History ScrewedByTheNetwork / CartoonNetwork

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' was a hit for CN and was treated well when it first started airing, but it ended up getting cancelled in favor of CN Real, shifting to an older demographic. In a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1f3AHyLOU 2021 interview]], creator CH Greenblatt mentioned that Cartoon Network slowly let the show fizzle, not informing the crew when it would be aired and airing it on dead slots. During Season 3, the airing of new episodes were frequently delayed, Cartoon Network would often [[BlatantLies hype up new episodes in block promos when they really weren't]], and later new half-hour "episodes" would be just a new episode paired with a rerun.

** It's thought that Creator/{{Sony|MusicEntertainment}} may have a hand in this. In Japan, ''Puffy'''s music label is Sony Music. Sony, for some reason, did not want to export the duo anymore. This culminated in Creator/{{Ubisoft}} wanting to license a Puffy [=AmiYumi=] song for international release in the second ''VideoGame/RavingRabbids'' game, but were only issued a Japanese license and were refused an international license. The duo's songs were caught in an international rights tangle since Sony Music had the Japanese rights, but Creator/WarnerMusicGroup (Then, an independent company not affiliated with Time Warner) had the worldwide rights, and both had a record label as part of their conglomeration.

* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' went from airing in a good timeslot, having reruns daily, and having a parade float based on the show (with the real Puffy duo appearing for a finishing touch) to being canceled in late 2006. Out of the 39 episodes made, only 34 aired on CN in the U.S, with the 5 missing episodes airing in different countries. One episode, "Surf's Up," was outright banned after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (the plot involved the titular duo surfing on a tsunami).
** It's thought that Sony may have a hand in this. In Japan, ''Puffy'''s music label is Sony Music. Sony, for some reason, did not want to export the duo anymore. This culminated in Ubisoft wanting to license a Music/PuffyAmiYumi song for international release in the second ''VideoGame/RavingRabbids'' game, but were only issued a Japanese license and were refused an international license. The duo's songs were caught in an international rights tangle since Sony Music had the Japanese rights, but Warner Music (Then, an independent company not affiliated with Time Warner) had the worldwide rights, and both had a record label as part of their conglomeration.

* While it was adored early during its run, this trope hit ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'' pretty hard later on. The show kept on getting removed from the schedule numerous times, many episodes that were supposed to premiere kept on getting delayed and pre-empted with other shows, and the show would eventually get banished to a Sunday afternoon slot. The show was confirmed to end after three seasons, but most of the third season's episodes didn't premiere until August 2020. The fact that around this time, ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart sequel]] did poorly at the box office, ratings were getting lower, there was drama with a rival Nick show, ''WesternAnimation/RainbowButterflyUnicornKitty'' apparently being a rip-off, and that Lego stripped Warner Bros. from the LEGO license and gave it to Universal instead all probably had a hand in CN wanting to get the show over and done with and to just forget about its existence.

* Cartoon Network's UK feed starting in July 2017. The channel's schedule used to be filled with variety, with random shows having marathons on weekends. Then shows like ''Toys/NexoKnights'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'', ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015'', ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}''[[note]]as well as daytime reruns of ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''[[/note]] slowly faded away, leaving only eight shows, with only '''[[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball fo]][[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo ur]] [[WesternAnimation/WeBareBears of]] [[WesternAnimation/Ben102016 them]]''' airing during the daytime. It got worse:

* WesternAnimation/PipAhoy was pretty much given this treatment. It was signed up to be put on Cartoonito in Asia. Then 6 months later, when Cartoonito folded, the show was not afforded the option to move to the relaunched Boomerang or the main CN Asia channel, and pretty much just vanished...

* WesternAnimation/CaveKids was cancelled after just 8 episodes, ostensibly because Cartoon Network ordered Hanna Barbara to drop all other projects and focus on WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow.