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Weigel Broadcasting Co. has introduced the launch of an all-new nationwide tv community, MeTV Toons, devoted solely to traditional animation from Hollywood-era shorts to made-for-television favorites.
The brand new MeTV Toons collaboration between Warner Bros. Discovery and Weigel – the corporate behind the MeTV Community – will welcome dozens of the world’s traditional cartoons, together with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry, George Jetson, High Cat, Yogi Bear, Popeye, Johnny Quest and Fred Flintstone, amongst others.
Alongside Warner Bros. properties, different cartoon characters becoming a member of MeTV Toons embody Rocky and Bullwinkle, Woody Woodpecker, Casper, Betty Boop, Pace Racer and extra. The community can be out there for multi-platform distribution on over-the-air broadcast tv, conventional MVPD’s and digital MVPD’s, together with a complimentary providing for ad-supported streaming companies.
“We’re honored to work with the superb crew at Warner Bros. Discovery and others on this community and produce collectively a very unimaginable assortment of the world’s greatest recognized and most liked traditional cartoons, creating a brand new vacation spot for everybody to find or rediscover the sheer pleasure of watching cartoons on TV,” stated Neal Sabin, vice-chairman of Weigel Broadcasting Co. “MeTV Toons can be devoted 24/7 to showcasing the most important names and most beloved traditional cartoons and animated characters. Everybody has a favourite cartoon; it’s a universally liked artwork kind. We’re thrilled to carry these smiles and recollections again to TV with MeTV Toons.”
“Neal and the crew at Weigel have been long-standing and revolutionary licensing companions of Warner Bros. content material for many years,” stated David Decker, president of content material gross sales for Warner Bros. Discovery. “Having a number of the Studio’s most iconic animated characters all out there in a single place isn’t solely nice for followers of traditional animation, but in addition simply tremendous enjoyable!”
MeTV Toons will launch June 25, 2024.
Becoming a member of MeTV Toons to are animation writer, historian, and govt Jerry Beck, and character voice actor Bob Bergen. Beck is well-known for his books on American animation and traditional characters, together with The 50 Biggest Cartoons, The Hanna-Barbera Treasury, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Full Illustrated Information to Warner Bros. Cartoons.
Beck will assist produce unique content material that may broaden and improve the viewing expertise.
4-time Emmy nominee Bergen is a voice actor and host, well-known for voicing Warner Bros. characters Porky Pig, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, and plenty of others. He would be the signature voice of the community, bringing the MeTV Toons model and viewing expertise to life together with his saying and performing prowess.
The MeTV Toons community joins MeTV, Heroes & Icons, Begin TV, Catchy Comedy, MOVIES!, Story Tv, Dabl and MeTV+ within the Weigel household of nationwide broadcast TV networks.
Beck promised, “This isn’t one other Boomerang. As greatest I can describe it – assume 1992 Cartoon Community – TIMES 100. On steroids. Accessible free of charge. In all places.”
Along with the whole Warner Bros. library of animated shorts, sequence and options, Beck promised, “We’ll be mining the vaults at Sony (Columbia, UPA), Common (Lantz, Harveytoons, Underdog, and so on) and different main studios. We will even be resurrecting traditional TV reveals unavailable in (in some instances, for over 50 years).”
He concluded, “There are NO PLANS for this channel to ever produce new animation (as Cartoon Community did). This can be a Basic Cartoon channel dedicated to the historical past of animation.”
