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I'm gonna say something that I've never heard anyone say about Nick Jr before: Noggin didn't die in 2009 like everyone thinks - Nick Jr is what actually died in 2009. "But what do you mean? Everyone knows Nick Jr became a full 24/7 digital cable channel in 2009, replacing Noggin." No, what...

If it were just a simple preview, I doubt Comcast would’ve launched it 6 months early across more providers than the channel ever got at launch. Plus, all the affiliate paperwork focused on Sprout On Demand. It looks more like On Demand was supposed to be the flagship, but the vision collapsed...

I think Comcast originally intended for PBS Kids Sprout On Demand to be the main product — it launched on April 4, 2005 (a full six months before the linear channel) and was immediately available on a wide range of providers (including Comcast, Cox, DirecTV, Time Warner, Cablevision, and more)...

In 2005, Comcast launched a new 24/7 preschool channel called **PBS Kids Sprout** — a partnership between PBS, Sesame Workshop, HIT Entertainment, and Comcast. It was designed as a natural extension of PBS Kids, offering safe, educational shows anytime, not just a few weekday hours. Families...

I’ve been thinking lately about how we lost something big in the 2010s—something you could really feel slipping away in real time if you were a kid like me, growing up during that era (I was born in 2002). Let me break it down: Nickelodeon? They became SpongeBob and Friends—except there were...

When Kids' WB lost Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh in 2006, the new season of shows that replaced them like Tom and Jerry Tales, Legion of Superheroes, and Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue were okay, but didn't catch on super well, so for the 2007 season they decided to just air a bunch of cheap Canadian...

Imagine if Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, etc. premiered new episodes of their shows via watch party style live streams with text chat like on YouTube/Twitch. Now imagine if they did that with new episodes from a bunch of different cartoons in a row, every Saturday morning. Voilà - Saturday...

Name a cartoon that debuted in the 70s that wasn't some crappy rip-off of Scooby-Doo (which debuted in 1969, so not 70s), *and* also didn't have a damn laugh track (which doesn't make sense in a cartoon, making it extra annoying), or show lips moving over a still frame instead of drawing mouths...

Hawaii's Fox stations (KHNL CH 13 before 1996, and KHON CH 2 from 1996 onwards) would often delay Fox Kids for sports, but they usually didn't straight up skip it, they'd play it later in the afternoon or on Sunday. It was KITV CH 4 ABC and KGMB CH 9 CBS who were the absolute worst when it came...

And even if you DID live in a part of the state where KWHE channel 14 was accessible on your TV, they didn't even start airing Kids' WB shows at all until December 1996! And on top of that, it was skipped very often; sometimes they'd play the weekday shows, but skip the Saturday ones, or play...

I didn't live through it myself, being only 23, but back in the day like 20+ years ago, the local broadcast TV stations (the ones on the really low channel numbers like CH 2, 4 etc. that were called Kxxx or Wxxx and spliced in shows from national networks like ABC, CBS, Fox, etc. alongside local...

Okay, technically *all* 90s cartoons aired on either local TV stations or on cable TV in Hawaii, but that's really only the case if you're talking Oahu. KWHE channel 14 in Honolulu was Hawaii's WB station from 1995 to 1998, and that of course meant they were the station airing the first 3 years...

June 3, 2006 to September 24, 2006 New shows/timeslots in bold Saturday 7:00am Arthur 7:30am Between the Lions 8:00am Caillou 8:30am Clifford the Big Red Dog 9:00am Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat 9:30am Dragon Tales 10:00am Thomas & Friends 10:30am Signing Time! 11:00am It's a Big Big World...

January 7, 2006 to May 28, 2006 New shows/timeslots in bold Saturday 7:00am Arthur 7:30am Between the Lions 8:00am Caillou 8:30am Clifford the Big Red Dog 9:00am Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat 9:30am Dragon Tales 10:00am Thomas & Friends 10:30am Maya & Miguel 11:00am It's a Big Big World...

November 5, 2005 to January 1, 2006 New shows/timeslots in bold Saturday 7:00am Arthur 7:30am Between the Lions 8:00am Caillou 8:30am Clifford's Puppy Days 9:00am Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat 9:30am Dragon Tales 10:00am Thomas & Friends 10:30am Maya & Miguel 11:00am George Shrinks 11:30am...