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Cartoon Network (commonly referred to as CN) is an American cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. The original American channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 with Looney Tunes being its first-ever aired program.Ŝablono:Fact From then on Cartoon Network has launched many other shows including The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, and Ed, Edd, n' Eddy. Though Cartoon Network is mainly child-based, a more adult-oriented block titled Adult Swim is aired late-night. This year, the network will turn 15, however, no announcements have been made by the network so far.

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[redaktu] History

By the end of the 1980s, Ted Turner's cable-TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of pre-1948 color Warner Bros. cartoons), and its cable channel Turner Network Television had gained an audience with its film library. In 1990, it purchased animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions and acquired its large library as well as most of the Ruby-Spears library. Cartoon Network was created as an outlet for Turner's considerable library of animation, and the initial programming on the channel consisted exclusively of re-runs of classic Warner Bros., MGM, and Hanna-Barbera cartoons like The Jetsons and The Flintstones, with many Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons like Wally Gator used as time fillers. Most of the short cartoons were aired in half-hour or hour-long packages, usually separated by character or studio — Down With Droopy D aired old Droopy Dog shorts, The Tom and Jerry Show presented the classic cat-and-mouse team, and Bugs and Daffy Tonight provided classic Looney Tunes shorts. Today, only Tom and Jerry remains on the network.

In 1994, Hanna-Barbera started production on The What-A-Cartoon! Show (also known as World-Premiere Toons And "What-A-Cartoon"), a series of creator-driven short cartoons that premiered on Cartoon Network in 1995. It was the network's third original series (the second was Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and the first was The Moxy Show). The project was spearheaded by several Cartoon Network executives, plus Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi (who was an advisor to the network at the time) and Fred Seibert (who was formerly one of the driving forces behind the Nicktoons, and would go on to produce the similar animation anthology series Oh, Yeah! Cartoons).

In 1996, Time Warner purchased Turner Broadcasting, and with it, Cartoon Network. The Network gained access to the complete Warner Bros. cartoon library, which had not been under ownership since 1957. The library includes WB cartoons from the 1950s to the 1980s, and newer cartoons like Road Rovers, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and Pinky and the Brain.

Time Warner changed the direction of Hanna-Barbera Productions (the production studio now known as Cartoon Network Studios), and focused the studio exclusively on creating new material for the Network (which were baptized Cartoon Cartoons). These productions include: Dexter's Laboratory (1996), Johnny Bravo (1997), Cow and Chicken (1997), and The Powerpuff Girls (1998) (all of which were shorts, previously launched on What a Cartoon with the creative work of Hanna-Barbera art director Jesse Stagg), and more recently Codename: Kids Next Door (2003), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004), and Camp Lazlo (2005). To free up air time for said new shows, the listed classics were retired.

The older Hanna-Barbera cartoons, as well as the entire Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies library, and non-Tom and Jerry cartoons made by MGM such as those made by Tex Avery, have been largely moved to the nostalgia-themed Boomerang sister network.

Then, on June 14, 2004, Cartoon Network relaunched itself with a new slogan, “This is Cartoon Network.” The bumps now featured 2D cartoon characters from their shows interacting in a CGI city composed of sets from their shows. Nearly all of Cartoon Network's classic cartoon programming has been replaced by new programming, save for Tom and Jerry, a longtime staple of the Turner networks. Within a few months, the network took off more shows from the 90's (Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls,etc.) and put them on a one hour block called The Cartoon Cartoon Show. Some shows like Mike, Lu, and Og and Sheep in the Big City were taken off the network completely. In the summer of 2006, Cartoon Network's slogan was changed to a simplistic “Cartoon Network - Yes!,” as spoken by Fred Fredburger, a character on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. The network also used bumps featuring the cast of Camp Lazlo as stick puppets and characters in front of a red background.

This look was short-lived and was replaced by three different styles, airing jointly. The first style is "Lunchbox of Doom", featuring an assortment of show clips inside a CGI goth-looking lunchbox. The second is "VS.", comparing two cartoon characters. The last style is a reprise of the CGI City look, using flat, dark colors.

As of 2007, Cartoon Network does not have a slogan, but they retained the image campaign that began in 2006, although a slightly refreshed version of the theme is currently in use.[1] In Fall 2007, the channel will begin broadcasting in High Definition. [1]


[redaktu] Programming blocks

[redaktu] Cartoon Cartoons

Ŝablono:Main Cartoon Cartoons, a series of comedic animated shorts produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions guided by Fred Seibert, who founded the Nickelodeon-based Frederator Studios years later. Originally known as "World Premiere Toons," the shorts were essentially series pilots — the idea was to measure audience response and turn the most popular shorts into series. Only a small handful of the shorts ever made series, however. The first short to air was "The Powerpuff Girls Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins," but it would be three years before the girls got their own series. This show also aired the cartoon "Larry and Steve", which was the prototype of the hit show Family Guy. The first series to spin off from What-a-Cartoon! was Dexter's Laboratory in 1996. A year later, Johnny Bravo and Cow and Chicken joined Dexter on the Cartoon Network lineup. The Powerpuff Girls became a Cartoon Cartoons series in the fall of 1998. Ed, Edd, n Eddy came later as the first Cartoon Cartoons series not to be introduced in a What-A-Cartoon! short.

More shows premiered bearing the Cartoon Cartoons moniker, airing throughout the network's schedule and prominently on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, which became the marquee night for premieres of new episodes and new shows. For three years during Summer, Cartoon Network actually let fans pick which of that year's crop of Cartoon Cartoon shorts made series, by staging a vote where fans could choose from among the three most popular entries. The first short to be voted into a series was The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy in 2000, and a year later Codename: Kids Next Door was voted in 2001. Both have gone on to become two of Cartoon Network's longest-running series. Megas XLR was voted in the year later and ran its own series as well, along with Whatever Happened To Robot Jones in 2002, which didn't receive popular vote but became a series sometime later. Both of which, however, were short-lived.

As of September 2005, the name is primarily used for The Cartoon Cartoon Show, an hour-long program featuring episodes of older Cartoon Cartoons that are no longer shown regularly on the network.

[redaktu] Fridays

Ŝablono:Main Fridays, originally titled "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays", was the Friday night program block on Cartoon Network that showcased the channel's original animated series, with new episode premieres usually taking place in this block. Around these shows, live action segments in a studio with two hosts and an audience of children were for continuity between the programs. The block aired between 7 p.m.-5 a.m., with the shows and segments repeating at least twice.

Fridays replaced Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, a block that aired Fridays at 7 PM Eastern Time before replaced by Summer Fridays in 2003 and replaced by Fridays in late 2003. The block was launched on May 7, 1999 and last aired on May 2, 2003. Originally in 1999 it aired encores of new episodes which were shown earlier during the week. Cartoon Cartoon Fridays was hosted by a character from a Cartoon Cartoon.

On February 23, 2007, Cartoon Network aired the last Fridays. A month-long "Movie Madness" filled out the airtime, and Friday Night Premiere Thunder, then Friday Night Premiere Lazer took over the programming slot.

A new block, Fried Dynamite, premieres in the late summer.

[redaktu] Miguzi

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The Miguzi logo

Miguzi was a cartoon block that premiered on April 19, 2004. This block was themed around Erin, a girl who finds refuge within the confines of a strange spaceship that is trapped underwater and inhabited by aquatic creatures. Not surprisingly, this lighter-toned action block was from Williams Street, the producers of late-night programming block Adult Swim and Toonami, a block of programming which Miguzi replaced in the weekday-afternoon timeslot. Miguzi changed its shows often.

Miguzi aired action shows from different countries like Ben 10 and Teen Titans from America, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh Ĝ from Japan, and Totally Spies and Code Lyoko from France.

[redaktu] Toonami

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The current Toonami logo.

Toonami (a portmanteau of cartoon and tsunami) was initially a block of action-oriented programming (mostly Japanese anime) on Cartoon Network in the US and UK, and Spain among other countries. The American version premiered on March 17, 1997 as a weekday afternoon block. The regular afternoon block, including Rising Sun (a Saturday morning version of the block, revived as a late-night action block of Batman and Superman), Super Saturdays (a Saturday afternoon block with a few premieres), and Midnight Run (which was originally a late-night action block on Saturday nights in 1999 before becoming an hour-long weeknight action block on March 6, 2000 that aired the uncut version of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing which was replaced by Outlaw Star in 2001 and repeats of other shows from the afternoon block before being replaced by Adult Swim in 2003).The other blocks of Toonami are Toonami Rising Sun aired from 1999-2001 on Saturday mornings,Toonami Super Saturdays aired from 2001-2003,and they also had the Toonami Midnight Run on Saturdays from 1999-2000,and the Midnight Run on Weekdays from 2000-2003.

Currently, the United States version of Toonami airs on Saturdays from 7 to 11 PM (E/P). Some shows in this program include Prince of Tennis, Zatch Bell!, MÄR, Naruto, One Piece, Pokémon Battle Frontier, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Ĝ (Naruto now also shows on weekdays at 5:30 PM).

The Toonami brand was subsequently used in the United Kingdom as the title of a Cartoon Network-operated UK spinoff channel in its own right in September 2003, a little under a year after the network launched as CNX. In 2006, the network relaunched as a general entertainment network with little emphasis on action-animation.

For the rest of the territories that have Cartoon Network, Toonami remains a block with many of the same shows seen in the United States as well as regional exclusives like Battle B-Daman, Power Rangers (In the Philippines), Todd McFarlane's Spawn, Machine Robo Rescue, Granzasers, X-Men: Evolution, Shadow Raiders, Beyblade, and others. However, in the United States, Battle B-Daman does not air on the Toonami block.

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The Prime Time Logo

[redaktu] Prime Time

Prime Time was a programming block that ran from 1999-2002. Prime Time would showcase Hanna Barbera Cartoons & Cartoons from the Present, such as Scooby-Doo, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, Cow & Chicken, and occasionally Dragon Ball Z and Looney Tunes.

[redaktu] Adult Swim

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The Adult Swim logo

Ŝablono:Main Adult Swim is the name for the more adult-oriented television programming block on Cartoon Network, which premiered on September 2, 2001 in USA.

Originally a Sunday-only block that also reran on Thursdays, Adult Swim airs Saturday nights at 11 PM (E/P), Monday through Thursday nights at 10:30 PM (E/P) and Sunday nights at 10 PM (E/P) with an encore airing at 2 AM and then ending with an hour of older shows on every night but Sunday. The block, programmed by Williams Street, the same group that created Toonami and Miguzi, plays American animated comedy series and shorts geared towards audiences 14 and older and a wide variety of anime series and OVAs intended for audiences 18 and older.

The name comes from the name for hours designated at public swimming pools where only adults can swim in the pool. On March 28, 2005, the programming block was spun-off as a separate entity from Cartoon Network for Nielsen Ratings purposes. On March 27, 2006, Adult Swim started airing a half-hour early at 10:30 PM on Monday through Thursday (E/P).

[redaktu] Preschool programming

The first preschool programming block on Cartoon Network in the United States was Small World, afterword Big Bag premiered on June 2, 1996. Big Bag featured animated shorts from around the world and live action Muppet scenes. Big Bag ended in September, 1998.

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Logo for Tickle U

The second block, Tickle U premiered on August 22, 2005. Pipoca, Henderson, and Place hosted the block. Tickle U stopped in September 2006. Its official site is now a redirect to the Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs page on the channel's official site.

Currently, Cartoon Network broadcasts preschool programs on weekday mornings, although there is no preschool specific block. It is unknown whether a third block is coming to Cartoon Network or not.

[redaktu] Saturday Video Entertainment System

The Saturday Video Entertainment System was a Toonami-like block of action animation airing Saturday nights from March 17, 2003 to April 10, 2004. SVES was packaged like a video game, with a Samus Aran-like character in bumps reminiscent of older arcade/SNES game design. This block was also designed by Williams Street.

[redaktu] Films

[redaktu] Cartoon Theatre

Cartoon Network's Cartoon Theatre in full, is Cartoon Network's film series, featuring animated theatrical films, animated television films, and films made for Cartoon Network. It originally ran once a week on Saturday nights, the feature film of each week would be regularly advertised on the network making it an anticipated special movie event. The block used a classical western style with a theatrical quality of feel in its bumpers, involving a realistic-looking old-time ticket machine and a freely drifting movie ticket on top of a wood desk accompanied by the voice of Don LaFontaine, the footage being used before and after commercial breaks and in commercials advertising the block itself. The amount of time Cartoon Theatre ran varied, and based solely on the amount of time the feature film ran, and would perhaps disagree with Cartoon Network's hour-by-hour schedule. To even out the block's time-frame, a sub-block titled Toon Extra, a block based on newspaper delivery, aired after Cartoon Theatre films showing one or more cartoons helping to add less than an extra hour of content to span out the perhaps uneven time slot. If Toon Extra didn't completely fill the time slot a few extra commercials may be aired, plus the occasional black-out for lesser amounts of unadded seconds.

Since 2004, live-action films, regardless if they are cartoon-related (though most are), became part of Cartoon Network's library of movies.

[redaktu] Cartoon Network Original Movies

Ŝablono:Unreferenced Thirteen made for TV movies have aired on Cartoon Network. These films are, in effect, movie-length special episodes of Cartoon Cartoon series Camp Lazlo, Codename: Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Teen Titans, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and Ben 10. Also among the original movies is Cartoon Network's first original live-action movie, Re-Animated.

  • Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (Aired August 11, 2006)
  • Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (Aired September 15, 2006)
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Good Wilt Hunting (Aired November 23, 2006)
  • Re-Animated (Aired December 8, 2006)
  • My Gym Partner's a Monkey: The Big Field Trip (Aired January 14, 2007)
  • Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo? (Aired February 18, 2007)
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure (Aired March 30, 2007)
  • The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy: The Wrath Of The Spider Queen (July 7, 2007)
  • The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door (October 19, 2007)
  • Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S. (November 2007)
  • Ben 10 Animated Movie (Fall 2007)
  • Ben 10 Live Action Movie (Fall 2007)
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show (2008)

[redaktu] Marathon blocks

[redaktu] Cartoon Network Block Party

Cartoon Network Block Party is the name for a three-hour block of programming that aired on Saturdays that sometimes featured several new episodes of a single show. It aired Saturday afternoon from 3pm-6pm (sometimes 3pm-5pm). It lasted from June 19, 2004 - January 22, 2005. This block aired Cartoon Cartoon franchises such as The Powerpuff Girls, Codename: Kids Next Door and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and non-Cartoon Cartoon franchises such as The Cramp Twins, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Code Lyoko, Hamtaro and Totally Spies! there was also Megaman NT Warrior, Jackie Chan Adventures and Shaman King.

Cartoon Network Block Party is also the current title for the network's anthology comic published by DC Comics. (Previously, the comic was titled Cartoon Network Presents, Cartoon Network Starring, and Cartoon Cartoons.)

There was also a "Mario Party" style video game released called Cartoon Network: Block Party.

[redaktu] Cartoon Olio

Cartoon Olio was a Cartoon Network Saturday afternoon block that aired from 3pm-6pm. The block premiered on July 7, 2001 and last aired on June 1, 2002. The block aired marathons of Cartoon Cartoons franchises such as Dexter's Laboratory, Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Powerpuff Girls, Time Squad and Cow and Chicken. The block also aired marathons of Hanna-Barbera franchises such as The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.

[redaktu] June Bugs

June Bugs was a yearly 48 hour marathon of Bugs Bunny cartoons which started on the first weekend in June of 1997. This marathon would air nearly every Bugs Bunny cartoon ever made in chronological order, with the exception of war-time shorts and those deemed racist and offensive. However, with there being considerably less than 48 hours of shorts, it would repeat several times. June Bugs has occasionally aired on sister network Boomerang

[redaktu] Last Bell

Last Bell was a Cartoon Network weekday afternoon block which used to air weekdays from 2pm-5pm in the past. Last Bell lasted from August 2003 to June 11, 2004. The block aired franchises like Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and Codename: Kids Next Door.

[redaktu] Super Chunk

Super Chunk was a Saturday marathon block that aired on Saturday afternoons from 1pm-4pm. The block lasted from the Network's origin in October 1992 up until when the Boomerang channel was launched in April 2000. The block aired marathons of mainly classic and retro programs.

[redaktu] Cartoon Network Invaded

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Cartoon Network Invaded

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Invaded was a month long block in May 2007. It aired "Alienated" episodes of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Ed, Edd n' Eddy, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Camp Lazlo, and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. All 5 of the shows aired an episode with an alien-invasion theme to the script. The names of the aliens are Sklrvss, the small red crab-like alien, Peaches, the large green squid-like alien that likes ice cream, and Glog, the huge blue cyborg with 3 eyes.

Aliens appeared in a continuing storyline that spaned five Cartoon Network shows. They were:

  • Chapter 1: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "Cheese A Go-Go"
  • Chapter 2: Ed, Edd, n Eddy: "The Eds Are Coming"
  • Chapter 3: My Gym Partner's a Monkey: "That Darn Platypus"
  • Chapter 4: Camp Lazlo: "Strange Trout from Outer Space / Cheese Orbs"
  • Chapter 5: The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: "Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon"

The event concluded with an alien-themed marathon that kicked off the Cartoon Network Summer programming schedule on May 28, 2007. During this marathon, all of the Invaded chapters was shown, along with the ending to the "Invaded" episodes. On June 1, 2007 an alternate ending to the "Invaded" episodes was shown.

[redaktu] Summer @ Seven

Summer @ seven is the name of the new summer line up that premiered on June 4, 2007. Cartoon Network changed its theme to a new more colorful one. New episodes are shown every Monday thru Friday night an 7 pm. A new show called Storm Hawks premiered in Summer @ Seven.

  • Mondays: Storm Hawks
  • Tuesdays: Code Lyoko
  • Wednesdays:Camp Lazlo
  • Thursdays: Class of 3000
  • Fridays: Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends This show will be replaced by My Gym Partner's a Monkey starting June 22nd

[redaktu] Boomerang

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Boomerang's original logo

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Boomerang was originally a programming block on Cartoon Network aimed towards the generation of baby boomers. It originally aired for four hours every weekend. The block's start time jumped frequently, with the Saturday block moving to Saturday afternoons, then back to the early morning, and the Sunday block moving to Sunday evenings. Eventually, Boomerang was shortened by an hour, making the total airing time 2 hours each weekend instead of the original four hours.

Boomerang (both the programming block and the original spinoff channel that launched on April 1, 2000) followed a unique programming format - every week, cartoons produced during a certain year (and cartoons produced during years prior to that year) would be showcased. For example, if Boomerang was showcasing the year 1969, the viewer would more than likely see an episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! or Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.

Once the Boomerang channel was launched in 2000, promos for the channel aired at the end of every broadcasted show during the block in attempt to gain popularity for Boomerang. Also, all of the older programming on Cartoon Network, including Looney Tunes and shows from Hanna-Barbera migrated to Boomerang.

On October 2 and 3rd, nearly four months after the re-launch of the Cartoon Network, the Boomerang block was replaced by Adult Swim everyday with older reruns of classic anthologies like The Popeye Show, The Bob Clampett Show, ToonHeads, and former Boomerang fare like The Gary Coleman Show and Super Globetrotters. October 2 and 3rd were the last times Looney Tunes officially aired on Cartoon Network.

[redaktu] Get Animated

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When Cartoon Network still ran its CGI city look (see history section), a promo aired involving the Mayor of Townsville officially opening the Animation Station, a fictional recreational dome facility. Thus began Cartoon Network's still-running Get Animated promotion, a campaign encouraging children to get active, more importantly in outdoor areas. Created in part of the American government's goal for a more active, and generally healthier generation, other kids' channels generally aired similar promotions during this time. Original promos involved many different cartoon characters, and real kids, enjoying physical activities inside the Animation Station. Once Cartoon Network scrapped their CGI city look the Animation Station promos were abandoned, but the Get Animated campaign still continued. Current promos still show cartoon characters playing alongside kids, though occasional sports celebrities (such as Freddie Adu) make appearances. Other promos show real kids who make great physically-related achievements.

[redaktu] Cartoon Network's 10th Anniversary

Ŝablono:Notability On October 1, 2002, Cartoon Network's 10th birthday, Cartoon Network aired a one-day special bumper acknowledging their 10th anniversary.[2]. This year will be the network's 15th anniversary. However, there has been no advertising for the anniversary whatsoever.

[redaktu] Cartoon Network MMOG

It was announced in July 2006 that Cartoon Network has teamed with Seoul-based Grigon Entertainment to bring a Cartoon Network based MMOG to the global marketplace. The as-yet-to-be named title will be subscription based, including support for microtransactions but will be free to download. The title will be targeting the preteen marketplace and is expected to be released in the Spring of 2008.[3]

[redaktu] Cartoon Network/TNT Timeshare

On non-cable television In foreign markets, Cartoon Network and TNT shared the same channel together.[4] Cartoon Network running from 5am to 9pm and TNT 9pm until 5am. In 1999 the timeshare ceased and TNT Classic Movies split in two, with the classic movie service becoming TCM (Turner Classic Movies). Commercials for the new TCM channel started appearing in 1999 on all Turner-based channels.

[redaktu] See also

  • List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network
  • Boomerang (TV channel)
  • Cartoon Network Video
  • Re-Animated
  • Cartoon Network (Worldwide)
  • Cartoon Network (UK)
  • Cartoon Network (Australia)
  • Cartoon Network Philippines
  • List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim
  • List of programs broadcast by Boomerang

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