Cartoon Network is a Scandinavian pay television channel broadcasting cartoons in

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, Sweden,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

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, Faroe Islands, Greenland and

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. The channel was created in 2000 when it replaced the Pan-European version of Cartoon Network in the region.

History

Cartoon Network was launched in 1993 across

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, and was originally twinned with movie channel

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(later TCM) in a pan-European version. Cartoon Network ran from 6:00am until 8:00pm

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, with TNT taking over from 8:00pm to 6:00am CET. Some programs on the pan-European feed were dubbed into Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, dubbed locally by companies such as

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and

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, for the Danish soundtrack. On December 16, 1996, Cartoon Network became a 24/7 channel, as did TNT. However, a version of the channel called ''TNT & Cartoon Network'' continued to appear on some providers in Europe. In 2000, a regional Scandinavian version of Cartoon Network was created, broadcasting in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. In mid-May 2006, the channel rebranded to the City era, with the logo, promos, bumpers and idents altered as well. The

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block was removed but most of its program content still continued to be offered on the channel. In mid-May 2009, the branding was changed to the Arrow era as seen on other CN feeds in the EMEA region at the time. In early 2011, the channel rebranded to the Check It 1.0 era, with a new logo, bumpers and idents influenced by the Checkerboard era. From October 1, 2012 onwards, there are local Swedish commercials on the Swedish subfeed's ad breaks as opposed to the pan-Nordic commercials aired in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Since November 1, 2013, Cartoon Network has been broadcasting in widescreen. Although the channel airs 24/7, some distributors only broadcast the channel between 6:00am and 9:00pm, with

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filling the remainder of the schedule. Distributors that only broadcast the partial version include

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and many smaller analogue cable systems. The channel is not yet available in Finnish in Finland, but some of the programs on the channel are available in Finnish on local Finnish channels such as

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, Sub and

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. In November 2014, the channel rebranded to Check It 3.0, following various other EMEA feeds doing so. On April 2, 2016 Cartoon Network Nordic rebranded to the Check It 4.0 graphics package, marking the first major stage towards the rebrand rollout across the EMEA region. In May 1, 2017, the channel started broadcasting in

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Logos

File:Cartoon Network 1992 logo.svg, January 1, 2000 - May 2006 File:Logo Cartoon Network 2004-2010.svg, May 2006 - January 2011 File:Cartoon Network 2010 logo.svg, From January 2011

Programming blocks

''Cartoon Network Classics''

The now-defunct Cartoon Network Classics block mainly showed

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, along with other programming dropped from the main schedule. It aired at 2:00am CET, to 4:00am CET. The block was not advertised, and did not have any special bumpers. It also lacked commercials.

''Toonami''

Similarly to its American and British counterparts, the Toonami block mainly showcased action-oriented cartoons. However, not much anime was shown, and Toonami Nordic was more focused on non-Japanese action cartoons. Shows that were shown included ''

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'', '' Batman of the Future, X-Men: Evolution,

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest ''The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest'' (also known as ''Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures'') is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and broadcast on Cartoon Network from August 26, 1996, to April 16, 1997. A continuati ...

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and

Megas XLR ''Megas XLR'' is an American animated television series created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around two teenage slackers: mechanic Coop and his best friend Jamie, who find a mecha robot from the fut ...

''Boomerang''

When it existed, the Boomerang block on CN Nordic would usually air older content, such as Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies,

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and various

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cartoons. When it was removed, its content was spread around the schedule, but over the years the shows have either been removed or moved to

instead.

References

External links

Nordic Countries Site

Danish Official Site

Norwegian Official Site

Swedish Official Site
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