History NetworkDecay / NotableAversions

* Compared to Creator/CartoonNetwork’s [[Creator/AdultSwim other]] [[Creator/{{Boomerang}} divisions]] whom have fluctuated in regards to decaying over the years, Creator/{{Toonami}} (and by extension, its former sister blocks such as Creator/{{Miguzi}}, Creator/SaturdayVideoEntertainmentSystem, the action part of Creator/AdultSwim, etc.) has been very dependable in terms of sticking to its mission of showcasing anime and action cartoons. While there have been a few oddballs on rare occasions such as ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' and ''Series/WulinWarriors'' (mainly due to ExecutiveMeddling), such "experiments" were never really successful[[note]]Case in point: ''Wulin Warriors'' was canceled after its second episode[[/note]]. But after the Boston Bomb Scare and the infamous "CN Real" era came to prominence, unlike going down the Network Decay path like Adult Swim had, CN would eventually can Toonami entirely due to flagging ratings—a direct result of moving the block to Saturdays only and reduced it to reruns and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which was at the time working through the now-infamous pre-Shippuden Filler Arc (ironically, the end of Toonami came mere weeks before they would've completed the "[[FanNickname Filler Hell]]" portion of ''Naruto'' and transitioned into Shippuden; this allowed Disney to pick up the rights to Shippuden instead and air it in ludicrously censored form on Creator/DisneyXD). Not surprisingly, folks have cited the downfall of Toonami as one of the lowest points of CN’s AudienceAlienatingEra (perhaps only rivaled by the rise of CN Real) and had a knock-on effect on anime’s popularity as a whole, as the loss of Toonami, considered to be one of the biggest GatewaySeries to anime in general in the west, is considered to be a big contribution to the [[EndOfAnAge infamous ending of the]] 90’s-2000’s [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion anime boom]]. Prior to 2012, the only legacy that was left of Toonami was Adult Swim’s anime block, which was reduced to Saturday nights and flooded with endless reruns.\\

* Creator/ComedyCentral still, by some miracle, shows this thing called "comedy". ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheNightlyShow'' for example, are news shows... but still comedies! There was panic when ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' was temporarily added to the lineup as a tie-in to the [[TheRoast the David Hasselhoff Roast]], but [[{{Narm}} unintentional comedy]] is still comedy.[[note]]In comparison, Adult Swim once ran ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' for a week as a similar joke, inspired by complaints about their cheesier retro programming at the time, although considering that [as]'s original focus was on adult animation... well let's just say that's why they're listed in "NetworkDecay/{{Slipped}}" instead of here.[[/note]] There have only been a handful of non-comedies to air on the channel in its history, the most prominent of those being ''Series/{{Battlebots}}''. In this case, however, the network thought it appealed well to its main demographic, and framed it as being a parody of sports "for {{Nerd}}s" in post-production (plus the unscripted robot fights could sometimes end in a humorously violent conclusion).

* Compared to Creator/CartoonNetwork’s [[Creator/AdultSwim other]] [[Creator/{{Boomerang}} divisions]] whom have fluctuated in regards to decaying over the years, Creator/{{Toonami}} (and by extension, its former sister blocks such as Creator/{{Miguzi}}, Creator/SaturdayVideoEntertainmentSystem, the action part of Creator/AdultSwim, etc.) has been very dependable in terms of sticking to its mission of showcasing anime and action cartoons. While there have been a few oddballs on rare occasions such as ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' and ''Series/WulinWarriors'' (mainly due to ExecutiveMeddling), such "experiments" were never really successful[[note]]Case in point: ''Wulin Warriors'' was canceled after its second episode[[/note]]. But after the Boston Bomb Scare and the infamous "CN Real" era came to prominence, unlike going down the Network Decay path like Adult Swim had, CN would eventually can Toonami entirely due to flagging ratings—a direct result of moving the block to Saturdays only and reduced it to reruns and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which was at the time working through the now-infamous pre-Shippuden Filler Arc (ironically, the end of Toonami came mere weeks before they would've completed the "[[FanNickname Filler Hell]]" portion of ''Naruto'' and transitioned into Shippuden; this allowed Disney to pick up the rights to Shippuden instead and air it in ludicrously censored form on Creator/DisneyXD). Not surprisingly, folks have cited the downfall of Toonami as one of the lowest points of CN’s DorkAge (perhaps only rivaled by the rise of CN Real) and had a knock-on effect on anime’s popularity as a whole, as the loss of Toonami, considered to be one of the biggest GatewaySeries to anime in general in the west, is considered to be a big contribution to the [[EndOfAnAge infamous ending of the]] 90’s-2000’s [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion anime boom]]. Prior to 2012, the only legacy that was left of Toonami was Adult Swim’s anime block, which was reduced to Saturday nights and flooded with endless reruns.\\

* Since its inception, Creator/TurnerClassicMovies has mostly stuck to its original mission of airing and discussing films from before 1980; movies from the 80's onward are only rarely broadcasted and are typically reserved for special blocks that also encompass earlier films (e.g. their annual 31-day marathon of Oscar-nominated works). Furthermore, any original programming for the channel (another rarity compared to the pre-1980 movies) is typically limited to documentaries on classic films or programs with a direct relationship to them.

* Creator/ComedyCentral still, by some miracle, shows this thing called "comedy". ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheNightlyShow'' for example, are news shows... but still comedies! There was panic when ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' was temporarily added to the lineup as a tie-in to the [[TheRoast the David Hasselhoff Roast]], but [[{{Narm}} unintentional comedy]] is still comedy.[[note]]In comparison, Adult Swim once ran ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' for a week as a similar joke, inspired by complaints about their cheesier retro programming at the time, although considering that [as]'s original focus was on adult animation... well let's just say that's why they're listed in "NetworkDecay/{{Slipped}}" instead of here.[[/note]] There have only been a handful of non-comedies to air on the channel in its history, the most prominent of those being ''Series/{{Battlebots}}''. In this case, however, the network framed it as being a parody of sports "for {{Nerd}}s" in post-production, plus the unscripted robot fights could sometimes end in a humorously violent conclusion.

[[folder:TCM's Aversion]]
* While there are plenty of networks that have managed to avoid Network Decay, there is one particularly notable aversion that should be mentioned. Perhaps as a response to the general decline in broadcasts of pre-1980 films since the TurnOfTheMillennium, Creator/TurnerClassicMovies seems intent on avoiding a shift in their purpose.\\\
Movies from 1980 onward remain rare and usually shown to fit a theme block with the older movies (in particular the "31 Days of Oscar" promotion in February/early March, where any movie that had at least an Oscar nomination can qualify for an airing) or when there's a special guest programmer for the night, who discusses why they picked the movie before and after it airs.[[note]] (Not to mention, presenting such films will only become more fair over time, since 1980 is now over 35 years ago and TimeMarchesOn along with their cut-off date.)[[/note]] But for the most part, they show films largely (if not completely) abandoned by other movie networks: not just the obvious titles like ''Film/CitizenKane'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', but lesser-known "programmers" and B-movies, silents, international classics, live-action Disney films from the 1950s-'70s, cult titles for its TCM Underground block, vintage one-reel shorts and old promotional featurettes as interstitial programming, etc. Some titles they've shown fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes territory in North America otherwise (they aired ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' as part of a Creator/StudioGhibli retrospective in 2006, years before it received a North American dub and home media release). The network has aired original specials and miniseries, but all of them are documentaries about classic films (i.e., the history of early sci-fi films, a long interview with Creator/WoodyAllen about all of his films, the expansive ''The Story of Film: An Odyssey'') or programs that strongly relate to them (for instance, in 2006 vintage episodes of ''The Dick Cavett Show'' featuring such guests as Creator/AlfredHitchcock and Creator/BetteDavis were aired, along with a newly-produced interview between Cavett and Creator/MelBrooks; in 2013, vintage interviews with film stars from ''Series/TheTonightShow with Johnny Carson'' were shown in one-hour blocks prior to a lineup of films featuring some of the stars in question).\\

TCM is much acclaimed when it comes to modifications of films without infuriating traditionalists. They’re good about {{letterbox}}ing when necessary (to the point of producing and frequently airing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1-pP1-5K8 an educational short]] explaining to non-cinephiles how {{aspect ratio}}s work and why letterboxing is a good idea). They're also very good about presenting stuff in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome monochrome]] if it was originally produced that way... ironically enough, given that the man who founded the channel (Ted Turner) was the most notorious proponent of "colorizing" old B&W content in TheEighties! They were also the only notable broadcaster that stuck with UsefulNotes/AudioDescription over their second audio program channel when other networks outside of PBS tried to abandon that to focus unsuccessfully on Spanish dub tracks before the FCC brought the networks back in line; in 2016 their library is about the most open to those with visual and hearing impairments, beyond a doubt.\\

TCM is also one of the last TV networks to have knowledgeable on-air [[TheHost hosts]] introduce films before their airing. Until his death in 2017, film historian Robert Osborne, who was with the channel since its beginning, was the more famous of the two — he did introductions and outros for the films that air prime time every day (and a new one each time a film is shown, too, as TCM's prime time schedule often features a loose theme). Film critic Ben Mankiewicz is the other. He presents a handful of films that air during the daytime and on the weekends (although his aren't new for every episode).\\

Even more impressively, InAWorld where every other basic cable channel seems to be about maximizing profit and squeezing commercials into every last nook and cranny (so that you won't change channels), TCM steadfastly refuses outside advertising[[note]]The closest they have to commercials are spots for their website (where they sell [=DVDs=] and whatnot), Francis Ford Coppola's vineyard (which has something of a tie-in there since it's called the "TCM Wine Club"), the TCM Classic Cruise, and their printed programming guide...and these are only shown ''between'' films, never during. Indeed, the lack of commercial sponsorship is one of the reasons TCM can have the format it does; a channel beholden to sponsors (and thus to chasing the fabled 18-34 demographic those sponsors lust after) probably couldn't get away with showing hour after hour of decades-old, largely-forgotten, mostly black-and-white movies.[[/note]] and runs everything uncut (even if it's rated R or TV-MA). And the network has been this way ''from the very beginning''. This near-insane dedication to task won them [[http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/event.php?id=59 a 2008 Peabody Award.]]\\

That having been said, there is a small but vocal minority that claims TCM ''has'' suffered from Network Decay in recent years by showing too many "modern" films, or too many foreign films, or anything else falling outside of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. (An August 2016 online petition demanding that TCM refocus their programming to only show films made before 1960 was pretty much laughed out of existence by cinephiles, particularly after said petition's creator [[http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/111024-petition-asking-tcm-to-re-focus-on-pre-1960-films/page-2 showed up on the TCM forums]] and declared that ''Film/TheGodfather'', of all movies, was unworthy of being screened on the channel.) Another oft-heard complaint is that TCM now re-airs the same titles more frequently than it once did.\\

It should also be noted that TCM's birth came about because of Creator/{{TNT}}'s programming shift towards general entertainment. TNT was Turner's first classic movie channel. Perhaps there's a lesson here...

** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent title to air on the channel is Wanuri Kahiu's ''Film/{{Rafiki}}'' from 2018, which made its channel premiere in 2020 during ''Women Make Film'', a series highlighting female filmmakers from the silent era to the present day. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the previously-mentioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)
** The Latin American TCM also fits with "abandoned stuff" by showing old TV series (from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and ''{{Series/Bonanza}}'' to ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' and ''Series/TheXFiles''). Unlike the original, they're starting to air outside commercials but luckily newer movies are only for special blocks (i.e. ''Film/TheMatrix'' and its sequels for a special on trilogies). Low ratings led to some focus on 2000s things in the late 2010s, specially movies and ''Series/{{Lost}}'', yet the channel hasn't slipped fully given the Classic Movies from the name are still found.
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[[folder:Toonami’s Aversion]]
* Compared to Creator/CartoonNetwork’s [[Creator/AdultSwim other]] [[Creator/{{Boomerang}} divisions]] whom have fluctuated in regards to decaying over the years, Creator/{{Toonami}} (and by extension, its former sister blocks such as Creator/{{Miguzi}}, Creator/SaturdayVideoEntertainmentSystem, the action part of Creator/AdultSwim, etc.) has been very dependable in terms of sticking to its mission of showcasing anime and action cartoons. While there have been a few oddballs on rare occasions such as ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' and ''Series/WulinWarriors'' (mainly due to ExecutiveMeddling), such "experiments" were never really successful[[note]]Case in point: ''Wulin Warriors'' was canceled after its second episode[[/note]]. But after the Boston Bomb Scare and the infamous "CN Real" era came to prominence, unlike going down the Network Decay path like Adult Swim had, CN would eventually can Toonami entirely due to flagging ratings—a direct result of moving the block to Saturdays only and reduced it to reruns and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which was at the time working through the now-infamous pre-Shippuden Filler Arc (ironically, the end of Toonami came mere weeks before they would've completed the "[[FanNickname Filler Hell]]" portion of ''Naruto'' and transitioned into Shippuden; this allowed Disney to pick up the rights to Shippuden instead and air it in ludicrously censored form on Creator/DisneyXD). Not surprisingly, folks have cited the downfall of Toonami as one of the lowest points of CN’s DorkAge (perhaps only rivaled by the rise of CN Real) and had a knock-on effect on anime’s popularity as a whole, as the loss of Toonami, considered to be one of the biggest GatewaySeries to anime in general in the west, is considered to be a big contribution to the [[EndOfAnAge infamous ending of the]] 90’s-2000’s [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion anime boom]]. Prior to 2012, the only legacy that was left of Toonami was Adult Swim’s anime block, which was reduced to Saturday nights and flooded with endless reruns.\\
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Fortunately, as Cartoon Network started refocusing its efforts on showcasing animation, on AprilFoolsDay 2012, Adult Swim briefly replaced their normal Saturday night block with Toonami to rave reception. After a huge fan campaign, they brought back Toonami on a regular basis starting May 26. Presently, the revived Toonami is building off on Adult Swim’s action block, but out of the gate, it's done its part to help revive anime in the west. It has cemented such hits as ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', among others, and even turned ''Anime/DeadmanWonderland'', a program that tanked badly in Japan, into a hit with a bonafide fanbase. And perhaps because of this success, they've even gotten the privilege of showing ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' '''just before''' it was broadcast in Japan.\\
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And you know what’s even more impressive? Perhaps as a response to the many animation-related networks being some of the biggest examples of Network Decay, Toonami has been pretty adamant on avoiding a shift in their purpose, in a similar fashion to sister network [[Creator/TurnerClassicMovies TCM]]. While you can still see live-action programming on Adult Swim, Toonami [[http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/41671611485/you-thought-live-action-movies-fit-interesting-does has stated that they would like to avoid airing live-action altogether on the block]], which fortunately the parent network has obliged so far. On that same topic, contrary to semi-popular belief, mostly by the more elitist anime fans that say that Toonami airing western-made action cartoons on the new block would count as Network Decay, fans and even the creators themselves have long said otherwise, with its long history of showcasing action toons cited as the reason. In fact, if Toonami were to air slice of life, non-action romantic comedies, or anime of the "Otaku Pandering" varieties unless said show can be consumed by general audiences, ''that'' actually would count as Network Decay ([[http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/42220096782/are-slice-of-life-anime-airing-on-toonami-a-no-no which Toonami doesn't plan on showing anyway]]).
** Asia has contributed to the Toonami revival efforts by launching a [[Creator/ToonamiAsia Toonami channel of its own]] in late 2012. However, Toonami Asia’s conception was through the decay and re-branding of its region’s Boomerang channel, which was the end result of CN Asia relegating all of their programming, save for old classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons and ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'', to Boomerang and losing the purpose of both networks in the process. Eventually, Boomerang Asia was canned, and CN Asia started working on an action cartoon channel. Do note that Toonami Asia was being conceived at a time when the conception of the revival of the U.S equivalent was still unknown, even to them. Their decision of using the Toonami brand was mainly because Asia has also had a Toonami block of its own, and also achieved success with an established fanbase to go with it, along with the fact that some of the channel’s heads have mentioned that they were/are also fans of the US equivalent.\\
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Currently, the channel airs CN-produced action cartoons and a couple anime titles, though their crew has stated that there are plans to air more anime and action cartoons in the future. It does help that the Asian crew are fans of the American crew’s work and would love to replicate their success, albeit in their own fashion (for example, to prevent messing with the continuity of the US equivalent, Toonami Asia has its own host, Nami, with her own story). Like the US equivalent, time will tell how their efforts will go.
** In the UK, Toonami previously had a channel of its own back during the channel’s "golden age", however, its fate wasn’t as fortunate. It started out as CNX, a channel devoted to shows that appealed to the American equivalent of {{shonen}} in the mornings and afternoons, with uncensored {{anime}} and kung fu movies later at night. However, its Toonami block, which was placed at CNX at the time, would quickly expand to take over the entire channel, which still fit the channel's original mission until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ82vEHqpAs they started showing live action]]. Since then, it eventually mutated into CN Too, which is actually marketed as a second Cartoon Network. As of 2014, there are no plans to revive Toonami in the UK at its current venture.
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[[folder:Other Notable Aversions]]
* Losing ''Cartoon Express'' aside, Creator/USANetwork really seems to have gotten better as time went on. Unlike sister network Creator/{{Syfy}}, USA never really had one gimmick or target demographic to cater to; back in the 80s and 90s, they were known for seeming being the "melting pot" of cable TV; they aired old movies, sports, reruns, game shows, and even ''court shows''. They can get away with showing almost anything and either get high ratings (''Wrestling/WWERaw''; ''Series/{{Psych}}''), critical acclaim (''The 4400''; ''The Starter Wife''), or both (''Series/{{Monk}}''; ''Series/BurnNotice''; ''Series/MrRobot''). Their former slogan "Characters Welcome" meant they were able to put on whatever they want as long as it has a strong character-driven plot, which encompasses almost all of fiction, without worrying about Network Decay.\\
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After the amazing ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Flight_%28TV_series%29 Night Flight]]'' was cancelled in 1988, USA may have been most famous in the late '80s and early '90s for "Up All Night," where it showed B movies on late night weekends hosted by either Rhonda Shear's boobs or Creator/GilbertGottfried's grating voice. So yes, it can be fair to say the quality of programming has gone up. They can pretty much show anything, and advertise ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Supremacy]]'' and ''Along Came Polly'' equally without having anyone bat an eye, and even have shows that match such movies thematically.\\
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** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent title to air on the channel is Wanuri Kahu's ''Rakifi'' from 2018, which made its channel premiere in 2020 during ''Women Make Film'', a series highlighting female filmmakers from the silent era to the present day. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the previously-mentioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)

Movies from 1980 onward remain rare, and usually shown to fit a theme block with the older movies (in particular the "31 Days of Oscar" promotion in February/early March, where any movie that had at least an Oscar nomination can qualify for an airing) or when there's a special guest programmer for the night, who discusses why they picked the movie before and after it airs.[[note]] (Not to mention, presenting such films will only become more fair over time, since 1980 is now over 35 years ago and TimeMarchesOn along with their cut-off date.)[[/note]] But for the most part, they show films largely (if not completely) abandoned by other movie networks: not just the obvious titles like ''Film/CitizenKane'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', but lesser-known "programmers" and B-movies, silents, international classics, live-action Disney films from the 1950s-70s, cult titles for its TCM Underground block, vintage one-reel shorts and old promotional featurettes as interstitial programming, etc. Some titles they've shown fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes territory in North America otherwise (they aired ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' as part of a Creator/StudioGhibli retrospective in 2006, years before it received a North American dub and home media release). The network has aired original specials and miniseries, but all of them are documentaries about classic films (i.e., the history of early sci-fi films, a long interview with Creator/WoodyAllen about all of his films, the expansive ''The Story of Film: An Odyssey'') or programs that strongly relate to them (for instance, in 2006 vintage episodes of ''The Dick Cavett Show'' featuring such guests as Creator/AlfredHitchcock and Creator/BetteDavis were aired, along with a newly-produced interview between Cavett and Creator/MelBrooks; in 2013, vintage interviews with film stars from ''Series/TheTonightShow with Johnny Carson'' were shown in one-hour blocks prior to a lineup of films featuring some of the stars in question).\\

TCM is also one of the last TV networks to have knowledgeable on-air [[TheHost host]]s introduce films before their airing. Until his death in 2017, film historian Robert Osborne, who was with the channel since its beginning, was the more famous of the two — he did introductions and outros for the films that air prime time every day (and a new one each time a film is shown, too, as TCM's prime time schedule often features a loose theme). Film critic Ben Mankiewicz is the other. He presents a handful of films that air during the daytime and on the weekends (although his aren't new for every episode).\\

** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent title to air on the channel is Wanuri Kahu's ''Rakifi'' from 2018, which made its channel premiere in 2020 during ''Women Make Film'', a series highlighting female filmmakers from the silent era to the present day. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the previously-mentioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March, when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)
** The Latin American TCM also fits with "abandoned stuff" by showing old TV series (from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and ''{{Series/Bonanza}}'' to ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' and ''Series/TheXFiles''). Unlike the original they're starting to air outside commercials, but luckily newer movies are only for special blocks (i.e. ''Film/TheMatrix'' and its sequels for a special on trilogies). Low ratings led to some focus on 2000s things in the late 2010s, specially movies and ''Series/{{Lost}}'', yet the channel hasn't slipped fully given the Classic Movies from the name are still found.

* Compared to Creator/CartoonNetwork’s [[Creator/AdultSwim other]] [[Creator/{{Boomerang}} divisions]] whom have fluctuated in regards to decaying over the years, Creator/{{Toonami}} (and by extension, its former sister blocks such as Creator/{{Miguzi}}, Creator/SaturdayVideoEntertainmentSystem, the action part of Creator/AdultSwim, etc.) has been very dependable in terms of sticking to its mission of showcasing anime and action cartoons. While there have been a few oddballs in rare occasions such as ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' and ''Series/WulinWarriors'' (mainly due to ExecutiveMeddling), such "experiments" were never really successful[[note]]Case in point: ''Wulin Warriors'' was canceled after its second episode[[/note]]. But after the Boston Bomb Scare and the infamous "CN Real" era came to prominence, unlike going down the Network Decay path like Adult Swim had, CN would eventually can Toonami entirely due to flagging ratings—a direct result of moving the block to Saturdays only and reduced it to reruns and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which was at the time working through the now-infamous pre-Shippuden Filler Arc (ironically, the end of Toonami came mere weeks before they would've completed the "[[FanNickname Filler Hell]]" portion of ''Naruto'' and transitioned into Shippuden; this allowed Disney to pick up the rights to Shippuden instead and air it in ludicrously censored form on Creator/DisneyXD). Not surprisingly, folks have cited the downfall of Toonami as one of the lowest points of CN’s DorkAge (perhaps only rivaled by the rise of CN Real) and had a knock-on effect on anime’s popularity as a whole, as the loss of Toonami, considered to be one of the biggest GatewaySeries to anime in general in the west, is considered to be a big contribution to the [[EndOfAnAge infamous ending of the]] 90’s-2000’s [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion anime boom]]. Prior to 2012, the only legacy that was left of Toonami was Adult Swim’s anime block, which was reduced to Saturday nights and flooded with endless reruns.\\

Fortunately, as Cartoon Network started refocusing its efforts on showcasing animation, on AprilFoolsDay 2012, Adult Swim briefly replaced their normal Saturday night block with Toonami to rave reception. After a huge fan campaign, they brought back Toonami on a regular basis starting May 26. Presently, the revived Toonami is building off on Adult Swim’s action block, but out of the gate, it's done its part to help revive anime in the west. It has cemented such hits as ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', among others and even turned ''Anime/DeadmanWonderland'', a program that tanked badly in Japan, into a hit with a bonafide fanbase. And perhaps because of this success, they've even gotten the privilege of showing ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' '''just before''' it was broadcast in Japan.\\

And you know what’s even more impressive? Perhaps as a response to the many animation-related networks being some of the biggest examples of Network Decay, Toonami has been pretty adamant on avoiding a shift in their purpose, in a similar fashion to sister network [[Creator/TurnerClassicMovies TCM]]. While you can still see live-action programming on Adult Swim, Toonami [[http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/41671611485/you-thought-live-action-movies-fit-interesting-does has stated that they would like to avoid airing live-action altogether on the block]], which fortunately the parent network has obliged so far. On that same topic, contrary to semi-popular belief, mostly by the more elitist anime fans that say that Toonami airing western-made action cartoons on the new block would count as Network Decay, fans and even the creators themselves have long said otherwise, with its long history of showcasing action toons cited as the reason. In fact, if Toonami were to air slice of life, non-action romantic comedies, or anime of the "Otaku Pandering" varieties, unless said show can be consumed by general audiences, ''that'' actually would count as Network Decay ([[http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/42220096782/are-slice-of-life-anime-airing-on-toonami-a-no-no which Toonami doesn't plan on showing anyway]]).

Currently, the channel airs CN produced action cartoons and a couple anime titles, though their crew has stated that there are plans to air more anime and action cartoons in the future. It does help that the Asian crew are fans of the American crew’s work and would love to replicate their success, albeit in their own fashion (for example, to prevent messing with the continuity of the US equivalent, Toonami Asia has its own host, Nami, with her own story). Like the US equivalent, time will tell how their efforts will go.

If you think about it for a while, USA is really what its (older) sister network, Creator/{{NBC}}, wishes it could be. Thing is, the shows that are a success on USA would never be given time to find their audience on an over-the-air network. Often if you do count it without the usual broadcast/cable split, it's easily the #4 or #5 network in all of television depending on the night, and has beat NBC in the ratings on several occasions. When Comcast bought NBC Universal, one analyst projected USA Network had a value of ''$9.5 billion'' (while NBC barely even reached half a billion).

** The UK version of Comedy Central has had a weird past. It first started as ''The Paramount Channel'' back in 1995; true to its name, it aired a lot of of Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures archive material, but also aired comedy shows, drama series, ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' (its sister channel, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, which it would timeshare with on Sky until the analogue service ended, wouldn't air it in the UK due to the adult-ish nature of the series), ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', and even ''Entertainment Tonight''. However, after about a year, all non-comedic shows were dropped and it became known as ''Paramount Comedy''; by 2009, the renamed ''Paramount Comedy 1'' was pretty much Comedy Central in all but name, so when CC got its current logo Stateside, [=PC1=] got its long awaited rename.
* Any shopping or infomercial channel. As long as they can stick a toll free number on the bottom of the screen and a price on the side, they can sell anything and everything and never be accused of decaying. (Although nowadays, they also have a website address, as well, in a case of TechnologyMarchesOn).

** Many stations now devote a significant part of their schedule to satellite-delivered left-leaning national public affairs from Free Speech TV (mostly ''Radio/DemocracyNow''). Many also feature retransmitted broadcasts from around the world via the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOLA_%28TV_service%29 SCOLA satellite network]], where you can see NHK, Rossiya 1 and so forth as their home viewers see them, rather than repackaged versions for the American market.
* Regional cable news channels like the News 12 networks in the New York suburbs and Charter's Spectrum News/[=NY1=] system serving New York State and New York City proper (formerly under the purview of Time Warner Cable), respectively (as well as outposts in Austin, Texas, the Carolinas and affiliates with separate names in Orlando and Tampa), New England Cable News (which is owned by [=NBCUniversal=]), and CLTV of Chicago (which is operated alongside WGN) usually stick to just news confined to their regions. But on the most slow of news days they might wander a little out of their main coverage area, or cover national breaking news just to keep things moving along and not have to depend on inane feature reporting to fill time. In fact, [=NY1=] was commended for having about the most sane coverage of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy around, mainly because it was confined to the five boroughs and used the short 'news wheel' format to succinctly state what was going on, what to do, and how New York would be affected.

* Hallmark Channel, and its little sister Hallmark Movie Channel, are pretty well guarded against decay. Even with their daytime block of home and crafting programming, repeats of sitcoms from the 80's to the present, and their [[AdoredByTheNetwork hyperfocus on]] [[SugarWiki/AHallmarkPresentation Christmas TV movies]] in the last part of the year (to the point that the network adopted the "Countdown to Christmas" template as a year-round programming strategy, with programs and original movies always catered to a seasonal theme or upcoming holiday). Unless the network suddenly signs a contract with a monster trucking circuit, the channel's mission is so broad that anything works as long as it makes you feel [[LighterAndSofter warm and fuzzy]]. Hallmark Movie Channel did cut its slight decay off at the pass by rebranding itself as '''Hallmark Movies and Mysteries,''' thereby justifying its daytime reruns of classic murder-mystery TV series ''(Series/MurderSheWrote'', ''Series/HartToHart'', ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', ''Series/DiagnosisMurder,'' etc.)
* It's surprising that NetworkDecay in general hasn't been used as an argument against defunding Creator/{{PBS}}. The ''last'' time the conservative movement had enough power in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC to bring that under serious discussion, the existence of networks such as the Creator/DiscoveryChannel, Creator/TheHistoryChannel and TLC were used to argue that we don't need PBS anymore. All those have undergone significant decay since then — Discovery and TLC are now dominated by {{Reality Show}}s, while History had been devoting an increasing (and, frankly, scary) amount of time to conspiracy theories and pseudoscience before ''also'' going down the reality show route. All in all, PBS has done a very good job of avoiding NetworkDecay throughout its existence.

* Creator/{{ESPN}} has stayed pretty true to its original pledge of bringing you sports in all of its flavors. Of course, much of that nowadays is brought to you by talking head shows rather than the actual sport. And their definition of sports is broad enough to include the Scripps National Spelling Bee and poker (and, at one time, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''). But, it still does devote a bit of its time to the ideal of its now parent company's flagship sports show, ''Creator/{{ABC}}'s Series/WideWorldOfSports'', so you'll still be able to find the odd karate skill-breaking competition or cheerleading competition. However, while the main channel has remained constant, it's the spinoff channels that have changed. ESPN 2 was initially to cover the non-traditional sports that the main channel would cover late night, but it evolved to have the same programs on an hour delay, or to host ESPN shows when they're bumped by breaking news on the main channel. ESPN News used to be a 24-hour channel -- it was changed to host original ESPN documentaries and programming. ESPN Classic and ESPN College have remained unchanged, however.

* In the beginning, Mark Cuban's [=HDNet=] was revolutionary, since it was one of the first cable networks with an entirely high definition lineup. Its programming had always been male-oriented general entertainment, with a focus primarily on concerts, sports (such as auto racing, MMA, and NHL games for a period), travel programs, and off-network reruns of assorted dramas. But, the gimmick started to wear off as more and more mainstream channels began introducing HD feeds; it voluntarily gave airtime to [[HandsomeLech Joe Francis]] for some Girls Gone Wild contests and a few more shows where women show off their...endowments, including the sexcom ''Svetlana''.

* Eurochannel, a Brazilian channel (with feeds in four languages) dedicated to broadcast series and movies from Europe, with dedication to little known productions of countries not usually in the limelight, has been doing this for almost 20 years with little change on its mission and style.

* Ride/UniversalStudios theme parks, although backtracking on film production since around the 2000s (and Universal Studios Florida having no Studio Tour since 1995), have maintained their general focus on movies and television shows (and in the future video games) and continue to be working film studios to a certain capacity, although by the mid-late 2000s they started cutting back on aging "behind-the-scenes" experiences. This is more than can be said for Universal Studios Florida rival [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]], despite that park having more attendance than the former. However, in USF the New York area suffered, for a while, a unique decay in which the two main attractions from 2004-2015, ''Ride/TwisterRideItOut'' and ''Ride/RevengeOfTheMummy'', were inconsistent of the overall themeing of the area (neither attraction's source material is set in New York City). This was somewhat alleviated when ''Twister'' was replaced with ''Ride/RaceThroughNewYorkStarringJimmyFallon'' in 2017.

** Many stations now devote a significant part of their schedule to satellite-delivered left-leaning national public affairs from Free Speech TV (mostly ''Series/DemocracyNow''). Many also feature retransmitted broadcasts from around the world via the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOLA_%28TV_service%29 SCOLA satellite network]], where you can see NHK, Rossiya 1 and so forth as their home viewers see them, rather than repackaged versions for the American market.
* Regional cable news channels like the News 12 networks in the New York suburbs and Charter's Spectrum News/[=NY1=] system serving New York State and New York City proper (formerly under the purview of Time Warner Cable), respectively (as well as outposts in Austin, Texas, the Carolinas and affiliates with separate names in Orlando and Tampa), New England Cable News (which is owned by [=NBCUniversal=]), and CLTV of Chicago (which is operated alongside WGN) usually stick to just news confined to their regions. But on the most slow of news days they might wander a little out of their main coverage area, or cover national breaking news just to keep things moving along and not have to depend on inane feature reporting to fill time. In fact, NY1 was commended for having about the most sane coverage of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy around, mainly because it was confined to the five boroughs and used the short 'news wheel' format to succinctly state what was going on, what to do, and how New York would be affected.

** Many stations now devote a significant part of their schedule to satellite-delivered left-leaning national public affairs from Free Speech TV (mostly ''Democracy Now!'') Many also feature retransmitted broadcasts from around the world via the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOLA_%28TV_service%29 SCOLA satellite network]], where you can see NHK, Rossiya 1 and so forth as their home viewers see them, rather than repackaged versions for the American market.
* Regional cable news channels like the News 12 networks in the New York suburbs and Charter's Spectrum News/[=NY1=] system serving New York State and New York City proper (formerly under the purview of Time Warner Cable), respectively (as well as outposts in Austin, Texas, the Carolinas and affiliates with separate names in Orlando and Tampa), and CLTV of Chicago (which is operated alongside WGN) usually stick to just news confined to their regions. But on the most slow of news days they might wander a little out of their main coverage area, or cover national breaking news just to keep things moving along and not have to depend on inane feature reporting to fill time. In fact, NY1 was commended for having about the most sane coverage of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy around, mainly because it was confined to the five boroughs and used the short 'news wheel' format to succinctly state what was going on, what to do, and how New York would be affected.

** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent titles to air on the channel are Creator/AvaDuVernay's ''Film/MiddleOfNowhere'' from 2012 and Wanuri Kahu's ''Rakifi'' from 2018. Both of these aired during ''Women Make Film'', a series highlighting female filmmakers from the silent era to the present day. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the previously-mentioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March, when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)

** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent titles to air on the channel are Creator/AvaDuVernay's ''Film/MiddleOfNowhere'' from 2012 and Wanuri Kahu's Rakifi from 2018. Both of these aired during ''Women Make Film'', a series highlighting women filmmakers from the silent era to the present day. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the aforementioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March, when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)

** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent titles to air on the channel are Creator/PattyJenkins' ''Film/WonderWoman'' from 2017 and Wanuri Kahu's Rakifi from 2018. Both of these aired during ''Women Make Film'', a series highlighting women filmmakers from the silent era to the present day. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the aforementioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March, when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)

** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent titles to air on the channel are Creator/PattyJenkin's ''Film/WonderWoman'' from 2017 and Wanuri Kahu's Rakifi from 2018. Both of these aired during ''Women Make Film'', a series highlighting women filmmakers from the silent era to the present day. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the aforementioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March, when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)

** Notably, there are very few post-2000 films shown; the most recent titles to air on the channel are Creator/AkiKaurismaki's ''Film/LeHavre'' and Creator/MartinScorsese's ''Film/{{Hugo}}'', both from 2011. The former aired as part of TCM's annual Labor Day tribute to the Telluride Film Festival, while the latter aired during the "31 Days of Oscar" event. Even films from the 1980s and '90s are generally confined to special programming blocs and events, most notably the aforementioned "31 Days of Oscar". (And that festival itself is an aversion to decay of a sort: It's 31 days long because when it began it aired over March, when the awards were held. When they were moved back to February, they decided to move the marathon back too -- but let it carry over into March rather than cut 2-3 days from it!)

* Compared to Creator/CartoonNetwork’s other divisions whom have fluctuated in regards to decaying over the years, Creator/{{Toonami}} (and by extension, its former sister blocks such as Creator/{{Miguzi}}, Creator/SaturdayVideoEntertainmentSystem, the action part of Creator/AdultSwim, etc.) has been very dependable in terms of sticking to its mission of showcasing anime and action cartoons. While there have been a few oddballs in rare occasions such as ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' and ''Series/WulinWarriors'' (mainly due to ExecutiveMeddling), such "experiments" were never really successful[[note]]Case in point: ''Wulin Warriors'' was canceled after its second episode[[/note]]. But after the Boston Bomb Scare and the infamous "CN Real" era came to prominence, unlike going down the Network Decay path like Adult Swim had, CN would eventually can Toonami entirely due to flagging ratings—a direct result of moving the block to Saturdays only and reduced it to reruns and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which was at the time working through the now-infamous pre-Shippuden Filler Arc (ironically, the end of Toonami came mere weeks before they would've completed the "[[FanNickname Filler Hell]]" portion of ''Naruto'' and transitioned into Shippuden; this allowed Disney to pick up the rights to Shippuden instead and air it in ludicrously censored form on Creator/DisneyXD). Not surprisingly, folks have cited the downfall of Toonami as one of the lowest points of CN’s DorkAge (perhaps only rivaled by the rise of CN Real) and had a knock-on effect on anime’s popularity as a whole, as the loss of Toonami, considered to be one of the biggest GatewaySeries to anime in general in the west, is considered to be a big contribution to the [[EndOfAnAge infamous ending of the]] 90’s-2000’s [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion anime boom]]. Prior to 2012, the only legacy that was left of Toonami was Adult Swim’s anime block, which was reduced to Saturday nights and flooded with endless reruns.\\

* Creator/ComedyCentral still, by some miracle, shows this thing called "comedy". ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheNightlyShow'' for example, are news shows... but still comedies! There was panic when ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' was temporarily added to the lineup as a tie-in to the [[TheRoast the David Hasselhoff Roast]], but [[{{Narm}} unintentional comedy]] is still comedy.[[note]]In comparison, Adult Swim once ran ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' for a week as a similar joke, inspired by complaints about their cheesier retro programming at the time, although considering that [as]'s original focus was on adult animation... well let's just say that's why they're listed in "[[NetworkDecay/Slipped Slipped]]" instead of here.[[/note]] There have only been a handful of non-comedies to air on the channel in its history, the most prominent of those being ''Series/{{Battlebots}}''. In this case, however, the network framed it as being a parody of sports "for {{Nerd}}s" in post-production, plus the unscripted robot fights could sometimes end in a humorously violent conclusion.

* Creator/ComedyCentral still, by some miracle, shows this thing called "comedy". ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheNightlyShow'' for example, are news shows... but still comedies! There was panic when ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' was temporarily added to the lineup as a tie-in to the [[TheRoast the David Hasselhoff Roast]], but [[{{Narm}} unintentional comedy]] is still comedy.[[note]]In comparison, Adult Swim once ran ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' for a week as a similar joke, inspired by complaints about their cheesier retro programming at the time, although considering that [as]'s original focus was on adult animation... well let's just say that's why they're listed in "Unique Situations" instead of here.[[/note]] There have only been a handful of non-comedies to air on the channel in its history, the most prominent of those being ''Series/{{Battlebots}}''. In this case, however, the network framed it as being a parody of sports "for {{Nerd}}s" in post-production, plus the unscripted robot fights could sometimes end in a humorously violent conclusion.

* Channels from international broadcasters, especially those funded by their individual governments, are almost always undecayable since said government is always going to present their country in the best way possible. Though as seen below...
* BBC America has begun to add American sci-fi programs to their lineup. It started with ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' repeats for seemingly no reason other than that Creator/PatrickStewart is British (even though his character is French), and then later with ''Series/TheXFiles''[[note]]which does star British-raised American actress Gillian Anderson, but BBC America never mentioned Anderson's nationality in promos[[/note]] and the revived ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. Other than these three shows and the American version of ''Series/KitchenNightmares'', BBC America nearly exclusively shows what it always has, British programming mostly ([[Series/TheInbetweeners but]] [[Series/PeepShow not]] [[Series/{{Hex}} strictly]]) from Creator/TheBBC. The channel just basically shows "British Programming", and the only reasons it has the BBC name is that it's owned by Creator/TheBBC (revenues from the channel end up supporting the Corporation's domestic output, while distribution and other logistics are handled by Creator/{{AMC}} Networks (and before them [[Creator/DiscoveryChannel Discovery Communications]])) and the name "BBC" has the same kind of name recognition in America for "British Programming" as "Creator/{{NPR}}" does for "public radio"; indeed, shows from ITV and other networks have been shown on BBCA before. According to [[http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=144192 this article,]] BBC America's new president "would like to add more made-in-America series to the U.K.-heavy lineup". Take that as you will. ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/TopGear'' (both owned by Creator/TheBBC) are still [[AdoredByTheNetwork among the most played on the channel]], which at least keeps its British roots.
** With new original non-fiction series based on the podcast ''The Nerdist'' and tech blog Gizmodo, BBC America seems to be making an attempt to carry the "geek television" banner that G4 abandoned once it careened into total decay. The channel still clings to its "British" identity to the point where its two original fiction series, ''Series/{{Copper}}'' and ''Series/OrphanBlack'', having a more similar look and feel to the actual BBC's drama series than American ones. Also, the shift was needed as online services such as Creator/{{Netflix}}, Creator/{{Hulu}}, and Amazon Video began to take British television rights never claimed before online video took off, while PBS opened up the staid formatting of their British showcase ''Series/MasterpieceTheatre'' to allow more contemporary programming.

Movies from 1980 onward remain rare, and usually shown to fit a theme block with the older movies (in particular the "31 Days of Oscar" promotion in February/early March, where any movie that had at least an Oscar nomination can qualify for an airing) or when there's a special guest programmer for the night, who discusses why they picked the movie before and after it airs.[[note]] (Not to mention, presenting such films will only become more fair over time, since 1980 is now over 35 years ago and TimeMarchesOn along with their cut-off date.)[[/note]] But for the most part, they show films largely (if not completely) abandoned by other movie networks: not just the obvious titles like ''Film/CitizenKane'' and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', but lesser-known "programmers" and B-movies, silents, international classics, live-action Disney films from the 1950s-70s, cult titles for its TCM Underground block, vintage one-reel shorts and old promotional featurettes as interstitial programming, etc. Some titles they've shown fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes territory in North America otherwise (they aired ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' as part of a Creator/StudioGhibli retrospective in 2006, for instance). The network has aired a few original specials and miniseries, but all of them are documentaries about classic films (i.e., the history of early sci-fi films, a long interview with Creator/WoodyAllen about all of his films, the expansive ''The Story of Film: An Odyssey'') or programs that strongly relate to them (for instance, in 2006 vintage episodes of ''The Dick Cavett Show'' featuring such guests as Creator/AlfredHitchcock and Creator/BetteDavis were aired, along with a newly-produced interview between Cavett and Creator/MelBrooks; in 2013, vintage interviews with film stars from ''Series/TheTonightShow with Johnny Carson'' were shown in one-hour blocks prior to a lineup of films featuring some of the stars in question).\\

* Creator/{{ESPN}} has stayed pretty true to its original pledge of bringing you sports in all of its flavors. Of course, much of that nowadays is brought to you by talking head shows rather than the actual sport. And their definition of sports is broad enough to include the Scripps National Spelling Bee and poker (and, at one time, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''). But, it still does devote a bit of its time to the ideal of its now parent company's flagship sports show, ''Creator/{{ABC}}'s Series/WideWorldOfSports'', so you'll still be able to find the odd karate skill-breaking competition or cheerleading competition. However, while the main channel has remained constant, it's the spinoff channels that have changed. ESPN 2 was initially to cover the non-traditional sports that the main channel would cover late night, but it evolved to have the same problems on an hour delay. ESPN News used to be a 24-hour channel -- it was changed to host original ESPN documentaries and programming. ESPN Classic and ESPN College have remained unchanged, however.

* Creator/{{ESPN}} has stayed pretty true to its original pledge of bringing you sports in all of its flavors. Of course, much of that nowadays is brought to you by talking head shows rather than the actual sport. And their definition of sports is broad enough to include the Scripps National Spelling Bee and poker (and, at one time, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''). But, it still does devote a bit of its time to the ideal of its now parent company's flagship sports show, ''Creator/{{ABC}}'s Series/WideWorldOfSports'', so you'll still be able to find the odd karate skill-breaking competition or cheerleading competition.

And you know what’s even more impressive? Perhaps as a response to the many animation-related networks being some of the biggest examples of Network Decay, Toonami has been pretty adamant on avoiding a shift in their purpose, in a similar fashion to sister network [[Creator/TurnerClassicMovies TCM]]. While you can still see live-action programming on Adult Swim, Toonami [[http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/41671611485/you-thought-live-action-movies-fit-interesting-does has stated that they would like to avoid airing live action altogether on the block]] , which fortunately the parent network has obliged so far. On that same topic, contrary to semi-popular belief, mostly by the more elitist anime fans that say that Toonami airing western-made action cartoons on the new block would count as Network Decay, fans and even the creators themselves have long said otherwise, with its long history of showcasing action toons cited as the reason. In fact, if Toonami were to air slice of life, non-action romantic comedies, or anime of the "Otaku Pandering" varieties, unless said show can be consumed by general audiences, ''that'' actually would count as Network Decay ([[http://toonami.tumblr.com/post/42220096782/are-slice-of-life-anime-airing-on-toonami-a-no-no which Toonami doesn't plan on showing anyway]]).
** Asia has contributed to the Toonami revival efforts by launching a [[Creator/ToonamiAsia Toonami channel of its own]] in late 2012. However, Toonami Asia’s conception was through the decay and re-branding of its region’s Boomerang channel, which was the end result of CN Asia relegating all of their programming, save for old classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons and ''{{Ben 10}}'', to Boomerang and losing the purpose of both networks in the process. Eventually Boomerang Asia was canned, and CN Asia started working on an action cartoon channel. Do note that Toonami Asia was being conceived at a time when the conception of the revival of the U.S equivalent was still unknown, even to them. Their decision of using the Toonami brand was mainly because Asia has also had a Toonami block of its own, and also achieved success with an established fanbase to go with it, along with the fact that some of the channel’s heads have mentioned that they were/are also fans of the US equivalent.\\

** The Latin American TCM also fits with "abandoned stuff" by showing old TV series (from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and ''{{Series/Bonanza}}'' to ''Series/MacGyver'' and ''Series/TheXFiles''). Unlike the original they're starting to air outside commercials, but luckily newer movies are only for special blocks (i.e. ''Film/TheMatrix'' and its sequels for a special on trilogies). Low ratings led to some focus on 2000s things in the late 2010s, specially movies and ''Series/{{Lost}}'', yet the channel hasn't slipped fully given the Classic Movies from the name are still found.