does anyone miss the nitch cable tv days?

[firepoint525]

Saved By The Bell was a Saturday Morning program. Actually the first season was called Good Morning Miss Bliss. It aired on NBC, and rang the death knell for Saturday Morning cartoons. Yes, I watched it. I was in my mid 20's.

You bring up an interesting point. I used to get up way early on Saturday mornings, and watch shows like The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner hour. Now I can get up at about that same time, and see local news. When did that change? Children's programming (cartoons or otherwise) now does not start until 9:00 a.m.

 

[Mario500]

^More local TV stations added local newscasts to their Saturday morning programming schedules after the Federal Communications Commission adopted the rule that requires local TV stations to broadcast educational and informative programs created especially for children for a minimum of three hours per week with commercial advertisements in between (the rule was adopted in 1996). This resulted in NBC, ABC, and CBS focusing on providing educational and informative programs for children on Saturday instead of entertainment programs that appealed to folks of any age.

 

[KML0224]

Adding to this list, sadly, would be The Weather Channel. Enough said.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

^More local TV stations added local newscasts to their Saturday morning programming schedules after the Federal Communications Commission adopted the rule that requires local TV stations to broadcast educational and informative programs created especially for children for a minimum of three hours per week with commercial advertisements in between (the rule was adopted in 1996). This resulted in NBC, ABC, and CBS focusing on providing educational and informative programs for children on Saturday instead of entertainment programs that appealed to folks of any age.

they would totally be out of the Saturday morning kids biz without the E/I requirement

 

[anotherguyTN]

they would totally be out of the Saturday morning kids biz without the E/I requirement

And if E/I requirements are ended stations will go to news and sports at best, or infomercials at worst. Fox stations are proof of that.

 

[JeffM]

It is indeed "neesh," natch.

Abbott: "You gotta find your own niche." (Pronouncing "nitch.")
Costello: "When I find a nitch, I scratch it!"
Abbott: "No, I don't mean a nitch as in an itch; I mean a nitch as in a notch."
Costello: "You mean a nitch is a notch?"
Abbott: "Natch!!"

 

[theoldguy]

bump

 

[harrisburgpatv2]

^More local TV stations added local newscasts to their Saturday morning programming schedules after the Federal Communications Commission adopted the rule that requires local TV stations to broadcast educational and informative programs created especially for children for a minimum of three hours per week with commercial advertisements in between (the rule was adopted in 1996). This resulted in NBC, ABC, and CBS focusing on providing educational and informative programs for children on Saturday instead of entertainment programs that appealed to folks of any age.

I'm surprised you used the acronyms for NBC, ABC, and CBS and didn't refer to them by their full names.

 

[anotherguyTN]

If the E/I rule started in 1996, there were at least a few years that the Big 3 did carry at least a few shows that still didn't have to meet the E/I requirements, like Bugs Bunny and Tweety on ABC. It wasn't until they decided to extend their morning shows to weekends that the time for kid's programming was cut back to the required 3 hours that they shifted to the preschool or Litton type shows and drove most kids to the Big 3 for kids on cable (Disney, Nick, and Cartoon Network) on Saturday mornings for good.