Posted on 10/04/2014 10:01:13 AM PDT by lowbridge
Saturday morning American broadcast TV was once animation's home field. Filling a cereal bowl with artificially colored sugar pebbles and staring at the tube was every kid's weekend plan. Not any more: For the first time in 50-plus years, you won't find any animation on broadcast this morning. It's the end of an era.
Yes, The CW, the final holdout in Saturday morning animation, ran its last batch of Vortexx cartoons last weekend. This week,where you once saw shows like Cubix, Sonic X, Dragon Ball Z and Kai, Digimon Fusion, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, you'll instead find "One Magnificent Morning," a block of live-action educational programming.
It's the end of an era, but it's been a long time coming: NBC ditched Saturday morning cartoons in 1992, CBS followed suit not long after, and ABC lost its animated weekend mornings in 2004. The CW, a lower-tier broadcast network, was the last holdout in a game that the Big 3 left long ago.
What killed Saturday morning cartoons? Cable, streaming, and the FCC.
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Good Lord. . .used to be the only way my little one (now full grown) would leave us alone on a Sat morning. . .a bowl of ceral and cartoons let us sleep in.
Ahhh, the Puritans are at it again. Pretty soon we’ll have the stocks for folks who eat dessert before dinner.
no big deal. No one watches the nightly news anymore on network either. Same reasons. My kids watch cartoons via Netflix or Comcast on demand. Too many choices out there.
Plus Youtube lets you show your kids the old Looney Tunes classics. Also, video games. My kids arent allowed to use video games during the week, just Friday night and Saturday. They would choose a couple hours of Wii or Mine Craft over cartoons any day.
NETFLIX!
Too violent - now in other news, another ISIS beheading ....video at 7 ...
How many of these lasted more than a season or two?
Much of it I blame on the stupid FCC.
Then those of us who eat dessert FOR dinner better stay locked and loaded.
I remember looking forward to Saturday morning cartoons. Scooby, Spidey, Tom & Jerry...even a lesson about how a Bill becomes law. Another reason for me to feel old now, I guess.
Cartoons have gone downhill for years, and Saturday morning cartoons have been horrible. With DVD, you can have high-quality.
Used to get up early Saturday to watch Western movies then
cartoons..........
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