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** ''[[The Great Grape Ape Show|The Great Grape Ape]]''
** ''[[The Great Grape Ape Show|The Great Grape Ape]]''
* ''Tooncast Favorites''
* ''Tooncast Favorites''

==Coming Soon in May 2010==
*''[[The Harveytoons Show]]'' (With Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, and Modern Madcaps)
*''[[Underdog (TV series)|The Underdog Show]]'' (With Go Go Gophers, Tennessee Tuxedo, The King and Odie, Klondike Kat, Tooter Turtle, The Hunter and Commander McBragg)
*''[[The Raccoons]]''
*''[[Danger Mouse (TV series)|DangerMouse]]''
*''[[Count Duckula]]''
*''[[The Pink Panther Show]]'' (With The Ant and the Aardvark, the Inspector and Tijuana Toads)
*''[[Tom and Jerry]]''
*''[[Bugs and Daffy]]''
*''[[Swat Kats]]''
*''[[Police Academy (TV series)|Police Academy]]''
*''[[Astro Boy (2003 TV series)|Astro Boy]]''
*''[[Mr. Magoo|The Mr. Magoo Show]]''
*''[[The Woody Woodpecker Show]]''


== Sister channels ==
== Sister channels ==

Revision as of 00:50, 17 March 2010

Tooncast
HeadquartersBuenos Aires, Argentina
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Programming
Language(s)Spanish, Portuguese
Ownership
OwnerTurner Broadcasting System

Tooncast is a Latin American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America/Time Warner. It is a 24-hour channel that airs classic animation. It was launched on December 1, 2008[1] in some countries of the region. It airs 24-hours of classic animation, both from Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network, and with no interruptions. When one show ends, the next one starts immediately.

The channels follows the line of the international versions of the channel Boomerang which all air, with the exception of the Latin American channel, classic series and shows. Old Cartoon Network promos also air on the channel, such as "Cartoons That Never Made It" and Cartoon Network Groovies and the Boomerang Shorties. Unlike other channels of Turner Broadcasting System Latin America, like Cartoon Network, just a few cable television companies broadcast the channal in the region, so the channel has not been able to widespread in the region. The excepetion is Brazil, where the channel is available in most of the cable television companies.[2] Today, the channel is available on some satellite television companies, such as Oi TV, Viamax, and Nossa TV.

Programming

Most of its programming are classic shows from Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network (Cartoon Cartoons), but also includes some other classic series. Shows that were formerly aired on Cartoon Network are also aired.

Currently:[3]

Sister channels

  • Cartoon Network. The flagship channel focusing to animation on the region.
  • Boomerang. A former 24-hour classic animation channel, is now an entertainment channel, with series and shows for teens.

References