All of these closures feel poignant and sweet and were better than the abrupt closure of the Corus channels up north.

Never watched them, but I mourn their loss.

"Thanks for Watching.."

"And from our family to yours. Farewell"
"And always, let your imagination soar!"
"Keep it wild, buckaroos!"

And here's Télémagino's closure. It's a Francophonic channel, and it closes up with a montage with a lovely tune playing under it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzg_...

Here's how WildBrain TV closed down:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uohE...

Here's how Family Jr. said goodbye:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Begx...

For example, I can assure you kids don't care about the Nickelodeon splat being gone. The actual demographic never lived in a world with the splat in place. They never had a Nickelodeon Studios to go to or dream about going to.

Nick is their parent-approved brand, not their own brand. Not really.

Most of them tend to cater to nostalgic viewers. The parents of those kids who watched those networks when they were kids. The locked-in fans of those brands. That's largely how younger audiences even watch those outlets, at least on their devices, but not ON the actual channels anymore.

I don't have kids either, but I have family members who do have younger children. A lot of them just stare at their phones and tablets looking at YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other similar social media platforms. It's crazy how these big media companies never found a way to truly reach them.

And yes, I know I said WHEN they shut down instead of IF they shut down.

I legitimately don't believe any of these channels will be around in 2040. I'm cautiously optimistic they'll all see 2030, but I get the feeling none of those channels are long for this world.

Nature of the industry, folks.

Better still, WILL they have a final message as the WildBrain networks had, or will they just close up shop unceremoniously and just call it a day?

I've seen how HBO Family shut down, and they went the Corus route, and I shudder that's what these networks will do when they close forever.

By comparison, this is what Corus did with their channels:

bsky.app/profile/nema...

All of these closures feel poignant and sweet and were better than the abrupt closure of the Corus channels up north.

Never watched them, but I mourn their loss.

"Thanks for Watching.."

"And from our family to yours. Farewell"
"And always, let your imagination soar!"
"Keep it wild, buckaroos!"

And here's Télémagino's closure. It's a Francophonic channel, and it closes up with a montage with a lovely tune playing under it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzg_...

Here's how WildBrain TV closed down:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uohE...

Here's how Family Jr. said goodbye:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Begx...

Oh, no doubt. Canadian talent and shows are in the channel's DNA from YCDTOT and Today's Special to The Elephant Show and Little Koala to Are You Afraid of the Dark and Fifteen to Space Cases, Little Bear, and The Backyardigans to PAW Patrol.

And I'm SO thankful and so grateful to that kind, generous anonymous soul who gifted me a Blu Ray player last week.

I felt like I was so behind, and now, I'm just trying to catch up on physical media now.

It's rough considering my limited funds, but I'm building something new and real now.

I think that's the reason I feel a mighty need to return to actually owning physical media again. I need to build up a library, invest in the shows and movies I like, and just have a physical copy in my hand that won't be deleted by a greedy media company.

That's why I rock folks who put it out.

They were accessible to everybody, and yet, just when the marketplace was fully locked in, the industry just pushed it aside for streaming.

As the marketplace adapted to that, streaming became ubiquitous. Then it became monotonous.

Now, it feels you're getting less and paying more.

When you got a DVD, you got an experience.

You got people collecting series for the first time, and these collections would take up so much space... until, you know, they did. Still, at the market's peak, DVDs were everywhere from dollar stores & vending machines to major department chains.