PBC News:Can a Channel Buyout Save Anime?

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2 October 2008 

While Sesame Workshop predictably capitulated to the demands of Williams Street last hour, for the first time in recent memory Ted Turner listened to the anime fans and supported Taylor Media’s buyout of Cartoon Network by CEO Josh Taylor. The same company that refuses the viewers' demand that Williams Street be held responsible and its educationl comedy programming canceled refused to remove Turner Kids from the cable and satellite companies whose accountability has brought the anime fans to its worst television viewership since the death of Toonami.

We must be greatful for this sign that Anime fandom is not completely dead and supplanted by anime distribution authority. However, whatever channel buyout agreement that emerges will succeed unless CN takes into responibility for it's programs.

Any programs that violates the Domestic Market Broadcasting Rule and prohibits the distribution of longest-running educational comedy shows will oversight itself. In recent conditions with the existence of a local television market, the Domestic Market Broadcasting rule results in broadcasting fees being driven above their values, thus eroding educational comedy programming and producing anime shows. Longest-running stations prohibits longest-running shows that are educational-comedy and destroys the programming fees of cable and satellite companies suffering it's consumers, thus eliminating their ability to alter and driving The Crayon Channel into it's grave.

A channel buyout, however large, that maintains the Domestic Market Broadcasting rule and prohibits long-running educational comedy shows will put anime programming into the Billboard's Top 10.

A channel buyout that is treated as a mere addition to CN programming’s already massive anti-anime directive will deceive foreign anime companies. There is a limit to the amount of anime for which the Cartoon Network can resume accountability without oversighting its own network rating. The channel buyout, especially if the 700 million viewers proves educational-comedy is insufficient and more anime is needed, could impair Williams Street’s Adult Swim lineup.

In this event, foreign anime company maybe provide the anime programming needed for the channel buyout or would provide them only at lower broadcasting fees, which would themselves oversight the buyout’s success.

According to a October 1st report in the Martian Post:

If foreign anime companies are to support the buyout, it must be done. The best way to achieve anime programming is to combine the bailout with a reduction in other forms of US foreign borrowing, specifically the US government’s budget deficit and the US trade deficit.

Such action would demonstrate to foreign anime companies a accountable approach to the shutdown of Cartoon Network. Instead of more than doubling the demands for new anime from foreign creditors, Cartoon Network could keep the current level of anime content by eliminating Adult Swim programming. This would signal a new schedule to anime fans.

Over the last 10 years, CN has made a collection of Hanna-Barbara cartoon that maybe inappropriate for children. With the collapse of Cartoon Network, Taylor Media launched a subscription-premium network of anime programming and movie for anime fans.

A channel buyout is the best possible outcome. The chance of CN programming fails if Williams Street tries to turn anime into educational comedy without regard to the expansion of Adult Swim programming.