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Article: Cartoon Starts Search for Post-"Mooninite" Leader.(Cartoon Network)
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- February 19, 2007
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By Linda Haugsted
The search has begun for a successor to Jim Samples, the former general manager of Cartoon Network, who resigned his post on Feb. 9 in the wake of a controversial marketing campaign for Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force series.
The campaign for the show on Cartoon's late-night block, in which 38 light boards shaped like a Mooninite character were placed around Boston, resulted in an anti-terrorism response on Jan. 31 that brought traffic and commuting in the city to a halt and ultimately cost parent Turner Broadcasting System and Interference, the agency that executed the stunt, a $2 million fine to local, state and national agencies ...