Re: Weigel METV news

On 2024-05-03 20:55:59 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said:

Everything about this deal tells you why perpetual copyright serves the
interest of copyright holders only, the public be damned. The big
studios shut down short subject animation seven and a half decades ago,
yet it's all still under copyright.
 There is a statement that these short subject animation libraries are
all owned by Warner Brothers Discovery, with the exception of what
Disney owns.
 Weigel Broadcasting will set up a cartoon network, METV Toons, effective
June 25. Will they maintain the original aspect ratio? Will the image be
shrunk down even if they do?
 Will they censor?
 Bob Bergen, a voice actor who has provided voices in modern versions of
WB cartoons, will host. The article doesn't say what the broadcast
subchannel will be or what programming it replaces.
 https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/05/02/metv-toons-cartoon-channel-weigel-warner-bros-discovery-chicago 

I just learned MeTV operates 6 "sister networks" for comedy, drama, action, documentary, etc, along with "MeTV+," which is intended to "extend the brand and expand the audience" of MeTV but looks like it's just the same old shows as on MeTV but in a different time period.
This cartoon channel will probably be the 7th MeTV sister network that nobody's ever heard of and lost in the streaming morass in a few years.