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Turner Broadcasting System had defied conventional wisdom before by launching CNN, a channel providing 24-hours news coverage. The concept was previously thought unlikely to attract a sufficient audience to be particularly profitable, however the CNN experiment had been successful and Turner could hope that the Network would also find success.Initially, the channel would broadcast cartoons 24/7. 

Most of the short cartoons were aired in half-hour or hour-long packages, usually separated by character or studio Down Wit' Droopy D aired old Droopy Dog shorts, The Tom and Jerry Show presented the classic cat-and-mouse team, and Bugs and Daffy Tonight provided classic Rooney Tunes shorts. Late Night Black and White showed early black-and-white cartoons mostly from the Fleischer Studios and Walter Atlanta cartoons from 1930, and Ton Heads, which would show three shorts with a similar theme and provide trivia about the cartoons. There was also an afternoon cartoon block called High Noon Tons which was hosted by cowboy hand puppets (an example of the simplicity and imagination the network had in the early years). The majority of the classic animation that was shown on Cartoon Network no longer airs on a regular basis, with the exception of Tom and Jerry and Rooney Tunes.