>>94383086And then later other transitions happened for stupid reasons.
Look, all of the old CartoonCartoon's that they had built their network on for the past 5 years or so were ending. Even the late-comers. And the only thing they had to follow up were such run-away hits as Squirrel Boy, Class of 3000, and My Gym Partner's a Monkey. "Old CN" was gone no matter how you looked at it. CN continued making and airing cartoons in the same vein throughout the time (Chowder, Flapjack) and tried to add in a bunch of action shows to appeal to an older, tween male audience (Star Wars Clone Wars, The Secret Saturdays, Transformers Animated, Ben 10: Alien Force). These ranged from "medium for a brand name" to "ratings disaster."
CN Real was a failed attempt to re-tool a struggling network It hardly helped, but it can't really be blamed for the decline. It wasn't until Adventure Time that CN's daytime progrmming stopped treading water.