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ABC Kids
TypeSaturday morning cartoon block (1997-present)
Country
United States
AvailabilityNational
OwnerABC, Inc. (The Walt Disney Company)
Launch date
September 13, 1997 (as Disney's One Saturday Morning)
September 14, 2002 (as ABC Kids)
Former names
Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997-2002)
Affiliation(s)ABC
Official website
http://www.abckids.com

ABC Kids (or: Disney's ABC Kids) is a children's block of animated television series and live-action children's television series. broadcast on the ABC network on Saturday-Sunday mornings in the U.S. and was broadcast on BBS/CTV in Canada until 2002. It was formerly known as Disney's One Saturday Morning.

History

Sometime around 1997, Peter Hastings, the creator and excutive producer of "One Saturday Morning", who wrote for Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain left both shows in order to produce cartoons for Disney and ABC. ABC was told by Michael Eisner to create a Saturday morning block that was different from the rest at the time. They asked Hastings to do it. In February 1997, Peter Hastings pledged the idea that Saturday is different from every other day and to represent weekdays as buildings. He also proposed the use of virtual set technology; Although he knew little about it at the time and the technology used was just starting development. Disney and ABC liked the idea. He hired Prudence Fenton as Consultant Manger and Co-Executive Producer. Together they sampled virtual set technology at NAB 1997 and chose technology developed by Accom and ELSET. Rutherford Bench Productions which had previously worked with Disney hired Pacific Ocean Post, POP Sound today, to produce the virtual set. The building was initially a drawing of Grand Central Station with a roller coaster but evolved into a towering mechanical 1. Even the interior has similarities such as a central high raised room with two wings on left and right sides and another on the south side.[1]

Disney's One Saturday Morning

On September 13, 1997, Disney's One Saturday Morning was first broadcast as a two hour block on the ABC Saturday Morning lineup, and originally featured some of the shows that had aired on it.[2] It was originally scheduled for September 6, 1997, but due to ABC and all the other networks airing Princess Diana's funeral that day, It was pushed back a week later. In 1999 it was extended to 5 hours. On September 6, 1999 a spin-off, Disney's One Too, aired on UPN and in syndication every weekday in the morning or afternoon and Sunday morning.[3] One Saturday Morning' aired the final time on September 7, 2002 (by this time it had simply become bumpers and promos; the segments and hosting had been dropped in 2000). Since Fox Kids was bought by Disney, 4Kids Entertainment took over the block as "Fox Box" and Disney changed the block from Disney's One Saturday Morning to ABC Kids on exactly the same day that Fox Kids was taken over.[4]

During the introduction to One Saturday Morning as well as other introductions on the block, a tiny lightbulb icon would appear in a bottom corner of the screen and an announcer would say, "Illuminating Television," stating the programming block's educational programming. The lightbulb's chain would be pulled by a hand, and the lightbulb would have an animation (turning into a rocket, falling into a garbage can, jumping in a pool, etc.).

ABC Kids

On September 14, 2002, Disney's One Saturday Morning was rebranded as ABC Kids. The block formally contained new programs, but in the present, all of ABC Kids programs are repeats of Disney Channel originals.[4]

Power Rangers was previously aired on Fox Kids until halfway through the Wild Force season, when Power Rangers moved to ABC Kids for the 2002 Fall season due to the Fox Family Channel/Saban Entertainment purchase by Disney in 2001. Starting with the episode "Unfinished Business", the remainder of the Wild Force season premiered on ABC Kids. During its time on both Fox Kids and ABC Kids the entire Wild Force season also reran later on ABC Family (in part both prior to the introduction of and during the ABC Family Action Block). The following Ninja Storm season also premiered on ABC Kids and then reran later on the ABC Family Action Block. The Dino Thunder, S.P.D., Mystic Force, Operation Overdrive and Jungle Fury seasons were all premiered on Jetix and then reran on ABC Kids. The RPM season and broadcasts of the first season of Mighty Morphin, newly re-versioned, aired exclusively on ABC Kids.

Power Rangers ended its run on ABC Kids on August 28, 2010 nationwide due to Haim Saban having bought back the intellectual rights to the franchise from Disney and giving airing rights to Nickelodeon in May 2010. Airings ended slightly earlier on August 14, 2010 on west coast affiliates due to a two-week preemption caused by the 2010 Little League World Series and the E/I recovery that resulted from it. On September 4, 2010, the hour held by Power Rangers was returned to the local affiliates. After its completion on ABC Kids, Power Rangers will move to Nickelodeon with repeats of all previous seasons airing on Nicktoons starting in October 2010, and all new seasons (starting with the Samurai season) set to premiere on the main Nickelodeon channel in February 2011.[5]

With the rise of federally-mandated E/I programming guidelines, some of the network's affiliate groups, primarily Hearst Television and Allbritton Communications, refused to carry any show that did not fulfill E/I requirements (such as Kim Possible or the Power Rangers series during their time on ABC Kids) in order to instead free up time to air locally produced programming. However, some stations time shifted these shows either to very early in the morning Saturday or to Sunday, often before local news, Good Morning America and/or that week's "live" portion of the ABC Kids block began.

Aside from counting the annual changes to Power Rangers, the block has not refreshed its schedule since the 2006-2007 television season (with the schedule now consisting of discontinued Disney Channel original live-action programs, except for Hannah Montana, which does not end its run until late 2010 or early 2011), making it the only block to not order a new package of shows for its fall Saturday morning season.

Programming

Current programming

According to the official ABC Kids website.[6]

All programming is rated TV-G and deemed E/I.

Eastern &
Alaska 		Central &
Pacific 		Mountain Show Name
10:00am 9:00am 8:00am The Emperor's New School
10:30am 9:30am 8:30am The Replacements
11:00am 10:00am 9:00am That's So Raven
11:30am 10:30am 9:30am That's So Raven
12:00pm 11:00am 10:00am Hannah Montana
12:30pm 11:30am 10:30am The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

Special cases

  • Some ABC affiliates tape-delay one hour of the ABC Kids block, particularly the animated series within the lineup, to air after the shows airing in their network-recommended timeslots; many ABC affiliates owned by Hearst Television began doing this in July 2010, after ABC announced that it was returning one hour of the block to its affiliates following the removal of Power Rangers from the lineup, using that returned time slot to add extensions to their weekend morning newscasts.
  • KITV (Channel 4), the ABC affiliate in Honolulu, and in turn the entirety of the state of Hawaii, airs the first six shows of the ABC Kids lineup over three weekdays (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Two shows are aired each day from 11 a.m.-12 Noon, preceding ABC's soap opera lineup. This is because of ABC's Saturday afternoon sports coverage, which due to Hawaii-Aleutian Time, airs live five hours behind Eastern Time (six hours during Daylight Savings Time; Hawaii is on Standard Time year-round) in the late morning (for instance, a 3:30 p.m. EDT college football game kicking off at 9:30 a.m. HAST) and early afternoons for the primetime game, thus pre-empting ABC Kids and forcing the shows to air elsewhere on the schedule.
  • During the college football season, ABC affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone will often realign programming if there is an ESPN College Football game that starts at 9 a.m. PT, as a noon ET game is often scheduled. Some affiliates will move the ABC Kids programming to Sunday mornings.

Former programming

Disney's One Saturday Morning programming

See also

References

  1. ^ Goldman, Michael (September 15, 1997). "ABC hopes for virtual success". Variety. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  2. ^ Grove, Christopher (August 29, 1997). "Webs roll out season geared to kids". Variety. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  3. ^ Pursell, Chris (July 19, 1999). "Mouse brands UPN kidvid". Variety. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  4. ^ a b Bernstein, Paula (September 29, 2002). "Kid skeds tread on joint strategy". Variety. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  5. ^ Littleton, Cynthia (2010-05-12). "Saban re-acquires rights to 'Rangers' - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety". Retrieved 2010-05-12.
  6. ^ "ABC Kids website". ABC Kids. Retrieved 2010-10-08.
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