My idea for quality kids' TV

[BoscoGoldBear]

We know that this won't fly thanks to certain politicians who shall remain nameless. Maybe WLVI (or some other station) would help out its image by airing the following lineup (all but two could've aired on WB-leaning stations; the others are would've aired on CBS-leaning stations), which (naturally) would've been hosted by Uncle Dale Dorman, with a 12 Noon starting time:

12:00 The Brady Bunch (one of the two which, if available, would air on WSBK instead)
12:30 Gilligan's Island
1:00 Yogi Bear (+ Huck, Quick Draw, Wally, Magilla, etc.)
1:30 The Banana Splits (+ Atom, Secret and Gulliver in their original open/close credit sequences)
2:00 Space Ghost (+ Birdman, Herculoids, Young Samson, etc.)
2:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (the 65 episodes from 1969-71 and 1976-79)
3:00 Popeye (Paramount theatricals - both Fleischer b/w and Famous color)
3:30 Tom and Jerry
4:00 Bugs Bunny (40s straight through the 60s, includes Daffy, Porky, Tweety & Sylvester, Road Runner, etc.)
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Family Guy
5:30 South Park (the other which CBS-owned WSBK does run, although it airs on Tribune/CW-related stations)
6:00 Family Guy
6:30 South Park

Then 56 (and Uncle Dale) could yield the tube to the adults! Whaddya think?

 

[kms575]

Family Guy and South Park are not kids shows, and I don't think today's kids would have any interest in anything else in your lineup.

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

Family Guy and South Park are not kids shows, and I don't think today's kids would have any interest in anything else in your lineup.

Neither are The Flintstones or - at least according to the late Chuck Jones - the Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes cartoons. If those could be passed off as kids' programming (as well as The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island), then I have no problem with either Peter Griffin or Eric Cartman as being kidvid fodder. BTW, South Park aired on channel 35 in Portland at 6 p.m. at one time, while similarly-formatted Family Guy airs on 56 at the same time, which is when kids dominate the TV set.

 

[12 In a Row]

We know that this won't fly thanks to certain politicians who shall remain nameless. Maybe WLVI (or some other station) would help out its image by airing the following lineup (all but two could've aired on WB-leaning stations; the others are would've aired on CBS-leaning stations), which (naturally) would've been hosted by Uncle Dale Dorman, with a 12 Noon starting time:

12:00 The Brady Bunch (one of the two which, if available, would air on WSBK instead)
12:30 Gilligan's Island
1:00 Yogi Bear (+ Huck, Quick Draw, Wally, Magilla, etc.)
1:30 The Banana Splits (+ Atom, Secret and Gulliver in their original open/close credit sequences)
2:00 Space Ghost (+ Birdman, Herculoids, Young Samson, etc.)
2:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (the 65 episodes from 1969-71 and 1976-79)
3:00 Popeye (Paramount theatricals - both Fleischer b/w and Famous color)
3:30 Tom and Jerry
4:00 Bugs Bunny (40s straight through the 60s, includes Daffy, Porky, Tweety & Sylvester, Road Runner, etc.)
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Family Guy
5:30 South Park (the other which CBS-owned WSBK does run, although it airs on Tribune/CW-related stations)
6:00 Family Guy
6:30 South Park

Then 56 (and Uncle Dale) could yield the tube to the adults! Whaddya think?

What does politics have to do with it?
This line up (South Park and Family Guy the exceptions) looks like The Grandpa Channel.

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

We know that this won't fly thanks to certain politicians who shall remain nameless. Maybe WLVI (or some other station) would help out its image by airing the following lineup (all but two could've aired on WB-leaning stations; the others are would've aired on CBS-leaning stations), which (naturally) would've been hosted by Uncle Dale Dorman, with a 12 Noon starting time:

12:00 The Brady Bunch (one of the two which, if available, would air on WSBK instead)
12:30 Gilligan's Island
1:00 Yogi Bear (+ Huck, Quick Draw, Wally, Magilla, etc.)
1:30 The Banana Splits (+ Atom, Secret and Gulliver in their original open/close credit sequences)
2:00 Space Ghost (+ Birdman, Herculoids, Young Samson, etc.)
2:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (the 65 episodes from 1969-71 and 1976-79)
3:00 Popeye (Paramount theatricals - both Fleischer b/w and Famous color)
3:30 Tom and Jerry
4:00 Bugs Bunny (40s straight through the 60s, includes Daffy, Porky, Tweety & Sylvester, Road Runner, etc.)
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Family Guy
5:30 South Park (the other which CBS-owned WSBK does run, although it airs on Tribune/CW-related stations)
6:00 Family Guy
6:30 South Park

Then 56 (and Uncle Dale) could yield the tube to the adults! Whaddya think?

What does politics have to do with it?
This line up (South Park and Family Guy the exceptions) looks like The Grandpa Channel.

All these great programs were yanked off the airwaves when TV stations had to put on kids programs which passed the Clintons' idea of E/I back in 1997. Rather than have their ability to grow their TV and/or radio empires stunted by the Ds, the corporations put on all those unappealing court and talk shows instead (the only good one of this whole bunch is Springer IMHO), and my mom's TV set basically may as well have gone blank.

 

[TexasTom]

This is ignorant on so many levels:

1. Those old kids shows started vanishing from broadcast television before the E/I requirements were passed into law -- as already noted, today's kids aren't especially interested in watching Yogi Bear, Space Ghost, and the like.
2. The Children's television act that imposed these requirements was passed in 1990, not 1997. George H. W. Bush signed it into law, not Bill Clinton.
3. Newer children's programming didn't start disappearing from broadcast television until years after the law was passed. When children's programming did disappear from broadcast television, the driver was that advertisers were targeting the kids audience through cable TV networks, and the local stations just couldn't sell advertising during kids shows anymore. Once stations were unable to sell advertising on these shows, they wanted to run stuff that they could sell ads during -- and thus the glut of court shows and the like today.
4. "The Flinstones" was originally produced for prime time, as were "South Park" and "Family Guy". Other than being produced for prime time airing, these shows have very little in common -- "The Flinstones" was aired in the early evening and designed for a broad audience of all ages, whereas "South Park" generally runs later in the evening and is geared to an adult audience. "Family Guy" falls in between those two extremes. Even in reruns, "South Park" rarely runs outside of late evenings for a reason.

While there are reasons to try to bring children's programming back to OTA television, the schedule that you've proposed is not the way to do it.