{"id":5897,"date":"2003-03-31T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/31\/adult-swim-bad-for-cartoon-network\/"},"modified":"2003-03-31T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-31T16:04:00","slug":"adult-swim-bad-for-cartoon-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/adult-swim-bad-for-cartoon-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Swim Bad for Cartoon Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/03-27-2003\/business\/col\/story\/70363p-65427c.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Daily News<\/a>, the Cartoon Network&#8217;s viewing audience has dropped by 15% since last year. According to the article, media analysts claim that the Cartoon Network&#8217;s concentration on its Adult Swim program has led to a decline in young viewers, significantly hurting the network&#8217;s market position and viability. It&#8217;s suggested that the Cartoon Network shifted too much attention to its late-night adult cartoon block instead of concentrating on its more profitable children&#8217;s market. &#8220;They got sidetracked and they stumbled,&#8221; the article states. The Cartoon Network has not introduced a &#8220;big hit&#8221; since 1998&#8217;s Powerpuff Girls. The network is hoping to begin a recovery with five new original programs including the Star Wars Clone Wars shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Daily News, the Cartoon Network&#8217;s viewing audience has dropped by 15% since last year. According to the article, media analysts claim that the Cartoon Network&#8217;s concentration on its Adult Swim program has led to a decline in young viewers, significantly hurting the network&#8217;s market position and viability. It&#8217;s suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}