American anime industry

The chair of AX says the attendees of Anime Expo is averaging about 20 percent annual growth,
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/07/apop.DTL

but Ask John mentioned "The contemporary American anime industry is in dire straights. Evidence suggests that many of America's anime distributors are struggling financially."
http://www.animenation.net/news/askjohn.php?id=1123

What's this all about?

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Well ADV had announced that Evangelion is gonna be broadcasted on Cartoon Network. I DOUBT it will be censored because the amount to be censored.

And it is still true that the only way to make realy big buck is to put on TV. Thats why you have ADV pushing more anime on TV and even the setup of that 24/7 Anime channel. But it is true as well that an anime series to get accepted in normal everyday TV is:
1. The self-censorship that occurs. I find funny how where there is no govermental censorship on TV yet executives do self-censorship to avoid the complaints from stupid parents
2. Appease to the US mainstream culture
Those two problems are essential a cultural problem that is the US and western world in general. Because anime is Asia and other parts of the world have been received quite well for YEARS now with no problems. Yes some have been censored to a degree but the ones that don't still retain everything.

I would rather have TV stations show an anime episode that had a Japanese summer festival going on and then a mini-explanation after to explain it in more detail to the western audiences. NOT have them change the notion of a Japanese summer festival is New Years Party.