But do we need another "kids channel"? The obvious answer is: No. We've already got CARTOON NETWORK, NICKTOONS, TOON DISNEY, BOOMERANG... not to mention NICKELODEON, DISNEY CHANNEL, ABC FAMILY, HBO FAMILY, WAM!, DISCOVERY KIDS to name but a few.
What we need is a "Classic Cartoon channel" aimed at grown-ups. A TV LAND or TCM for vintage animated films. A home for the UPA cartoons, the Terrytoons, the Harveytoons, Walter Lantz, Screen Gems, Ub Iwerks, Fleischer and Famous Studios libraries; classic independent and international animated shorts and feature films; as well as episodes of Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Roger Ramjet, Beany & Cecil and Q.T. Hush.
ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS and VOOM'S ANIMANIA HD are poised to enter a crowded marketplace - hoping to build a business using classic (and not-so-classic) animation as cornerstone programming. I wish them luck. To paraphrase HE-MAN: "They have the Power!". The power to create a new kind of animation station - one that doesn't exist, but can and should.
Posted by at March 26, 2004 08:38 AM