Tooncast

Tooncast is a Latin American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its International division. It was launched on 1 December 2008; its programming consists of classical animation, both from Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network. The channel is a commercial-free service.

History

The channel was launched on 1 December 2008, after all classic animation programming from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera and MGM were removed from Boomerang Latin America, to center the network towards the teen audience, and replacing it with live-action programming instead.

Tooncast follows the Boomerang US old channel line-up, which aired classic cartoons. Old Cartoon Network commercials are also broadcast on the channel, such as "Cartoons That Never Made It," Cartoon Network Groovies, and Boomerang Shorties. Unlike other channels of Turner Broadcasting System Latin America, few pay-TV providers carry Tooncast. The only exception is Brazil, where the channel is available on most subscription TV providers, such as Oi TV, Claro TV, GVT TV, Vivo TV, Kiwisat and Nossa TV. Since 1 August 2014, Tooncast began to be carried on NET, the biggest cable television company in Brazil.

Even though Tooncast remained with a single pan-regional feed with audio tracks in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and English, in November 2012 the channel started using the Brazilian content rating system.

On 26 September 2018, the channel was picked up by Sky Brasil.

On 1 April 2019, all classic programming from the Turner animation library, including productions from Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera and MGM, were removed from the schedule making focus on Cartoon Network original productions, and also airing anime series like Pokémon and the Brazilian animated series Monica and Friends, following WarnerMedia's business restructure, that also affected programming on sister networks like Cartoon Network and Boomerang. However, it eventually returned from 1 June–1 July 2019 and they have recently been reinstated. The cartoons of Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. and MGM returned to the programming in June, however, that change was made again in July of the same year, and then returned in January 2020, where they were included for the first time in the program channel such as Batman Beyond, Teen Titans and Thundercats.

On 1 June 2021, the channel's programming underwent a drastic change, being greatly reduced compared to previous months; However, this reduction in programs is also accompanied by some new releases. It is speculated that these changes came as an effect of the launch in Latin America of the streaming service HBO Max.

On December 1 2022, after more than a year of being with the same programming, Tooncast changed its programming again, but withdrawing the series from Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros and DC and focusing again on Cartoon Network Studios series, but with this change, programming was further reduced.

Programming

Current programming

As of December 2022

* ''Camp Lazlo''
* ''Chowder''
* ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends''
* ''Grim & Evil''
* ''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi''
* ''Generator Rex''
* '' I Am Weasel''
* ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack''
* ''Mike, Lu & Og''
* ''My Gym Partner's a Monkey''
* ''Sym-Bionic Titan''
* ''Time Squad''
* '' Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?''

Former programming

* ''2 Stupid Dogs''
* ''The Addams Family''
* ''The Archie Show''
* ''Animaniacs''
* ''The Ant and the Aardvark''
* ''The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show''
* ''Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy''
* ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo''
* '' As Aventuras de Gui & Estopa''
* ''Atomic Betty''
* ''Baby Looney Tunes''
* ''The Batman''
* ''Batman Beyond''
* '' Batman: The Animated Series''
* '' Birdman and the Galaxy Trio''
* ''Cartoon Cartoons''
* '' Casper and Friends''
* ''Cow and Chicken''
* ''Courage The Cowardly Dog''
* '' Crazylegs Crane''
* ''Captain Planet''
* '' The Centurions''
* ''Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines''
* ''Dragon Ball''
* ''Dexter's Laboratory''
* ''Duck Dodgers''
* '' Dynomutt, Dog Wonder''
* ''Ed, Edd n Eddy''
* ''Evil Con Carne''
* ''Fantastic Four''
* '' Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes''
* ''Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids''
* ''Felix the Cat''
* ''The Flintstones''
* '' The Flintstone Kids''
* '' Freakazoid!''
* ''Garfield and Friends''
* '' The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy''
* '' Haunted Tales for Wicked Kids''
* ''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe''
* '' Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!''
* ''The Herculoids''
* '' Hong Kong Phooey''
* ''Huckleberry Hound''
* ''The Inspector''
* ''The Jetsons''
* ''Johnny Bravo''
* ''Jonny Quest''
* '' Jorel's Brother''
* '' Josie and the Pussycats''
* ''Justice League''
* ''Justice League Unlimited''
* ''Krypto the Superdog''
* '' Laff-A-Lympics''
* ''Legion of Super Heroes''
* '' The Life and Times of Juniper Lee''
* '' The Little Lulu Show''
* ''Loonatics Unleashed''
* ''Looney Tunes''
* ''Magilla Gorilla''
* '' ¡Mucha Lucha!''
* ''Megas XLR
* ''MGM Cartoons''
* ''Monica's Gang''
* ''My Little Pony''
* '' The New Yogi Bear Show''
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies''
* ''The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show''
* '' Oggy and the Cockroaches''
* ''The Perils of Penelope Pitstop''
* '' The Pink Panther''
* '' Pink Panther and Sons''
* '' The Pink Panther Show''
* ''Pink Panther and Pals''
* ''Pinky and The Brain''
* '' Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks''
* ''Pokémon''
* ''Popeye''
* '' Quick Draw McGraw''
* ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show''
* ''Samurai Jack''
* ''Secret Squirrel''
* ''Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!''
* '' The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest''
* ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!''
* '' Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo''
* ''The Scooby-Doo Show''
* ''Sheep in the Big City''
* '' She-Ra: Princess of Power''
* '' Sítio do Picapau Amarelo''
* ''The Smurfs''
* '' Snagglepuss''
* '' Space Ghost/Dino Boy in the Lost Valley''
* ''Static Shock''
* ''Super Friends''
* '' Superman: The Animated Series''
* '' The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries''
* ''The Secret Saturdays
* '' Squirrel Boy''
* ''Taz-Mania''
* ''Teen Titans
* '' ThunderCats''
* ''Top Cat''
* ''Tom and Jerry''
* ''Tom and Jerry Kids''
* '' Tom and Jerry Tales''
* '' Trunk Train''
* ''Wacky Races''
* '' Wally Gator''
* ''What a Cartoon!''
* '' X-Men Evolution''
* ''Yogi Bear''
* '' Yogi's Gang''
* '' Young Justice''
* ''The Zeta Project''

References

External links

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{{Warner Bros. Discovery
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Commercial-free television networks
Classic television networks