Programming
Boomerang, unlike many other channels that specialize in archive programming, has continued to air programming from the 1950s through the present. Only a handful of the most iconic shows in the Cartoon Network library (namely The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs and, occasionally, The Yogi Bear Show, among a few others) and several of the late-1990s Cartoon Cartoons (Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls) have permanent places on the schedule. Most other Boomerang shows stay on air for about a month, then are rotated out and replaced by another show. Boomerang now changes its scheduled programming between every three to eight weeks as of July 23, 2012.
Not all of the Time Warner library is currently available to Boomerang. Properties involving Batman and Superman (including the DC Animated Universe) are licensed out to The Hub as of 2012, with one exception: Justice League Unlimited is licensed to Saban Brands to air on the Vortexx block, which airs on another Warner Bros.-owned outlet (The CW). The 1974-87 Rankin/Bass library is licensed to ABC Family for its 25 Days of Christmas programming. The Peanuts television specials, which Time Warner acquired in 2007, are mostly licensed to ABC (although they have aired on international versions of the channel since their acquisition). The Warner Bros. animated series produced during the 1990s (Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, Animaniacs, Freakazoid!, Pinky and the Brain, Road Rovers, Waynehead, Histeria! and Detention) are also under a separate license and are not currently aired anywhere (this notwithstanding, the Animaniacs movie Wakko's Wish did air on Boomerang in September 2012, and the same series aired in the UK version of Boomerang from 2005-2007).
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