Sonic Boom TV Ratings – Season 2 Week 3

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1. Viewership has been so low that even the bootleggers forgot to watch the show. Sadly, I can’t access Boomerang so I have no other options.

2. Why the hell did they move it to Boomerang!? They’re wasting months of animator’s hard work on either a channel that not everyone has access to or a time slot that almost no one is awake to watch! This is like watching a pirate purposely cut off his own hand just so he could attach a hook to it, it’s so counter-productive!

   1. Welcome to Cartoon Network, a totally out of control drunk who kills anything that isn’t Teen Titans Go.

      1. Teen Titans being brought back that way tells you everything you need to know about Cartoon Network.

   2. They’ve fallen into the same destructive habits as Nickelodeon, lavishing all their attention on their precious moneymaker and shipping anything that doesn’t fit that mold out to an obtuse sister channel that was originally created to appeal to more adult tastes in animation but was eventually turned into a dumping ground for all their undesirable cartoons. It’s like they copypasted out of Nicks handbook word-for-word.

3. News. I don’t know whether to call it weird or strange since it’s mostly aimed at girls, but to tie-in with the SEGA-Sanrio collaboration, Hello Kitty and her friends are making their way into Sonic Dash.

4. Maybe It would be time to consider that Boom failed because of the product itself and stop pretending there’s a conspiracy around it. If it was moved to boomerang it’s because nobody cared about that show but old Sonic fanboys. Sega failed their IP awarness campaign with that cartoon and CN has no interest in supporting a show that can’t get attention. The real reason of this show’s failure is how it was handled by old people who are clueless about kids and what they like.

   1. “but *some old Sonic fanboys”

      Not every ‘old’ fan like Sonic Boom, I agree with everything else you said though.

   2. “Maybe It would be time to consider that Boom failed because of the product itself and stop pretending there’s a conspiracy around it.”

      Maybe it would be an even better time to stop justifying your opinion of Boom as fact, and finding even the slightest excuse to make it sound like you’re right. We’ve seen all the ratings data. We’ve seen the poor business decisions by both SEGA and Cartoon Network.

      “If it was moved to boomerang it’s because nobody cared about that show but old Sonic fanboys.”

      Yep, nobody cared. All 1,000,000-1,500,000 of them. You realize you just called over a million people “old Sonic fanboys” all because you don’t like the show, right?

      “The real reason of this show’s failure is how it was handled by old people who are clueless about kids and what they like.”

      To be honest, judging how you’ve been with this show since it premiered, I don’t think you have any room to say any of this.

      1. Then again if it was so good why was it moved to mornings and the premier to Boomerang? There are tons of shows older than Sonic Boom that didn’t get this treatment, maybe 1,500,000 watchers were not enough? These are genuine questions, I have no idea what are the average rating numbers for a show to be called successful.

         1. “If it was so good why was it moved to mornings and the premier to Boomerang?”

            You realize it’s not just Boom that has been having this problem, right?

            “There are tons of shows older than Sonic Boom that didn’t get this treatment, maybe 1,500,000 watchers were not enough?”

            As I said, other shows have gotten this treatment. And yes, 1,500,000 watchers are enough. Their own shows, like Teen Titans Go!, got just as many watchers. Sonic Boom was seriously performing as well as CN’s own shows.

         2. @SSF1991

            “Their own shows, like Teen Titans Go!, got just as many watchers.”

            Okay, no, Sonic Boom didn’t get as many watchers as Teen Titans Go, seriously, Sonic Boom highest rating ever were 1,500,000 watchers while Teen Titans GO! were 3,000,000; Sonic Boom ended with an average rating of 800,000 (before moving to Boomerang) while Teen Titans GO! still has an average rating of 1,700,000.

            “You realize it’s not just Boom that has been having this problem, right?”

            No I didn’t know, sorry my bad, what are those shows?

            1. “Sonic Boom highest rating ever were 1,500,000 watchers while Teen Titans GO! were 3,000,000”

               I’m not referring to ratings highs. I’m referring to ratings averages.

               “Sonic Boom ended with an average rating of 800,000 (before moving to Boomerang) while Teen Titans GO! still has an average rating of 1,700,000.”

               Because that was when all promotion of the show stopped. When the show was getting proper treatment (a better time slot, the show being mentioned in TV advertisements) the show was making TTG’s average ratings. People have been paying attention to the ratings, but nothing about why. Every time the show got a ratings drop, it was immediately after Cartoon Network randomly did something, or stopped promotion. You can’t just suddenly change time slots and not tell anyone about it and expect to get viewers. The sheer fact it even got a 800k average is very damn surprising, because to be quite honest it should’ve done much much worse. If it weren’t for the fact I was covering the show for commentaries and news, I wouldn’t have even known the show was still airing, let alone making new episodes. If people were losing interest in the show, or if the show’s quality dropped, ratings take a slow drop. The rating drops that Boom got? Sudden and out of nowhere.

               You can’t stick the show at a 6am timeslot and expect 1,700,000 viewers. You can’t just dump the show on a different channel, then not tell anyone and expect those viewers either. How are you going to have high ratings for a show if no one knows about it? It has nothing to do with the show’s quality. Cartoon Network’s business decisions have been a problem for the show since the show debuted in 2014. The show hadn’t even premiered yet and Cartoon Network wasn’t even promoting the show. That changed at the last minute.

               “what are those shows?”

               The Spectacular Spider-Man was planned for a third season, then got cancelled out of nowhere before production could begin. It was eventually discovered that the show was Sony produced and Sony lost the TV rights for Spider-Man related media, as Sony wanted to keep movie rights. However, this was the earliest example I recall where Cartoon Network upset fans for very strange, random business decisions. It also shows that quality has nothing to do with a show’s fate, sometimes. Business politics can be just as much of an issue. That was almost a decade ago that this happened.

               Young Justice & Green Lantern: The Animated Series are most “infamous”. Cartoon Network suddenly dropped both of them from the schedule for absolutely no reason. Three months passed. Then Cartoon Network randomly announced that the two shows were cancelled. Again, no reason was given.

               Pokemon’s another. X/Y aired right after Boom in season one, so it, too, has been put at poor timeslots. It also got similar ratings to Boom. The Sun & Moon season is airing on Disney XD, so the show no longer airs on Cartoon Network.

      2. I don’t have to prove anything; Boom’s failure pretty much confirms everything I have said about it in the past. It has no appeal. The ultimate poor business decision was to create Boom in the first place.

         Yup I still believes these ratings are about old Sonic fanboys, remember you were showing the numbers yourself; it was about ADULT WATCHERS. And now even them are getting tired of Boom. You don’t seem to understand what was the show’s goal. It wasn’t to entertain the fanboys; it was to get new blood. But hell it failed miserably because nobody wants to support anti-Sonic content if they want to enjoy Sonic stuff.

         The toys never came out of the nerd zone, the games sell like shit (even when they are polished). Conclusion: Boom has no appeal and letting it die is the smartest thing Sega can do about it. Boom fanboys can believe all the conspiracy crap they want; it won’t change reality. If Boom had real value; it would have received some care and love but Boom is nothing more than a street performance. It got some attention because it was free and required no investement but most of the audience has moved on now. Everything about Boom that required us to pay money for it have failed miserably.

         1. “I don’t have to prove anything; Boom’s failure pretty much confirms everything I have said about it in the past.”

            Except no it doesn’t. In fact your entire point has been nothing but “because the show sucks”. Nothing else.

            “You don’t seem to understand what was the show’s goal.”

            And you don’t seem to understand how the television business works. Nor what Cartoon Network has been doing. Nor what rating averages are. In fact I’m still not convinced that you’ve been paying much attention. (And by the way, I do know the show’s goal: to be funny/entertaining. I’d know, I’ve spoken to the Boom writers.)

            “Boom fanboys can believe all the conspiracy crap they want”

            You realize that every time you call people who disagree with you “fanboys”, your credibility drops further, right? Because it just tells me more that you simply don’t like the show, and that’s the only excuse you have for all this.

5. Maybe its getting bad ratings because most people don’t think its an interesting show? Everyone I know who plays Sonic games like Sonic Adventure 2 and Unleashed thinks Sonic Boom is stupid. I don’t outright hate the show, but it has clearly alienated the audience that plays the games, and has been unable to replace that audience with a new one. Just a thought.

   1. “Maybe its getting bad ratings because most people don’t think its an interesting show?”

      Ratings before Boomerang move: 1,000,000-1,500,000
      Ratings now: 200,000.

      Yep, totally people hating the show.

      “Everyone I know who plays Sonic games like Sonic Adventure 2 and Unleashed thinks Sonic Boom is stupid.”

      Friendly reminder that your circle of friends is not entire Sonic fanbase.

      “it has clearly alienated the audience that plays the games”

      Except it hasn’t.

      “and has been unable to replace that audience with a new one.”

      And maybe it’s unable to replace that audience because of the network change?

      1. You know, SSF1991, I don’t agree with the Sonic fanbase, but I wholeheartedly agree with you. “Cartoon Network” is an abomination now. It’s not just “Sonic Boom”, “Pokemon”, “Spider-Man” and “Young Justice”, but also their other original shows (“Steven Universe”, “Regular Show”, “Adventure Time” and “The Amazing World Of Gumball”).

         They’re ending “Regular Show” with no fanfare (I.E no full seasons marathon on TV not on their app which most cord cutters can’t access).

         I cannot believe that I’m pitching my TV Show idea to them of all channels. They’re the only good lot out of the bunch, shockingly enough.

         Gosh, I hate CN. Used to love them in their prime (CN City).

6. Please cancel and bury this abomination of a series already.

   1. Ah Look it’s one of the Sonic boom haters page adimn here how cute.

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