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TDN, short for The Dressy Network, is a network made by Vanta526.
History (WIP)[]
Pre-launch[]
Plans for Vanta Network's launch date back to 1966 (One damn number off god damn it). Some former employees say that it was originally planned to launch as an NBC station, and then later in development as an independent Metromedia station. Both plans were scrapped in favor of being the first national superstation, a year shy before TBS became a superstation. On July 15, 1973, it was sold to WGN Continental Broadcasting Company (which would later become Tribune Broadcasting). On November 18, 1974, it was announced that Vanta Network (SuperStation KPLS at the time) would launch as the first superstation on April 28. And then it did.
The One and Only ‘75 (1975-1979)[]
The superstation would launch on April 28, 1975, as SuperStation KPLS, with 4 shows airing at launch (being Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, The Jetsons, and The Flintstones). It was the national feed of the station by the same name that served the Cleveland, Texas area, and its first branding was their take on the "One and Only TV 9" branding that WUSA used when it was still WTOP. The 5th show on the KPLS lineup started aired on July 12, 1976, being Family Feud. KPLS's plans to join the Kansas State Network dated back to 1978. A day before the rebrand, WUSA, as WDVM, sued KPLS for using their "One and Only TV 9" branding without permission, resulting in KPLS having to use a different branding from that moment forward.
The Nine and Only (1979-1982)[]
On July 12, 1979, SuperStation KPLS changed its branding and logo for the first time, attempting to be more futuristic... yet it also did their take on WWOR's "More for You/As You Like It" branding, with permission this time. This era was when the trend of more shows appearing on the network started, with M*A*S*H, The Smurfs, and SNL making their debut on the network. The presence of new shows made the network more diverse in terms of programming, and thus, ratings rose, which in turn saved the network from what would've been its eventual shutdown. In 1981, their plans on joining the Kansas State Network went full force, with them planning on doing so on August 20 of the next year.
Turn to KSN! (1982-1993)[]
On August 20, 1982, SuperStation KPLS changed its callsign to KSNP. They were unique from the other KSN members due to it not airing the same programming as KSNW (aka KSN's flagship station) and also being a superstation rather than just a normal station like the other KSN members. This branding lasted for 11 years, the longest time they had a specific branding, tied with the next branding, which would also last 11 years. New shows started popping up more and more, but some shows also were put on the chopping block, with Jetsons and Flintstones biting the dust first, and some shows not even lasting to the end of the branding.
Sketches '93 (1993-1998)[]
On April 15, 1993, KSNP-TV changed its branding to be "more playful" according to some former employees. This is the point where new shows started appearing less and more would start to disappear more. Like the last branding, some shows didn't even last to the end of the branding. The superstation's future was at stake because viewership started to drop and the schedule became very repetitive.
Starstrike (1998-2009)[]
On February 12, 1998, just under 5 years after the last era's debut, KSNP-TV decided to change its branding again because the employees believed that the last era was the reason why their viewership dropped. This era was the near-death of the superstation as viewership started dropping more and more. The worst part was that from 2000 to 2008, there were only two new shows, thus starting the "Dark Ages" of KSNP-TV. At the end of the era, they decided to renounce their superstation status and announced their relaunch as a new channel on October 8, 2009.
Welcome To (2009-2014)[]
When KSNP-TV relaunched as Pencilvannia on October 11, 2009, they rebranded to a city-type style, which according to a former employee, was somewhat based off of Peachtree TV's branding at the time. And even better, multiple new shows were releasing for the first time since 2005! In other words, this was basically a renaissance of the network as viewership started rising back up, and even some older viewers who stopped watching as early as the Turn To KSN! era returned!
Sketches '14 (2014-2018)[]
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Globo-esque (2018-2022)[]
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Be There! (2022-2023)[]
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Here We Go! (2023-September 2024)[]
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Resonance (September 2024-January 2025)[]
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The One and Only ‘25 (January 2025-present)[]
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Just Watch Us Now (2026(?))[]
During the 2018 admin board leak, it was unofficially revealed that in 2026, there would be a new branding called Just Watch Us Now, possibly based off the campaign of the same name made by NBC. But then again, there were also some brandings that never made the cut or early versions of brandings that made the cut, so it's possible this one is scrapped.
Shows[]
Main programming that is still airing to this day[]
- Matt Rose* (April 4, 2021-present)
- Big City Greens (June 23, 2018-present)
- The Simpsons* (January 14, 1990-present)
- Annoying Orange (October 15, 2009-present)
- Battle For Dream Island (January 5, 2010-present) (aired at night for major episodes)
- Inanimate Insanity (April 5, 2011-present) (aired at night for major episodes)
- Family Guy* (April 11, 1999-present)
- The Cleveland Show* (October 15, 2009-present)
- Blue Television Games (December 8, 2015-present)
- Jeopardy! (launch-present)
- Wheel of Fortune (launch-present)
- Family Feud (July 12, 1976-present)
- Victor and Valentino (June 1, 2024-present)
- Futurama* (October 15, 2013-present)
- American Dad!* (February 8, 2005-present)
- SmokeeBee* (May 29, 2023-present)
- JellyBean* (May 29, 2023-present)
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (July 16, 2018-March 12, 2021; November 15, 2025-present)
Secondary programming[]
- The Twilight Zone (original) (August 12, 1985-present)
- Pinky and the Brain (October 11, 1995-present)
- The Amazing World of Gumball (May 8, 2011-present)
- CandyEvie/Luvie (July 28, 2018-present)
- Emkay^ (February 1, 2019-present)
- EzPz^ (July 2, 2019-present)
- Laughability^ (July 11, 2019-present)
- Oh Shiitake Mushrooms* (June 15, 2019-present)
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (September 7, 2019-present)
- The Casers (March 7, 2020-present)
- Animaniacs (2020's) (November 20, 2020-present)
- The Dave and Bambi Show (October 28, 2021-present)
- The Krusty Kooch Chronicles* (April 20, 2019; April 20, 2022-present)
- Tales From the Bottom* (July 22, 2023-present)
- The Amazing Digital Circus* (October 13, 2023-present)
- Harvey Girls Forever! (June 30, 2018 - January 15, 2020; December 26, 2023-present)
- Victor and Valentino (June 1, 2024-present)
- Crash Zoom* (March 19, 2025-present)
- ASDFMovie* (March 19, 2025-present)
- Infinity Train (August 5, 2019-November 15, 2021; March 25, 2025-present)
- Luciano Eduardo/ (dubbed to English) (June 30, 2025-present)
- Murder Drones* (July 1, 2025-present)
- The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball (July 28, 2025-present)
Former programming[]
- The Jetsons (launch-August 20, 1985)
- The Flintstones (launch-August 20, 1985)
- Inspector Gadget (September 7, 1983-April 25, 1987)
- The Smurfs (1981) (September 12, 1981-January 1, 1990)
- ALF (September 27, 1986-June 11, 1992)
- Saturday Night Live (October 11, 1981-September 8, 2018)
- M*A*S*H (March 15, 1980-December 1, 1995)
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (September 15, 1990-May 26, 1997)
- The Cosby Show (January 5, 1985-May 12, 1998)
- Married... with Children (April 5, 1988-August 3, 2002)
- Seinfeld (July 5, 1989-June 25, 2003)
- Animaniacs (original) (September 18, 1993-September 18, 2003)
- SpongeBob SquarePants (July 25, 1999-November 21, 2004; May 10, 2011-April 30, 2016)
- Saved by the Bell (August 20, 1989-April 20, 2005)
- Friends (September 22, 1994-October 15, 2007)
- Ed, Edd n Eddy (January 4, 1999-October 20, 2008)
- Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (August 13, 2004-November 5, 2013)
- Regular Show (September 6, 2010-May 12, 2017)
- Wander Over Yonder (August 16, 2013-October 5, 2016)
- Gravity Falls (June 15, 2012-December 2, 2017)
- Adventure Time (April 5, 2010-October 31, 2018)
- Star vs. The Forces of Evil (March 30, 2015-June 1, 2019)
- Unikitty! (January 1, 2018-June 25, 2021)
- Craig of the Creek (March 30, 2018-April 30, 2023)
- Pencilmation (July 17, 2018-August 28, 2023)
- Amphibia (August 28, 2023-November 28, 2023)
- Zebra Gamer (January 1, 2019-March 22, 2025)
- Tiny Toons Looniversity (September 8, 2023-March 25, 2025)
- Tiny Toon Adventures (September 18, 1990-May 31, 1995; September 8, 2023-March 25, 2025)
- Doodle Toons (March 1, 2025-July 30, 2025)
* - Airs on TDN Midnight
^ - Used to air on the main channel, now airs on TDN Midnight
/ - Switches between airing on the main channel and airing on TDN Midnight, depending on the episode
Programming Blocks[]
Current blocks[]
- TDN Midnight (January 14, 1990-present) - Airs content for older audiences every night from 9:00 PM to 4:30 AM. Went through several rebrands and schedule changes throughout the way.
- Smokee-Jelly Power Hour (August 3, 2025-present) - Airs a SmokeeBee or a JellyBean short between shows.
- TDN's Indie Transfer Students (December 8, 2015-present) - Airs content that originated from the Internet.
Former blocks[]
- Doodle Toons Doodles (March 1, 2025-July 30, 2025) - Sometimes, in between shows, a Doodle Toons short played.
Marathons/Events[]
The Naninithon (November 24, 2023-November 25, 2023)[]
The Naninithon was an all-day marathon that consisted of only episodes of OK K.O. which had Nanini in any way in it.
Victor and Valentino’s Resurgence (June 1, 2024-June 2, 2024)[]
Victor and Valentino’s Resurgence was a marathon that consisted of only Victor and Valentino episodes back-to-back, bringing it back from the dead after WBD nearly made the show lost.
The Final Vanta Network Broadcast Day (December 31, 2024-January 1, 2025)[]
The Final Vanta Network Broadcast Day was an event that took place from December 31, 2024, to January 1, 2025, where the network pretended to plan on shutting down the day after. The network aired the finales or latest episodes of every show it aired thus far, including the ones it stopped airing, ending off with the premieres of BFDIA 17 and a modified TPOT 15 where instead of Gaty accepting One’s deal that saves the BFDI universe, Gaty refuses and unintentionally lets the BFDI universe end right then and there, and then a “final” sign off played, which at the end of it the network reveals that it was a stunt to advertise the BFDI “The Shift” event’s premiere and says that they were just joking and then played the actual episode from where it was modified in the fake-out version. It caused backlash.
From One Home to Another (July 20, 2025-July 21, 2025)[]
From One Home to Another was a marathon that consisted of every Harvey Girls Forever! episode in order after said show got removed from Netflix.
The Last Vanta Network Broadcast Day Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Hugging Mean It) (November 30, 2025-December 1, 2025)[]
The Last Vanta Network Broadcast Day Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Hugging Mean It) was an event that took place from November 30, 2025, to December 1, 2025, where the network claimed to actually shut down unlike the previous time they tried to "sign off". Like the last time, the network aired the finales or latest episodes of every show it aired thus far, including the ones it stopped airing and a preview of BFDIA 23. During some of the final episodes, there were edits that imply that the channel wasn't going to sign off forever after the marathon, including an edit where Dressy is staring at the viewer during the final TETOCU episode. However, people thought the edits were just anomalies or hacks. Unlike the last time, it had credits after the "final" sign off announcement, making it more believable. After the credits, it was revealed that it was just a bit to advertise the rebrand to TDN. Like the last time, it caused backlash.
Incidents/Anomalies/Hacks[]
Vanta Network has a fair share of incidents, as all networks do. Sometimes those incidents are tame, sometimes those incidents nearly get their license revoked. Sometimes they are major enough to be considered anomalies or hacks.
Superstation KPLS Era (1975-1982)[]
- On April 12, 1979, the superstation forgot to air something from the schedule and aired just a black screen for a few minutes before remembering. Nicknamed the “Midnight” incident.
KSNP-TV Era (1982-2009)[]
- On November 22, 1987, the superstation accidentally aired the Max Headroom signal hijacking as it was happening on the national feed. Nicknamed the “Headroom Relay” incident.
- On March 12, 2000, the superstation was hacked to air explicit content in the middle of SpongeBob SquarePants, but the transmitters immediately blocked it from airing and thus, freezing SpongeBob in place while one of the possible technical difficulties music played in the background for 50 seconds before the episode resumed. Shortly after, one of the employees vomited and it accidentally played audio of it on air and another employee had to stop the transmitters and switch the broadcast to the technical difficulties screen. Nicknamed the “SpongePorn” incident.
- On May 9, 2001, a time traveler from 2025 hacked the superstation during the SpongeBob SquarePants episode Something Smells and made Patrick's voice stutter enough to sound like Sans from Undertale, have Sans fade in while Megalovania played, and then a moment later, showed lobotomized Li Bert (keep in mind that none of this existed in 2001) with Matt Rose screaming (which sounded a bit like Heavy from TF2) before switching to the technical difficulties screen immediately after. Nicknamed the “Sans n Bert” incident.
Pencilville Era (2009-2018)[]
- On January 1, 2010, the network was hijacked during the premiere of BFDI 1a and the episode was modified to have Woody bleed after he fell to the ground after being kicked by Teardrop. The program immediately switched to the technical difficulties screen. Nicknamed the “Bloody Woody” incident.
- On March 3, 2015, the network broadcasted an uninterrupted loop of the same ''Animaniacs'' episode due to a technical malfunction which lasted an hour straight. Nicknamed the "Groundhog" incident.
- On October 31, 2016, the channel accidentally ran every advertisement upside down, confusing and even amusing people, Nicknamed the "Upside Down Ad" incident.
- On July 5, 2018, the network accidentally aired a fake nuclear attack warning which caused panic among its watchers. They later issued an apology. Nicknamed the “False Alarm” Incident.
- On August 20, 2018, a few days before the rebrand to Pencilvannia, they accidentally aired their admin panel, revealing some inside jokes among the employees. Nicknamed the “Debug Mode” incident.
Pencilvannia Era (2018-2022)[]
- On September 26, 2018, during a rerun of Luvie's My Nightmare Nintendo DS Repair, the phrase "I sure love me some headaches!" was replaced with a lyric from Everybody Wants to Rule the World constantly repeating, more specifically, the lyric "it's my own design". It turned out that a hacker had messed with the schedule and somehow managed to splice a music channel's signal with the network's signal, resulting in this monstrosity, but on the plus side it did become a meme years later, so yeah. Nicknamed the “IT’S MY OWN DESIGN” incident.
- On March 10, 2019, CaryKH saying swears was accidentally aired on the network and to this day it randomly pops up for whatever reason. Nicknamed the “S.F.B.P.R” incident.
- During the 2020 rebrand’s first few months, they accidentally air the 2018 branding’s idents occasionally. Nicknamed the “Time Warp” incident.
- On July 20, 2021, a few badly drawn fanmade Pencilmation "episodes" were hacked on air. Nicknamed the “P.W.T.S.M.I.M.U” incident.
- On January 13, 2022, that same time traveler from 2025 that hacked the network back in 2001 hacked the network to air a specific frame from the then-upcoming Gumball Season 7 intro with Matt Rose saying “grandma threatened to shit in the turkey” playing over it and then the program froze in the middle of him saying turkey. Nicknamed the “Gumball Shit” incident.
- On March 19, 2022, someone hacked the channel to edit Cricket Green onto the ident, running into and "breaking" it. Nicknamed the “Rogue Cricket” incident.
- On March 30, 2022, they accidentally aired a sign-on ident instead of a sign-off ident. Nicknamed the “Wrong Switch” incident.
The Oddball Cricket Network Era (2022-2023)[]
- On April 7, 2022, just a mere 6 days after its rebrand, that day’s Jeopardy caused the censors to disengage and cause the transmitters to show questionable images… all because of a contestant saying “sus”. Nicknamed the “What is ‘sus’?” incident.
- After the “sus” incident, there were a lot of mishaps involving the censors being disengaged because of a certain word being said. One of those times played the explicit parts of the uncensored version of Doc and Mharti, which nearly caused the network’s license to get revoked by the FCC.
- On May 6, 2022, the network accidentally aired the “banned” laxative episode of Oh Shiitake Mushrooms, and shortly after that, a rival network started to hack them and air a modified version of the network’s ident at the time, but with Amphibia fanart replacing the “BE THERE” in the bubble and said fanart “jumpscaring” the viewer. Nicknamed the “First Shot” incident.
- On June 10, 2022, the network accidentally started an April Fools version of itself called “the PLN” much earlier than intended. They intended for the PLN to sign on April Fools 2023. Nicknamed the “PLN” incident.
- On July 29, 2022, the auto-censors went rogue and replaced nearly every word with a wet fart sound effect during a rerun of BFB 5. The visuals were unaffected. Nicknamed the “BFardB” incident.
- On February 11, 2023, the network accidentally aired an episode of Street Cents, specifically, the part which played the then-obscure song “Just Passin’ By” by Big Picture. It caused the “World Was So Easy” search to be spread further. Nicknamed the “World Was So Easy” incident.
- On July 28, 2023, - a JellyBean hater kept airing kaka v420 videos about hating on JellyBean… during JellyBean. Nicknamed the “You Guys Are A Bunch Of Haters” incident.
- On August 24, 2023, a few employees intentionally played a clip from a YTP where Mr. Krabs says "I have to come" multiple times throughout the day. They were fired. Nicknamed the “Krabs Was Coming” incident.
Vanta Network Era (2023-2025)[]
- On September 4, 2023, during one of the idents, a twerking Squidward came out from the top of the screen, landing on the logo, and shat on Rainbow Dash, following with her saying “I’m a shithead” uncensored. It turned out that one of the employees were messing around and accidentally aired their edit of said ident. Nicknamed the “Shithead” incident.
- On November 11, 2023, the network accidentally aired an extremely loud clip of Mr. Small yelling at an old lady during an airing of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes. Nicknamed the “Mother” incident.
- On January 1, 2024, a troll aired a reading of an explicit Gravity Falls fanfic (being Dipper Goes to Taco Bell) and almost got the network's license revoked. Nicknamed the "Fluid Consumption" incident.
- A day after the last one, the same troll aired a reading of another explicit Gravity Falls fanfic (that time being Mabel Goes to Wendy's) by The FanFic Critic. Nicknamed the "YOU CANNOT LIVE OFF OF SHIT!" incident.
- On July 20, 2024, the network’s visuals froze right on a frame where JellyBean was bald during a JellyBean airing… for a minute which isn’t that long, but people were still unsettled because it looked “cursed” to them. Nicknamed the “JellyBald” incident.
- On the same day as the bald JellyBean incident, during an airing of SmokeeBee, the censors detected the content to be "silly goober" and then played cat noises over it, causing several viewers' cats to go crazy. Nicknamed the “meow :3” incident.
- On December 1, 2024, an (now ex) intern tampered with the BFDI 25 files and made it so it aired someone's take on BFDI 26 (which is a creepypasta and involves Flower killing the contestants and Announcer, and in this take, herself) and the network accidentally aired the tampered version of BFDI 25. Nicknamed the “Return of the Hang Tamperer” incident.
- On June 14, 2025, someone from the network accidentally played the first 4 minutes of a Luciano Eduardo video on the network, more specifically, the one where it seemed like he tried to kill off his persona. The network stated that it was an accident, but people liked it, so 2 weeks later it became a permanent part of the network, albeit dubbed from Portuguese to English. Nicknamed the “Oi Gente” incident.
- On July 9, 2025, a disgruntled viewer who was tired of the “the guy who watched the Simpsons back in 1994” part because of the memes hacked the network in the middle of said part and played the same take on BFDI 26 that was accidentally played 8 months prior. However, after the BFDI 26 take, said viewer aired his opinions on the meme, complete with uncensored slurs and offensive terms, and then the network went off air for the day due to the FCC. Believe it or not, this was the only hacking to change the screenbug (which during the hacking, changed to a version of the logo which said “THEY SHOULD’VE LEFT THE MEME DEAD”), and was the biggest incident in Vanta Network history. It also caused the network to get on the news. Nicknamed the “Dead Horse” incident.
- Not a hacking or an incident in general, but on July 14, 2025, at the end of TPOT 19's premiere, an ident makes a nod at the network's hackings by saying "No, this wasn't a hacking. It was all too real".
- Since early 2025, “job” has sometimes accidentally been censored due to the auto-censors, while training, flagging “job” as a curse due to it being jokingly censored on the Internet, a bunch of other words were also accidentally censored.
- On August 12, 2025, during a BFDI 1a, a racist hacker hacked the network to change it so that Ice Cube calls Flower the N word instead of just saying “uh… no?” In response to Flower asking her if she looked beautiful. Some say that the employees hurriedly tried to stop the broadcast before Ice Cube said the word because if she said the word, the network's license would be revoked by the FCC. Nicknamed the “Racist Cube” incident.
- On October 8, 2025, at the beginning of a rerun of CandyEvie, the program froze immediately, then Matt Rose screamed before unfreezing. Weirdly enough, the CandyEvie video that froze was “my dumb dumb thoughts on Pokemon Legends Z-A” which starts with her character sprite looking unintentionally seductive for whatever reason. Some consider this the shortest incident in Vanta Network history. Nicknamed the “STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT” incident.
- On October 29, 2025, during a SmokeeBee airing, the program suddenly cut to the first 29 seconds of the SMG4 ending announcement and stopped when SMG4 said that he was ending SMG4 and it switched to a meme where Jonah Jameson laughed. Viewers thought it was either an accident, intentional, or a hack. Nicknamed the "You Serious?" incident.
TDN Era (2025-present)[]
- On December 3, 2025, the network accidentally reverted its branding back to the Vanta Network one due to a bug which was patched an hour later. A few hours after that, the network was hijacked to replace the TDN logo with the Vanta Network logo and claimed that it reverted back to Vanta Network before the network regained control and debunked the claims. Both are nicknamed the “Logo Ghost” incidents.
- On December 18, 2025, the network accidentally switched its digital signal with the analog signal and vice versa. This incident caused them to truly discontinue its analog signal.
Censorship/Airing changes[]
- F-bombs and other major profanities are censored, albeit instead of beeps, it’s random sound effects.
- From 2018 to 2023, some minor words were erroneously censored due to the censors automatically flagging said words. The censors were nerfed once 2023 hit.
- From 2025 onwards, any F-bomb that were censored is sometimes censored with a character from Crash Zoom saying “hugging” because in said show, they say “hugging” as a substitute for the F-bomb.
- Slurs are completely removed, or at least attempted to be removed.
- When something sexual or a word that is usually censored shows on screen, it is censored by a random image.
- If the word that is censored is said, it is censored with a sound associated with said image.
- Obviously, Luciano Eduardo was dubbed to English.
- The Family Guy episode “Lois Kills Stewie” had the DVD-exclusive “I’ve Got a Little List” song unlike any other network. However, it would be skipped in airings after July 9, 2025 due to it being the root cause of the biggest hacking the network has faced.
- On August 24, 2025, it was brought back, but with the "the guy who watched the Simpsons back in 1994" part being skipped.
- Any sponsors in shows that originally came from YouTube are skipped.
- In BFDI and Inanimate Insanity, the voting screens are skipped.
- From 2025 onwards, there would be a transition animation before shows with a different aspect ratio than 16:9 and after shows with a different aspect ratio than 16:9.
Trivia[]
- The network was prone to accidents throughout its lifetime and has gained infamy because of it. Sometimes they embrace them.
- They even nickname each incident, starting from the first recorded one, along with a codename that consists of a short string of letters and numbers.
- It had a low-power analog signal from its launch until July 13, 2021, which after that, went inactive.
- It also had a high-power analog signal from its launch until June 12, 2009, which too went inactive after that.
- So far, Luciano Eduardo is the only permanent part of the network that was caused by an accidental airing.
- It is the only network which still uses the Aim High America SSB as a sign-off.
Logo History[]
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