Kids With No Cable Deserve This.

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amanduhh =D

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Personally i think kids with no cable deserve to have cartoons played at night. It would'nt hurt to give theme a prime timeslot you know. What are your opinions and be positive. And please write a paragraph at least.
 
Yeah, but they can't air in primetime. PBS is no good once your out of elementary school. And there is no way PBS is air anything beyond animal violence on their network.
 
A cartoon geared strictly towards kids wouldn't fly at night, especially in a prime time slot, and then there's the fact that a lot of kids are typically in bed at around 9 or so, so there would be no point in airing any strickly kid friendly programming beyond that point.
 
So you want to go about useing the Japanese strategy? Interesting but allas as long as cartoons are consider "kids stuff" here asside from Sitcoms and AS stuff you wont see more than special presentations of family cartoons in prime time.

Furthermore... why prime time? What kids need is cartoons on local networks airing in the afternoon hours.

But networks would rather play sitcoms and talkshows in those hours.
 
I didn't say pbs should air violent shows. Maybe CW 4kids could air on saturday nights. At least from 8:00pm-10:oopm but i can still air in the mornings.
 
I don't think it's really possible for a kid's cartoon to air on primetime without cable, besides kids without cable probably don't care about cartoons that much anyway.
 
This has been attempted before. I don't know about an actual block but channels have tried to air kids cartoons as part of prime time blocks, be it at actual spot like Pinky and the Brain and Batman TAS or a special event. I remember growing up that if there was some big up coming event in a cartoon they would air those special episodes in prime time. Sadly that does not happen anymore and never will.

I feel old.
 
Haven't you said that before? And hasn't someone corrected you as well? The DTV change isn't going to give everyone cable, it's just going to broadcast television digitaly.
 
I believe Batman and P&TB were both meant to be permanent fixtures of their primetime blocks, but Batman didn't fare so well and was off within a matter of weeks, but Pinky lasted an entire season in it's Sunday night time slot.
 
Between the Internet, TiVo, DVRs, VCRs (yes, there are still a few of them around), and DVDs, kids can have cartoons anytime they want.

As for whether they "deserve" them, cartoon are a privelege, not a right. No cartoons until they eat their vegatables and finish their homework.
 
I ain't eating my veggies and doing my homework before watching my cartoonies. :shrug: But yeah, television as a whole is a privilege.
 
I reject this statement.I don't know. I would wager the opposite.. that only 5-10% of households that would watch cartoons in primetime DON'T have cable, and so trying to target them is a losing proposition. The local nets would certainly make more money airing informercials.
 
In the early days of the WB they tried all sorts of cartoons in the 7-8pm hour before abandoning it all together on Sundays. The OBLONGS showed up on Sundays towards the end of the experiment (I believe they'd dropped 7-8 by then). The early 7-8 days were PINKY & THE BRAIN and other WB owned properties. I remember Superman, Batman, *AND* other shows. For a time the hour block of Pinky & The Brain was "remotely" successful. Once the WB found a place in the home of teenagers (and girls), they attempted to market as a niche channel.

Infant networks will try different things that premiere networks won't. UPN and WB picked up a slew of animated shows and paid for 13 episodes of each to be run. Both cell and claymation. Let's see: Gary & Mike, Dilbert, Baby Blues, Mission Hill, Home Movies, The PJs, and others were originally produced for them. About half would be acceptable for family viewing, but they were not kids-only intended.
 
As previously stated, kids being able to watch cartoons is a right, not a privilege. They're nice to have, but kids aren't entitled to diddlysquat.

And so far, except for animated sitcoms, every attempt by the networks to air cartoons on prime-time has never lasted for more than a couple of weeks. Sadly, the notion that cartoons are mostly "kid stuff" is still the prevailing attitude here in the U.S.. Anyway, if kids without cable want to watch cartoons at night, they can always just turn on their parents' VCR or DVD player or visit some internet website and go to town.

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You were told about this before, but here it is one mo' time: the February switch to digital does not mean that everyone will get cable. It just means that all TV signals will upgrade to a digital signal and that TV sets with antennae will need a digital receiver in order to get them. The upgrade from an analogue signal to a digital one isn't going to affect how the networks program their schedules. At all.
 
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