BronzePlanet

BroznePlanet is an American cable and satellite television network that is owned by BronzePlanet International. It is dedicated to mostly animation and some live action programming. It's primary demographic are children aged 9 through 17. It also has a late night block that airs from Sundays to Thursdays that airs from 11pm to 6am.

It launched on November 5th in 1995 at 7am with it's weekday action lineup of Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series), Starcom: The U.S. Space Force, TigerSharks, and Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light.

Development
In 1993, Rutledge Anderson formed the company BronzeAnimation to help produce animated series for syndication. After a year, he only had released a few shows to local channels in the Southeast region, and had a lot of money from ad revenue and loans from banks. He decided to start investing in a television network that focuses on animation, as well as some live action programming.

Anderson contacted Rainbow Media to help develop a channel for multiple providers, and they accepted his proposal. For the next 4-8 months, they applied multiple pitches to the different cable companies and the FCC. After a bunch of unapproved pitches, in January of 1995, they approved the concept of BronzePlanet. Rainbow Media took a 35% stake in the channel to help funding and to keep it running. In the next few months, they started to license programming for syndication, and starting in late June, billboards were mounted, newspaper ads, and local television ads were released for a Winter 1995 release date.

Launch
The channel launched on November 5th, 1995 at 7 AM on cable providers such as Citizens Utilities Company, Blue Ridge Communications, CenturyLink, TDS Telecom, The CableSystem, and GCI. The first programming shown on the network were Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series), Starcom: The U.S. Space Force, TigerSharks, and Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light under the block name BronzeAction Mornings. That Saturday, it premiered it's new episodes block titled New Saturday Nights, a two hour block featuring original programming. Original programming included Stuck in the 80s, Warriors of the Realm, ReCall, and Raven. The following Friday, it debuted it's primetime adult animated action block titled Nightfall, it includes mostly Japanese animation.

In the following months, Comcast, CableVision, Charter Communications, and Mediacom started carrying the network. Adelphia and Time Warner Cable started carrying the channel shortly after.

Programming
Since the networks inception, animation and live action programming has been it's focus since the launch of the network. It's flagship show is Raven, a show about a teenager who roams Europe as a vigilante.

Current programming blocks

 * Late Night BronzePlanet (1997-present)
 * New Friday Nights (2006-present)
 * Action Saturdays (2007-present)

Schedule
Note: Previous schedules are on the Previous schedules broadcast by BronzePlanet page. TBA

BronzePlanetProductions
Internally nicknamed BPP Studios, BronzePlanetProductions is a dubbing and English language production studio for BronzePlanet. It produces dubs of Foreign animation from Japan, France, etc. It launched in the Spring of 1996. It produced over 70 dubs over it's lifespan, but in 2007, the studio closed.