Today I’m going to talk to all of you about the history of
one of my favorite programming blocks of all time Toonami. For those of you
that don’t know, Toonami is a timeblock most known for its run time on Saturday
nights from 12 midnight until 6 in the morning, also code named The Midnight
Run. It focuses on showing mostly anime but also has American animated
television shows as well and usually consists of a video game review. Anyway
let’s get into the history of this awesome programming block.
Originally it was launched as Cartoon Network’s primary
action block and was hosted by Moltar,
a villain from the show Space Ghost turned
producer who would host the
program block from fictional Ghost Planet Industries. It would air in the
afternoon ours of weekdays from 1997 to July 9th, 1999. The original
Toonami would pale in comparison to the rest of it’s lifespan.
On July 10th 1999 Toonami was relaunched and
started on its road to becoming the modern day Toonami. It introduced a new
Broadcast station, The Ghost Planet Spaceship Absolution and it’s new host T.O.M. originally voiced by Sonny
Strait. It then introduced the midnight run. The midnight run was the new
programin gblock that it would run on. It would consist of a Saturday
night/Sunday morning air time from 12 midnight to 5 a.m. It would remain this
way until March of 2000 where it would become a weeknight 1 hour long format
until January 2003.
Come Back next week as we continue on the history of
Toonami!
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