Editing Cartoon Network

[[Image:CartoonNetworkLogo1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Still waiting on that ''Swat Kats'' revival, guys.]]
A product of Ted Turner's vast empire (since sold), '''Cartoon Network''' was a showcase channel for Hanna-Barbera's extensive archive of classic animation. It became an instant powerhouse for cable in the 1990s, airing both older and new cartoons. The newer projects led to pioneering shows in their own right, amongst them ''[[Matt Hill|Ed,]] [[Sam Vincent|Edd 'n]] [[Tony Sampson|Eddy]]'', ''Dexter's Laboratory'', ''[[Charlie Adler|Cow and Chicken]]'', ''[[Jeff Glen Bennett|Johnny Bravo]]'', ''[[Tara Strong|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' and ''[[Phil LaMarr|Samurai Jack]]'', the latter leading to two original ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]: Clone Wars'' mini-series.

Cartoon Network eventually expanded itself with greater amounts of original content, soon shuffling its "vintage" animation to a new channel, "Boomerang". New programming blocks such as ''[[Toonami]]'', "Miguzi" and "Adult Swim" aimed more towards early-teen and adult animation fans, and helped to bring in a new lease on life for the anime movement.

In 1998, the Toonami block broadcast the final five episodes of season two of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', a welcome development since otherwise American fans would not have seen them for many months and would have been vulnerable to spoilers from dirty [[Canada|Canadians]]. In 2002, Cartoon Network revived ''He-Man'' for all of ten minutes, and also turned their heads towards ''Transformers'', airing all three "seasons" of the [[Unicron Trilogy]]. Near the end of the 2000s, they served as producers and distributors of ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'', which featured many of the talents who brought Cartoon Network some of their bigger action-cartoons like ''Teen Titans'' and ''Ben 10''.

[[Cartoon Network Too]], Cartoon Network Europe and Cartoon Network Brazil have the broadcast rights to ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]''.

''[[Don Messick|Scooby-]][[Frank Welker|Dooby-Doo!]]''

==External links==
*[http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/index.html cartoonnetwork.com]
*[[wikipedia:Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network at Wikipedia]]
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