# when the hell did boomerang start running commericals ?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-hell-did-boomerang-start-running-commericals/780986
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 27, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-hell-did-boomerang-start-running-commericals/780986 "2017-02-27T22:33:30Z")
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-hell-did-boomerang-start-running-commericals/780986/1 "2017-02-27T22:33:30Z")
Maybe I missed it before … but after watching the nth rerun on pbs kids my cousin wanted to watch something else and we found Scooby doo (the mystery incorporated version ) but she didn’t care and I went to do something else but walking by a few minutes later I seen a transformers commercial
So I checked the channel and I still had it on boomerang … and just now I seen a logo spot where it looked like the current cartoon network one but said boomerang on the checkerboard logo
When the hell did they change it ? That’s one reason I liked boomerang was the no commercials …
At least they still show the tom and jerry and warners shorts among other things …
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-hell-did-boomerang-start-running-commericals/780986/2 "2017-02-27T22:48:23Z")
2014, apparently.
“On February 4, 2014, as part of the company’s 2014 upfronts, Turner Broadcasting announced that Boomerang would become advertising-supported, and seek additional international distribution.”
> **[Boomerang (TV network) | History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_%28TV_channel%29#History)**
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> Turner Broadcasting System built up an extensive catalogue of MGM and early Warner Brothers cartoons in the 1980s. These made up much of the extensive children's programming on TBS and TNT, which was phased out after the creation of the Cartoon Network on October 1, 1992.
> Boomerang was created as a new home for these and similar cartoons. It originated as a programming block on Cartoon Network that debuted on December 8, 1992. It originally aired for four hours every weekend, but the block's sta...
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-hell-did-boomerang-start-running-commericals/780986/3 "2017-02-28T03:00:37Z")
yeah I mentioned this tp a froend and apparently they just ran commericals between shows and just recently starting inserting then in the programs … partly because it balances running times …