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BartWinkle
12-23-2008, 01:55 PM
When did syndicated packages of Warner Bros. cartoons first air on TV, excluding network showings?
Racattack!Force
12-23-2008, 06:27 PM
Possibly the Looney Tunes On Nickelodeon, starting in 1988. But I'm not sure.
Pilmedium
12-26-2008, 08:50 AM
From what I understand, some of the less desirable post-1948 LT/MM cartoons and many of the pre-1948s were syndicated locally as early as the 1960s, although I am not aware of the specific broadcasts.
Racattack!Force
12-26-2008, 11:03 AM
From what I understand, some of the less desirable post-1948 LT/MM cartoons and many of the pre-1948s were syndicated locally as early as the 1960s, although I am not aware of the specific broadcasts.I think he's referring to cable showings, not network/local station showings.
BartWinkle
12-26-2008, 01:15 PM
Actually, I was referring to local over-the-air broadcast showings.
Racattack!Force
12-26-2008, 03:46 PM
Actually, I was referring to local over-the-air broadcast showings.Oh, in which case, nevermind. :sweat:
sun
12-26-2008, 04:31 PM
From what I understand, some of the less desirable post-1948 LT/MM cartoons and many of the pre-1948s were syndicated locally as early as the 1960s, although I am not aware of the specific broadcasts.

I think Pilmedium is correct. certainly by the late 60s and early 70s some were out there. They were on local TV, but we had no way to collect them till VCRs came out in the mid to late 70s. Originally VCRs cost about 2000 in today's money. Very large and very clumsy, but they did the job. They started getting reasonable in the early and mid 80s.
dth1971
12-26-2008, 11:53 PM
1950's! Starting with WABD in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles.
Mark The Shark
01-09-2009, 10:02 PM
I believe the "Guild Films" package of B&W Looney Tunes cartoons was first syndicated in 1956, then the a.a.p. ("Turner Brothers") cartoons appeared in 1957 (at least, that's the copyright date shown on the a.a.p. intro).

WB syndicated a couple of its own packages a little later (1960s) (100 cartoons packaged as "Bugs Bunny And Friends" and 156 as "Porky Pig And Friends" -- 78 of which had aired on the ABC "Porky Pig Show," with the remaining 78 "redrawn" versions of the former Sunset/Guild cartoons, reaquired by WB when they merged with Seven Arts).

In Chicago, WGN had the "BB&F" package in the 1960s, and the Porky Pig package by the mid-1970s.