• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

NBC Sprouts New Saturday Morning Kids Block

Not in Pittsburgh, where the local affiliate believes in beating you repeatedly about the head and shoulders
with same 22 minutes of local news from sunup to noon, all weekend.
 
I've seen some of the Lazy Town episodes online, & I can see this being a good fit for the block. Maybe other than PBS Kids Sprout, no US network airs the episodes in English. V-Me has the Spanish dubbed episodes. It's rather ironic that for this show, that it would come from Iceland rather than from the US, or the UK. Regardless, creator Magnús Scheving created a hit that entertaining, but also educational too. I'm not sure about the other shows. As for the block featuring Qubo, it must mean that deal with Ion Media is coming to an end. I doubt it'll hurt them, as they're getting into other ventures, including launching subscription service, Airbox on their stations existing station's bandwidth.
 
anotherguy said:
Wasn't Lazy Town on CBS at one time? I think I remember seeing it when my daughter was smaller.
Click to expand...

Yes it did, from 2004 to 2006, when CBS carried the "Nickelodeon on CBS" block.
 
The only reason NBC (or most other broadcast networks) is still in the Saturday-morning business is the FCC's "E/I" rule.

Had that rule not existed, the "big three" probably would by now have reduced Saturday morning programming to two hours (8-10 A.M. ET), run the Saturday editions of their morning shows during that time, and likely would have handed back the rest of Saturday mornings to local stations, encouraging them to run local news before and after (i.e. 7-8 A.M. and 10 A.M.-12 Noon ET) the network Saturday morning network news shows.
 
Here's an idea in regard to Qubo: Why not have ION and My Network TV air Qubo concurrently? After all, it wouldn't be the first time the two networks shared programming since 60% of MyNet's primetime schedule also airs on ION...
 
azumanga said:
anotherguy said:
Wasn't Lazy Town on CBS at one time? I think I remember seeing it when my daughter was smaller.
Click to expand...

Yes it did, from 2004 to 2006, when CBS carried the "Nickelodeon on CBS" block.
Click to expand...
Was it just CBS? Wasn't it also on Nick and Nick Jr? I too remember watching it with my daughter when she was younger.
 
Bill_W said:
azumanga said:
anotherguy said:
Wasn't Lazy Town on CBS at one time? I think I remember seeing it when my daughter was smaller.
Click to expand...

Yes it did, from 2004 to 2006, when CBS carried the "Nickelodeon on CBS" block.
Click to expand...
Was it just CBS? Wasn't it also on Nick and Nick Jr? I too remember watching it with my daughter when she was younger.
Click to expand...

Yes it was -- all Nick on CBS shows were the same programs that also aired on Nick and Nick Jr., including "Lazy Town".
 
Thought CBS had the Nick on CBS block earlier than 2004. I do remember The Wild Thornberrys and Hey Arnold! on Saturday mornings in the early days. There were also preschool shows like Dora and [later on] Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids.


-crainbebo
 
flytrap said:
I won't be watching Saturday morning cartoons until they get rid of those awful cheap produced E/I programs.
Click to expand...

I feel your pain... but as long as broadcast stations are obligated to air three hours per week, and couldn't care less about airing children's fare in the 21st century, such "cheap E/I" programming will be what will be entirely available in that category.
 
If my children are watching Saturday morning cartoons, they're watching them on one of the Nick channels or Disney channels. We don't even look on any of the broadcast channels (except PBS Kids on the local PBS channels) for cartoons.
 
My daughter is 9 now, and usually watching Phineas and Ferb on Disney, or Spongebob or The Fairly Odd Parents on Nick, regardless of what day it is.
 
In 2012, why can't every program aired on a Saturday morning be in HD, or at the least, high quality standard def? Again, I turned on this block and it turned out part of the block was in widescreen, but instead of having any sense, NBC kept the whole screen in the 4:3 space and had it windowboxed and letterboxed.

This may have been just my station though (which is terrible about how they present tape-delayed programming), though I suspect it did air live after the Tour at 11am CT. Come on NBC! Even Sopresa, a Spanish only kids network, puts in effort into their schedule. Do it right or just give them time to the affiliates so they can air their nine year-old Alex Paen programs.
 
I find it really weird that NBC would air a "PBS" Kids Sprout programming block, since PBS is a completely different network. How could they even do this?
 
ssetta said:
I find it really weird that NBC would air a "PBS" Kids Sprout programming block, since PBS is a completely different network. How could they even do this?
Click to expand...

Comcast, NBC's new parent company, owns a stake in Sprout, along with PBS (of course), Sesame Workshop and Apax Partners (a British venture capital firm).
 
Iowan said:
Here's an idea in regard to Qubo: Why not have ION and My Network TV air Qubo concurrently? After all, it wouldn't be the first time the two networks shared programming since 60% of MyNet's primetime schedule also airs on ION...
Click to expand...
Gannett would NEVER go for this (Especially if they're stuck moving the Saturday Morning news over from NBC affiliate KUSA 9 to accomondate the aforementioned NBC Kids block)

If they do go for it, they would most assuredly time shift it whereas it airs after the local news

Cheers & 73 :D
 
ssetta said:
I find it really weird that NBC would air a "PBS" Kids Sprout programming block, since PBS is a completely different network...
Click to expand...

Remember years ago when a network used to air open-captioned versions of ABC's nightly news? That network was PBS. Carry on...
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom