AnimeCore Extra (U.S. TV channel)

AnimeCore Extra (stylized as animecore|xtra) is an American television channel that was launched on April 26th, 2015.

Pre-launch
TBA.

Launch
AniNick PLUS launched on April 26, 2015.

Post-launch
On October 25, 2015, Curiousgorge66 Studios announced that they had temporarily acquired ToonNick International's 45% share of the channel until they rebranded ToonNick International as Curiousgorge66 Networks, which occured on November 1.

On December 7, AniNick PLUS rebranded itself.

In January 2016, Curiousgorge66 Networks announced that AniNick PLUS would be rebranding again sometime in 2016. On April 9, 2016, it was announced that AniNick PLUS would rebrand as AnimeNation TOO before June 31, 2016. The rebrand occurred on June 19, 2016.

In 2017, it was announced that the channel would be rebranded as SurgeAnime TOO in November 2017. Since November 2017, the channel has aired reruns of anime programming still showing new episodes on Nickelodeon Family and/or Nicktoons Family, as well as acquiring the broadcast rights to several anime titles licensed by NickFamily Licensing and/or NickFamily Studios. Due to requests from Firebasket Studios and later Firebasket NYC, several shows that are or were licensed by NickFamily at the time (ex. Onegai My Melody and Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream) were pulled from the schedule upon the network's rebranding to SurgeAnime Network, while others (ex. Palm Town) have not been aired on the network.

The channel eventually rebranded as SurgeAnime TOO on December 2nd, 2017.

On March 29th, 2018, it was announced that SurgeAnime TOO on Nickelodeon Family, a three-hour block featuring repeats of anime shown on SurgeAnime TOO, will begin airing on sister network Nickelodeon Family in April 2018. Unless a rights-sharing agreement is arranged, no syndicated, non-first-run anime is shown on the block. Usually, nothing with a parental rating higher than TV-PG is shown on the block. For a while, the anime series shown were rotated every three months.

On June 7th, 2018, it was announced that, upon their removal from OrbitAnime, SurgeAnime TOO had secured the US broadcast rights to both Akiba's Trip: The Animation (whose broadcast rights were shared with Nickelodeon Family's AuraNightfall block) and Yu Yu Hakusho (whose broadcast rights were transferred to Vision in 2019). The broadcast rights to both series had since expired.

On July 24th, 2018, it was announced that Firebasket Studios saw interest in purchasing another 5% stake in the channel, bringing its stake up to 60%. The sale was completed on July 28th, 2018.

Due to the shutdown of the main SurgeAnime in the US and its replacement by Vision Cult, SurgeAnime TOO was rebranded as SurgeAnime Network on September 3rd, 2018. The SurgeAnime TOO on Nickelodeon Family block became simply SurgeAnime on Nickelodeon Family beginning September 9th, 2018.

From October 2018 until July 2021, SurgeAnime Network/Extra, as well as the NickFamily networks and Aura, had shared timed-exclusive broadcast rights to the Nozomi Entertainment and PonyCan USA catalogs, as well as exclusive off-network rights to the AnimeWorks library (the broadcast rights to the AnimeWorks catalog is currently shared with Toku). The Nozomi and AnimeWorks broadcast rights were further shared among Beta Cartoon's late-night block SurgeAnime Classics. The linear TV deals were set to expire in July 2021, after which the Nozomi and AnimeWorks deals would be reworked into non-exclusive deals, while the linear broadcast deal with PonyCan USA fully expired due to the licensing firm having gone dormant. Following Right Stuf's acquisition by Crunchyroll, it was announced that the reworked deal between Aura and Nozomi would gradually expire throughout the rest of 2022.

In November 2018, it was announced that Firebasket was to sell a 10% stake in the channel to Aura. Due to SurgeAnime Broadcasting Worldwide winning the bid for AniDigital, it was announced that SurgeAnime Network would re-brand as the United States feed of SurgeAnime Extra at a later date. The channel eventually rebranded on January 5th, 2019.

In January 2020, it was announced that the network would rebrand again, to AnimeCore Extra. SurgeAnime on Nickelodeon Family would also be rebranded under AnimeCore on Nickelodeon Family. The network's first original co-production, the anime adaptation of Cowa!, is slated to air on linear television in the US beginning in September 2020. The channel rebranded on April 5th, 2021.

On April 18th, 2021, Aura reported that the Western Domination block would expand to two hours and rebrand as a Beta Cartoon-themed block later in the year due to the Western Domination name being phased out. Aside from adding reruns of Aura-distributed Beta originals, Aura also mentioned that the block would continue operating with similar programming as it did when it was Western Domination.

Programming
Main article: List of programs broadcast by SurgeAnime Extra (United States)

Program libraries

 * AuraAnime Licensing (2017 - present; shared with Aura networks and AnimeCore Classics, right-of-first-refusal deal)
 * AnimeWorks (2018-21; shared with NickFamily networks and Toku, right-of-first-refusal deal)
 * Nozomi Entertainment/Lucky Penny (2018-21; shared with Aura networks, right-of-first-refusal deal)
 * PonyCan USA (2018-21; shared with NickFamily networks, right-of-first-refusal deal)

Schedule
See here.