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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.

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  1. Not True! by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fox "News" is still on

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  2. Re:Looney Tunes by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 0, Troll

    I always knew there was something else I didn't like about Democrats besides their tax and spend, big, nanny-state government ways and now I know. No sense of humor.

    Cheers,
    Dave

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  3. e/i killed it. by Deathlizard · · Score: 1, Troll

    All they could legally put on the air after e/i enforcement was stuff that PBS would run, and most of it was PBS Rejects so bad you'd wish you were watching PBS.

    Remember that TV is not allowed to entertain kids anymore. It has to Educate them. Showing violence like Ninja Turtles just encourages kids to make Nunchucks out of sticks and beat each other senseless, and that's Bullying! and Bullying is Bad!! We need to rise above hate and teach kids that sharing is caring and what a Black-Tuffed Marmoset is instead of petty moral and life lessons from Baby animals with an overactive imagination, Mythical blue creatures that are three apples high, or various hero teams.

    The More you Know...

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