Awful news, but Ponies and the new Transformers cartoon seem to be safe. I'm pretty sure Discovery's original programming will be an even worse fit that no one will watch. It's just hilarious (or pathetic...or both) that we have 3 main "children's" channels. Even ESPN has more channels than that. I can certainly vouch for terrible distribution. I'm sure Hasbro lobbied the cable conglomerates for better coverage, but were ruled out. Seriously. I get every single religious channel there is, and I'm in a blue state! But no Hub or XD. You'd think Disney would want their boys channel to get better distribution. No wonder they have to put Gravity Falls, Star Wars Rebels, and Wander over Yonder sporadically on the network. Seriously, how freaking unprofitable is kid's television that even niche networks get more play? Especially when said channel is devoted to cartoons to sell toys that sell pretty good?
Though I have to say, it sucked they screwed the heck out of G.I. Joe Renegades because it wasn't the movie, and there was no Mr. Potatohead based programming (even reruns of the Puppet series). I'm sure Transformers and MLP will still manage to do enough business there that they don't get screwed by another network. But I'm telling you... I don't see how this Discovery crap's going to be any better. They're probably going to shove a lot of cheap, crappy programming on there when they're still better off rerunning Animaniacs.