Cartoon Network (Canapan)

Cartoon Network (commonly abbreviated as CN since 2006) is a Canapanese TV channel. The original version launched on September 2nd, 1996, and closed on September 1st, 2014. It was relaunched on January 2nd, 2017 due to popular demand. The channel carries two feeds, Cartoon Network, which is available in English and French, and mainly relies on Canadian cartoons, and "カートゥーン ネットワーク" (Hepburn: Kātūn Nettowāku), which is only in Japanese and mainly relies on Japanese anime.

1996 - 2006
The network used the Checkerboard bumpers from September 2nd, 1996, until September 5th, 1999. The announcer was the same as the one on the American feed. At the time, Cartoon Network had only one channel in English only.

On September 6th, 1999, the feed adopted the "Powerhouse" bumpers used on the European feeds. The feed also replaced the old announcer with Frank Welker (from the US feed).

On April 1st, 2002, these were replaced with idents featuring characters doing activities in blocks. They also replaced the announcer again, the new one being Doug Preis. On that same day, Boomerang was launched. On September 2nd, 2002, the English channel added a French audio track, and a Japanese sister channel was launched. To make the channel bilingual, the English/French feed has been textless. Instead of using a Weekdays/Weekends listing, they used a "1/2/3/4/5/6/7" system, similar to the Scandinavian "M/T/O/T/F/L/S" system. Going from "1" being Monday, to "7" being Sunday, for example, 1/2/3/4/5, 18:00. If something is happening in more than a week, it will just be the date and maybe the time, for example, 07.01, 09:00.

On January 2nd, 2006, an option was added ont the English/French channel so that viewers could be able to change the language of the text between English and French, which is based off of the language of text on the cable options. This included both promos and text in the shows. Instead of 1/2/3/4/5, 18:00, it would say "Weekdays at 6:00 P.M." in English, or "Lundi au Vendredi à 18h00" in French. From between then and March, all shows made before the 1990's were moving to Boomerang.

On April 3rd, 2006, the block bumpers began to phase out, and City bumpers were taking their place. The network also replaced their old announcer with another male announcer. An HD channel was launched on that day, being in widescreen, with all shows produced in widescreen airing letterboxed on the main feed, while all shows that were produced in 4:3 aired pillarboxed on the HD feed. On September 4th, a new block/channel called Cartoonito launched, causing Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney's ratings to drop heavily, as Cartoon Network already had higher ratings than Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, even among preschoolers.

2006 - 2014
On December 18th, 2006, Cartoon Network completely phased out all of the block bumpers and changed their logo. On October 10th, 2010, the HD channel merged with the main channel, coinciding with the premiere of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which became a very popular show in the country. As a result of it's popularity, most newer Cartoon Network shows were only released via. the Cartoon Network website/app, while some (such as Teen Titans Go!, Steven Universe, and Clarence) have never been released in the country on any platform or service. Adventure Time and Regular Show did air on the main network, but only the first 26 episodes (52 segments) played, and usually were only on at night.

On July 18th, 2014, it was announced that Canapan Network's contract with Cartoon Network would expire on September 1st, 2014. There were no bumpers or events on the network that mentioned that it would shut down. On September 1st, 2014 at 4:56 A.M., after the credits of "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes", a loop of the Now/Then bumpers (with only the Cartoon Network logo appearing) played. It played for about an hour (and there was a listing saying that "The Cartoon Cartoon Show" was supposed to be on) before cutting to a Color Bar screen. Most providers replaced Cartoon Network with Disney Channel, with the English/French version being replaced by the English version of Disney Channel, and the Japanese version being replaced with the French version, known as "Disney La Chaîne", because prior to then, the local version of Disney Channel (along with Disney Junior and Disney XD) was only available in Japanese. A similar thing happened with Cartoonito and Boomerang. This led to people making tributes, petitions, posts mentioning "RIP/Bring Back Cartoon Network", and even publicly posting recordings of the channel on websites such as archive.org.

2017 - Present
Due to popular demand, Cartoon Network was quietly relaunched on January 2nd, 2017. Unlike the old version, it is run by Turner U.S. The feed transmits from the US feed during daylight hours (6:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.), and from the Latin American feed during the night (8:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M.). Many viewers have criticized the new version for the lack of popular shows such as "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes", which was carried over to Disney XD's VOD service/app along with "The Spectacular Spider-Man", and Oggy and the Cockroaches, which moved to Nickelodeon, which is only available in English and French. Cartoonito is yet to relaunch in the region, probably because of the failure of the Tickle U block over in the US. Boomerang has relaunched as a streaming service, but not as a channel.