WI: MCA/Universal bought Hanna-Barbera

MCA/Universal had a theme park license from Hanna-Barbera which includes walkaround characters at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Florida and the ride The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera at Universal Studios Florida and also co-produced Jetsons: The Movie (as well as co-producing with Amblin Entertainment on the two live-action Flintstones films). What if MCA/Universal successfully bought Hanna-Barbera, its characters and its library (including the pre-1991 Ruby-Spears cartoons) from Great American Communications instead of Turner Broadcasting System?
 
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I had been working on this Alt Disney timeline and this is one of the possible Entertainment PODs. Haven't figured out a good POD.
 
Hanna-Barbera cartoons would have remained on the USA Network fora while, and Cartoon Network probably wouldn't have launched (at least not as soon).
 
Hanna-Barbera cartoons would have remained on the USA Network fora while, and Cartoon Network probably wouldn't have launched (at least not as soon).
From what I understand, one of the main reasons Turner wanted Hanna-Barbera was to start a 24-hour cartoon channel, so Cartoon Network probably won't exist at all (most of the Cartoon Network original series would be on Nickelodeon as Nicktoons and produced by Games Animation/Nickelodeon Animation Studio as well as Pat Ventura, Craig McCracken, Donovan Cook, Genndy Tartakovsky, David Feiss, Seth MacFarlane, Van Partible, and Butch Hartman would work there instead of Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios).

Hanna-Barbera probably would eventually get shut down around the mid 90's and get absorbed into Universal Cartoon Studios, and Universal Cartoon Studios/Universal Animation Studios would produce cartoons based on various Hanna-Barbera cartoons (The Flintstones and The Jetsons in particular because Universal seemed mostly interested in those two than any of the other cartoons) and not just Scooby-Doo like how Time Warner does.
 
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From what I understand, one of the main reasons Turner wanted Hanna-Barbera was to start a 24-hour cartoon channel, so Cartoon Network probably won't exist at all (most of the Cartoon Network original series would be on Nickelodeon as Nicktoons and produced by Games Animation/Nickelodeon Animation Studio as well as Pat Ventura, Craig McCracken, Donovan Cook, Genndy Tartakovsky, David Feiss, Seth MacFarlane, Van Partible, Stewart St. John, and Butch Hartman would work there instead of Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios).
It is true that Turner bought Hanna-Barbera to launch a 24-hour cartoon channel, and that the Cartoon Network we know would in fact not come to fruition, but a 24-hour cartoon channel would've launched eventually (though it wouldn't have been the Cartoon Network of OTL).
 
Hanna-Barbera cartoons would have remained on the USA Network fora while, and Cartoon Network probably wouldn't have launched (at least not as soon).
Cartoon Network sadly would've never launched, but I could see USA's Cartoon Express getting its own channel sometime in the late 90s after the block's discontinuation on USA.
 
(most of the Cartoon Network original series would be on Nickelodeon as Nicktoons and produced by Games Animation/Nickelodeon Animation Studio as well as Pat Ventura, Craig McCracken, Donovan Cook, Genndy Tartakovsky, David Feiss, Seth MacFarlane, Van Partible, and Butch Hartman would work there instead of Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios).
Or some of them (the ones from 1998-present) could end up on Fox Family, which would've needed a big hit like the Powerpuff Girls or Ed, Edd and Eddy to keep people tuned in because that channel had no real hits.
 
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