


Also, throughout the early 2000s, Cartoon Network Asia began airing several more original productions. In 2000, other non-original shows were introduced. On 22 August 1999, Cartoon Network Asia was rebranded, introducing new bumpers, new original productions and a new graphical package. On 4 January 1999, Cartoon Network Asia began to offer Hindi-dubbed versions of its shows in addition to English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Filipino and Malay including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, The Mask: The Animated Series, The Addams Family, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Captain Planet and certain other select programs. Sometime during the 1990s, Cartoon Network Asia launched a separate 24-hour feed of its service on the PAS-2 satellite along with TNT Asia. By 31 December 1995, TNT & Cartoon Network Asia was broadcast around 20 countries and territories across pan-Asia via satellite. Originally devoted to classic animated cartoons from studios such as Warner Bros., MGM and Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Asia has since expanded to include more contemporary programming as well as its original productions, starting with its first original series to air in Asia in 1997 called Dexter’s Laboratory. During that time, Cartoon Network Asia was originally a 24-hour cable and satellite TV channel devoted to animated cartoons and classic films called TNT & Cartoon Network Asia and the service only had 4 different audio tracks including English, Mandarin, Thai and Japanese. to 8:00 p.m., while Turner Classic Movies (formerly TNT) taking the remainder of the daily schedule and broadcast 10 hours of movie programming from Turner's libraries. It was broadcast for 14 hours between 6:00 a.m. The channel was launched at 12:00 pm ( SG/HK time). On 6 October 1994, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific launched Cartoon Network Asia on both Apstar 1 and Palapa-B2P. It was supposedly launch as 24-hour services on the Apstar 2 satellite service. In January 1994, it was announced that TNT and Cartoon Network will launch by the end of the year. Discovery under its International division, the channel is broadcast from its headquarters in Singapore and Jakarta, Indonesia to audiences in its country of location, as well as to Hong Kong and several areas in the Asian continent. Cartoon Network is a pan-Asian television channel that primarily broadcasts animated series.
