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Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

112 points by Pikamander2

by cadamsdotcom

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If people are watching your work closely enough to document errors in it, and they care enough to make a wiki page, you’re doing truly great work.

by mobilene

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I completely understand the kind of mind that would catalog such a thing.
This wouldn't be my thing to catalog, but I'm glad somebody did it.

by kotaKat

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I’m suddenly reminded of a fairly large channel error from one of CN’s competitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_Games_and_Sports_f...
When Nick GAS shut down, somehow, Dish Network had an automated loop of the channel that they themselves kept running for about 15 months after the channel’s demise. I’m curious what systems at Dish Network were still running a ghost channel by itself like that. Did they just get delivered loops of programming to shove on the air from Nick directly and just leave it up? I would have figured Dish would have been getting a feed from Viacom that would have dropped at the same time as GAS itself.

by haritha-j

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TIL that showing a screenbug on the screen was an absolute pain. Also TIL what a screenbug is.

by puddnutz

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I worked for 10 years in broadcast, as a director, IT support, and an Engineer.
I love picking errors out of any broadcast, especially with what I know now.
Seeing things like this and other documented cases of broadcast errors always make me happy because I know how hard it is sometimes to be in that line of work and how easy it is to just make little blips here and there.
Making errors is how I learned to never get between older people and their midday TV dramas. They absolutely know how to get a hold of you if they miss a few minutes of Young and Restless!

by Dwedit

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by tehwebguy

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To be fair any errors during Space Ghost: Coast to Coast were indistinguishable from just trolling the audience.

by dpifke

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As someone who has moderated online communities in the past, I recognize the value in having a page like this, to which you can point people if they want to enumerate such trifles instead of discussing the episodes or series themselves. Rather than just say such discussion is off-topic, you give them a separate, on-topic place to discuss it.
(I don't actually know if that is how this page came about, but it seems similar to other wiki pages I've seen used for such a purpose.)

by tt_dev

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by pjerem

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