| Re: Who is the Most Hated Person in the History of the Animation Industry? |
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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Patrick McNamaraPatrick McNamara Date: Jun 27, 2008 09:56
>> ABC had the highest-rated Sat AM lineup in from 1996 through summer
>> 1998, when it developed in E/I-friendly One Saturday Morning. Pepper
>> Ann, Recess,a nd New Doug got better ratings than Nick's shows (Wild
>> Thornberrys and Rugrats, among others), Fox Kids' Godzilla, and other
>> heary-hitters.
>> So what is all of this bunk about Saturday morning dying on free TV?
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> It's only been WOUNDED by Discovery Channel, NickJr., Disney Channel,
> and Hallmark Cards! -_-
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> Derek Janssen (who's forever been spoiled by those three glorious
> mid-90's years of setting the VCR for X-Men and the Tick on Fox)
> ejan...@verizon.et
You think YOU were spoiled. My high-school-aged animatophilia
flourished in the era of X-Men and Tick... and ExoSquad and Mighty
Max, etc. But, geez, 1994 wasn't the end of the Saturday Morning
world. Stop sounding like a grouchy old man!
Saturday morning didn't end, it exploded. I remember when the ONLY cartoons
on TV, aside from the occasional prime-time special and the odd Flintstones
or Jetsons repeats, were on Saturday morning. (And we had to watch those in
black and white!)
Even after Disney destroyed ABC's Saturday morning, NBC gave up it's
Saturday morning to live action and news and CBS dumbed it's Saturday
morning down to pre-school level, there was still very watchable programs on
FOX and later WB. And broadcast TV only really gave up animation after
Cartoon Network and the like came on the scene with 24 hour cartoons.
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