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NBC Saturday Mornings in Boston.

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edward1978

According to Wikipedia, WBZ which was the NBC affiliate in Boston stopped airing NBC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1990, so I need to know what station in Boston aired NBC's Saturday Morning lineup after WBZ no longer aired it. I'm pretty sure that WBZ kept airing Saved By The Bell but not sure about the cartoons.
 
If WBZ-TV stopped broadcasting NBC's Saturday morning programs in 1990, why does the Boston, Massachusetts edition of TV Guide for the week of (Saturday) February 23rd, 1991 include listings for NBC's Saturday morning programs next to WBZ-TV's channel number (4)? Does anyone have any Saturday morning TV listings for TV stations in Boston from 1990 or remember WBZ-TV's treatment of NBC's Saturday morning programming at the time?

(note: Wikipedia can be a good starting point for pursuing information, just don't make it your final stop in your pursuit)
 
Looking at the schedule that Mario posted, WBZ carried the NBC Saturday morning lineup in-tact, except bumping Saved by the Bell to 1pm instead of keeping it at its 11am (ET) slot with the rest of the network. From other Boston-area schedules I've read over time during or around this timeframe (mid-80s to 90s), it seemed like channels 27 and 68 usually would carry whatever network shows the Big Three (Chs. 4, 5, and 7) didn't clear.

The 1990-91 TV season was to the second-to-last season that NBC aired animated shows on Saturday mornings until 2002, when Discovery Kids on NBC started up. Saturday Today launched in fall 1992, and the TNBC lineup followed it in most markets, although in some markets, local news aired in-between.
 
I was hoping what Wikipedia said was true, because I want the Super Mario cartoons to air on WLVI, not on WBZ knowing for a fact that NBC had The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World alongside Captain N: The Game Master. Does anybody know what stations in the Boston market aired the Super Mario cartoons such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. and Captain N: and the Video Gamemasters which had the Mario cartoons as well in syndication in the fall 1992 TV season.
 
WBZ TV in the 80's aired nearly the entire NBC Saturday cartoon lineup. They may have preempted an hour here and there but nothing substantial. In the early 90's they preempted maybe a couple hours at most. What happened was that WBZ TV aired no cartoons from August of 1992 on because NBC dropped them from thair lineup, WBZ TV still ran most of the NBC lineup. After NBC dropped the cartoons, WBZ TV may have preempted a portion of Saturday Today for local news and also maybe an hour of the teen sitcoms NBC ran. At that point Channel 62 ran whatever WBZ TV did not. WBZ TV added more local news Saturday mornings in 1993. In 1995, when WBZ TV became a CBS affiliate - eventually to be an O & O they continued to run local news till 10 AM and ran only the 10 AM to 1 PM cartoons from CBS in pattern. They ran the other 2 hours Sunday mornings 7-9 AM so still they ran CBS' entire lineup.
 
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