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

crainbebo said:
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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there were anti-Microvision devices sold, similar to anti-hdcp devices sold today
 
Prescott Joe said:
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........
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Thanks for the info PJ. I've notice that 8.4 has been showing color bars here for a couple weeks and PBS KIDS is listed. Unfortunately PBS cartoons are not the ones I'd like to see..........I'm more of a Boomerang Network cartoon person.
 
mapman1071 said:
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?
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Because Disney and Time-Warner (WB, MGM, Hanna-Barbera) own most of them, and they have their own cable channels to air them on. Comcast (Universal) owns Woody Woodpecker. Viacom (Paramount) owns Popeye & Betty Boop. I don't think those are aired by anyone now.

None of the others are worth a dime other than maybe the old UPA (Mr. Magoo), Jay Ward (Rocky & Bullwinkle), and Total Television (King Leonardo, Tennessee Tuxedo) stuff, and I don't know who owns those rights nowadays.

When was the last time anyone aired a Scrappy or Mighty Mouse cartoon? That would be about all that's left, other than public domain B&W shorts from the early 1930s.
 
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