I remember it had kidsclick back in 2017 but unfortunately it was canceled because of low ratings
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I believe that old and new cartoons will come back in OTA’s very soon
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Highly unlikely. The classics are available on DVD or paid streaming, and I'm not sure there's a market for OTA kiddie fare, other than what the FCC mandates.
At this point the streaming outlets are probably airing the kids programming.
As far as Classic Cartoons go, the ratings jury is still out on the weekday "Toon In With Me" and the 3 hour Saturday Morning Classic Toon block on OTA MeTV. They are adding another animated show, the original Jetsons episodes Sunday Mornings, later this month.
Tell it to the FCC. They are the ones that require "educational" programming for kids on all stations, including subchannels. I put "educational" in quotes because This Week In Baseball was approved as E/I when it was on.
Besides, since kids don't generate revenue on their own (without parental permission), I doubt any commercial station will abandon news or infomercials on weekends for cartoons. This isn't 1960.
Oh good lord, no.
Yeah I know but I think is going to last that long
True but a lot of people watching Netflix and streaming app in other platforms but it won’t like the 60’s it will more like the 90’s
The OTA networks used the E/I rules as a convenient excuse to cut children's programming back to the required 3 hours, expand their morning news shows to Saturdays, and cut out the fun kid's shows in the process.
There's actually no reason why the networks can't do shows that meet the E/I requirements and still be fun for kids. Beakman's World, which had been on CBS and later CW is a good example.
And I do like that Me TV is doing their cartoon block now, but even it is geared more toward adults who remember them more than kids, and they carry the same ads for prescription medicines, senior insurance, and shady lawyers that are on the rest of the day.
Even if the E/I rules are eliminated OTA networks won't go back to having Saturday morning kid's shows. They'll go to more news and sports at best, or turn the time back over to local stations who will most likely fill the time with infomercials at the worst.
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There's actually no reason why the networks can't do shows that meet the E/I requirements and still be fun for kids. Beakman's World, which had been on CBS and later CW is a good example.
And I do like that Me TV is doing their cartoon block now, but even it is geared more toward adults who remember them more than kids, and they carry the same ads for prescription medicines, senior insurance, and shady lawyers that are on the rest of the day.
Even if the E/I rules are eliminated OTA networks won't go back to having Saturday morning kid's shows. They'll go to more news and sports at best, or turn the time back over to local stations who will most likely fill the time with infomercials at the worst.
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They will do whatever is PROFITABLE. Saturday morning cartoons were profitable for years because of advertising to kids. Many of the cartoons were just toy advertisements in disguise. They changed the rules about what you were allowed to advertise to kids back in the 90s, so until those are changed, don't count on kids programming returning to commercial broadcast networks, especially when you can sell ads during news and sports shows for more.
At the end of the day, these stations are BUSINESSES that want to maximize profits. The reason they go with so many hours of local news is two fold. Syndicated programming is already abundantly available on streaming services, most without commercials. The second reason is they get to keep 100% of the ad time for local ad buys, vs having to give up some spots to the network.
Exactly. I've heard the claims of if they'd only bring back the old Looney Tunes/WB cartoons of the past, kids would flock back to regular TV. Since most of the content carried by those shows would be deemed unacceptable by today's standards: Yosemite Sam being shot in the face, Wilee Coyote being blown up by sticks of dynamite, Speedy Gonzalez being, well...Speedy Gonzalez... None of that would be allowed today.
when cartoons ruled Saturdays on the networks and weekdays on independents (for the most part), it was an entirely different world. You cannot suddenly rewind the clock. old shows, new shows...it’s just not going to happen.
Tell it to the FCC. They are the ones that require "educational" programming for kids on all stations, including subchannels. I put "educational" in quotes because This Week In Baseball was approved as E/I when it was on.
On my cable system's scheduling table "Saved By The Bell" on MeTV is color-coded as E/I every Sunday morning.
On my cable system's scheduling table "Saved By The Bell" on MeTV is color-coded as E/I every Sunday morning.
I remember some of the old Looney Tunes of the past had to be stored within WB's archives and never re-released again due to the content is too racist by today's standards.
Exploring the Hidden Racist Past of the Looney Tunes
Let’s shed some light on an occasionally fascinating – and often appalling – corner of an American institution.
www.vulture.com
Disney had to confront a similar issue over old films from racism when they launched Disney+ .
Disney+ Is Finally Opening the Disney Vault. Fans May Not Like Everything They Find Inside.
Disney+ will stream nearly all of Disney’s history, including the racist parts.
slate.com
The Classic Sesame Street DVD have disclaimers on them, they think kids now might become cookie addicts
Daffy Duck got shot in the face in seemingly dozens of cartoons. In half of them his bill would wind up in the back of his head; in the others it would be split between the top and bottom. Do the must-protect-the-children do-gooders who don't want kids to see this kind of gag violence again think that there might be kids today who would see this and get daddy's shotgun and try the same thing on little brother? And that television would somehow be legally responsible for that shallow-end-of-the-gene-pool behavior?
We live in a different time now. One where real guns and real gun violence is everywhere. School shootings have become commonplace, to the point where schools regularly have 'active shooter drills'. It's also pretty common to hear about some middle, or elementary school child taking his parent's gun to school because they had been threatened, or bullied via social media.
Do you really think that numbing little kids to what happens when you point a gun at someone and pull the trigger will result in a charred face, or beak swinging to the back of their head, is a good idea?
Just because something was done in the past doesn’t make it a good idea today—completely agree with the point that it’s a different world. We learn things about the potential ramifications of actions. We have access to more knowledge, more data. Ideally, that would give us pause to think about what is and isn’t the wisest course.
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