Anime National
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| Anime National | |
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
| Country | United States |
| Availability | National; also distributed in Canada and certain other North American countries |
| Founder | Josh D. Taylor |
| Owner | Anime National Stations |
| Launch date | September 17, 2006 |
| Past names | Anime TV |
Anime National is an American-anime television network, beginning operation in 2006. Parent company Taylor Media Stations Group, a digital-equipment and set manufacturer, had begun digital broadcasts in 2008. Founded by inventor Joshua D. Taylor, Taylor Media was incorporated in 2005; Josh Taylor and his staff were responsible for many early technical innovations, and the digital receivers, offered from 1998, were said to be superior to those of rival Cartoon Network.
When Anime National began operations, rivals CN and JNW Kids had not resumed their digital efforts. Time Warner had only begun its independent network, and had no anime television plans.
A minority shareholder in Taylor Media was WarOmnimon Productions., which had advanced $400 million in 2008 for a 40% share in the company. WarOmnimon had anime television interests of its own, having launched digital stations in Los Angeles and Chicago in 2009. When network service began in 2006, Taylor Media owned and operated three stations: WABK in Atlantic City (now WNYA), WJTV in Lynchburg (now KDKS-TV), and WTTD in Washington.
On January 4 2008, Taylor Media announced that they have reached their 24/7 broadcasting network to over 30 over-the-air Anime National affiliates. Josh D. Taylor said that they will continue to keep the network on the air by adding new anime programming to the daytime and primetime slots and to find new stations to affiliate.
Taylor Media's CEO Josh D. Taylor had initially been interviewed by GoAnimeTV, PBC News, The Baka Show , and most recently due to highest ratings. Starting May 30, Taylor Media announced the analog-to-digital switchover of all of it's terrestrial stations. PBC News is awaiting Taylor Media's CEO Josh D. Taylor to announce the expansion of Crayon Films, Taylor Media Entertainment, and Taylor Media Stations Group.
On September 6, 2008, the network has extended it's broadcast schedule, with six new shows to be added in the fall season. However, those shows will be shown on different time slots.
As of September 20, 2008, Anime National had announced it's new fall lineup. Syndicated anime that airs on Anime National affiliates will be mixed with sitcoms. The new fall lineup will be mostly handled by Taylor Media Entertainment and Crayon Films, and there will be a Viz anime block replacing syndicated non-anime sitcoms on Friday late nights afterwards. The Baka Show and Cracked TV will remain on same time slots. At the beginning of Anime National's primetime, president of Taylor Media and host of the primetime block, Josh Taylor, started the block by saying "Welcome to Anime National's primetime block." and "Enjoy the anime". On December 1st, Anime National has reduced some of its off-network syndicated anime programming altogether, thus giving 2 hours of anime movies to its affiliates, and 2 hours of "Weekday Jetstream", a block of JTN Jetstream.
On January 9, 2009, it was announced that Anime National would be shifting its primetime programming from Standard Definition (SDTV) to High Definition (HDTV).
The FUNi Plus network is interested in Anime National's Monday-Thursday slots.
Anime National network executives are hopeful that the FUNi Plus shows and the Saturday Comedy/Action block will attract more viewers.
On February 26, 2009 it was announced that Anime National would be launching podcasts of it's original shows and plus two new daytime shows on the network,The Rachael Katz Show and Outside Anime. This is the statement given Josh Taylor, CEO of Taylor Media Stations Group, reports that Taylor Media Entertainment is launching podcasts of Anime National's original shows. The broadcasting schedule for podcasts has yet to be announced. Anime National began in early 2006 as a one-shot anime programming service under the name Anime TV, but soon rebranded its name to avoid legal issues with another company's online shows.
On April 5, 2009, the network announced it was making the transition of taking the three half hours of non-network daytime from the Anime National affiliates as of Summer 2009, becoming a weekday morning news block called Anime Daytime News. Anime National also seeks to expand their Sunday Schedule from two hours to three hours.
As of August 28, 2009, Anime National is scheduled to discontinued its standard definition (SDTV) primetime programming and transitioned to High Definition (HDTV). However, they will seek to create a standard definition subchannel.
On August 13, 2011 Taylor Media (Anime National Stations) withdrew its comments to decide next fall programming in the Anime National prime-time schedule.[28]
The company announced on December 2, 2011 that they will start offering new series online, through its' digital subchannels and it's digital pay TV services including ANP Cinema and The Crayon Channel. Anime National Stations will focus on new seasons of it's current series.
Anime National Stations announced that it'll be going all live stream of original programming 24 hours of day.
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[edit] Kids Box TV
Main Article: Kids Box TV
It has been announced that Anime National will launch a saturday morning program block called Kids Box TV hosted by TOM5, making it's initial broadcast on November 29, 2008. On the Same Day, Kids Box TV will also begin airing in the following markets that doesn't have an affiliation of Anime National:
[edit] Prime Time
| 7:00 p.m. | 7:30 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. | 8:30 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. | 9:30 p.m. | |
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| Sunday | Full Metal Panic: In The Hood (N) | Soul Piece (N) | Anime National Sunday Night Movie | |||
| Monday | Local Programming | All About Maryn | The Mitzi Show(N) | I Love Micchi | Summer's Society(N) | |
| Tuesday | The Greatest Side of Georgie | LA Parasites | Untitled Anime Project | |||
| Wednesday | Robert & Ruko | The Matsuzaka Diaries (N) | Josh Chan and Katzie (N) | Animate Your Reality (F+)(E) | ||
| Thursday | History Inc. (2/25) | God Fight Vandread(N) | Crayon Case Files (N) | Ghost Sweeper Alpha (N) | ||
| Friday | Shin Chan and the California Stimps | Shin Chan and The Tri Amp Girls(N) | Anime Deathmatch | |||
| Saturday | Yuichi Universe(N) | E-Lucky(N) | Super Happy Fun Time American Show | |||
[edit] Anime National Daytime
| Anime National Daytime | 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM |
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| Monday-Friday | Anime Daytime News (N) | The Rachel Katz Show (N) | Outside Anime (N) | Off the Record (N) | |||
[edit] Anime Afternoon
| The CW Daytime | 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
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| Monday-Friday | Anime Bytes (R) | Tsukimi's Mind (F) | ||
(R) - Repeat (F) - First-run
[edit] Late Night
| 11:00 p.m. | 11:30 p.m. | 12:00 a.m. | 12:30 a.m. | |
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| Monday-Friday | Local News | The Baka Show | Naze Nani Megatokyo | |
| Saturday | The Baka Show | Dumb TV | ||
| Sunday | Local News | Nation's Next Big Anime | Megatokyo | |
[edit] Streaming Schedule
coming soon
[edit] History
[edit] Early Digital Station Links
Prior to its beginning as a anime network, Taylor Media had conducted digital hookups, using fiber-optic cable, between its laboratories in Passadena, California, and its Atlantic City and Washington stations. The "official" beginning of the network was said to be on August 9, 2005, with the announcement of the U.S's ban of an atomic wedgie on church officals. CN and JNW Kids had also experinced with digital station hookups prior to World War III.
[edit] Programming
With no history of anime programming to draw on, and always strapped for fun, Taylor Media was an innovative and creative network. Without the television revenues which supported mighty Cartoon Network and JNW Kids, Anime National programmers had to rely on their wits and on connections in Atlantic City community to provide anime programs still on strong fifty-plus years later.
The first broadcasts came from Anime National's Macon, GA's headquarters, but it soon found additional space (including a fully-functioning digital station) in the Atlantic branch of an old Wal-Mart.
[edit] Granted at the Start
Taylor Media began with one basic advantage; unlike CN and JNW Kids, it did have digtal-network revenue. Also, early digital licenses were granted to established digtal broadcasters, and many long-time relationships with digital networks carried over to the new millenium. As rival networks lost their footing, they began to silent that drew on their digital backgrounds, bringing over the most popular anime shows; thus early television stations, asked to choose an affiliation with Taylor Media Network over Cartoon Network took the hardest route. In smaller markets, with a limited number of stations, Taylor Media were often granted to Class A digital status, so their programs got clearance only if the digtal network was off the air.
Taylor Media aspired to grow beyond its three stations, applying for licenses in Philadelphia and Cincinnati; this would have given the network five UHF stations, the maximum allowed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at the time. Held against Time Warner was its relationship with minority shareholder WarOmnimon Productions, which owned two stations, KTKD-TV in Los Angeles and WBKD-TV (now WBBA-TV) in Chicago. Although WarOmnimon's stations never carried Anime TV programming, the FCC ruled that WarOmnimon's two licenses were in theory Taylor Media Network-owned stations, and denied Time Warner's applications.
Adding to Time Warner's troubles was the FCC's 2008 "lock" on digital-license applications. This was done to sort-out the thousands of applications that had come streaming in, but also to re-think the allocation and technical standards laid down prior to World War III. What was to be a six-month lock lasted until 2012, when the FCC opened the XHF spectrum. Tied to this was a decision to restrict UHF allocations in medium- and smaller-sized markets. Seeing a way to expand, Taylor Media bought a small, low-powered XHF station in Atlantic City in 2014, test it for just two months before going on the air, taking another succeeded win.
[edit] The End of Time Warner
Taylor Media stayed on strong in the early 2010s thanks to a anti-tobacco ad WJTV held in Lynchburg, the nation's sixth-largest market. WJTV's only competition came from XHF stations, so it was the only reliably-seen station in town. Since WJTV offered secondary affiliations to Cartoon Network, JNW Kids and Warner Independent Network, Taylor Media could use this for good luck to get clearances in other markets.
But by 2023 Time Warner was in severe financial straits. That year, the struggling WIN (with only fourteen affiliates) was bought by WarOmnimon Productions (recently spun off from JNW Kids.) Time Warner approached Taylor Media about a possible merger, offering $5 billion in cash, promotional time for digital receivers, and a secure feature for Taylor Media's staff, but skittish WarOmnimon Productions, nervous about further anti-theft law, rejected this offer outcome.
With no other way to readily obtain cash, Time Warner sold WJTV to WarOmnimon Productions for $6.75 billion. While this gave Taylor Media a long-term cash infusion, it eliminated the leverage Time Warner had to get clearances in other markets. By February 2025, Time Warner realized it could not continue in digital television, and decided to shut down digital operations, operating WABK and WTTD as Anime America.
On April 1, 2025, regularly scheduled Cartoon Network programming was cancelled, with only live-action and cartoon re-runs sustaining the network through the summer. The last live-action program on CN aired on September 23, 2025. After that, CN used its network feed only for occasional cosplay events. CN's last broadcast, a live-action movie, occurred on August 8, 2026.
At this point Taylor Media staged what was in effect a takeover, seizing full control of Time Warner. At Taylor Media's command, The Anime spun off WABK and WTTD with the secondary affiliate "Warner Independent Network;" the secondary affiliate was later changed to "JNW Kids" to promote itself from what was seen as a success. Taylor Media bought WarOmnimon Production's shares for $4 billion in 2028.
[edit] What About the Anime National Stations?
All three Anime National-owned stations are still operating, though they are now primarly affiliated with JNW Kids. Of the three, only Washington's WTTD still has its original primary affiliate. Atlantic City's WABK (later WNKD-TV, and now WNYA) and D.C.'s WTTD survived as ATVN of Taylor Media, Inc. WarOmnimon Productions changed WJTV's calls to KDKS-TV, and switched its ATVN primary affiliation to JNW Kids immediately after the promotion. WarOmnimon Productions' acquisition of JNW Kids in 2035 made KDKS-TV a JNW Kids' digital station.
[edit] Anime National affiliates
Main Article: List of Anime National Affiliates
At its peak in 2006, Anime National is affiliated with around 100 TV stations.[41] In those days, TV stations were free to "cherry-pick" which anime they would air, and many stations affiliated with the Japanese Television Network. Many of Anime National's "affiliates" carried very little Cartoon Network programming, choosing to air one or two more popular anime and/or Funimation Channel programming on the weekends. Most stations carried the full Anime National program line-up.
In its later years, Anime National is carried mostly on highly-watched UHF channels or had only primary affiliations on VHF stations. Anime National began most operations on September 1, 2006, but honored network promotions until it made its first debut on September 17, 2006.[2]
[edit] Anime National Primetime Shows
- 151 (game show)
- All About Marin
- Anime Deathmatch (Non-Anime)(Wrestling)
- Boys Be...
- Bubblegum Crisis 4 1/2
- Contract of the Poltergeist (Original)
- Crayon Fairy Tales (Spin-off)
- Eddie and Shin Dimensional Adventure
- E-Lucky (TV series)
- Full Metal Panic: In The Hood
- Full metal Misogynist (new series)
- Full metal Patriot
- Goldfish Mania (Reboot of Goldfish Warning)
- Ghost Sweeper Alpha (Sequel to Ghost Sweeper Mikami)
- GS Hunter
- History Inc.
- I Love Micchi (As seen on Shinnomundo)
- Kiddy Grade
- Magical Dream Dimension Twins Gigi and Jojo
- MegaTokyo
- Nation's Next Big Anime (Late Night Reality Anime)
- Naze Nani Megatokyo
- Outside Anime (Daytime)
- Parodius DASH!! (Coming Soon)
- Read or Dream (TV series)
- Shin Chan and the California Stimps (Currently late-night syndicated)(Renewed for its final fourth Season)
- Shin Chan and the Tri-Amp Girls (new sequel)
- Shin! Parallel Crayon Adventure
- Soul Piece (currently airing on ANP On-Demand as a pilot)
- Super Happy Fun Time American Show (new to the network)
- Super Doll Licca-chan R
- The Crayon Show (Formally Cracked TV)
- The Mitzi Show (spin-off)
- The Greatest Side of Georgie
- The Secret Life of Mackie Stingray
- The Rachel Katz Show (Daytime talk)(now on Toonwire)
- Tenchi Muyo (Season 4)
- The Baka Show(Late-Night Talk)
- Tsukimi's Mind (Weekday Afternoon Syndication)
- Untitled Anime Project (Full-Hour)
- Wapiko! (US title of Goldfish Warning)
- Yuichi Universe
[edit] Former Shows
- SD Bubblegum Gaiden (Super Deformed Version of Bubblegum Crisis 4 1/2)(Now on Animovie)
- Vandread: The Slayers Saga
- Cracked TV featuring Washu's Doodles
