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Cartoon Network launched on the 1st of October 1992, as the first 24-hour single-genre cable channel devoted entirely to animation. Betty Cohen, formerly Senior Vice President of TNT, was appointed the network's first president.
Turner Broadcasting acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists on the 9th of August 1986, retaining a large film and television library even after selling the studio back. Turner also purchased the Hanna-Barbera animation library in 1991, giving Cartoon Network access to The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry, and Looney Tunes at launch.
Cartoon Network Studios, founded in 1994 as a division of Hanna-Barbera, produced Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, Johnny Bravo, and The Powerpuff Girls among its earliest original series. The studio grew out of the What a Cartoon! anthology shorts program that debuted in 1995.
Toonami is an action-oriented programming block whose name combines "cartoon" and "tsunami." It launched on Cartoon Network on the 17th of March 1997, carrying American cartoons and Japanese anime, and ran until the 20th of September 2008, before being revived on the 26th of May 2012, under Adult Swim.
Cartoon Network removed scenes depicting gunfire, alcohol, tobacco, and humor involving ethnic or national stereotypes from Warner Bros. shorts originally produced between the 1920s and 1960s. The 1943 short Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs was omitted entirely, while The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) and Feed the Kitty (1952) had their finales heavily cut.
CartoonNetwork.com, which launched on the 27th of July 1998, was closed on the 8th of August 2024, and redirected to the Cartoon Network hub on the streaming service Max. The closure removed access to flash games, archival clips, and other materials that had accumulated on the site over decades.