Who eles misses classic cartoons on television?

[Figuremod73]

During the weekends is when I have the most nostalgia for classic cartoons. Back ten years or so boomerang could feel the void pretty well with a great line up of Hanna-Barbara classics. The last five years or so it seems to have gotten worse as newer stuff takes over.

This article explains boomerangs current state fairly well:http://astralcity.blogspot.com/searc...oomerang+Sucks

While its easy enough to just buy DVD's of MOST of HB's library, I was wondering why these cartoons are still exclusive to WB channels when they dont air many of them anymore. Wouldnt it be beneficial to allow them back into syndication on stations like This TV and other retro networks? Kids would like them if they actually had access to them.

What do you think?

[Mikey]

Just seen the Jackson 5 cartoon on DVD in Target and was wondering why nobody plays it on TV.

[HardyGirl]

MTV had it on for a while. I taped of lot of the eps from that.

Just seen the Jackson 5 cartoon on DVD in Target and was wondering why nobody plays it on TV.

[HardyGirl]

Well, sadly...cartoons on TV don't mean what they used to. Let's face it, there's just too much out there. If you can get stuff on DVD/Blu-Ray, YouTube and downloading from other sources, then no one is focusing on the general TV viewing audience. And sadly...kids aren't what they used to be either. Time was, when you come home from school, grab a snack and turn on the cartoons, or get up early on Saturday mornings, grab the sugar coated cereal and veg in front of the tube for a few hours of cartoon bliss. But w/ all the texting, video gaming, tablet toting, reality show watching that kids do now, they're just not into cartoons like we were. It's really sad. I thank God everyday I have A) the memory I have and B) the means to get the classics (whether that be cartoons or toys) to find my happy place and go back in time for awhile.

[VintageMike]

I miss them but some newer shows have some out on the past few years I've enjoyed on Saturday Mornings instead. Batman: B & B. Avengers: EMH and Young Justice. The problem is they never seem to last. Beyond that I'm content with my DVD's and what's available via Netflix. My only gripe concerns stuff that isn't on DVD or on-Demand and is being completely withheld like the few installments of Superfriends that have not been released yet.

[Megotu]

I was able to download all the Beatles cartoons last year. My kids are wild about them and they love the Beatles music. Never see those anywhere...

[Werewolf]

Boomerang and Nick at Nite are just into 90s nostalgia now. It's the 90s kids turn. But on the upside the majority of the toons and shows from the 70s and 80s are easliy available on home video. I'd rather watch them un-edited, time compressed and with out commercials anyways.

[Megotu]

Ifits only available on DVD, it's like a time capsule. Fully enclosed, and you won't stumble upon it unawares. If it's on TV somehow, people will accidentally find them and new fans are made. DVDs are only bought by people who already know about it.

[Werewolf]

Forget Boomerang and Nick. Check out Hasbro's Hub station. They show lots of 70s and 80s shows.

[jwyblejr]

The problem I have with that article is that they ignore the fact Boomerang is now airing current stuff. When Young Justice was on it's break,it was on Boomerang. The new Ben 10 series is on there as well. If they're going to air current stuff from the past couple of years,why not air Batman The Brave & The Bold and appease the older fans?

[TomStrong]

Good article by the way figuremod73. I think the author is on to something there. We certainly are getting older and we are not the target audience anymore but I still think there's a place for all the great retro Hanna Barbera shows on tv. Scooby Doo is still popular, Superfriends is still good for little kids who like superheroes but whose parents are uncomfortable with animated violence I just don't think they've spun it that way. As for kids today, you guys are right. The texting and cellphone phenomena has something to do with their attention span. My kid is like Gollum with the Ring with hers, it's her preeeecious! If you go near it she has a caniption. MTV is awful, modern music is pretty crummy too, will kids today look back in thirty of forty years on Lady Feakin Gaga the way we do on Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, or the Beatles with a nostalgic fondness and reexamination of the meaning of her music? Geese, I guess hanging on in quiet desperation is not just for the English anymore.

[TomStrong]

I also agree with Werewolf, Hub is pretty cool.

[Figuremod73]

Ifits only available on DVD, it's like a time capsule. Fully enclosed, and you won't stumble upon it unawares. If it's on TV somehow, people will accidentally find them and new fans are made. DVDs are only bought by people who already know about it.

This is what im thinking. I'm sure there are still stations that would love to carry The Flintstones, The Jetson, etc, but the exclusiveness that Cartoon Network/Boomerang has isnt allowing it. I hope someday some of these classic are brought back into syndication because outside of having a great cable package many kids dont have access to them anymore.

I loved alot of HB stuff as a kid and I had no idea just how old those cartoons were. They are timeless.

[jimsmegos]

To the best of my knowledge there are very few independent TV stations left across the country that still program their own line ups. From a financial standpoint it doesn't make sense to spend the kind of cash it would take to pick up these old shows IF you could even get them. It's all big corporation stuff and there appears to be no interest from those guys to deal out special syndication deals with just one station. Trust me on this one.

[kingdom warrior]

I think TELLING and WRITING and Calling these Corporations and letting them know that there is a demographic that WANTS to see these type of retro cartoons on air. Honestly they can't mind read and many execs have tunnel vision and will only put on air whatever is new and what will pull in the age demographic that the advertisers want to sell their products

ME-TV or whatever else Retro stations there are is probably the best place to maybe try and get retro cartoons to air since they attract an older adult audience.......but remember it's always about selling ads, If they put in place a saturday morning cartoon lineup and no one tunes in, it will fail.

Hub has actually done a great job of balancing new cartoons with old ones,even having a family game show. their success is vital, because other stations adapt to whatever the trends are.