Boomerang (Italy)

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Boomerang
Boomerang 2014 logo.svg
Launched 31 July 2003;14 years ago (2003-07-31)
20 December 2008;9 years ago (2008-12-20)(Boomerang +1)
Owned by Turner Broadcasting System Europe (Warner Media, LLC)
Picture format 576i (SDTV) [1]
Audience share 0.18% (2008, [2] )
Country Italy
Language Italian
Sister channel(s) Cartoon Network
Website www.Boomerangtv.it
Availability
Satellite
Sky Italia Channel 609
Channel 610 (Boomerang +1)
Streaming media
Sky Italia Sky Go

For the original Boomerang channel, see Boomerang (TV channel).

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For Boomerang in other countries, see Boomerang around the world.

Boomerang is a television channel of old and new cartoons, including Hanna-Barbera series and others. It is the sister channel of Cartoon Network, a division of WarnerMedia.

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio, founded in 1957 by former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors and Tom and Jerry creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, in partnership with film director George Sidney.

WarnerMedia American multinational media conglomerate

Warner Media, LLC, doing business as WarnerMedia, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T and headquartered in New York City. It was originally formed in 1990 as Time Warner, from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. The company has film, television, cable, and publishing operations, and currently consists largely of the assets of the former Warner Communications, HBO, and Turner Broadcasting System. Its assets include Warner Bros., WarnerMedia Entertainment and WarnerMedia News & Sports, as well as a 10% ownership stake in Hulu.

Since 2003, Boomerang also has an Italian version available on SKY Italia, and will soon start to broadcast on digital terrestrial television with Cartoon Network. For the most part, the network's schedule matches that of the main Boomerang in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with local scheduling variations and dubbing and subtitling of programs into Italian.

Italy republic in Southern Europe

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.

Cartoon Network (Italy) entertainment television channel in Italy

Cartoon Network is an Italian version of an original american version television channel, Cartoon Network, in the United States. It is owned by Turner Broadcasting System Europe, which it only has shows dubbed in Italian language audio, Starting from 17 September 1993-1996, Cartoon Network Europe was de-merged into their own respective languages, Such as Cartoon Network in France, Netherlands, Nordic, and Poland, and Germany.

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