We need your input again! Take our Broadcast Survey!
I know you all want more anime on TV. So do we. In an effort to better understand the changing broadcast market, we want you guys to tell us how you watch TV. Please take a minute to answer our little survey so that we can get more anime to you the way you want it.
As always, we appreciate all of your great feedback and comments so be as honest as possible. Thanks!!!
44 Responses to “We need your input again! Take our Broadcast Survey!”
alamarco on July 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pm says:
I hope this means more HD content. Definitely would love to see 720p streams of FMA, or more Blu-Ray DVDs. 
Vilapupu (aka gonzales10g) on July 21st, 2009 at 10:43 pm says:
I also took the survey. I hope that sgt.frog can be on the TV (either in Funimation channel or another channel).
I also hope that you guys get the channel on DirecTV (note: directv may be interested if you guys get the HD version since they want the most HD channels than others services 
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Netstryke on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 am says:
@JINROH
Amen and Amen, brother!
Bionix is on life support here and I’m hoping for that Anime Channel real soon.
Richard J. on July 22nd, 2009 at 5:24 am says:
I just want to see more anime on TV in general. I don’t care how or in what way, I just want to see it happen because I think it’s important to getting new fans into the hobby and maybe stopping the loses we’ve seen in the last few years.
If anyone can make something happen, it’s Funimation. At this point, they’re the only ones trying to make something happen, everyone else is running away.
Kayla on July 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 am says:
I hope for the day when FUNImation and DishNetwork become best-friends. My parents, not so much seeing as the channel would never get turned.
Cathy on July 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 am says:
I wish I had Funimation Channel…
Mitamaking on July 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 am says:
I would love to see more anime on tv, not just TAN, and Funi channel but “real” sites, like Cartoon Network, IFC, Sci-fi.
kit-kat on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm says:
They don’t show cartoons on Sat/Sun morning anymore? That is so, so sad! Poor kids… *cherishes memories*
dragon0 on July 22nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm says:
If this goes through, don’t put anime on just Sat & Sun. Make it through the week. New aquasitions could be done on Sat & Sun. We just needs somehting on during the week that is worth watching. Nothing else really is anymore. 
ravefire on July 22nd, 2009 at 6:23 pm says:
I think anime should get just as much good treatment on tv like regular american cartoons. nick and disney should put anime on their networks and they might have more viewers tuning in. i use to watch tv alot but when my favorite animes got taken off i stopped watching it so much. i loved case closed, zatch bell, mar, hamtaro, sailor moon, the dragon ball shows, inuyasha, shaman king , digimon, yugioh and gx, and etc. anime get very good ratings and they should be on tv alot more. cartoonetwork was the main place to see anime they had it on every day on on their programing blocks (miguzi, toonami, and adult swim). I think aniem distributors along with us fans need to do something about the air time treament anime is being given. Case Closed should have been on during an earlier time slot and should have been given better promotion when it was airing. i would have never known it was on tv if was up late finding something to watch. all anime shoudl be given time slots for everyday and have marathons to not just the american cartoons.
Thatchick on July 23rd, 2009 at 3:13 am says:
I hope you guys can get a funimation channel on time warner cable or Direct TV.
I think I put in my answer wrong for the question “what type of tv do you get” and I put something like fiber optic . Is that right?
TheGameNinja on July 23rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm says:
Please get anime back on tv! Nowadays we have SciFi’s block on ONE night and [AS]’s block on ONE night.
My brain would explode if you guys could get DBZ back on tv. NOSTALGIA BOMB!!!
timlaptopm101 on July 24th, 2009 at 12:09 am says:
dunno, someone dropped the ball by not getting D.Gray Man on Adult Swim! Even the uncut’s of One Piece would have done well if marketed!
Someone better make sure SOUL EATER has a slot on their! Dunno how much more i can take of reshowings of Death Note!!!
EricJ on July 25th, 2009 at 12:12 am says:
Sorry to get in late, but count me as another ThisTV fan who’d rather see Funi explore the “New Frontier” of Digital Sub-Affiliates.
There’s no future in Cable (which is imploding under the weight of its own backsliding away from channel’s own niche concepts–What, would we have a Funi station showing Wrestling?), VOD is too isolated most viewers don’t even know it exists (just ask ADV), and Satellite owners deserve that they get.
If anime has to be free and advertiser supported, better that Funi fly its own back-channel flag, than put up with the clueless snubbing and repression they get at the hands of CN’s dictatorship.
(Honestly, is there anyone still naive enough to think that Adult Swim actually CARES about anime, given the flat-out guff we’ve taken from them for the last three or four years? 
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TheGameNinja on July 25th, 2009 at 1:25 am says:
First, I hope no one thins cable will disappear anytime soon. TV will most likely be here forever. Next, there is a REASON anime needs to be on channels other that anime networks. It’s not fir YOU. It’s not for ME. It’s for getting NEW VIEWERS. Someone watching a normal tv channel may be curios about an anime that comes on. No average viewer will watch a channel they’ve never heard of to watch a show that they’ve never heard of. Think of the otaku to come after you!! 
EricJ on July 25th, 2009 at 1:56 am says:
OTOH, anime needs Free-TV (or at least advertiser supported):
To stream or download a series, you first need to have HEARD of it–FreeTV lets new fans catch a show at random, and without any prior commitment…
Do you think half the current kids who think Bleach, Naruto and FMA are the be-all of anime would’ve chosen to watch it, if they knew there were *other* shows besides those that happen to run on CN? (If you want to go back ten years, insert “Cowboy Bebop”, “Witch Hunter Robin” or “Wolf’s Rain”)
Unfortunately, as long as CN only has one particular taste for anime, it’s only going to raise one particular kind of first-time anime fan…It takes a company to know Diversity, and to breed diversity.
(And no, didn’t say TV was declining, I said CABLE TV was declining–That is, if corporate networks keep following the path of MTV, Disney Channel, and the Channel Formerly Known as Cartoon Network.
Nowadays, networks flat-out shame and insult their audiences for daring to suggest that they chain themselves to a niche set of programming like, say, Disney, music videos or old cartoons.)
dragon0 on July 25th, 2009 at 9:51 am says:
A problem with current tv is the overload of “Reality TV”. Its all crap. Meant to look real when its not. It makes for poor entertainment. Anime showings on regular tv channels would definatly increase the # of anime fans. As someone stated adult swim doesn’t care about anime like they use to. It used to show several anime through the week now it show something like 3 or 4, and primarily on Sat night. CN would be one of the best channel choices for funis idea if for no other reason to get rid of the ridicules shows they currently have now.
mudduck on July 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pm says:
why would they have cartoons on saturday and sunday mornings?????
sure when I was a kid I would get up to watch the weekend cartoon, and after they were done, I went outside and had fun using my own imagination,
but now we have 24 hour cartoon channels, no need to wait until saturday and sunday, and they are on at anytime I want to watch, so now kids want to sit in front of the TV for hours and hours instead of going out side and actually doing something….
parish the thought they miss their favorite cartoon that comes one 5 times a day with the same episode each time, maybe they missed something the first 4 times, lets watch it again.
get outside and have some fun using your imagination, put down the TV remote and build something… build a soapbox derby car, build a go cart using an old lawnmower engine, something other than cartoons all day and every day
but what can I say, I never watched that many cartoons until I became an adult, I had more fun doing things as a kid, now I can settle down and enjoy good anime……..
EricJ on July 26th, 2009 at 11:49 am says:
Very clever…Thought that one up ourselves, did we?
But “airing time” does bring up another REAL broadcast possibility–
Some micro-syndie networks, like the late lamented ex-PAX or current MyTV, have gotten out of the business of buying entire UHF station hookups, and have tried syndicating blocks of programming for other local Fox and CW affiliates, during late-night after-hours when stations would otherwise be responsible for their own programming.
Funi couldn’t realistically sell an entire 24-hour free-broadcast channel or maybe even fill an entire digital-splinter affiliate–But if they started out by station-syndicating their OWN CN-style 90-minute or 2-hr. late-night block on Fri-weekends, like USA Network did with their “Night Flight” franchise in the 80’s… (And with a more genre-diverse lineup, more personal attention and freer hand of popular titles to spotlight than that, ahem, OTHER late-night block.)
…Start small, work up.
