Tyson TV

Tyson TV is a TV broadcast network in Tysonland that displays cartoons, anime, and movies. It was launched on February 1, 2005 as a music channel playing nursery rhymes and later on April 19, 2006 as a TV network initially aimed for children before 2018-19 when they started focusing towards teenagers by producing cartoons aimed at both, such as Fun House and their other series produced since September 2019.

2004-2008: Origins
Tyson TV was announced on December 19, 2004 as a simple music channel that played instrumentals of nursery rhymes as well as the nursery rhymes themselves. The channel was launched on February 1, 2005. More Tyson TV channels for different genres of music spawned in between 2005 and 2006, but were rolled up into one channel by December 31, 2006. In September 2005, they announced their first show, named Tyson. It premiered on April 19, 2006 for the general public and aired alongside music.

Tyson's ratings were successful, but not enough to push Tyson TV out of premium. In August 2006, Tyson TV asked Viacom and Disney Channel if they could acquire their shows SpongeBob SquarePants and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to draw more appeal to children. They let them acquire the shows and got a slight ratings boost from the target demographic of ages 3-11. In December 2006, Tyson TV acquired another show from Disney Channel, that being Little Einsteins which started airing on January 1, 2007.

Tyson TV had no new shows throughout the rest of 2007. However, in September 2007 Tyson TV announced that they were no longer playing music programming and that its music channel would be shut down on February 23, 2008. The music network lasted just over 3 years on air. Tyson TV would continue to acquire from Disney Channel for another 3 years, with That's So Raven in 2008 followed by The Replacements and Higglytown Heroes in 2009 and Kim Possible in 2011.

2008-2012: Focus towards children
On August 24, 2008, Tyson TV signed a deal with DreamWorks Animation to produce new TV series based on their films, as well as air their films to expand their network and appeal to kids. Similar deals would later happen with Disney and Pixar in 2010, although they didn't produce any new TV series. The films started airing in early 2009 and Tyson TV/DreamWorks' first animated series Madagascar: Alex and the Gang premiered later that year. The series, being Tyson TV's first original show in over 3 years, was a big hit for Tyson TV's standards at the time and instantly surpassing SpongeBob SquarePants in popularity in the network's ratings.

On December 29, 2009, Tyson TV announced that the show Tyson would be removed from the main network and instead moved to its sister channel Tyson TV 2, where new episodes would be produced until 2012. The show ran for nearly 4 years on Tyson TV from April 19, 2006 to March 22, 2010. Tyson TV received no new shows throughout 2010 and 2011, the only new show being the Kim Possible acquisition from Disney Channel in 2011.

2012 was a big year for Tyson TV. In 2012, Tyson TV premiered Tyson Reloaded (the sequel to the old Tyson series) in July and Fruits in November, and acquired The Amazing World of Gumball from Cartoon Network in August. All 3 shows proved to be a success with Fruits even being the most popular show on the network for 4 years from July 2013 to July 2017. Also in 2012, Tyson TV launched their new streaming app which basically hosted all their original shows on-demand, as well as any movie they end up airing. However the movies expire after a month on the new app.

2013-17: Establishing status
2013 was relatively quiet for Tyson TV, having no new TV shows in the year. On February 11, 2013, Tyson TV broke out of premium and became a free broadcast network due to the success of Fruits and Tyson Reloaded with the promise of bringing Viacom and Disney Channel's shows to free television. In January 2014, Tyson TV and DreamWorks premiered The Croods Show, a prequel to the 2013 movie The Croods to moderate success but not nearly as popular as Fruits or Tyson Reloaded. They also took their first dip into making Tyson Kids in December 2014 by acquiring Peppa Pig from Entertainment One, which premiered on April 14, 2015. The rest of 2015 was quiet.

In December 2015, Tyson TV announced that they would be starting a new generation of shows to replace the older ones for 2016 and expanding into 2017. The slate started with the original Let's Drive in July 2016, which flopped. On May 31, 2016, they acquired The Loud House from Viacom which started airing late in August that year and would surpass Fruits in ratings by mid 2017. On August 27, Tyson TV announced their new Tyson Kids block which launched on September 30. The block hosts several original programming as well as acquired programming from PBS Kids. The rest of the "new generation" would premiere in 2017 and the following year.

2017-19: Transition into nuanced content
On March 31, 2017, Tyson TV announced that they would stop airing the acquired Disney Channel shows The Replacements, That's So Raven, Higglytown Heroes, and Kim Possible and move the remaining Disney Junior shows into the newly-formed Tyson Kids channel as part of their transition, though Little Einsteins briefly returned in September 2018. On April 6, 2017, Peppa Pig was pulled from Tyson TV without announcement but it came back on Tyson Kids a year later in 2018.

Also in 2017, Tyson TV made various movies about Lyson that would become the network's mascot but they all generated negative reviews and ratings for the movies got lower as each one got made. Lyson was dropped from the network's advertising by mid 2018. In July, Tyson TV and DreamWorks teamed up once again to premiere a prequel series about the 2016 movie Trolls, as well as the premiere of Rovio Animation's Bad Piggies, based on the 2012 video game of the same name.

In September, Tyson TV acquired the rights to air Phineas & Ferb, their last acquisition from Disney Channel. It started airing on November 22, 2017 and put on their streaming app in July 2021. They also premiered VeggieTales on that same day, but ratings dove after January 2018 which led to its cancellation in April. The next month, they premiered The Misadventures of Greg Heffley and The Blocksworld Show, both successes but the latter would be more popular, surpassing The Loud House in September 2019.

The final two original "new generation" shows, A Gamer's Life and Dog premiered in March and July 2018 respectively. Later in 2018, Tyson TV acquired Harvey Girls Forever! from DreamWorks/Netflix, their final collaborative work and in January 2019 also acquired Pinky Malinky from Netflix. Both shows were off the schedule by the next year.

2019-22: Focus towards teenagers + streaming app
In June 2019, Tyson TV announced that something "new" was coming for the network and updated the profile picture of their social medias to reflect that. On June 19, 2019, Tyson TV opened the Conference, where people can have fun and new shows also get announced sometimes. At the first conference, the show The Ruins was announced to be the first Tyson TV show aimed at teenagers rather than children. The show received critical acclaim when it premiered on September 5, 2019.

They premiered three more original series in between The Ruins and their next announcement in May 2020. Those being The Kids in the Hood: The Series, Nathan and Benny: Private Detectives, and School of Ants. On May 19, 2020, Tyson TV announced their new seasonal event, the Series Summer, to take place during the May 20 conference and last up to the September 16 conference and it would return every year until 2023. During Series Summer, Fun House premiered and became Tyson TV's most popular show, surpassing The Blocksworld Show in 5 months.

Also during that time, Tyson TV announced several different originals and acquisitions of shows like The Casagrandes from Viacom and Chowder from WarnerMedia. Tyson TV then announced a rebranding of their network that would take place on September 2, 2020 on their website and app then on September 16, 2020 at 9pm after Series Summer ended on their TV broadcasts. They also started advertising their streaming app on TV broadcasts, encouraging people to switch if they didn't have it already since the app already provided live broadcasts that are almost identical to the existing TV broadcast.

On December 11, 2020, Tyson TV removed their 9am-12pm Tyson Kids block on Fridays due to a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing Tyson Continentian crisis, and the fact that teenagers now take school off on Fridays in Tysonland. The block still remains on Mondays-Thursdays at 9am-1pm. Most of the shows announced during Series Summer would premiere early in 2021.

In March 2021, Tyson TV acquired the rights from its Japanese counterpart and Japan's own Fuji TV to air the PaRappa the Rapper anime, which itself was based off the video game series of the same name. The Japanese version debuted on their streaming app on April 14, 2021, in time for the anime's 20 year anniversary. Also around this time, Tyson TV acquired Kappa Mikey from Viacom and debuted it on the app on February 1.

Tyson TV restarted Series Summer on May 18 with a new focus on anime and the streaming app. Among the first announcements were the acquisition of My Hero Academia for the streaming app and a new English dub of the PaRappa the Rapper anime set for TV broadcasting. Announcements of 3 new originals and 3 other acquisitions followed during the Series Summer, including a Nice to Meet You anime based on the webtoon of the same name in both English and Japanese.

The most popular show of the 2021 Series Summer was the English dub of PaRappa the Rapper, which reached 2nd most popular within 2 months of its initial airing, only behind Fun House. Tyson TV announced that they would be focusing on new shows for their streaming app throughout 2022 as slots on their TV schedule were already full.