CNX? What is CNX?

[Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom]

I just saw a rather intriguing trailer...

Cartoon Network UK just advertised that they would be showing new episodes
of DragonBall Z, to be shown for the first time on the rather dark-looking
'CNX' - a new channel.

<crosses fingers> Is it too much to hope that this is a channel of
Toonami-esque stuff? That maybe we might get some of the shows from Adult
Swim?

If nothing else, we're probably looking at an action-show based channel...
so theres some hope there, at some point... ^_^

--
Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom

"And of the angel that appeared unto her;
and gave her an Aramani jacket to cover her nakedness
and told her she was saved."

[Derek Janssen]

Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom wrote:
>
> Cartoon Network UK just advertised that they would be showing new episodes
> of DragonBall Z, to be shown for the first time on the rather dark-looking
> 'CNX' - a new channel.
>
> <crosses fingers> Is it too much to hope that this is a channel of
> Toonami-esque stuff? That maybe we might get some of the shows from Adult
> Swim?

Possible--
At one point they were thinking of a US all-Toonami channel, but then,
that was back when they were thinking of a Boomerang channel, too...You
know what happened to that idea. (And if you don't, you DON'T.)

Since they don't want to break up CN-UK's mix with a truckload of action
exports, they're probably thinking of shuffling the Toonami, ASAnime,
and even a few ASComedy off to their own channel-space--
So it won't be a total loss, and they can test out which aspect they
want to hyper-market over here for the future.

Derek Janssen
dja...@rcn.com

[Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom]

> Possible--
> At one point they were thinking of a US all-Toonami channel, but then,
> that was back when they were thinking of a Boomerang channel, too...You
> know what happened to that idea. (And if you don't, you DON'T.)
>
> Since they don't want to break up CN-UK's mix with a truckload of action
> exports, they're probably thinking of shuffling the Toonami, ASAnime,
> and even a few ASComedy off to their own channel-space--
> So it won't be a total loss, and they can test out which aspect they
> want to hyper-market over here for the future.

Hm... a promising sign, at least- Boomerang has been on air as a station
over here for about a year / a year and a half... so this may indeed be the
Toonami chanel we've been praying for, especially since the name 'CNX' is
the name of the Toonami news webpage. I wonder of the success of Sci-Fi's
anime block stung them into action?

[Corey M. Barnes]

CNX is an 18-34 demographic aimed channel (if so, why are they putting DBZ on
it? unless it's uncut Japanese). Here's the info from Toonzone:

Turner Broadcasting is launching a new channel in the United Kingdom on October
14.

The new channel, named CNX (yeah, CNX), is a 24-hour network aimed towards the
18-34 male demographic with programming ranging from martial arts to sports to
thrillers to animation as well as original UK-made programming. UK insiders
report that IPC Media, publisher of Loaded (kind of like Maxim here in the
States), is going to provide material from their various publications. CNX will
be seen in households covered by NTL, Telewest and Sky Digital.

- CMiB

PPGWorld.com - http://www.ppgworld.com (fun for Powerpuff fans)
Omnimation - http://omnimation.keenspace.com (for fans of twisted humor, here's
my comic!)

[Corey M. Barnes]

This channel sounds like a British answer to the new TNN. It's an all around
adult aimed channel with all sorts of different programming.

[Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom]

That's... interesting. That didn't seem to be quite the vibe that I was
picking up from the trailers (and lord knows, we have enough of those
channels already...) - I guess it'll have to be seen how it fares. It just
seems sorta odd that it's being advertised so heavily on Cartoon Network,
since I'd thought that that was pretty well Warner dominated, not Turner...

[Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom]

Okay, now this is confusing the heck out of me... ToonZone does indeed say
that CNX is to be a new Turner channel similar to the existing 'Bravo', but
the trailers are all running on the Warner owned Cartoon Network, and
promoting shows that Warner currently have the licence for, AFAIK...

Either someone has crossed wires (the news having come down the line from
several sources), or my grip on reality is slacker than usual...

Um... little help?

[Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom]

Oookay.

Now it makes a little more sense- checking round the net reminds me of the
fact that Warner -bought- Turner Entertainment. So... CNX -is- to be a
Warner station, in effect. Showing... all manner of stuff. Hmm.

On the plus side, the idents and stuff for the channel look all very cool,
and Turners drama tend to be good, but I can't help feel a little
dissapointed- I was hoping for Toonami and we seem to be getting an
alternative to Bravo... Well, the animation is a good sign at least.

I guess I'll have to wait and see if the chanel is any good or not...

[S.t.A.n.L.e.E]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom wrote:

>
> Okay, now this is confusing the heck out of me... ToonZone does indeed say
> that CNX is to be a new Turner channel similar to the existing 'Bravo', but
> the trailers are all running on the Warner owned Cartoon Network, and
> promoting shows that Warner currently have the licence for, AFAIK...
>

Aren't Turner and Warner part of the AOL-TW conglomerate?
So why can't they cross-advertise?

Laters. =)

Stan
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[Jon 'Ojin' Rowbottom]

> Aren't Turner and Warner part of the AOL-TW conglomerate?
> So why can't they cross-advertise?

Yes, yes they are. I'd forgotten about that. <feels foolish>

What had really confused me, though, was advertising what is claimed to be a
'Lads channel' on Cartoon Network- the demographics didn't seem to fit.
Having poked around, though, it seems that the channel might well end up
being a strange sort of Toonami/Adult Swim - TBS Superstation - whatever
else sort of mix, which hopefully won't be quite the alternative to Bravo
that Digital Spy are touting it as. Definatly all the station trailers (all
DBZ so far, and a sort of mechanical looking 'x' for the logo), and the
channel that's showing them (Cartoon Network) imply something more 'geekish'
than 'laddish'.

Have to wait until mid-October to say for sure, I guess...

[K. A. Pezzano]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 06:47:55 -0400, "S.t.A.n.L.e.E"
<sta...@cif.rochester.edu> wrote:

>Aren't Turner and Warner part of the AOL-TW conglomerate?
>So why can't they cross-advertise?
>

There's a lot of competition and antagonism between the various
divisions of the company.

[Corey M. Barnes]

Now the official press release says CNX is an all around action channel.
Similar to our.........well, Action Channel. It's going to show anime too, but
right now the only shows on it are:

- Dragon Ball Z
- Gundam Wing
- Tenchi Muyo!

So looks like they're limited a little. But I guess they could go Scifi UK and
buy more.

[Corey M. Barnes]

More anime on the list:

- Outlaw Star
- Cowboy Bebop

And for some reason, even though it's an action channel, they're airing Space
Ghost Coast to Coast and advertising it as "thriller."

Also Spawn is airing on it.

[S.t.A.n.L.e.E]

On 24 Sep 2002, Corey M. Barnes wrote:

> More anime on the list:
>
> - Outlaw Star
> - Cowboy Bebop
>
> And for some reason, even though it's an action channel, they're airing Space
> Ghost Coast to Coast and advertising it as "thriller."
>

<Scary> Oooooooooooooooo </scary>
... it has a "ghost" in it, so it MUST be a thriller. ;)