Cartoon Network (Middle East and African TV channel)

Cartoon Network
Broadcast area	Middle East (MENA feed); North Africa (MENA feed); Sub-Saharan Africa (African feed); Cyprus (MENA feed)
Headquarters	Turner House, Great Marlborough Street, London, United Kingdom
Programming
Language(s)	English (African and MENA feeds); Arabic (MENA feed only); Greek (MENA feed in Cyprus)
Picture format	16:9 (1080i, HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	WarnerMedia International
Sister channels	Boomerang ; TNT Africa ; CNN International ; Cartoon Network Arabic ; Cartoon Network Hindi ; Toonami; Boing
History
Launched	17 September 1993;27 years ago(launch of Cartoon Network UK/Europe); August 1999;21 years ago(launch of Cartoon Network HQ as a separate feed from Cartoon Network UK/Europe); 1 July 2016;4 years ago(launch of Cartoon Network MENA)
Former names	Cartoon Network HQ (1999–2015)
Links
Website	MENA language-switcher site (in English and Arabic) ; MENA website (in English) ; African website (in English) ; Greek website
Availability
Cable
Cabletoon (Cyprus)	Channel 304 (HD, MENA feed)
Cablevision (Lebanon)	Channel 182 (HD, MENA feed)
Satellite
beIN (Middle East and North Africa)	Channel 106 (HD, MENA feed)
DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa)	Channel 301 (HD, African feed)
Canal+ Afrique (Sub-Saharan Africa)	Channel 402 (?, African feed)
IPTV
PrimeTel (Cyprus)	Channel 400 (HD, MENA feed)
CytaVision (Cyprus)	Channel 32 (HD, MENA feed)

Last updated March 25, 2021

Cartoon Network is one of two digital children's television channels that air animated series: Cartoon Network MENA, which serves the Middle East and North Africa along with Cyprus; and Cartoon Network Africa (formerly known as Cartoon Network HQ), which serves Sub-Saharan Africa. Both feeds are owned by AT&T's WarnerMedia under its International division.

On 1 July 2016, Cartoon Network MENA, an HD feed on beIN, launched and replace Cartoon Network Africa in the MENA region. It features both English and Arabic audio tracks. In addition to being offered by various Gulf IPTV providers (as well as Cablevision in Lebanon and most Cypriot TV providers except for NOVA Cyprus), Cartoon Network MENA also has a separate schedule and censorship rules from Cartoon Network Africa.

History

The pan-European feed launched on 17 September 1993 as Cartoon Network UK/Europe, broadcasting all over the continent in English. A Spanish-language audio track was added on 4 March 1994, along with those in Swedish, Danish, French, Italian and Norwegian.

The Benelux feed launched on 12 July 1997. In June 1998, the Southern European feed (serving France, Italy, and Spain) also debuted. A Polish feed launched on 1 September 1998.

The Italian feed became independent a few months after the launch of the Southern European feed, while the Spanish and French feeds split on 23 August 1999.

On 15 October 1999, the UK feed officially separated from the pan-European version, during the time when the shared transponder analog feed on Astra 1C became scrambled with VideoCrypt, and when the short-lived British version of TNT launched.

The Nordic feed (serving Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Finland) was launched on 1 January 2000, with a respective audio track for each country.

The Benelux Cartoon Network ceased broadcast on 31 July 2001, replaced by the pan-European feed and Dutch audio track the following day. Also on that day, the UK feed became completely independent of the pan-European feed.

The Polish feed added Romanian and Hungarian audio tracks on 30 September 2002. A Russian audio track was added on 1 April 2005, and Greek subtitles were added on 20 June 2005.

The German feed launched on 5 December 2006, followed by Turkish feed on 28 January 2008. On 1 October 2008, a feed for Hungary and Romania was split off from the Polish feed; the former later began to serve the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The Russian and Bulgarian feed launched on 1 October 2009.

The African website, CartoonNetworkAfrica.com, launched on 10 May 2010.^[1] Since the website redesign on 8 August 2014, it along with the pan-European CartoonNetworkHQ.net now redirect to CartoonNetworkHQ.com instead.

Cartoon Network Arabic launched on 10 October 2010, as the only EMEA feed that is completely unavailable in English.

The Benelux feed relaunched in November that year, with the Dutch audio track removed from the pan-European feed at the same time.

The Spanish feed closed down on 1 July 2013 along with the Spanish Cartoonito; programs from both networks can still be viewed on Boing (which carries all CN shows in a block titled ¡Findes! Cartoon Network).

A European Portuguese feed launched on 1 October 2013 in Angola and Mozambique, before arriving in Portugal on 3 December.

Cartoon Network HQ switched to widescreen on 6 October 2014, and also rebranded with the CHECK It 3.0 graphics package on that same day.

In December 2015, Turner Broadcasting System Arabia entered an exclusive deal with beIN Media Group to supply the Arab world with all of the former's pay TV channels via the latter's beIN Network subscription service (including Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM) starting on 1 January 2016.^[2] This consequently removed Cartoon Network and other Turner-owned channels from OSN's broadcast services from 16 January 2016 onwards, though subscribers to Etisalat and Du's respective pay TV services in the UAE were unaffected.

On 1 July 2016, Cartoon Network MENA was launched to replace the African feed in the Arab world, broadcasting in 1080i HD with an Arabic audio track.^[3] The service features a different schedule, program line-up, and censorship rules (sometimes editing scenes which are untouched on the Arabic feed). It is also is offered with Greek subtitles in Cyprus, effectively ending Cartoon Network HQ's status as a pan-feed.^[4]

Cartoon Network MENA's English-language website can be found at CartoonNetworkME.com, Another site, CartoonNetworkMENA.com, launched around the same time and serves as a hub where users can choose between the English- or Arabic-language versions.

In June 2017, the Kenya Film Classification Board (KCFB), headed by CEO Ezekiel Mutua, ordered a ban on six cartoons airing on Cartoon Network Africa, Nickelodeon Africa and Nicktoons Africa for allegedly promoting LGBT themes to minors. The shows affected are the currently-running Cartoon Network shows Adventure Time , Clarence and Steven Universe , in addition to the concluded Nickelodeon shows Hey Arnold! and The Legend of Korra , and the currently-running Nickelodeon cartoon The Loud House .^[5]

On 18 December 2018, Cartoon Network Africa switched to high definition.

Logos

First Cartoon Network logo, used from 17 September 1993 to 20 April 2006.
Second Cartoon Network logo, used from 21 April 2006 to 6 December 2010.
Third and current Cartoon Network logo, used from 7 December 2010 to present.

Sister channels

Boomerang

Boomerang is a television channel which airs cartoons. Two versions of the channel exist; one for the Arab World, Greece and Cyprus (Boomerang MENA), and another for Sub-Saharan Africa (Boomerang Africa). It launched on 5 June 2005 as Boomerang HQ.

On 1 July 2016, Boomerang MENA was launched, replacing the African feed in the Middle East and North Africa;^[3] it airs in 1080i with English and Arabic audio tracks on beIN,^[3] and is also available in Greece and Cyprus, albeit with a Greek audio track.

Boing

Boing is a television channel that airs repeats of programs formerly seen on Cartoon Network and Boomerang. It launched on 30 May 2015, as the fourth extension of Turner's larger Boing brand.

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References

↑ "Cartoon Network launches dedicated African website". Media Update. May 15, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
↑ "Turner and beIN Media Group Announce Strategic Partnership Exclusively for the Middle East & North Africa Region". beIN Media Group. December 29, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
1 2 3 "Cartoon Network MENA and Boomerang MENA Launch on beIN, Also in HD". RegularCapital. July 2, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
↑ "Cartoon Network News in Brief - Mid-September 2016". RegularCapital. September 19, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
↑ Dahir, Abdi Latif (June 17, 2017). "Some Nickelodeon kid cartoons have been banned in Kenya for "glorifying homosexuality"". Quartz . Retrieved August 30, 2017.

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[1] "Cartoon Network launches dedicated African website". Media Update. May 15, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2016.

[2] "Turner and beIN Media Group Announce Strategic Partnership Exclusively for the Middle East & North Africa Region". beIN Media Group. December 29, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2016.

[MENAAfrica-3] 1 2 3 "Cartoon Network MENA and Boomerang MENA Launch on beIN, Also in HD". RegularCapital. July 2, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.

[MENACyprus-4] "Cartoon Network News in Brief - Mid-September 2016". RegularCapital. September 19, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.

[5] Dahir, Abdi Latif (June 17, 2017). "Some Nickelodeon kid cartoons have been banned in Kenya for "glorifying homosexuality"". Quartz . Retrieved August 30, 2017.

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