General Info

Maintained in Burbank, Calif., Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, is an animated cartoon studio founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The studio has produced television cartoons for more than forty years. Hanna-Barbera was the first animation studio to successfully produce animated cartoons especially for television. In 1991, Turner Broadcasting acquired Hanna-Barberra. After the merger between Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner in 1995, the company had two separate animation studios in its possession. Hanna-Barbera began to solely focus on the Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network became the exclusive home of all new Hanna-Barbera productions. Around 1998, the Hanna-Barbera name began to disappear from the newer shows from the studio in favor of the Cartoon Network Studios name. The Hanna-Barbera name remains for classic productions based on properties like the Flintstones and Scooby-Doo. Animated series maintained by studio include Atomic Beety, The Batman, Captain Planted, Cartoon Theatre, Cow and Chicken, Dexter s Laboratory, Dragonball, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Juniper Lee and The Powerpuff Girls.