FUNimation Channel

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FUNimation Channel

Type	television network
Country	United States
Availability	United States (cable)/(UHF)
Founder	(as independent company) Gen Fukunaga
Owner	FUNimation Entertainment (Navarre Corporation)
Key people	Gen Fukunaga, CEO of FUNimation Entertainment
Launch date	September 29, 2005
Past names	n/a brand = "FUNimation"
Website	Funimation Channel

The FUNimation Channel is a 24-hour anime network that showcases some of FUNimation's properties. OlympuSAT^[1] was chosen as the exclusive distributor of the network. The FUNimation channel is North America's second 24-hour dubbed anime cable outlet, the first being ADV Films' The Anime Network.

1 Brief history
2 Carriage
3 Syndicated blocks
4 FUNimation Channel affiliates
- 4.1 Former affiliates
5 Providers
6 Shows That Air on the Funimation Channel
7 References
8 External links

Shortly before the Navarre acquisition, FUNimation conducted a survey on its website asking the fans what they thought about a 24-hour anime cable network. Several months passed and Navarre had completed its acquisition of FUNimation before the company announced The Funimation Channel.

This channel is currently available on the C-Band 4Dtv System on Galaxy 23, VCN 802. Viewers with digital sets in the New York area may also pick up the channel from WRNN-TV on Channel 48-3.

On March 23, 2006, FUNimation announced that in addition to the Funimation Channel, it will be launching a 4-hour syndicated anime block. On April 8, 2006, the block was added to CoLours TV. The shows are in their dubbed form. As of October 8, 2007, the weeknight block's hours were cut from 4 hours to 2 hours, same thing for the weekend block as of October 13, 2007.

Monday - Friday

10:00PM - Case Closed
10:30PM - Dragon Ball
11:00PM - Slayers
11:30PM - Kodocha

Saturday - Sunday

10:00PM - Yu Yu Hakusho
10:30PM - Kiddy Grade
11:00PM - Blue Gender
11:30PM - Tenchi Muyo! GXP

Calls	Channel	Branding	Format	Market/Market Rank	Timeslot	Owner
Cable Networks
	D* 9407 GTCN 91	CoLours TV	Multicultural	United States	Weeknights & Weekends 10P-12A ET	Black Star Communications
Terrestrial Stations
KBTV-CA	8 (UHF) analog Comcast 238	KBTV 8	Multicultural	Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA / 20	Weekdays 3:30-5 PM	Tower of Babel Broadcasting
WRGT-DT2	30.2 (UHF) digital	My TV Dayton	General/My Network TV	Dayton, OH / 58	Monday-Friday 1-3 AM	Cunningham Broadcasting (LMA: Sinclair Broadcasting)
WRNN-DT3	48.3 (UHF) digital			New York, NY / 1	24/7	WRNN License Company, LLC
WSYX-DT3	13.2 (UHF) digital	My TV Columbus	General/My Network TV	Columbus, OH / 32	Monday-Friday 1-3 AM	Sinclair Broadcasting

Seattle: KHCV; dropped for GnF-TV; later replaced with AAT Television.
Los Angeles: KSCI: discontinued its affiliation in June 2007.
Honolulu: KIKU: discontinued its affiliation in September 2007.