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The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead

Posted by Soulskill on from the every-day-is-saturday dept.

An anonymous reader writes Gizmodo published an article on Saturday pointing out that, with The CW having aired its last episodes of Vortexx cartoons last weekend, this is the first weekend in the United States with no Saturday morning cartoons playing on national broadcast stations. NBC stopped airing Saturday morning cartoons in 1992, CBS stopped shortly after, and ABC followed suit in 2004. Gizmodo failed to take into account the Public Broadcast Station (PBS), but during an age of instant online media access...and cable...the oversight is understandable because everyone has already moved on. TV is dead. Long live the Internet.

3 of 320 comments (clear)

  1. A little late by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Funny

    After 2 days of discussion I am kinda done with this topic. So much for leading the pack.

  2. Game of Throne by jd · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is porn with some swords and sorcery. Which means you can't focus on either.

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  3. Obligatory by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you think the cartoons from 70s were crap, that means the Iron Curtain worked well, "protecting" the west from any positive imagery from the Eastern Bloc. [..] You should really watch some toons made in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union.

    I dunno... I hear that "Worker and Parasite" didn't play too well with US audiences ;-)

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