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 * As of March 2012, main Italian network ''RAI'' is currently ''the'' biggest offender of this trope, with special thanks to the [[Animation Age Ghetto]]. To clarify, while animation on RAI used to be far more prominent throughout [[The Nineties]], after the [[Turn of the Millennium]] animated shows started to appear at a progressively smaller rate, [[Screwed by the Network|until they were completely confined within an early morning timeslot.]] Then, in the mid-2000s, the RaiGulp channel, aimed at a younger demographic, rose to fame as the "safe place" for animation in general, and most arrows were pointing to a fairly brighter future: ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'', ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]'', ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]'', ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', any good show, you name it. ''[[It Got Worse|Then]]'', however, things went downhill at the beginning of [[The New Tens]], where "kid [soap] operas" like ''[[wikipedia:Grachi|Grachi]]''<ref> (the fact we don't have an article for that here should tell you something)</ref> and the same ''Rebelde Way'' mentioned elsewhere in this page - joining the ranks of other networks invaded by south-american kid operas - [[Network Decay|started overshadowing animation]] at an alarming rate, culminating in live action series getting the spotlight and ''nearly all animated shows being confined to an '''after-midnight timeslot.''''' With Avatar TLA among them.
 ** RAI then subverts this trope '''only''' around Christmas, where it becomes the equivalent of the Golden Age ''[[Disney Channel]]'' [[Up to Eleven|on steroids.]] Yeah, the same network that nearly denies the existence of animation as a medium, does the complete opposite in mid-December by nearly running a marathon of ''the entire [[Disney Animated Canon]]''.
-* [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovation_(TV_Channel) Ovation] launched in 1996 as an arts-specific channel similar to the pre-[[Network Decay]] Bravo, and its addition to the DirecTV lineup in 2007 may have been a response to Bravo's decay and the demise of Trio. But while documentaries and specials relating to visual arts (i.e. painting), ballet and modern dance, filmmaking, theater, and jazz and world music still air, they've also added less highbrow fare: ''Antiques Roadshow'', ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]'' and ''Fame'' reruns along with tribute specials about performers like Madonna and [[Michael Jackson]]. This is all interspersed with movies and miniseries that share little in common (''[[The Wiz]]'', ''Mommie Dearest'', ''[[Cool as Ice]]'', ''Basquiat'', ''The Game'', the ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' miniseries, ''[[Boys Don't Cry]]'', ''[[Millennium Actress]]'', ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'', etc.) aside from presumably being cheap to air and having either a tangential relationship to literature, fine arts, etc. ''or'' a [[So Bad It's Good]] / [[Guilty Pleasure]] reputation. (If it's the latter case, it will be advertised as such.) By comparison, it used to feature foreign classics like ''Grand Illusion'', ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1946 film)|Beauty and The Beast]]'', and ''Jules and Jim''.
+* [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovation_(TV_Channel) Ovation]{{Dead link}} launched in 1996 as an arts-specific channel similar to the pre-[[Network Decay]] Bravo, and its addition to the DirecTV lineup in 2007 may have been a response to Bravo's decay and the demise of Trio. But while documentaries and specials relating to visual arts (i.e. painting), ballet and modern dance, filmmaking, theater, and jazz and world music still air, they've also added less highbrow fare: ''Antiques Roadshow'', ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]'' and ''Fame'' reruns along with tribute specials about performers like Madonna and [[Michael Jackson]]. This is all interspersed with movies and miniseries that share little in common (''[[The Wiz]]'', ''Mommie Dearest'', ''[[Cool as Ice]]'', ''Basquiat'', ''The Game'', the ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' miniseries, ''[[Boys Don't Cry]]'', ''[[Millennium Actress]]'', ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'', etc.) aside from presumably being cheap to air and having either a tangential relationship to literature, fine arts, etc. ''or'' a [[So Bad It's Good]] / [[Guilty Pleasure]] reputation. (If it's the latter case, it will be advertised as such.) By comparison, it used to feature foreign classics like ''Grand Illusion'', ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1946 film)|Beauty and The Beast]]'', and ''Jules and Jim''.
 * [[Animal Planet]] still plays entirely animal-related programming, but in an attempt to gear the station toward the 18-34 crowd, they have been playing more reality shows similar to the kinds played on TLC. It still fits, since the shows are at least about people in animal-related fields. There are fewer documentaries and educational shows, the ones that are still around are mostly about cats and dogs. (with some exceptions) [[Animal Planet]] has even started airing shows like ''Finding Bigfoot''. A lot of the shows about wild animals that do get aired a lot tend to focus on how dangerous the animal can be, leading to a joke among animal lovers that the new Animal Planet hates animals. The decision to change the network's slogan to "Surprisingly Human" certainly does not help.
 ** Latin American viewers are somewhat bemused at the fact that [[Animal Planet]] shows movies.