One might come across some of the trending headlines of Cartoon Network and Warner Bros Animation while there has been a merger which has left everyone surprised at the time. Now, the question is that “Is Cartoon Network Dead?”
Cartoon Network has been one of the biggest studios networks offering a number of cartoon titles for decades and entertaining their audience on a worldwide note but this is a sad week for all the Cartoon Network fans due to the merger that was basically brought into agreement with Warner Bros Animation.
Warner Bros. recently came forward to announce its merger with Cartoon Network on Twitter following a wave of layoffs that came through at both of the Studios. The heartbreaking news has been gathering a lot of attention as soon as it was made recently on September 12 and it’s clear that people are not actually happy with this decision.
Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation merger shall hold changes
The reports have been out having stated that roughly around 26% of the Television Workforce was officially put ahead by the authorities to let before the merger took place. There have been reports that around 82 of the employees have been fired whereas around 125 positions in total are said to be lost in the expected period of time.
There is word out that Cartoon Network may certainly lose its touch with producing more impressive titles at the time and that there might be some more delays on the new projects which were set to release some time soon. The merger along with the layoffs has been introduced as Warner Bros. Discovery goes on to continue trying and also finding ways so that they could save any money which will come following WarnerMedia along with Discovery, Inc. as they teamed up earlier this month. And this brings us back to the same question; “Is Cartoon Network Dead?”
The analysis report has suggested that HBO along with HBO Max has already been hammered over by major cuts at the time and thus which basically means that the network shall also suffer with shares of the profit. The cuts coming around for the staff for 14% or about 70 people in estimation and which has been let go back in August of 2022. The memo was sent out by the company worldwide ahead of the merger of Cartoon Network and WBA by the chairman named Channing Dungey providing an alleged explanation of the situation and moreover to why the move was happening afterall.
Despite the part that the audience is not happy with the decision that was made, everyone also wanted an explanation as to why this move happened at the time the chairman of Warner Bros. Television, Channing Dungey has been trying his best to make streamline things whereas making over more strategic decisions at the time when it comes out to the animation studios leading the fans to the conclusion that Cartoon Network is dead.
The personality wrote in his memo that they are implementing a brand new streamlined structure where the development along with the main production teams may come along to work across both Cartoon Network Studios and even Warner Bros. Animation. Dungey mentioned in the memo that this was made as a strict business decision and though it was made compassionately and thoughtfully as possible by the leadership of the studio and they have done a thorough figuration before proceeding ahead.
Cartoon Network’s art director spoke up on the matters
Though to mention that now the merger comes in as a major blow to the Cartoon Network studios, there are reports that it won’t be basically affecting the original animated programming along with the shows for Cartoon Network and thus David DePasquale, who is the art director of Cartoon Network came ahead to call out everyone who was implying otherwise on the internet.
Now that the merger has been put through and the Warner Bros. nightmare continues, no one has any idea as to what the future holds for other creative properties and the new projects that will also line up and that one thing is certain Cartoon Network shall be absorbed by Warner Bros. for more shares and working on different animation programs and the future might be the start of something new for the studios or could turn out to be a downfall.
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