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Litton's 'Go Time' block to be syndicated in Fall 2016

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Apparently, Litton Entertainment plans to start two new weekend blocks-- 'The More You Know' for NBC and the syndicated 'Go Time'. Apparently, so far, the latter will aired on TV stations owned by CBS, Gray, and Sinclair...
 
OK, now's the perfect time to do this. ;)

R.I.P. Saturday Morning Kids Shows, first it was the cartoons, then the anime, lastly, the preschool shows. They all went to the cable networks, and networks are airing...um...let's just say "animal-stuff" so that the TV stations fill the minimum requirements for the Weekend Morning Act they need to follow. :(

1970's (?)-2016.
 
Actually it would have started in the 1950s. Well, late '40s with Howdy Doody on NBC in the afternoons, but the Saturday Morning kid-vid routine we would know to love started in the 1950s. NBC ended their kids shows in 1992, before the rest of the networks - they had the "T-NBC" teen block w/ Saved by the Bell, City Guys, etc. and Weekend Today (news/lifestyle broadcast). Cartoons in general on Saturdays ended in 2014 with the last one (CW's block) turning off the lights. ABC cartoons ended in the early 2000s, adding the Disney Channel live-action shows and putting an "E/I" on them, CBS ended when they got Dream Team I believe (the late 2000s KOL/Kewlopolis block had some cartoons like Liberty's Kids and Sabrina the Animated Series); and Fox ended when they replaced 4KidsTV with Weekend Marketplace (2008?) Still, a very different Saturday routine for children than it was, even in the 1990s.
At this time of year, parents usually drive their kids to sports on Saturdays anyways. My local park is right near a junior high and it has a large field for pee-wee football games...and my god, that parking lot gets full!

On the other hand, my folks watch Weekend Adventure often...Rock the Park, Ocean Mysteries and Born to Explore, mainly. They actually get good ratings.
 
According to Wikipedia and Pathfire, 'Recipe Rehab' is supposed to be a part of Go Time. Instead, there's Jack Hanna's 'Into The Wild'...
 
...which already airs on Weekend Adventure over on ABC. Sad when they can't come up with more than 1 new program for a 3-hour block of E/I shows! But we'll take it over infomercials, won't we?
 
Jonathan7157 said:
OK, now's the perfect time to do this. ;)

R.I.P. Saturday Morning Kids Shows, first it was the cartoons, then the anime, lastly, the preschool shows. They all went to the cable networks, and networks are airing...um...let's just say "animal-stuff" so that the TV stations fill the minimum requirements for the Weekend Morning Act they need to follow. :(

1970's (?)-2016.
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I miss the Saturday morning cartoons myself. Often I go on Youtube and look up 80's-90's commercials and end up seeing blocks like TGIF and ABC's "After These Messages" among others. It's sad to see weekend mornings replaced by "animal stuff" and "environmental stuff" with lame titles like "Awesome Adventure" (I know that's probably not a title but it's something like that).
 
I think E/I should be done away with I know animals stuff and environmental stuff is more for E/I quota for the FCC more than anything else. Should go back with Cartoons or Tween sitcoms like Saved By The Bell etc.
 
If these E/I programs weren't around, there would be infomercials. Lots of them. Kids nowadays watch cartoons on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, not the wildlife shows on OTA TV. Or they watch cartoons on Netflix, Hulu, etc.
 
Unfortunately, PBS seems to be the only broadcast network that's on their radar...and that's just the preschool crowd usually. My local PBS used to air the PBS Kids Go shows (Arthur, WordGirl) etc. from 3-5PM weekdays...right when the kids were coming back home from school. Those shows were designed for the elementary crowd, not preschool and toddlers. But as of 2016 they are showing reruns of Mystery! and Masterpiece Theatre in those hours now. I suppose that's because of competition from cable (and if they don't have cable, from Netflix). My nieces watched Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on their family's Kindle when I last visited them...not from the local PBS station.
Not to mention lots of kids nowadays don't have time to watch cartoons...because of their sports. Soccer, football, baseball, you name it. The minivans and the soccer moms are out in full swing where I live.
And during the week, don't forget the kids who are in daycare or after-school enrichment programs. I.E. YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, etc. They don't come home and watch cartoons.

A very different world for kids nowadays, unlike the 1980s.

Yes, Awesome Adventures is an E/I show. It's been syndicated for many years now.
 
testsubject2000 said:
I'm so sick of that "if there's no E/I programming there would be infomercials" excuse. You do realize they can air other syndicated programming as well, not just infomercials!
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But would they??? There are are too many stations even with syndicated options available that go with infomercials instead. It would probably be that or more trash talk. :p
 
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