Post by tirgo on Mar 16, 2022 10:41:26 GMT
I lived in Mexico for a large chunk of my childhood (due to business), which gives me something of a unique experience as I have seen few other English speakers really talk about the channel. Anyway...
Leading up to New Year's Day 2005, there was a promo that I have never seen talked about. I think it was a 15 second promo that showed brief shots of CN City, with a voiceover promising something big to come on January 1st (not sure if it had an English variant, see details later in post). I remember staying up to see what the promised surprise would be, and it turned out to be the introduction of CN City, along with the premiere of the Foster's Home pilot in movie form. I was pretty satisfied by this.
I've looked through every Diciembre 2004 or Enero 2005 CNLA tanda collection I can find and have come up with nothing. I'm absolutely sure that promo existed because otherwise I wouldn't know to watch on New Year's Day! That being said, I haven't seen it. Maybe it only aired in the last week before New Year's or something like that?
As for the Foster's premiere, I believe it just had CN City bumps and I'm not sure there was a 'special' promo to go 'hey look it's CN City!', it probably had one of those CN City sign ons and then went into the movie. But I'm not sure.
Speaking of CNLA, there were a decent number of promos that had English voiceover. On my cable system, some channels were in English, basically getting the effect you'd get if you switched the language to English on Sky or whatever. Shows that didn't have a corresponding English version wouldn't be in English (as well as some stuff like Saint Seiya which was a drastically different version from "Knights of the Zodiac" and simply putting one voice track over the other wouldn't work). Promos in English would use VAs from the American verison of the channel but be promoting things that were not on the American version of the channel. It's pretty much guaranteed all of those are lost forever. There's already a tiny fraction of viewers who recorded anything off of the channel, it's actually possible for there to be literally zero tapes of the 'English version' of the channel.
Anyway, Cartoon Network Latin America is nostalgic to me and it's sad to see that a big part of the channel's history doesn't appear to be available to watch.
