Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20130130004132/@comment-1895174-20130130173912

Thailog wrote:

Regulus22 wrote:

I think what he means is get YJ onto [adult swim] after it's concluded, ratings may well improve even more. I understand that, but we don't need to appeal to them in order to accomplish it. As it seems, they'll put YJ their anyway to fill their Toonami block. (Was there an appeal to put Thundercats?)

My point is, this is the right time to protest against the cancellation, not to quietly resign to it. The petitions has 12,654. If 1000 of those would send one letter each week to CN it would be something. Ineffective or otherwise. We can complain about how pointless it was after it is so. That's better than doing nothing and then just say "remember how good YJ was? We should have done something about it".

I'm all for LoveWaffle's suggestion, after the show ends. Right now just seems redundant.

Of course I'm saying they need to pick it up once the show ends. Otherwise would be an astoundingly stupid decision. The last thing this show needs is another timeslot change.

And no, there wasn't an appeal to get Thundercats on there. But if they can get 1 Million viewers during a dead timeslot without one, imagine what Young Justice can do with one. Even moreso if Toonami moves into pre-12AM timeslots.

True, Young Justice on Cartoon Network currently has higher ratings than Thundercats, but that's way too simple and ignores a few key facts. For one, YJ isn't hitting the right demo. Cartoon Network programs primarily for the 6-11 age group, while YJ's fans tend to be a bit older. It doesn't matter how high the ratings are if they're not in Cartoon Network's prime demo. The network can't properly monetize the show if the ads aren't reaching the right people. This is one of the main reasons Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes was cancelled last year - it had some decent ratings, but the audience was too old for Disney XD's commercials for Dream Lites and a cup that makes it difficult to drop cereal.

Furthermore, YJ ' s current 10:30 AM Saturday timeslot is much more lucrative than Thundercats ' s 1:00 AM Sunday one. Actually, that's a bit unfair, because the only timeslots worse than Thundercats ' s one are the nine that follow it - the nine that Toonami's still getting over 600,000 viewers in. They're literally uncontested. Although the show has a smaller audience, the 1 Million viewers Thundercats is getting speaks more than the 1.7 Million viewers Young Justice gets. Never mind that YJ's audience is more in-line with [adult swim]'s demo, not even mentioning that [adult swim] 's demo is the prime demo. [adult sim] can do  a lot  more with Young Justice getting 1 Million viewers than Cartoon Network can with it getting 1.7 Mil, so they're going to treat it better.