Cartoon Network is a Central European pay television channel broadcast in the Baltic States (except Latvia), Bulgaria, CIS (except Russia), Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Throughout September 2024, Cartoon Network's European channels (save for the UK, Ireland, and Italy) were gradually remerged into pan-regional feeds.
Cartoon Network CEE has a brand new signal on 18 September 2024, merging the Polish and RSEE feed.
The following day, on September 25th, he launched the Western European signal, merging with the Dutch, French, German, Scandinavian, and Portuguese feeds.
A CEE feed specifically for Romania and Hungary was launched, replacing Cartoon Network Poland on 1 October 2009.
[12] That same year, on 20 October, Cartoon Network started broadcasting 24 hours a day on all providers in Romania, following the end of timesharing with TNT (now known as Warner TV).
On 30 September 2002, the channel began airing in Hungary and Romania, thus sharing its video feed with those countries while adding two additional audio tracks in Hungarian and Romanian.
On 1 October 2009, a separate feed of Cartoon Network was created for Hungary and Romania, while the two additional audio tracks that were previously to the channel added in September 2002 were moved there.
On 2 September 2024, Cartoon Network Poland started sharing schedule with the CEE and RSEE feed.
[19] In October 1996, Cartoon Network Europe began to be rebroadcast in English by the pay-TV operator Kosmos-TV (owned by an American company Metromedia International),[20][21][22] the duration of the broadcasts was not fixed.
In 2008, a representative office of Turner Broadcasting System Russia opened in Moscow, which began distributing the channel.
[48] The company managed the Russian legal entity of the channel — Turner Children's Programs LLC, which was headed by Discovery representative Grigory Lavrov, who was also the general director of Media Alliance.