jan 11, 1992 - hanna-barbera

Description:

When Cartoon Network was formed in 1992,
Hanna-Barbera supplied most of the cartoons.
Hanna-Barbera was eventually absorbed by
Warner Bros., but the cartoons remain available
in syndication and on DVD.

The parent company of Hanna-Barbera, is the warner bros
Hanna-Barbera Productions was formed in 1957
by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera—two
animators from MGM Studios.
They left MGM when the studio stopped
production on animated films. Hanna and
Barbera achieved immediate success on
television with The Huckleberry Hound Show in
1958, followed later by the highly popular
prime-time series, The Flintstones. Through the
next 30 years, Hanna-Barbera produced an
astonishing 249 individual cartoon series for
television - totaling over 1,200 hours of original
episodes.