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Saturday Morning Cartoons Return
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Indeed. What really surprised me is that according to the article, this is the timeslot that the syndicator is hoping for! Maybe they've given up on airing the shows when people are actually awake.
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Mario500
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Animated cartoons were still being broadcast on Saturday mornings on a regular basis before this news article was published.
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No, a month or more ago, the last Saturday with cartoons took place...and the next weekend, there were NO cartoons on any of the main OTA networks....ending an almost 60 yr tradition....Personally, I think they should bring back Jonny Quest (the ORIGINAL version), Flintstones, Jetsons, etc.....the classics.....hell even Star Trek The Animated Series would be nice!!
I miss Cartoons from the 80's
The late 70s and 80s cartoon were all woosy cartoons....because of all the anti violence groups screaming that cartoon like Road Runner or Jonny Quest, etc showed all that terrible violence and that was leading to children being led down the path to violence......BS!!!! I watched all the good ones and until 2 years ago, never owned a gun or shot anyone or did any violence...what a bunch of horse manure.....Look at children violence in the past 20+ years and its worse now and they didnt watch the "violent" cartoons I did.....so where's those groups again?? I REALLY want to see the egg on their faces..
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Mario500
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I was referring to the cartoons presented by broadcasters such as the Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Retro Television.
Those are not over the air networks and that is what the article was referring to...not cable/sat channels.
I lived in one of those places. Our town and local station was in the Mountain time zone, but it was a satelite of a Central time zone station, so when they started a cartoon at 7 am central, that was 6am for us.
I remember getting up to watch the Super Friends in the 80s when it was in that time slot.
This time difference is still true to this very day, as prime time shows air from 6-9pm in the evening in my home town. That's one reason I couldn't live in the Eastern or Pacific time zone, I think prime time from 8-11 is crazy.
Anyone in Southwest North Dakota is in the same boat, but yes, that is where I lived. For my family, it worked because my dad worked 7-4, so usually we ate at 5 and by 6 were settling in to watch TV or homework or whatever else we had to do that day. I do think 7-10 for prime time is better now that I've lived in the Central time zone for quite a few years.
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