Cartoon Network is a cable television network available throughout the world. It is created by Turner Broadcasting which specializes in animated programming. Cartoon Network usually serves as a 24-hour outlet for different animation programs. Although it is youth-oriented or even child-oriented, there is
space for late-night adult-oriented programming called Adult Swim. After 2003, Cartoon Network started airing some live-action programming too, mainly movies. Turner Broadcasting has become a unit of Time Warner. Now Cartoon Network has a sister TV channel, Boomerang. There are different Cartoon Network programs for different countries or regions like Cartoon Network (United States), Cartoon Network (
India), etc. In its onward march Turner Broadcasting bought MGM and the animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions, thus expanding its product range.