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Perhaps 4kids should have just renewed 4kidsTV for 5 years and never bought the CW block.
I'm interested to see how this plays out. Most people expected 4kids to do better, but now it seems they're doing worse, if that's even possible.
At this rate you get the impression...what's the point? Starting a new block with all these new shows is pointless if nobody is going to watch. You might as well say Saturday mornings are dead and just call it quits.
I hate to say it" Saturday morning cartoons are dead.We might all need a new passion. Cartoons are done.
Gee, so one off-day in the ratings means the end of Saturday morning cartoons? The Nielsen ratings system doesn't really give you an accurate sense of how a block is doing if you only look at one week. You need to look at the big picture. Last year, 4Kids TV had plenty long-term slumps in the ratings, but now they're doing fine. The same thing will most likely happen with the CW4Kids.
Cable rendered the very existence of Saturday morning cartoons useless, and now it's starting to feel the pain. Hard.
I hate to say it" Saturday morning cartoons are dead.We might all need a new passion. Cartoons are done.
Nick is, but Cartoon Network is more or less at the same level as 4Kids. The premieres in Har Har Tharsdays and You Are Here get around a 3.0, right? That's about equivalent to a 1.3 or 1.4 on broadcast, which isn't out of 4Kids' ballpark at all.That's not the point. Cable networks in general have been performing better. They are beyond having to compete with the Saturday morning lineups.
If the end of Saturday morning cartoons heralded the end of animation, shouldn't it have ended years ago?
My opinion is that Saturday mornings have had their time in the sun, but they're obsolete now. They were useful when the average kid only had access to the basic broadcast stations, but the cable market exploded and that was that. Now instead of waking up on Saturday mornings, they can watch cartoons whenever they want, on channels like Nick and CN. Even now, streaming cartoons online is picking up steam.
Cable rendered the very existence of Saturday morning cartoons useless, and now it's starting to feel the pain. Hard.
Gee, so one off-day in the ratings means the end of Saturday morning cartoons? The Nielsen ratings system doesn't really give you an accurate sense of how a block is doing if you only look at one week. You need to look at the big picture. Last year, 4Kids TV had plenty long-term slumps in the ratings, but now they're doing fine. The same thing will most likely happen with the CW4Kids.
Also, the main advantage of the CW block is that it doesn't cost as much to 'rent' the time. Even with lower ratings, 4Kids is still probably making more money of their CW block than their FOX block.
Cartoonlover said:Will Saturday morning cartoons ever come back?
Cartoonlover said:I hate to say it" Saturday morning cartoons are dead.We might all need a new passion. Cartoons are done.
I don't know if this was asked, but does 4kids air commercials advertising the CW block on 4kidsTV?
It would be a good way to let kids know what they're missing.
Will Saturday morning cartoons ever come back?
I hate to say it" Saturday morning cartoons are dead.We might all need a new passion. Cartoons are done.
I'm sure they'd love to but they can't. The most they can do is push kids toward the website, which has stuff about the CW4Kids on it. What they should probably do is list the CW4Kids schedule ahead of the 4Kids TV one on their main page, since the site still kind of comes off as being more for the Fox block than the CW one.I don't know if this was asked, but does 4kids air commercials advertising the CW block on 4kidsTV?
It would be a good way to let kids know what they're missing.
It's the same thing with the CW dumping WWE Smackdown in possibly the dumbest move in network TV history. WWE couldn't actually mention MyNetworkTV during the CW broadcasts so they just had to say that the show was "moving" - they were allowed to mention MyNetwork TV during their Raw and ECW airings though, since those are on USA and Sci-Fi instead.
WWE Friday Night SmackDown! was the most watched show on CW. It typically drew higher ratings on Friday Night than FOX, NBC, and sometimes ABC allowing CW to finish third or fourth when they typically are always fifth. RAW is typically watched more than even Monday Night Football (unless it's a Cowboys/ Eagles game), ECW is still one of Sci-Fi's top 5 shows in terms of ratings and quite possibly #1 in viewership, and SmackDown! has shattered the highest rating for MyNetwork over the last three weeks. Anything that is associated with the WWE typically succeeds, just like Kids' WB! was, but because it didn't fit "their programming" or because it "cost them too much money despite being the #1 kids network at the time", then CW President Dawn Ostroff dumped them all together. This is also why Sunday Night is being leased by another company.I'm a little confused on how this was "The Dumbest Move in Network TV History". Does the WWE Smackdown get really good ratings and that's why the CW dumping it was a real dumb move?