2013: What will Saturday Morning look like?
- Thread starter Kunmui
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I agree that as long as E/I requirements are in place that there will be no real change except for possibly what shows are on. However if E/I is repealed the big 3 networks will possibly expand their Saturday morning news shows, and sports could start earlier in the day, especially during college football and basketball season. Fox and CW would probably turn the time back over to local stations, and would be filled mostly with infomercials. In any case Saturday morning catroons will likely be a thing of the past. :sad:
chloa.phorm
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4Kids would gobble up the rest of SatAM blocks that's still barely existing (except Qubo) in 2013.
Or, it will be just infomercials.
Or, corporations could have a change of heart. You never know.
Or, it will be just infomercials.
Or, corporations could have a change of heart. You never know.
blindjohnboy
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Nick will continue to rule the roost with Spongebob reruns with 4Kids picking up whatever's left. Any other block will gradually fade from existence.
*cracks knuckles*
Provided the Children's Television Act of 1990 is still being enforced, there will still be Saturday mornings. And EVERY broadcast channel will have to air, at minimum, three hours of educational/informational programming on their lineups, including the digital subchannels.
Translation: even the all-news and all-weather subchannels as well as newer subchannels like FUNimation, LATV, RTN, .2, and others yet to be created will have the air children's E/I programming to fullfill the quota.
Here's what I think will happen to Saturday mornings to the channels we know in 2013:
ABC: Still Disney Channel-dependent. I could see the successor show of Hannah Montana (and you know they're contemplating life without the series) being a spotlight franchise on the block. They'll have a few cartoons, but a bulk of the E/I-branded lineup will remain live-action. Power Rangers will remain in some form. Won't it be close to the 20th anniversary of the property by then?
CBS: Unless DiC, Corus, and NBC Universal does finally bite the bullet and launch a stateside version of KidsCo, DiC will still be a programming partner of CBS.
NBC/ION/Telemundo: Still qubo, although all four of the programming partners (NBC, Corus, Entertainment Rights, and Scholastic) will provide one new show on the broadcast block. The qubo digital channel will become a more linear channel by then with a 24-hour lineup instead of a repeating six-hour lineup.
FOX: Either Cookie Jar or Nelvana will program the block after 2009. It'll be a mix of E/I and non-E/I programming from the studios (the affiliates are responsible for filling at least two of the three hours themselves throughout the week). Fox will produce a show themselves for the block by then.
The CW: Gone. It'll be gone by Fall 2009. 4Kids will still syndicate their block to the former CW affiliates, but by 2013 will have no need to continue. By 2013, they would have proven that they could produce two broadcast blocks that they could have a enough experience to launch a linear digital channel, either on cable/satelite/FIOS or on a digital subchannel.
Provided the Children's Television Act of 1990 is still being enforced, there will still be Saturday mornings. And EVERY broadcast channel will have to air, at minimum, three hours of educational/informational programming on their lineups, including the digital subchannels.
Translation: even the all-news and all-weather subchannels as well as newer subchannels like FUNimation, LATV, RTN, .2, and others yet to be created will have the air children's E/I programming to fullfill the quota.
Here's what I think will happen to Saturday mornings to the channels we know in 2013:
ABC: Still Disney Channel-dependent. I could see the successor show of Hannah Montana (and you know they're contemplating life without the series) being a spotlight franchise on the block. They'll have a few cartoons, but a bulk of the E/I-branded lineup will remain live-action. Power Rangers will remain in some form. Won't it be close to the 20th anniversary of the property by then?
CBS: Unless DiC, Corus, and NBC Universal does finally bite the bullet and launch a stateside version of KidsCo, DiC will still be a programming partner of CBS.
NBC/ION/Telemundo: Still qubo, although all four of the programming partners (NBC, Corus, Entertainment Rights, and Scholastic) will provide one new show on the broadcast block. The qubo digital channel will become a more linear channel by then with a 24-hour lineup instead of a repeating six-hour lineup.
FOX: Either Cookie Jar or Nelvana will program the block after 2009. It'll be a mix of E/I and non-E/I programming from the studios (the affiliates are responsible for filling at least two of the three hours themselves throughout the week). Fox will produce a show themselves for the block by then.
The CW: Gone. It'll be gone by Fall 2009. 4Kids will still syndicate their block to the former CW affiliates, but by 2013 will have no need to continue. By 2013, they would have proven that they could produce two broadcast blocks that they could have a enough experience to launch a linear digital channel, either on cable/satelite/FIOS or on a digital subchannel.
Samuel Elisee N
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I'm afraid so. 
galway gal!
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I think that there would be mainly news or "4 Kids-esce" (if you know what I mean) shows. Nothing really special. ABC may have reruns of tween coms from Disney.