R.I.P. Saturday Morning Cartoons

*MikeandRaph87* · 09-27-2014, 08:34 PM

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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09-27-2014, 08:34 PM	#1
MikeandRaph87 Jedi Master Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: JLA Satellite Headquarters Posts: 11,189	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. http://www.cinemablend.com/televisio...ete-67543.html __________________ Michelangelo: This looks like a job for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Raphael: Sheesh, Mikey this ain't a cartoon!