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Cartoon Network (abbreviated CN, operated by The Cartoon Network, Inc.) is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting which primarily airs animated programming. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992, after Turner purchased the animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1991. It was served as a 24-hour outlet for classic animation properties from the Turner Broadcasting libraries and was all-ages-oriented, but now the channel targets both children and adults (via its Adult Swim programming).
It also broadcasts many shows, ranging from action to animated comedy. Original series started in 1994 with Space Ghost Coast to Coast, along with Cartoon Cartoons original programs like Cow & Chicken, I Am Weasel, Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, What A Cartoon!, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Mike, Lu & Og and Courage the Cowardly Dog. In 2009, it started airing live-action programming, including movies from Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema.
In 1986, Ted Turner's cable-TV conglomerate acquired the pre-1986 MGM film and television library (which also included Gilligan's Island and its animated spin-offs, the U.S. rights to a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library, and the Associated Artists Productions catalog which includes the pre-1950 Warner Bros. feature films, the pre-1950 Warner Bros. short subjects, the Harman and Ising Merrie Melodies except Lady, Play Your Mandolin!, the pre-1950 Warner Bros. cartoons, and the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons released by Paramount Pictures). On October 3, 1988, its cable channel Turner Network Television was launched and had gained an audience with its film library. In 1990, it purchased animation studio Hanna-Barbera and acquired its large library as well as most of the Ruby-Spears library.
Cartoon Network Europe is a pan-European digital television channel created by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner and dedicated to showing animated programming. Based on the original American version of the channel, it launched on 17 September 1993.
The Pan-European feed broadcasts to countries with no Cartoon Network channel of their own, including Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Turkey, Portugal, Bulgaria, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Balkan countries, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Moldova, Scandinavia, the Middle East and Africa. This version of Cartoon Network, however, does not air any content owned by Warner Bros.
Most European countries received the pan-European version of the channel until at least 2000, when the versions for each country were started to replace it.
Spain receives its own feed with Spanish soundtrack, available through satellite platform Digital+ and most cable operators. A local version of the Boomerang channel is also available.
Cartoon Network Netherlands is the Dutch version of Cartoon Network which primarily airs animated programming in the Netherlands and Belgium. This version is available in the Dutch and English languages. Some providers offer the Dutch language only.