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FCC fines three station groups
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Sinclair, Nexstar should sue the FCC as that rule is outdated to begin with and that is the reason there is no cartoons on Saturday morning because of that dumb rule that shouldn't have been a rule in the first place. I strongly disagree with FCC chairwoman Jessica if I was on The FCC I'd have voted no fine and I'd tell Jessica how wrong she is defending that outdated rule.
This was from their old KidsClick block that they don't even have anymore.
The only reason most commercial TV stations even have children's programming is the so-called "E/I Rule", which mandates a minimum of three hours a week of "educational" or "instructional" children's programming.
If the "E/I Rule" goes away, most medium and large market network affiliates in the Eastern time zone would probably dump children's programming entirely and run news all morning on Saturdays from 5 A.M. to 12 Noon, with three hours of local news followed (on ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates) by a two-hour Saturday edition of their respective network's morning news/infotainment shows, followed by two more hours of local news.
Should the "E/I Rule" be repealed in the next few years, we could someday have a grandfather say this to his grandson or granddaughter while watching TV on a Saturday morning: "Saturday mornings on TV weren't always seven straight hours of news. Why, when I was your age, Saturday mornings on TV meant hours of entertaining cartoon shows. They were fun!".
If the "E/I Rule" goes away, most medium and large market network affiliates in the Eastern time zone would probably dump children's programming entirely and run news all morning on Saturdays from 5 A.M. to 12 Noon, with three hours of local news followed (on ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates) by a two-hour Saturday edition of their respective network's morning news/infotainment shows, followed by two more hours of local news.
Should the "E/I Rule" be repealed in the next few years, we could someday have a grandfather say this to his grandson or granddaughter while watching TV on a Saturday morning: "Saturday mornings on TV weren't always seven straight hours of news. Why, when I was your age, Saturday mornings on TV meant hours of entertaining cartoon shows. They were fun!".
And that "news" will not be actual interesting news coverage, but very likely a whole bunch of dreary political talk (mostly about the midterm elections, IINM).
That old KidsClick block of programming was a mess and struggling to find programming. It was glitchy. Would never run the shows on time. They would rerun the same episode multiple times a week. They would promise shows they never got. During the last few months of that block they got the rights to show Mattel programming. Why aren't they in trouble for also showing the Monster High and Barbie Dreamtopia cartoons? When ever somebody would write something critical of that block. The person running the official facebook page would accuse the person of being negative or a bully.
Being morning shows, much of the time will probably be filled by pay-for-play "features." News at the top and bottom of the hour, weather afterwards, and paid content afterwards.
That may be very likely what it is-- you're right about that.
Exactly I noticed a few times after the today show on Saturdays they air NBC Nightly News for kids which is a weird title since it aired at 7:30am on Saturday after the today show and before the 8am local News.
No we won't. The current owners of the classic cartoons don't seem to be interested in licensing them for broadcast TV anymore, although it may be as much the fault of the stations as the providers. If what I heard is correct, even Boomerang is dropping their classics in favor of post-1990 cartoons.
Want the great pre-1960 (or even the so-so 1960-90) cartoons? Buy the DVDs.
The only shows right now that are classic on boomerang is Scooby Doo, A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes. The rest of the schedule consists of Chowder, Codename Kids Next Door, Total Drama Island among others.
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