I just looked in the St. Louis edition of TV Guide for the week of May 15th-21st 1993, and it shows that Captain N and the Video Gamemasters aired on KNLC 24 at 8:00AM. KNLC is a religious station, you can't put syndicated cartoon shows or any other type of non-religious shows on religious channels. Why was Captain N and the Video Gamemasters put on KNLC 24 and not on KPLR 11 or KNDL 30?
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And in San Francisco, KOFY-TV 20 aired Captain N and the Video Gamemasters aired every weekday morning at 6am
I don't want Captain N and the Video Gamemasters on either KNLC in St. Louis or KOFY in San Francisco, I want it moved to either KPLR or KNDL in St. Louis and to KBHK in San Francisco.
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^Your last message was typed in a way that would give someone the idea that KNLC-TV was broadcasting "Captain N and the Video Game Masters" very recently if it were the only message here.
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I hope you're being facetious. Otherwise, you'll have to get ahold of Mr. Peabody and tell him to set the Wayback Machine to May 15, 1993 and get in KNLC's manager's face.
Besides, many religious stations air family-friendly secular programming. LeSea's WHMB Indianapolis has been doing it for decades - in fact, through most of its existence since sign-on in 1972.
I am being facetious, because I'm giving Anthony Abate a piece of my mind. I did not ask for what channel Captain N and the Video Gamemasters aired in San Francisco, I asked for why it aired on KNLC and not on either KPLR or KNDL. This is an absolute bad image on religious channels, and to Mario and all of Nintendo franchises, anything based on video games should never air on religious channels.
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i think it is they want people to tune in for the Dragnet reruns, and stay for the religious programs. Even ABC Family (back when it was CBN) aired 6 days of Family friendly secular programs back in the 1980s. INSP has carried a lot family-friendly secular programs over the last couple of years. And TCT has a sub channel with a mix of Family frendly secular programs.
First off, the call letters for Channel 30 in St. Louis were (and are) KDNL, not KNDL. If you're going to complain, get the facts straight first.
Next, it's true that KNLC has always been a primarily religious station, but they've always had secular, general-entertainment programs thrown into the mix as well. In addition to syndicated cartoons over the years like Captain N, KNLC was briefly the home of the Fox Kids Network in the mid-1990s, has aired many a Western in its time, and even carried rerums of Frasier this past year.
Why didn't Captain N air over KPLR or KDNL? Who knows? Most likely, neither station had room to air it and showed no interest in buying the show. KNLC was the only other option in St. Louis at the time. If television schedules from 20 years ago make you physically uncomfortable, you may need stronger help than we message board denizens can provide.
Next, it's true that KNLC has always been a primarily religious station, but they've always had secular, general-entertainment programs thrown into the mix as well. In addition to syndicated cartoons over the years like Captain N, KNLC was briefly the home of the Fox Kids Network in the mid-1990s, has aired many a Western in its time, and even carried rerums of Frasier this past year.
Why didn't Captain N air over KPLR or KDNL? Who knows? Most likely, neither station had room to air it and showed no interest in buying the show. KNLC was the only other option in St. Louis at the time. If television schedules from 20 years ago make you physically uncomfortable, you may need stronger help than we message board denizens can provide.
Like the other posters have mentioned, there's no real rhyme or reason as to why some religious-based stations carry secular programs. Often times, I believe, syndicators would buy time from stations in order to get a show on the air in a particular city (as opposed to the other way around). Like Brother said, KNLC may have the only other option in the St. Louis are to air Captain N; besides KPLR and KDNL, the only other stations were network-affiliated (yes, even counting KETC-PBS).
Many years ago, the CBN satellite network had to make a choice of airing Christian programming 24/7 or mixing in secular family-friendly programs into its schedule. They chose to mix in some secular programs and caught a lot of flack from some Christians for "compromising with the world".
Their answer was, "We had a choice of being fishers of men or keepers of the aquarium."
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