Cartoon Network President Christina Miller To Step Down -

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Christina Miller, President of Cartoon Network, to Leave WarnerMedia

Christina Miller, the WarnerMedia executive who oversees Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and Boomerang, will leave the company at the end of the year – the latest departure…

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Christina Miller, the WarnerMedia executive who oversees Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and Boomerang, will leave the company at the end of the year – the latest departure of a senior executive from the company since it has come under the aegis of AT&T.



“This is not a decision I came to lightly,” said Miller, in a prepared statement. “It’s one of the hardest I’ve had to make in my career. Ultimately, it feels like the right time for me to leave and take a little time to think about what comes next, but I do so, feeling immensely proud of the work we’ve done together and so grateful for the experience.”



Michael Ouweleen, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang, will serve as the interim president and Miller will help with the transition.


Miller’s departure comes after a reorganization of WarnerMedia assets set in motion after AT&T completed its $85 billion purchase of the storied media company once known as Time Warner. Under that plan, cable networks devoted to kids and family entertainment that were once part of the company’s Turner cable division were placed under the supervision of the Warner Brothers studio.



Miller led Turner’s kids-and-young-adults division for the past five years, and supervised Boomerang, a subscription streaming-video service that launched in 2017. She most recently was given responsibility of TCM, the cable network that runs classic films.



Prior to her current position, Miller was general manager of NBA Digital and a senior vice president of Turner Sports, where she led the day-to-day operations for the NBA Digital portfolio; managed relationships with league partners; and supervised the strategic planning and scheduling of on-air sports programming and developing marketing programs for the division’s linear and digital properties. She joined WarnerMedia in 2005 as vice president at Cartoon Network Enterprises, where she built the division’s first global consumer products business. She had been a senior vice president of brand management and licensing for HIT Entertainment.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Good. She fucked a lot up.

 

[The Last Stand]

Does that mean no more Teen Titan Go! back to forth marathons?

 

[CakeCutey]

Meh. She wasn't really notable.

 

[Marco Fucko]

I had no idea Cartoon Network was still around.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

This feels like a case of too little, too late, imo.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I stopped watching Cartoon Network a long ass time ago, what did she do?

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Is she responsible for cancelling the 2002 He-Man series and the 2011 Thundercats series, and also greenlighting Thundercats Roar?

Because if so....

 

[ThePurpleProse]

Prior to her current position, Miller was general manager of NBA Digital and a senior vice president of Turner Sports, where she led the day-to-day operations for the NBA Digital portfolio; managed relationships with league partners; and supervised the strategic planning and scheduling of on-air sports programming and developing marketing programs for the division’s linear and digital properties. She joined WarnerMedia in 2005 as vice president at Cartoon Network Enterprises, where she built the division’s first global consumer products business. She had been a senior vice president of brand management and licensing for HIT Entertainment.

This paragraph is 100% objective but why does it feels like a portfolio of failure spotlight instead of a career trajectory sum up?

 

[InsolentGaylord]

Creator of Harvey Birdman is taking over...so we may get some good stuff in the future.

I have a feeling the 20s will be a bit more fun than the 10s at this rate.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Is she responsible for cancelling the 2002 He-Man series and the 2011 Thundercats series, and also greenlighting Thundercats Roar?

No, that was ratings.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Is she responsible for cancelling the 2002 He-Man series and the 2011 Thundercats series, and also greenlighting Thundercats Roar?

Because if so....

2011 Thundercats was a behind the scenes nightmare iirc

 

[Dom Cruise]

Creator of Harvey Birdman is taking over...so we may get some good stuff in the future.

I have a feeling the 20s will be a bit more fun than the 10s at this rate.

Yeah, if you ask me there’s pretty much no way people aren’t going to lighten up a bit in the next decade, I can’t wait.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I still can't believe people are screaming about TTG in 2019

 

[Syaoran Li]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Between Christina Miller and Stuart Snyder, I'm kind of split between who was worse for Cartoon Network. Stuart Snyder is responsible for CN Real, the demise of OG Toonami, and the near-gutting of anime on Adult Swim in the late 2000's in exchange for unfunny live-action stoner shows while Christina Miller really pushed for a lot of Cal Arts garbage on the channel like Steven Universe and the memetically infamous Teen Titans Go reruns.

I'd say Stuart Snyder's run was a major part of everything wrong with CN in the early 2010's while Christina Miller was the harbinger of a lot of the channel's problems in the late 2010's.

Literally the only major positive moment for Cartoon Network/Adult Swim in the 2010's that I can think of was the revival of Toonami in 2012, which mainly happened because an April Fool's Day prank that was meant as a send-off to anime on Adult Swim got a lot of positive feedback and a boost in the ratings and not even Stuart Snyder could ignore it.

 

[Iron Hamster]

I still can't believe people are screaming about TTG in 2019

I can't believe they made a movie about it.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I can't believe they made a movie about it.

because actual non-autistic kids liked it?

 

[Xarpho]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Between Christina Miller and Stuart Snyder, I'm kind of split between who was worse for Cartoon Network. Stuart Snyder is responsible for CN Real, the demise of OG Toonami, and the near-gutting of anime on Adult Swim in the late 2000's in exchange for unfunny live-action stoner shows while Christina Miller really pushed for a lot of Cal Arts garbage on the channel like Steven Universe and the memetically infamous Teen Titans Go reruns.

I'd say Stuart Snyder's run was a major part of everything wrong with CN in the early 2010's while Christina Miller was the harbinger of a lot of the channel's problems in the late 2010's.

Literally the only major positive moment for Cartoon Network/Adult Swim in the 2010's that I can think of was the revival of Toonami in 2012, which mainly happened because an April Fool's Day prank that was meant as a send-off to anime on Adult Swim got a lot of positive feedback and a boost in the ratings and not even Stuart Snyder could ignore it.

I'm not sure CN Real will be looked upon that unfavorably in the future, the era of "good" Cartoon Network keeps getting pushed back. I remember when popular opinion was the "Golden Days" ended sometime around 1999-2000, now I'm seeing Teen Titans 2003 and even Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends as the "good" Cartoon Network era.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I'm not sure CN Real will be looked upon that unfavorably in the future, the era of "good" Cartoon Network keeps getting pushed back. I remember when popular opinion was the "Golden Days" ended sometime around 1999-2000, now I'm seeing Teen Titans 2003 and even Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends as the "good" Cartoon Network era.

Eh, I don't think CN Real will get as much hate in the future as it does now, but I doubt it will be looked on too favorably because it was part of a wider shift that really killed a lot of good things about Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, such as the death of the original version of Toonami and the decline of anime on Adult Swim.

CN Real and Tim Heidecker's stuff on Adult Swim will always be looked down on to some degree, although I do think CN Real may eventually be looked on as "Oh, that happened" as opposed to the definitive "Jump the Shark" moment for the channel that it's often looked at nowadays.

 

[Marissa Moira]

You think they'll bring MDE back?