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Teletoon
Launched	October 17, 1997 (English) September 8, 1997 (French)
Owned by	Teletoon Canada Inc. (Astral Media- 50% Corus Entertainment- 50%)
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Vancouver, British Columbia
Sister channel(s)	TÉLÉTOON (French) Teletoon Retro
Website	www.teletoon.com
Availability
Satellite
Bell ExpressVu	Channel 554 (East) Channel 555 (West)
Star Choice	Channel 554 (East) Channel 555 (West)
Cable
Available on most Canadian cable systems	Check local listings

Teletoon (stylizied as TELETOON) is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel that specializes in animation programming. Teletoon is owned by Teletoon Canada Inc; a 50/50 partnership between Astral Media and Corus Entertainment. The name is a portmanteau of television and cartoon and has no pparent connection to the television channel in France of the same name.

There are separate English and French language versions of the channel as well. The English channel operates two time shifted feeds, East (Eastern Time) and West (Pacific Time).

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The original Teletoon logo used from 1997-2007. In the station's early years, the red border wasn't there, and sometimes it appeared blue, light green or orange instead of red.

Licenced in 1996 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the English language channel launched on October 17, 1997. It was originally owned by a consortium made up of various other Canadian specialty services and producers; The Family Channel Inc. acting as managing partner at 53.3% (Astral Media & WIC), YTV Canada Inc. at 26.7% (Shaw Communications), Cinar and Nelvana with 10% each. Through various acquisitions over the years, ownership resulted in both Astral Media and Corus Entertainment owning a 50% stake in the service.

Initially when Teletoon launched in 1997, it had several time blocks devoted to certain content and showed more mature fare as the day progressed, with a strong commitment to air diverse and international programming, as well as the ability to air a great majority of material uncut. A typical broadcast day would start with preschool content at 7:00 a.m. and end with adult content after midnight, airing more adult cartoons such as Æon Flux, Duckman and various Original Video Animation.

However, Teletoon had an incident during their first year when they accidentally broadcast adult content, including cartoon nudity, during a time normally devoted to preschoolers (thus outside of Watershed).^{[citation needed]} The backlash from the government and parental groups^{[citation needed]} resulted in Teletoon cutting back on almost all programming aimed at teens and adults, alienating those viewers. Teletoon is trying to regain that demographic, starting with the creation of the time block The Detour on Teletoon. Its newest programming block, presenting shows for adults and teenagers. The Detour on Teletoon includes: 12 oz. Mouse, Angry Kid, Bromwell High, Squidbillies, Stroker and Hoop, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Tripping the Rift, Venture Bros, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, and Futurama.

In its second year, Teletoon was supposed to air the cult favourite series, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and even had the show referenced in many promotional materials. However, despite being printed in television listings for weeks, the show never actually aired on the station. The exact reason for the shows abrupt disappearance is unknown, but apparently it involved a royalty dispute with one of the actors interviewed on the show, which has also caused several episodes to be removed from the DVD release. It was thought that Teletoon would never air the series, but in 2004 they did begin airing its spin-off, The Brak Show. The show finally began airing in the fall of 2006.

On February 5, 2007, Teletoon's network layout was dramatically changed as was its website, and The Detour's website was moved to teletoon.com, and the aesthetic appearance of both the normal block and The Detour changed.

Further information: List of programs broadcast by Teletoon

Teletoon predominantly airs animated television series with the occasional film broadcast through its programming block, Teletoon Presents, many television series of which come from the Cartoon Network from the United States.

Teletoon's licence requires that 90% of all programs on the network are animated (151.2 hours per week). If the network were to do non-animated stunt programming, such as when Adult Swim aired Saved by the Bell on their schedule, they could only do so for 16.8 hours per week, or 2.4 hours per day. [1]

Note: The French version of Teletoon contains a different schedule of programs than the English version, some being a French-dubbed version of well-known television shows, such as South Park. For a full list of their programs, please see Télétoon (Canada).

This a list of Teletoon original productions.

• 6teen
• Atomic Betty
• Captain Star
• Carl²
• Cybersix
• Di-Gata Defenders
• Doodlez
• FUTZ!
• George of the Jungle (2007 Series)
• Gerald McBoing-Boing
• Iggy Arbuckle
• Jean-Luc & Dondoozat
• Johnny Test (Season 2+)
• Kid Paddle
• Planet Sketch
• Ripping Friends, The
• Sons of Butcher
• Spider Riders
• Tofus, The
• Total Drama Island
• Wayside
• What about Mimi?
• What's with Andy?

Teletoon Presents (formerly known as Cinetoon) is a block on Saturdays that airs animated movies, such as Tom and Jerry: The Movie, and in a few cases, live-action movies, such as the recent version of Scooby-Doo. The movies currently air on Saturday afternoons at 5:00 p.m. As of Teletoon's layout change in 2007, Teletoon Presents now has two types movies airing on Saturday, (Scooby Doo at 9 a.m., & etc. at 5 p.m.) but this block as been heard to cancel in the upcoming Fall schedule. It also repeats one time on Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm.

Teletoon Presents schedule:

The Detour on Teletoon

F-Night on Teletoon

Starting at 9 p.m (In January 2008, 8:30 p.m.) to 4:00 a.m. the Detour on Teletoon is the name for the animated programming block targeted towards teen and adult audiences. It was launched in fall 2002. Much of which is in the vein of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim; however, unlike Adult Swim, although there was a strong early commitment to air diverse and international programming, and to air a great majority of material uncut. The Detour has never incorporated Anime into its lineup, as YTV's Bionix block on Friday nights contains most of the recent Toonami and Adult Swim anime properties.

The Detour was an amalgamation of the old The Detour block, aimed at teenagers, and the former Teletoon Unleashed block, aimed at adults, which had been dropped due to lack of new content.

For the start of the 2006-2007 season, a new Friday night companion block "F-Night" debuted, featuring a slightly different lineup consisting of more of the Adult Swim comedies such as Tom Goes to the Mayor and Squidbillies.

Launched in September 2003, Kapow! is an action type block, currently featuring the shows Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider Riders, and The Batman. Kapow! is usually shown on weekend mornings in large sections, although it does show smaller sections during the weekdays. As of September 2006, the block was removed & replaced by Spin Cycle.

Spin Cycle was a block created in September 2006 to replace the Kapow! block, airing weeknights from 7pm to 8pm EST/PST. After a short absence in January 2007, it returned after the February 5th relaunch. Spin Cycle became the 4pm-6pm block on Fridays only. This time, the block featured different programming every week, such as episodes of specific programming and reairings of the premiere specials of some shows. On September 3, 2007, Spin Cycle began airing every weekday from 4-6 p.m. with different shows everyday. Throughout the week viewers can vote online on the Teletoon website to pick one show that will air on Fridays during Spin Cycle. Once a month, five viewers each get to choose the shows for an entire weekday afternoon.

• Official Teletoon website
• The Detour on Teletoon
• Teletoon on Astral Media
• Teletoon on Corus Entertainment