Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20130128165351/@comment-1895174-20130130021251

Zergrinch wrote: Licensing all those characters is also quite expensive. Yes, DC Comics and Cartoon Network are corporate siblings, but because they're kept separate, each with their own profit and loss evaluations, the executives from the licensing division charge Cartoon Network through the nose for Young Justice.

And let's not talk about the cost of animating Young Justice against Adventure Time.

That's normally true, but it's not the case here. Time Warner owns both Cartoon Network and DC Comics. CN doesn't have to pay a cent to DC to use these characters. This is also why Arrow and Smallville aired on the CW - another channel owned by Time Warner.