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>WBA chief Jean MacCurdy made the decision to fold HB into Warner Bros. Animation. Eventually, it resurrected as Cartoon Network Studios in 2000.
I'm not sure your timeline is entirely correct there. H-B still existed until May 2001ish, so I would assume the decision to close it was made closer to 2000 or early 2001. That of course was a very important period, because the new regime of Steve Case and Bob Pittman had taken over or was just about to. If I had to point a finger at who killed H-B, it would be them or Jamie Kellner. I personally believe it couldnt't have been as early as 1997, because Primal Screen was using H-B's internal toy collection to film Boomerang's continuity, and that would have to have been late 1999 or at the latest early 2000. Also as far as I know under the control of TBS, so MacCurdy would have no authority to do anything with it.
I should also note that Cartoon Network Studios already existed, albeit as more of a brand name. It's possible the name could more accurately refer to what was going on in Atlanta/Ghost Planet shit
I've been wondering why the hell Time Warner would close it other than some corpo-speak reasoning like "corporate synergy" or some shit

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