Cartoon Network was a French children's television channel, available for France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Francophone Africa.[2][3] It was a localized version of the original U.S. subscription channel of the same name, and was launched on 23 August 1999, and owned by Warner Bros. Discovery International under its French division.
History
In 1993 on the launched the day timesharing with TNT Classic Movies, in Europe.[4] Although it was legally licensed in the UK, as it transmitted from London, the French and Belgian authorities objected to the American programming available in the French language.[5][6][7]