(Aug. 30, 2016 7:28 PM)Bey Brad Wrote: (Aug. 30, 2016 7:22 PM)~Mana~ Wrote: Is a Saturday afternoon at 3pm really that bad? I can understand the network issue, but that timeslot seems okay (though, not quite as good as a morning one).
It is when I'm used to Beyblade airing in the after-school block on YTV. Beyblade was a monster in Canada and this was a large part of the reason why.
I wonder if the official website and stuff will be up by then ...
Burst is the first
Beyblade where there isn't going to be a vested interest on the part of the Canadian broadcaster to make sure it's successful.
Bakuten and
Metal Fusion were both produced/distributed by a sister company of the channel broadcasting it here.
Burst is being handled by a subsidiary of the Japanese production companies.
While Teletoon is a downgrade in audience potential from YTV (available in 11 million households vs. 8 million), it's pretty much par for the course with Corus. Since getting complete ownership of the Teletoon networks, they've taken everything that wasn't a comedy or a live action tween drama off of YTV. Even
Pokemon airs on Teletoon now.
I'm more concerned about what will happen with
Burst in the US. All of the popular kids channels are hostile to programming produced by external companies, especially noticeably foreign stuff like anime. Nelvana got around that with
Metal Fusion because they were aggressive. I'm not sure Sunrights is going to do the same. They messed up royally with
B-Daman Crossfire, to the point where the dub of the second season was exclusively released as a series of iOS/Android apps. So I feel it's likely they only wind up landing a deal with one of the smaller channels, like Disney XD, Nicktoons or Discovery Family. The latter two would essentially mean
Burst would be DOA. They'd be better off releasing it as a Netflix or Youtube exclusive.