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Why is there not a diginet with Classic animation and children's programming?

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mapman1071

Why is there not a diginet with Classic animation and children's Live Action programming?
Most diginents carry the same types of programming and even the same program on multiple channels in different time slots, why can't they program cartoons or classic live action children's shows for part of their day (Say from 6am to 12Noon E/P Mon-Sun) from the 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's? Or create a new diginet to feature Cartoons and Children's Live Action shows?
 
Seems plausible with game shows and western shows getting their own diginets. They can just throw 3 hours of E/I on Saturday mornings. I remember "Danger Rangers" being shown on my local Me-TV subchannel a few years ago, which was animated. Liberty's Kids could also fit.

But remember - some networks own the rights to classic cartoons. Time Warner/Cartoon Network owns the Looney Tunes and some other Hanna-Barbera shows. But will Disney allow DuckTales to be aired on a subchannel network? Low chances.
 
Yeah, I just don't think there's enough programming that isn't spoken for by Disney XD, Disney Jr, NickToons, and Boomerang.

Obviously Disney has the Mickey Mouse and Daffy Duck cartoons. Boomerang has Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry and Scooby Doo.

Also, lots of children's programming 'back in the day' was locally produced, and it probably doesn't make sense to bring those programs to a national audience. There's no nostalgia in San Fransisco for a children's host who worked in Hartford.
 
Qubo, carried on the second subchannel of all Ion stations, is the closest thing you'll get to "classic animation". And by "classic", I mean 80s and 90s lower-tiered DIC shows, Canadian imports, or some newer stuff no one ever heard of. The problem with Qubo is, besides the choice in programming, that for strange reason Ion doesn't get cable carriage for its subchannels and no one outside of regular OTA viewers knows what this channel is.

As far as Disney...they've always been more protective of their content moreso than the other major studios. Maybe one day ABC launches a "Disney Classics Channel" on their subchannels one day, but I won't hold my breath.
 
Antenna TV had a weekend show called Totally Tooned In that was made up of Columbia/UPA cartoons, so it was mostly lower tier characters except for Mr. Magoo. It probably didn't count as E/I and was eventually dropped.
 
That was a "brain f*rt" as you put it. Wrong family of ducks.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
As far as Disney...they've always been more protective of their content moreso than the other major studios. Maybe one day ABC launches a "Disney Classics Channel" on their subchannels one day, but I won't hold my breath.
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Back in the early to mid 1980s when Disney launched The Disney Channel they were asked if they would show many of Disney's classic films on that channel such as Fantasia for example. Disney's response at the time was that Disney didn't want viewers to videotape them for personal use. It would not surprise me at all if even today there are still those at Disney who share that view.
 
I imagine part of the reason they don't go back further than the 80's in because there will inevitably be some cartoon that offends delicate sensibilities.
 
Luken (based out of Chattanooga) had their PBJ retro-cartoon sub and it was pretty good. They failed to promote it and seek more affiliates and it closed in March 2016. Here's a list of the nifty shows (some better than others) they once aired. I think they had about 14 affilates at one point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBJ_(TV_network)
 
PBS is launching "PBS KIDS" mid January in Phoenix. KAET, Arizona PBS,
will carry it on 8.4, along with PBS HD on 8.1, Life on 8.2, World on 8.3 and
KBAQ classical audio and community calendar on 8.5 From all the promos
currently being shown, that should fit the bill for just about anyone........
 
hamster said:
Back in the early to mid 1980s when Disney launched The Disney Channel they were asked if they would show many of Disney's classic films on that channel such as Fantasia for example. Disney's response at the time was that Disney didn't want viewers to videotape them for personal use. It would not surprise me at all if even today there are still those at Disney who share that view.
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We can thank the Supreme Court for making sure 1980s and 1990s television was saved on VHS tapes. If Universal Studios won the battle, YouTube wouldn't be as fun to watch.
 
crainbebo said:
We can thank the Supreme Court for making sure 1980s and 1990s television was saved on VHS tapes. If Universal Studios won the battle, YouTube wouldn't be as fun to watch.
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What was the name of the case, so we can Google or Wiki it?

ixnay
 
Sony Corp of America v. Universal Studios, Inc. The court battle actually tended to Betamax, but obviously VHS would have been death-knelled other than prerecorded studio tapes, had this been favored for the movie studio.
 
hamster said:
Back in the early to mid 1980s when Disney launched The Disney Channel they were asked if they would show many of Disney's classic films on that channel such as Fantasia for example. Disney's response at the time was that Disney didn't want viewers to videotape them for personal use. It would not surprise me at all if even today there are still those at Disney who share that view.
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That was also the time when Disney Channel was still considered a premium channel and before the "commercial" breaks like they do now.
 
crainbebo said:
Sony Corp of America v. Universal Studios, Inc. The court battle actually tended to Betamax, but obviously VHS would have been death-knelled other than prerecorded studio tapes, had this been favored for the movie studio.
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Which it almost was. Sony won 5-4, but the ruling almost went 6-3 in favor of Universal.

I imagine if Universal won in the SCOTUS, that would've ordered the removal of blank VCR tapes from the store shelves and their immediate destruction, right? What would've happened to VCR tapes of weddings, birthday parties, etc. that had already been taped?

ixnay
 
ixnay said:
I imagine if Universal won in the SCOTUS, that would've ordered the removal of blank VCR tapes from the store shelves and their immediate destruction, right? What would've happened to VCR tapes of weddings, birthday parties, etc. that had already been taped?

ixnay
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I am curious about that one myself. Had Universal won the case at the time TV Guide back in either late 1983 or early 84 reported that there would/could be a surcharge added to the cost of machines and tapes (this apparently also included audio cassettes too ) and that there would be warning attached to ads for VCRs and audio cassette recorders saying not to tape TV and radio. TV Guide said at the time that there was little talk at all about banning such machines. On the other hand I do remember hearing at the time by my own parents who in those days had ran a small chain of TV repair shops that TV and radio stations if Universal would had won would broadcast their signals that can not be taped. Not sure how they would had pulled that one.
 
I believe if Universal had won, there would probably have been taxes added to the price of video tapes, and there may have been some sort of copy protection scheme added to the TV signal or inside VCRs. It may have also made video discs (and eventually DVDs) take off as a more accepted format for selling movies to the public sooner.
 
Macrovision would have made earlier. Try recording? Picture goes from bright to dark. I have seen this on a couple of blank VHS tapes in my years of searching...they recorded a movie from one VCR to the other...NOT KNOWING that Paramount's copy protection killed the picture. But on the other hand, I have received dud blank tapes with rental movies on them...and the black/white Macrovision bars can be seen in the VBI. How they defeated it - I have no idea.

We are way off topic. Again, why isn't there a diginet with children's shows? ;)
 
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