I had to resort to Amazon Prime, as that way I can watch old cartoons and they have quite a variety of them, too! (At least way more than what's on TV, anyway)

Netflix, BBC iPlayer (Via ZenMate), YouTube and DVD Importing for me

I complain about what airs, but I do have an embarrassment of riches with cartoons on DVD. Not everything I would like to see, as we all well know, but almost everything of note that has been released. Around 2007 I started buying them all, after noticing for years that things I liked were no longer airing on cable once it finished destroying local broadcast traditions, and I didn't like much of what was on anymore. Growing up I never thought Looney Tunes would be off the air, that's crazy talk. And yet they were for a time and might be again someday.

Being a software developer by trade I started putting all my cartoons on a huge hard drive and wrote a custom database and software to browse and play them back throughout my home. Today I use a custom Roku channel I wrote to do just that. So if it came out on DVD/Blu-ray and is classic or semi-classic animation then I've probably got it at my fingertips and can start playing it within a few seconds using a simple remote control. Looney Tunes collections, all the Walt Disney Treasures, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, T&J, Droopy, UPA, R&B, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, all the old Kids WB stuff, various old Marvel cartoons, tons of classic H-B (thank you Warner Archive), some Disney Afternoon stuff, various 80s-90s SatAM stuff, lots of Peanuts cartoons, little bit of Filmation, all kinds of Super Friends incarnations, etc, etc, etc, and of course Thunderbean collections.

So I basically have my own Boomerang about a million times better than the real thing. It can even randomly program half hour or hour long blocks of classic cartoons from my collection for me, such as an hour of Looney Tunes, with options like Any, B&W only, Color only, post-1949 (or my other favorite, an hour of Three Stooges). I haven't gone so far as to turn it into a 24/7 stream yet, its just on-demand, but I only have so much time to watch it. Still it would be nice if this stuff would air and I could just turn it on, or if kids and adults generally could see this material broadcast. As well as airing things I still can't get a good copy of.

I complain about what airs, but I do have an embarrassment of riches with cartoons on DVD. Not everything I would like to see, as we all well know, but almost everything of note that has been released. Around 2007 I started buying them all, after noticing for years that things I liked were no longer airing on cable once it finished destroying local broadcast traditions, and I didn't like much of what was on anymore. Growing up I never thought Looney Tunes would be off the air, that's crazy talk. And yet they were for a time and might be again someday.

Being a software developer by trade I started putting all my cartoons on a huge hard drive and wrote a custom database and software to browse and play them back throughout my home. Today I use a custom Roku channel I wrote to do just that. So if it came out on DVD/Blu-ray and is classic or semi-classic animation then I've probably got it at my fingertips and can start playing it within a few seconds using a simple remote control. Looney Tunes collections, all the Walt Disney Treasures, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, T&J, Droopy, UPA, R&B, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, all the old Kids WB stuff, various old Marvel cartoons, tons of classic H-B (thank you Warner Archive), some Disney Afternoon stuff, various 80s-90s SatAM stuff, lots of Peanuts cartoons, little bit of Filmation, all kinds of Super Friends incarnations, etc, etc, etc, and of course Thunderbean collections.

So I basically have my own Boomerang about a million times better than the real thing. It can even randomly program half hour or hour long blocks of classic cartoons from my collection for me, such as an hour of Looney Tunes, with options like Any, B&W only, Color only, post-1949 (or my other favorite, an hour of Three Stooges). I haven't gone so far as to turn it into a 24/7 stream yet, its just on-demand, but I only have so much time to watch it. Still it would be nice if this stuff would air and I could just turn it on, or if kids and adults generally could see this material broadcast. As well as airing things I still can't get a good copy of.

That sounds really cool; I wish I could do something like that. I also want to add a randomizer, so I won't always know what's on next.

I complain about what airs, but I do have an embarrassment of riches with cartoons on DVD. Not everything I would like to see, as we all well know, but almost everything of note that has been released. Around 2007 I started buying them all, after noticing for years that things I liked were no longer airing on cable once it finished destroying local broadcast traditions, and I didn't like much of what was on anymore. Growing up I never thought Looney Tunes would be off the air, that's crazy talk. And yet they were for a time and might be again someday.

Being a software developer by trade I started putting all my cartoons on a huge hard drive and wrote a custom database and software to browse and play them back throughout my home. Today I use a custom Roku channel I wrote to do just that. So if it came out on DVD/Blu-ray and is classic or semi-classic animation then I've probably got it at my fingertips and can start playing it within a few seconds using a simple remote control. Looney Tunes collections, all the Walt Disney Treasures, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, T&J, Droopy, UPA, R&B, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, all the old Kids WB stuff, various old Marvel cartoons, tons of classic H-B (thank you Warner Archive), some Disney Afternoon stuff, various 80s-90s SatAM stuff, lots of Peanuts cartoons, little bit of Filmation, all kinds of Super Friends incarnations, etc, etc, etc, and of course Thunderbean collections.

So I basically have my own Boomerang about a million times better than the real thing. It can even randomly program half hour or hour long blocks of classic cartoons from my collection for me, such as an hour of Looney Tunes, with options like Any, B&W only, Color only, post-1949 (or my other favorite, an hour of Three Stooges). I haven't gone so far as to turn it into a 24/7 stream yet, its just on-demand, but I only have so much time to watch it. Still it would be nice if this stuff would air and I could just turn it on, or if kids and adults generally could see this material broadcast. As well as airing things I still can't get a good copy of.

How about bringing that channel out on Roku for us to access?

How about bringing that channel out on Roku for us to access?

Well it is a private channel published on Roku, in theory anyone can install it if they know the channel name. But it won't work.

The problem of course is that the video files, the video database, the web server and web services that stream the videos are all privately located on an expensive home NAS device on my home network (basically a tiny computer with a lot of hard drives). I hardly have rights (or bandwidth) to take all these DVD videos licensed for home viewing and dump them into the cloud for everyone to access. Currently my database is reporting something like 4,900 hours of video content, about 6 or 7 months worth -- guess I've bought a lot of DVDs. Cartoons are the biggest portion of it, but also includes old TV shows and other things I like.

So in addition to having the channel you'd have to deploy your own network storage server hardware, rip and transcode your DVDs, input all the video meta-data (title, year, studio, runtime, box art, etc) into the database using my software, etc. It took years of doing this to DVDs as I bought them to build the library. I hardly ever buy them anymore, as nothing is really coming out, but it used to not be uncommon for me to run through the process of loading the videos from new DVDs into the database once or twice every week or two.

UK Boomerang has been changed and the first thing I saw was... of course, the Garfield Show.
Well, at least there's no kid saying what's on next.

UK Boomerang has been changed and the first thing I saw was... of course, the Garfield Show.
Well, at least there's no kid saying what's on next.

This whole "Garfield Show" thing seems like a case of "adored by the network" to me.
I even updated the TVTropes page about CN's "adored by the network" examples to include this!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwi...heNetwork/CartoonNetwork 

UK Boomerang has been changed and the first thing I saw was... of course, the Garfield Show.
Well, at least there's no kid saying what's on next.

This whole "Garfield Show" thing seems like a case of "adored by the network" to me.
I even updated the TVTropes page about CN's "adored by the network" examples to include this!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwi...heNetwork/CartoonNetwork 

Though, I don't think much has changed regarding the schedule here, other than new Inspector Gadget and less Scooby-Doo.

The rebrand happened here as well, but I don't see the difference. The Italian version of CN and Boomerang (which I always watched with the English audio track), stopped airing classic series since 2011. For years Boomerang here airs 4 hour blocks of new series (like the Garfield Show) for the entire day. And what I hate the most is how Turner airs the same Boomerang programming also on other 2 channels on DVB-T. Classic cartoons here have completely disappeared.

I'm pretty sure it's the only version of CN/Boomerang which doesn't air classic cartoons or reruns of classic TV shows.

UK Boomerang has been changed and the first thing I saw was... of course, the Garfield Show.
Well, at least there's no kid saying what's on next.

This whole "Garfield Show" thing seems like a case of "adored by the network" to me.
I even updated the TVTropes page about CN's "adored by the network" examples to include this!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwi...heNetwork/CartoonNetwork 

If it really is adored by the network, they would've already showed all the episodes that haven't aired on the U.S. yet.

UK Boomerang has been changed and the first thing I saw was... of course, the Garfield Show.
Well, at least there's no kid saying what's on next.

This whole "Garfield Show" thing seems like a case of "adored by the network" to me.
I even updated the TVTropes page about CN's "adored by the network" examples to include this!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwi...heNetwork/CartoonNetwork 

If it really is adored by the network, they would've already showed all the episodes that haven't aired on the U.S. yet.

Maybe they haven't aired because they're not translated? I'm pretty sure TGS is made and aired in France first.

Yep, the Garfield Show is a French import, from what I heard.

Now here's a weird observation: on March 7th, Boomerang is airing "A Scooby-Doo Valentine's Day," though the holiday has long passed by now! And they're also airing the "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" episode "Never Ape an Ape Man," and the "What's New" episode "Homeward Hound," both of which ALSO feature someone impersonating Scooby-Doo! Is that day supposed to be "Dress Up Like Scooby" day at Boomerang?
(Though at least I could do so, since I don't have Boomerang anyways!)

UK Boomerang has been changed and the first thing I saw was... of course, the Garfield Show.
Well, at least there's no kid saying what's on next.

This whole "Garfield Show" thing seems like a case of "adored by the network" to me.
I even updated the TVTropes page about CN's "adored by the network" examples to include this!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwi...heNetwork/CartoonNetwork 

If it really is adored by the network, they would've already showed all the episodes that haven't aired on the U.S. yet.

Maybe they haven't aired because they're not translated? I'm pretty sure TGS is made and aired in France first.

The Garfield Show is primarily produced in France, but the scripts are written and the voices recorded in English first. So they're certainly not waiting for a "translation".

[tom] & [jerry] now air on Latin American Boomerang for two hours nightly.

The same thing happens to the Scooby-Doo classical series - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Hanna-Barbera, 1969-71) - in the Latin American Boomerang.

And the classic Looney Tunes on the american Boomerang airings here are still airing time-compressed/PAL versions which I already did a topic  on. Man are they to lazy to air the correct NTSC versions.](*,)

Here they brought back Pinky and the Brain but still no sign of classic Looney Tunes. I even sent them many emails but they just don't care, it's all crappy CGI preschool shows.

Here they brought back Pinky and the Brain but still no sign of classic Looney Tunes. I even sent them many emails but they just don't care, it's all crappy CGI preschool shows.

Oh how I would hate to see it. I would get twice as more angry and enraged at those CGI preschool shows more than the 2 Disney Junior preschool shows I hate with a passion (they are also my arch nemesis of animated TV shows): Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Jake and the Never Land Pirates.

UK Boomerang has been changed and the first thing I saw was... of course, the Garfield Show.
Well, at least there's no kid saying what's on next.

This whole "Garfield Show" thing seems like a case of "adored by the network" to me.
I even updated the TVTropes page about CN's "adored by the network" examples to include this!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwi...heNetwork/CartoonNetwork 

If it really is adored by the network, they would've already showed all the episodes that haven't aired on the U.S. yet.

Maybe they haven't aired because they're not translated? I'm pretty sure TGS is made and aired in France first.

The Garfield Show is primarily produced in France, but the scripts are written and the voices recorded in English first. So they're certainly not waiting for a "translation".

The scripts from The Garfield Show were made by Mark Evanier.

It looks like Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries will air on Boomerang (in the United States) next week starting on July 13th.
http://schedule.adultswi...7/13/15&timeZone=CST 
http://www.locatetv.com/...gs/boomerang#13-Jul-2015