky & The Brain during their other popular shows, and they’ve earned some points for airing Superman and Batman as well. I’ve also recently fallen in love with Yin Yang Yo!, despite the fact that most people hate it, so Jetix’s quality is on the rise as far as I’m concerned.

All Toon Disney needs to do is make a few more acquisitions and put some more variety in their wildcard stacks; they’re very close to being my favorite network.

Since I have to vote in the poll, I’m going to go with Cartoon Network. They’ve made some poor decisions as of late, and I’m not talking about live-action. I’ve been displeased with their choices of animated programs, though Chowder is one of my new favorite animated programs.
 
Disney Channel - I used to watch it exclusively for cartoons. Those are all but gone. Plus I'm not into the whole singing teen star/ wild world of tween shows that they specialize in now.

Toon Disney - When I first saw this channel, it was what Disney Channel used to be for me, a place to watch classic Disney cartoons. Now it's 75% Jetix. However, they show two of my favourite cartoons (which used to be on rival CN) right now, so they're not entirely ruined.

Cartoon Network - You already know this one.

Boomerang - Never get the chance to watch it, being the hardest to obtain of all these channels. However, looking at its schedule, it's everything that the other channels aren't for me. If I got it, I'd probably never change the channel.

Nickelodeon - This was and still is my least favourite channel. Nicktoons were low on my like list as it was. Spongebob came along and I grew out of the sitcoms. So I just stopped watching. This is the channel I complain about the least.

Nicktoon Network - Never saw it before getting digital cable, so I don't really have a basis for comparison. However, I was disappointed that they didn't show the older Nicktoons quite as much. But I finally get to see Avatar regularly now, so not all that bad.
 
Disney - For turning its back on animation, or so we think. :shrug:

Cartoon Network - Same reason, except...it's just getting started, IMO! :anime:
 
Demographics are for idiots who wouldn't know a good show unless a friendly yet condescending voice-over told them to watch it.

CN, as it sees fit to call itself, is the worst offender of these.
 
:sweat: - wow.

It was pretty hard to say, all the aforementioned channels have offended me, but I'll have to go with CN.

CN has angered me more times than Nick has, just slightly though. CN used to be my toon channel of choice, diverse enough to satisfy my toon hunger until they went totally nuts with its programming...its almost unwatchable. Nick is almost just as bad pulling good shows and replacing them with garbage. Avatar is the only thing I watch on Nick now that Invader Zim and Ren & Stimpy are either gone or in impossible to watch timeslots.

I watch more Boomerang than anything now on Dish network which is 24 hours (rather than the awful on demand, cable version). It stays pretty much within its classic roots...well most of the time (with the exception of JLU which isn't a classic yet...however, I love the show anyway).

I really don't watch the Disney channel at all...that is until they started airing Pinky and the Brain, B:TAS and S:TAS on Jetix. Other than that, The Disney Channel is mainly for Hannah Montana Bratz (no offense, but its just too out of my age-range to enjoy).:sweat:
 
I don't have cable at all, but there's no way I want it now. And I was considering it too. I think Disney however is the main offender that would later corrupt everything.

However, I wouldn't lump Bratz and Bandana Lolla Folana in the same group. Bratz were quite slutty and have a negative backlash, while Montana Maxamana is clean wholesome treacle that 30 year old trying hard to be cool (but still lame nonetheless) soccer Moms and their little spoiled female offspring can enjoy. It still sends the bad message of having kids grow up too fast, but at least she isn't a night walker in training, like the Bratz. I'll give it that.

Way for her father to make money after falling out of the spotlight over 10 years ago, but not something unwholesome.
 
It was close (it took every nerve I had not to pick Cartoon Network), but I voted for the Disney Channel because they don't show any classic shorts anymore, and that was pretty much the ONLY thing that I really watched TDC for. Now, the Disney Channel is nothing but one lame assembly line teenybopper show/movie after another, and always some crap about a teen/tween girl/boy, his/her bratty sister/brother, their family and friends. All of them want to get in with the popular clique and all of these young stars have to double as pop music stars (Perhaps I'm just too old to appreciate it, but I just don't get the Hanna Montana worship. I mean, she's cute, but I don't under stand the obsession with her). Cartoon Network, as lame as it's schedule and marketing has become, has yet to spawn a Miley Cyrus or a Drake Bell, so for that reason alone, I did not vote for Cartoon Network.
 
I don't know for sure which is worse. I don't have three of those networks but from what I've heard Boomerange is the worst offender for satalite TV. It was supposed to be for old cartoons only, it used to have all the old looney toons and MGM stuff but now it's where old cartoonnetwork cartoons go to rot.

Of Nick, Disney, and CartoonNetwork, Disney has my vote. Cartoonnetwork is pretty close mainly because they broke their rule of having liveaction on the network, but unlike Disney and Nick who seem to allow the growth or teen sitcoms to overwhelm them, CN still has a good selection of animated programs that dominate the timeslots, and still remains true to thier original form. Disney has my vote because I remember it being all about Disney stuff, they would show Disney movies, Old Disney cartoons, and animation and be for younger kids to enjoy. Thier bumps were really nice and when I got it returned back to my cable after years of not watching it I was very dissapointed. There isn't anything I watch on Disney channel. It seems like they just pick the TV shows that Nick rejects and make it. My siblings love some of the programs, but even the stuff for little babies are horrible, and frankly I'd put a block on the channel if I could.
 
Actually, although Spider-Man was perhaps the most hyped non-cartoon offering at the time, I believe the first volley of live-action on CN was a handful of movies led off by Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - which itself is an awesome movie about cartoons, which I would have totally not minded being shown on the network, if it weren't for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and The Goonies coming along for the ride. In fact, I believe Batman aired on CN long before Spider-Man did.

And Out of Jimmy's Head, syndicated?? Wherever did that notion come from?
 
Much as the other networks have fallen off, this one for me was an easy choice: Cartoon Network by a country mile, with the various US broadcast TV networks tied for second and syndicated children's TV (yeah I know, "what?") as third...

But to throw out my thoughts on each one:
Disney Channel: Think it slid downhill once it got rid of the classic programming (which judging from Toon Disney is now unavailable *anywhere* on US TV...) to focus only on new/original programming. Still, some of the new stuff is OK, but do think they should rerun older material *somewhere* within Disney's massive media empire outlets (not just dumped on DVD with little promotion or fanfare, or only used as remakes a la "The Parent Trap").

Toon Disney: Only get to see this when visiting relatives out of town (I dont' have digital cable), but was pleased to see them start airing the Silver Age WB shows Time-Warner's apparently left for dead (Pinky and the Brain, Batman:TAS, Superman:TAS), even if that's off-topic (not Disney owned). Unfortunately, they also air junk like "Power Rangers" to death. At least some older Disney Afternoon stuff is (or was last I saw it) available (though oddly no DuckTales).

Cartoon Network: as everyone else has noted, this channel's mix of old and new entertainment (Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera stuff combined with new productions like PowerPuff Girls and Adult Swim) were its high point; unfortunately, things have slid to the current point of only airing the same several mediocre new cartoons over and over, along with a bunch of live-action junk that could easily air on one of the zillion other Time-Warner media outlets. Meanwhile, no Looney Tunes/theatrical shorts or older TV material (aside from Scooby Doo and the occasional Cartoon Cartoon compilation TV show). Adult Swim's also seemingly (to me) slid off quality-wise, though I only liked a few of the shows made for it, anyway. Easily makes my choice for this poll.

Boomerang: While I don't get this channel (no digital cable, though it's carried on my company's lineup), and I rarely get to see it (my relatives' cable company only carries the On Demand version), it's still miles above Cartoon Network quality-wise from what I can see---even despite sliding off lately quality-wise with Time-Warner using it as its dumping ground for axed CN series (JLU, Duck Dodgers, etc.) and trying to air a bit of live-action junk on *it* as well.

Nickelodeon: Most of the cartoons seem to have taken a powder lately in favor of a bunch of mediocre live-action shows about teenage musicians/kids-going-to-school being rerun to *DEATH*. Still, it's keeping with Nick's tradition of running originally-produced, live-action programming. Do wish that they hadn't given "6Teen" the bum's rush (a show that's now unavailable anywhere in the US)...

Nicktoons: Only see this one when visiting relatives, but like that it runs some older Nicktoons... unfortunately, it doesn't seem to run too many of them, apparently in favor of original productions and the same stuff (or what's left of it) still running on Nickeldoeon-proper. Wouldn't kill them to air more "Angry Beavers" ... ;-)

Other:
- I'll let our Canadian and UK (and elsewhere) friends fill us in on whether or not Teletoon/foreign versions of CN and Boomerang/etc. have gone downhill as well (to avoid this just being US-only)...

- Broadcast TV's slid off *big* time, to where it's pretty much all but dead (with 4Kids taking over Kids WB next fall probably the last nail in the coffin). Yes, they have E/I requirements, but the fact syndicated TV stations would rather air infomercials on weekday mornings vs. cartoons (or the ones available for syndication still) seems quite sad...

-B.
 
I voted Other because of these other cable channels making worse changes:
* ABC Family - dropping Jetix
* G4 - going away from video games
* Nickelodeon GAS - soon to be defunct at the end of December 2007.
 
2. The Disney Channel: Considering that their entire empire was built on cartoon movies, it's sad to watch a channel that has nothing but goofy teenagers/tweens in sitcoms. :p

1. CARTOON Network: I should not have to tell a network with such a name that it needs to be 24/7 cartoons(excluding commercials and bumpers).
 
I wish I could pick more than one, 'cause for me it's a tie between Disney Channel and Cartoon Network.

But since you can only select one choice on a poll, I chose Cartoon Network.

Why? Anyone who's read any of my posts on the CN forum already knows why, but for those who don't: I think their current attempts to emulate Nick and Disney Channel by polluting their lineup with live-action shows and movies is a mistake and a disgrace. It screams, "We don't give a crap about quality or our once-loyal audience anymore-we're only in it for the money!" I wouldn't mind the live-action so much if: a) they only aired live-action productions that actually included animation or were actually about animation, b) they relegated the live-action to only one time a week, like say, a live-action block and c) if the live-action they showed was actually any good (don't get me started on Out of Jimmy's Head). But shows like Goosebumps and Kamen Rider and movies like Snow Day and The Goonies which have nothing at all to do with cartoons have no place on a channel named CARTOON Network. This, coupled with their current policy to unceremoniously drop any shows which don't strike ratings gold within their first 2 weeks of airing (Megas XLR, JL/JLU, Ellen's Acres, Fantastic Four: WGH, Class of 3000) combined with the hacking down, mangling and over-Naruto-izing of Toonami have squarely put CN at the top of my basic cable **** list.

Disney Channel runs a close second to me for dropping all of the classic Disney cartoons and glutting their schedule with non-stop, cookie-cutter indistinguishable teen/tweencoms. Would it kill TDC to show a decent cartoon show once in a while instead of overhyped tripe like High School Musical and Hanna Montana and crap like Wizards of Waverly Place, a show whose budget is apparently so low that the crew could probably blow the wad on a trip to the pay-toilet, is gratuitously wasting the talents of David DeLuise and Maria Canals and has next to ZERO magic in it (and on a show about wizards, too. Way to go, Disney Channel!)?

Nickelodeon might have made my list too, but truth be told, I was never all that into Nick. Except for a few shows like Rocko's Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Kablam! and some of their more ambitious live-action efforts like Space Cases and the early All That, Nick has never really held my interest all that much. So when they went the creatively bankrupt "Let's make a ton of identical clone shows about teens going to school" route, I had already severed all ties to the channel, so by that time I really didn't care.
 
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