Forum - View topicNEWS: Metele Station Ends Anime Block After 4 Decades
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Somer-_-
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Those declining birthrates hurting anime now.
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enurtsol
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Daytime and morning toons are fading breed
Much of the money are now going to late nights TV News is cheaper to produce 2016 Demographic Statistics
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mangamuscle
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I think the real reason must be that younger viewers prefer to stream Kirakira ☆ Precure a la Mode (or just about anything) instead of watching at a fixed time with no pause/rewind option. If my guess is right then daytime anime blocks might disappear like saturday morning cartoons did in the USA.
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Mr. Oshawott
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With little to no daytime anime viewers left, it's not surprising that Metele had to shut down their anime block. It was only a matter of time...
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enurtsol
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Streaming isn't a big thing yet in Japan, if a show is even available for streaming. And the leaders are still foreign Netflix and Amazon Video. |
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valoon
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Oh no does this mean Heybot will be canceled? :s
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Brack
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No. Heybot will simply draw to its natural and foreshadowed conclusion over the next month. It's best that this slot is ended here, as nothing will be able to follow Heybot. |
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EricJ2
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Saturday morning disappeared because the networks were funding it, and with fewer and fewer good mainstream concepts for shows (networks were still stuck in 70's-80's ideas for shows, while cable was starting to get the kids), NBC saw more money in promoting its Today Show brand, which was even bigger at the time. Even in the 80's and 90's, shows had to compete with what trends WERE getting kids' interest, namely video games and music videos, but had no way of competing with cable or the Internet. By the 00's, ABC and NBC were reduced to simply simulcasting the shows already available on their corporate-owned Disney Channel and Discovery Kids' shows, rather than the network produce new shows with its own money. As for Japan, where cable and streaming aren't big yet, "Birthrate" seems too convenient and holy-headline an excuse for another step to help wipe that nasty "pedophile-causing" anime out of their good, responsible country, and move it to late nights, where only those shameful NEET-otaku watch it... |
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manapear
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I think the US also has lower birth rates now (or was it just teen births?), and same with Italy, but it's interesting to see what countries are cutting out Sat-AM cartoons, or how they're appealing to children anymore.
I also wonder, if as the issues that cause the birth rate get fixed (economy, real estate, lifestyle/work, etc), when/if there will be a boom in birth rates and if that means these kind of things will return in some form. |
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Hoppy800
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It's time to start having babies Japan, whole genres will be lost if you don't and that's even the worst of it. Also, Abe need to implement really good tax breaks for those wanting children.
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