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ME-TV Toons

Route66Fan said:
If MeTV Toons comes to Kansas City, MO, I imagine that it will replace Nosey on KMBC-TV, Ch. 9.4, HSN on KCWE-TV, Ch. 29.4 or even be added to KCWE-TV, Ch. 29.3 which is currently blank.

Could also possibly end up as a KSMO-TV subchannel.

I hope that it, at least, comes to a full power TV station in the Kansas City area as I can't get any of the KC area low power TV stations reliably (I am in Carrollton, MO (65mi Northeast of KC.), & the only KC area LPTV station that comes in on a semi regular basis is KCDN-LD.).

We may hear about more TV stations picking MeTV Toons up the closer we get to June 25.
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Yes to 9.4 or 29.4. Charge TV,Catchy Comedy,My Family Network,METV Plus and so on need a home in KC area.
 
It will be interesting to see how this ends up working -- and who ends up watching. I'm guessing that the goal is to reach the audience who grew up on these shows more than it is to reach today's children, but it would be nice if it ends up being a place where at least some of today's kids discover some of the old classics. And that's certainly possible, considering how many of us grew up on cartoons that were originally produced before we were born.
 
TexasTom said:
It will be interesting to see how this ends up working -- and who ends up watching. I'm guessing that the goal is to reach the audience who grew up on these shows more than it is to reach today's children, but it would be nice if it ends up being a place where at least some of today's kids discover some of the old classics. And that's certainly possible, considering how many of us grew up on cartoons that were originally produced before we were born.
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I have alot of classic cartoons on DVD and it's nice to see that a tv channel for classic cartoons are joining the OTA networks. I tried getting some of my nieces and nephews to watch the classic cartoons but they didn't like them and wanted to watch the stuff on Nickelodeon or Disney or Cartoon Network.
 
Yes! I like MeTV Toons of all time but Boomerang isn't going to be the old ones anymore. Boomerang will be focus of the '90s-today with comedy laughs like the channel broadcast reruns of Cartoon Network original series with newer like:

Tiny Toon Adventures
Taz-Mania
The Plucky Duck Show
Animaniacs
Pinky and the Brain
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Baby Looney Tunes
Duck Dodgers
Loonatics Unleashed
The Looney Tunes Show
New! Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes Cartoons
New! Animaniacs
Bugs Bunny Builders
Tiny Toons Looniversity
Tom & Jerry Kids
Tom & Jerry Tales
The Tom & Jerry Show
What's New, Scooby-Doo
Johnny Bravo
Cow & Chicken
Dexter's Laboratory

and more...
 
Boy, they're really digging deep -- I don't think that I've seen "Marine Boy" on a schedule since the mid-seventies. But I see it is on in the middle of the night where kids are likely to run into it. That's perhaps for the better since I recall it being quite violent -- that kid racked up a body count in ever episode. Not like the cartoons that came later, where the only things that got killed were robots.
 
TexasTom said:
Boy, they're really digging deep -- I don't think that I've seen "Marine Boy" on a schedule since the mid-seventies. But I see it is on in the middle of the night where kids are likely to run into it. That's perhaps for the better since I recall it being quite violent -- that kid racked up a body count in ever episode. Not like the cartoons that came later, where the only things that got killed were robots.
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Kids? There won be any kids watching. This is another nostalgia network that targets the geriatric demographic. Stay tuned for the usual life insurance, walk-in tub, AARP, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”, and Consumer Cellular spots.
 
One has to wonder though; in this day and age where kids consume visual entertainment via portable devices like tablets and their parents' smartphones, how many would sit in front of a TV and watch cartoons like Boomer's grew up with?
I can't count how many times I've seen kids being rolled around in a stroller wearing headphones and watching a tablet.
I know the diginets are scrambling to find relevance in a portable device world, but this plan seems about twenty years too late.
 
Kelly A said:
One has to wonder though; in this day and age where kids consume visual entertainment via portable devices like tablets and their parents' smartphones, how many would sit in front of a TV and watch cartoons like Boomer's grew up with?
I can't count how many times I've seen kids being rolled around in a stroller wearing headphones and watching a tablet.
I know the diginets are scrambling to find relevance in a portable device world, but this plan seems about twenty years too late.
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The channel seems to be targeting nostalgic Boomers and Gen X'ers, not kids. The question is if nostalgia alone will sustain viewership.Just because a 60-year-old has fond memories of watching Scooby-Doo every afternoon after school as a 10--year-old doesn't mean that show is going to become part of his or her regular viewing now.
 
My nieces and nephews don't even like cartoons like this everytime we put it on a cartoon I grew up on either on Boomerang or on DVD like Bugs Bunny or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) they say they don't like it and want to put it on something else.

They only like shows like Bluey and Baby Shark and the modern shows you see on Nickelodeon or Disney Junior.
 
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