Forum:Ted Turner's Message to Cartoon Network viewers
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Dear Cartoon Network viewers,
1st of all I want to apologize to all of you about the change and to let you know this took a lot of us who work for CN by surprise as well last week. After discussing it we came to find out that this network buyout came directly from the president of Taylor Media himself.
It boils down to a combination of low budget and penalties. 1st off the president told us that Turner Broadcasting had been receiving penalties from the FCC for a while about Adult Swim and Cartoon Network Originals. Adult Swim because of all its crude humor and sexual harassments coming from a Kindergartner, and CN's orignals for its occasional full frontal nudity (even though we do censor it). Because of these reasons, the FCC were preventing their company from airing CN and Williams Street were renaming the channel; causing them both to lose money. Turner Broadcasting took the hardest hit. After the 1st couple of days before CN was purchased the earnings for Turner just kept dropping until it was barely going bankrupt.
The decision finally came last week to remove Adult Swim programming and Cartoon Network originals from it's schedule and replace them with anime programming. Since no one here at CN liked Adult Swim all that much it was immediately shut down and replaced with Late Night Crayon. But we did manage to save some CN originals and a few movies for a little while as the network annouced it's final schedule between 5:00am and 5:30pm. Taylor Media has approved their agreement with Turner Broadcasting to shut down Cartoon Network. They will show the final broadcast of CN at least before it shuts down. Same with AS.
I know it’s a sad day for you viewers and us stafd because we really did like Cartoon Network. Again I apologize to everyone here on behalf of Turner Broadcasting who wanted to keep Cartoon Network going.
- Ted Turner
