The Death of Cartoon Network

The other day I was trying to decide when Cartoon Network ceased to be the spectacle of entertainment that I once enjoyed.

Phil:

Still trying to narrow in on a specific event. Now I'm not sure that
Toonami on Saturdays on April 17, 2004 was it. I still recall enjoying
Teen Titans, Clone Wars, Justice League, Megas XLR, Foster's, and Grim & Evil after that. I want to say that it was sometime during my senior year. Kinda want to nail it on Camp Lazlo or Gym Partner's a Monkey in 05, but Titans and League had their last seasons in 06.

I do know that alot of the trouble started in 2004:

On June 14, 2004, Cartoon Network relaunched itself with a new logo and slogan, "This is Cartoon Network." The first program ever aired on the relaunched Cartoon Network was Rescue Heroes. The bumps now featured 2D cartoon characters from their shows interacting in a CGI
city composed of sets from their shows. By now, nearly all of Cartoon Network's classic cartoon programming had been relocated to its sister network Boomerang to make way for new programming, with the exception of a select few, such as Tom and Jerry, a longtime staple of the
Turner networks. Within a few months, the network took off more shows from the 1990s (Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, etc.) and put them on a 30 minute block called The Cartoon Cartoon Show. Some shows like Time Squad, Mike, Lu & Og, I Am Weasel, Looney Tunes, and Sheep in the Big City were taken off the network completely.

The only things I've enjoyed recently are Ben Ten: Alien Force and rarely Chowder & Flapjack. Otherwise, Cartoon Network is dead to me.

Note that I consider Adult Swim to be a totally separate entity, which can be discussed on its own. I find it to be quite alive and doing fine.

Mike:

Wow. Just wow. You went into quite a bit of research there. Then you gave the exact possibly date, if not the death, the diagnosis for the terminal cancer of Cartoon Network. Please write an article about this and then send it to some magazine.

Phil:
Well, as I was writing all that up, I thought hey, what if I just made a public blog about all of the random stuff I bother you with.