R.I.P. Saturday Morning Cartoons
 

Today marks the end of Saturday morning cartoons. One of the best part of my childhood in the 90s' was getting up early and watching cartoons and related programs from 7am until noon. For close to a decade now the main networks have done away with their Sat AM programming blocks. The merged WB! and UPN had a package of repeats from Kids WB!'s library it ran until today. Its something that we have had since the late 1950s with Rocky & Bullwinkle and Yogi Bear among others to wake up to on the weekends. Part of this is the 1996 overhaul of the Children's Programming Act and lack of products to take off following the decline of the Japanese dub popularity circa 1998-2002. I feel bad for these kids today not getting to appreciate something that for a little over half a century entertained more than three generations of children. Sure Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon have their share of cartoons,mostly 3-D and air on Friday nights instead of Saturday mornings for the most part but its not the big three Fox and WB! airing kids programming that was pure fun and not focusing on the unnecessary educational aspect. :(
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Kids of today have online streaming services and youtube, stuff that wasn't around back in the 90's or early 2000's when we were kids. That's why Saturday Morning cartoons aren't relevant anymore.

More and more people are watching cartoons on the internet rather than on TV, or through devices like netflix or hulu. People don't actually sit down to watch shows on TV at certain times like they used to.

We are relics from the 90's and that's why it seems odd to us. I remember using a VCR to tape shows on TV that I wasn't home to watch.

Saturday morning cartoons are still on Cartoon Network and some channels like Hub (Now Discovery Kids).Just becuase "muh precious 90s shows" aren't running, doesn't mean cartoons are dead.

The news article confirms this Saturday is the last Saturday for the CW cartoon block. It ends this Saturday which is why the article calls it the death of Saturday mornings on non-cable neworks

Sad to see Saturday Morning Cartoons ending, We been spoiled by watching Cartoons everyday on channels like Cartoon Network.

Too bad most modern cartoons are terrible:

- CN's cartoons have gone downhill and the good shows they had get canceled early

- Nick has nothing outside of TMNT and Korra

- All current Marvel/Disney cartoons are awful. The new Star Wars cartoon could go either way.

Based on what we've seen so far, Rebels isn't looking good either.

I heard it was amazing. Give it a chance.

Personally, Saturday mornings died when the Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show was canceled. 40 years! I still remember when it was on CBS prior to becoming the Bugs & Tweety Show on ABC. Seriously, for me this was something I thought would always be around.



I'm glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s where it was fun to wake up Saturday mornings. I still remember back in 80s going between CBS, ABC, and NBC with a bowl of either Apple Jacks, Apple Cinnamion Cheerios, Life, Kix, or Berry Berry Kix. Very precious memories.

Weird! I just watched a bunch this morning with my nephew. I guess everyone outside of the "pathetic adults who desperately cling to their childhood" demographic didn't get the memo.

I've seen maaany cartoons come and go, and although I hate to type this, I could tell that most cartoons have been done away with on the local stations. Gone are most of the Saturday morning cartoons and the weekday cartoons also went away. There may still be some cartoons showing, but they air really early in the morning -3 AM till 5 AM- *on one local channel that I get here* and most of them are just reruns.

Sad to see an awesome era die off but it's nice to see some DVD's of those old cartoon series hit the store shelves.
Sort of bittersweet but better than nothing. *Way less commercials too.*

Good Lord, I remember that show too.

The 90's and the early 2000's were the best time for cartoons. So many now classic and loved shows originally aired from around 1990-2006 or so.

This. CN has nothing but cartoons on as early as 7am.

Not that big a deal with the internet, DVDs and 24 hour cartoon channels.

Besides I never got up at 7-8am on Saturday's. Never understood this type of schedule. Why would kids get up that early on weekends...its time to sleep in after a week of school.

I used to record shows. Used to get up sometimes for Sonic SatAm but went back to sleep afterwards. :lol:

With me, it was just always something that would happen even when I had nothing to do. I wouldn't even need to set the alarm. Not sure why that is though.

Oh, well also from the networks standpoint, why would they want to give kids a reason to get up early on weekends? Some cartoons started even earlier at 6 and 6:30am.

Maybe its just me but its something that never made sense imo.

You know, I was about to say there was something fishy about this because I watched Vortexx CW with my mom yesterday morning and nothing seemed off.

Then I googled it just to make sure I wasn't like, dreaming or something, and it turns out that was the last Vortexx CW broadcast.

...Kinda saddening since that was the only channel we had that had any access to cartoons at all.

How sad... Saturday mornings used to be fun. Now they're just an excuse to watch more YouTube.

Even though I work on Saturday mornings, I'm still kinda sad to see this go. I have lots of great memories of this, especially with ninja turtles.

Toonami aquired the DBZ Kai rights. Its still going to be airing.