A multitude of factors I presume: - Running a 9pm-6am channel was unsustainable, especially when the channel hardly had any adverts (one upload indicates they only had an advert for the NME magazine. Getting de ja vu from a certain rave channel doing similar things) - Anime rights probably were expensive, especially for how niche anime was and still is in the UK, and for how small CSC were. Had they been bought by Sony much sooner, AnimeCentral probably would've relaunched into a UK feed of Animax. - The 2008 recession. - CSC Media Group found it's success more in children's entertainment, launching Kix as the answer to airing more lighter anime. I feel like a channel dedicated solely to airing anime could never catch a break, especially not during 2007-2008, when viewers were slowly shifting to watching their anime on sites like Crunchyroll (back when it was a piracy site) and TH-cam.
@Allanbuzzy i watch at the time and remember how few/strange ads were on it. They didn't know how to or who to advertise to in the market. I think this is a secondary reason why it shut down
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If only it existed nowadays
I remember that I would watch it almost every night for Gundam seed. Bleach cowboy bebop ghost in the shell, it was a great first Anime experience
Nice find!
this sounds like the start of a s3rl song
*a m i n e*
I Think I Wasn't Born When Anime Central Was Out For Only 2 Years!
Where did you find this?
Vimeo i think
Why did they have to shut it down after a year of its launch :/
A multitude of factors I presume:
- Running a 9pm-6am channel was unsustainable, especially when the channel hardly had any adverts (one upload indicates they only had an advert for the NME magazine. Getting de ja vu from a certain rave channel doing similar things)
- Anime rights probably were expensive, especially for how niche anime was and still is in the UK, and for how small CSC were. Had they been bought by Sony much sooner, AnimeCentral probably would've relaunched into a UK feed of Animax.
- The 2008 recession.
- CSC Media Group found it's success more in children's entertainment, launching Kix as the answer to airing more lighter anime.
I feel like a channel dedicated solely to airing anime could never catch a break, especially not during 2007-2008, when viewers were slowly shifting to watching their anime on sites like Crunchyroll (back when it was a piracy site) and TH-cam.
@Allanbuzzy i watch at the time and remember how few/strange ads were on it. They didn't know how to or who to advertise to in the market. I think this is a secondary reason why it shut down