4Kids TV

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4Kids TV
Image:4kidstv Gamestation.png
Type Weekend morning cartoon block
Country United States
Availability National
Owner 4Kids Entertainment / FOX,
Key people Alfred R. Kahn
Launch date September 14, 2002
Former names FoxBox
Fox Kids
Affiliation FOX In Most Markets (US)
MyNetworkTV In Eight Markets (US)
The CW In Four Markets (US)
WMLW in Milwaukee (US)
KMCI in Kansas City (US)
WMOR-TV In Tampa Bay (US)
Website
www.4kidstv.com

4Kids TV (formerly FoxBox) is an American Saturday morning television programming block on the television station FOX. In January 2002, 4Kids Entertainment entered into a four-year agreement with FOX to lease the network's Saturday morning programming block. 4Kids Entertainment introduced the FoxBox on September 7, 2002 after Fox Kids was cancelled following the purchase of Fox Family Worldwide from News Corporation and Haim Saban by the Walt Disney Company.[citation needed] The block was re-branded 4Kids TV in January 2005[citation needed]. 4Kids Entertainment is wholly responsible for the content of the block and collects all advertising revenues from it.[citation needed]

The programming block airs on Saturday mornings in most areas of the United States, though some stations carry it on Sundays. On May 24, 2008, 4Kids Entertaimnent has taken over the Kids' WB! programming block now operated by The CW Television Network on Saturday mornings with a new block, The CW4Kids.[1][2]

Contents

[edit] Programming

The 4Kids TV logo from January 2005 to September 2007
The 4Kids TV logo from January 2005 to September 2007

[edit] Shows on 4Kids TV include:

(The dates in parentheses are given for how long the show has been airing on 4Kids TV, repeats included, regardless of airings on other networks)

[edit] Currently active

According to the official 4Kids TV schedule,[3] these are the shows that are currently active: 4Kids TV almost has two Saturday morning channels CW (The CW4Kids) and FOX.

Show First Air Date Last Air Date Running Time
Viva Piñata August 26, 2006 Present 8-9/7-8c
Chaotic October 7, 2006 Present 9-10/8-9c
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles February 8, 2003 Present 10/9c
Dinosaur King September 8, 2007 Present 10:30/9:30c
Yu-Gi-Oh GX September 1, 2007 Present 11c/10c
Winx Club May 22, 2004 Present 11:30/10:30c

A new schedule begins June 21, the same day that Chaotic, TMNT Fast Forward, and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX move to CW4Kids. This is the new schedule:

Show First Air Date Last Air Date Running Time
Viva Piñata August 26, 2006 Present 8-9/7-8c
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles February 8, 2003 Present 9-10/8-9c
Sonic X August 23, 2003 Present 10/9c
Dinosaur King September 8, 2007 Present 10:30/9:30c
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! September 14, 2002 Present 11c/10c
Winx Club May 22, 2004 Present 11:30/10:30c

[edit] 4Kids.TV Web exclusives

Released Episodes

Weekday Shows Notes
Tuesday Winx Club, Sonic X One episode -- Season 3
Thursday Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Two episodes -- Season 4
Friday Yu-Gi-Oh!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles YGO: Two episodes -- Season 2
TMNT: One episode -- Lost episodes

[edit] Shows on hiatus

Show First Air Date Last Air Date Status
The Adrenaline Project September 29, 2007 On Hiatus (Second season announced for YTV in Canada, unknown if it will air on 4Kids TV)
Di-Gata Defenders July 28, 2006 On Hiatus ("New" episodes streaming online, stopped after 13 episodes, unknown if more will be shown or if show will return to TV)
Magical DoReMi August 13, 2005 May 2, 2008 (Taken off TV after 26 episodes, new episodes online stopped after 24 episodes. One skipped episode remains.)

[edit] Future Programing

Show First Air Date Summary
Kooky Klickers N/A 4Kids has aquired the rights to Kooky Klickers and will be making pins. It is unknown whether they will also make a TV series.
Skunk Fu! 2008 A series that currently released episodes online. Unknown if series will appear on 4Kids TV.
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's September 2008 The spinoff of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX television series. Focuses on an 18 Year old duelist, set in the future. New Cards, New Opponents and New Dragons! Riding Duel Acceleration!


[edit] Cancelled Shows

Show First Air Date Summary
Pretty Cure N/A License acquisition announced in February 2006 for a September 2006 premiere, Toei representative at AnimeExpo reveals that the license was dropped.
Rocket Monkeys N/A A series about two monkeys that explore the wonders of the solar system. Both are also assisted by a robot, A.Ø.K.

[edit] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Lost Episodes

4kids TV has aired "The Lost Episodes" of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which is known as the Ninja Tribunal saga. 4Kids aired all thirteen "Lost Episodes" from February 9 to May 3, 2008. These episodes are from Season 5. The entire season was sent to DVD May 20, 2008.

[edit] Former shows

[edit] Ended on Fox Kids

[edit] Ended in 2003

[edit] Ended in 2004

[edit] Ended in 2005

[edit] Ended in 2006

[edit] Ended in 2007

[edit] Ended in 2008

[edit] Relationship with FOX and broadcast ambiguities

The block has a somewhat unusual relationship to the Fox Network. The programming is produced for Fox and offered to Fox affiliates first, so the Fox affiliate in any given area has right of first refusal. In the event a Fox affiliate or in some cases an O & O, Owned and Operated, Fox affliate opts not to carry 4Kids TV the block then is available in the market for another television station to pick up.

Most 4Kids TV programming does not meet the criteria to be considered educational and does not count toward the 3 hour per week mandatory educational children's programming quotas. The lone current exception is Winx Club. Previous exceptions included The Adrenaline Project, Magical DoReMi, Stargate Infinity, reruns of Back to the Future: the Animated Series, and Cubix.

[edit] Markets where 4Kids TV does not run at all

[edit] Markets where 4Kids TV runs on a MyNetworkTV affiliate

[edit] Markets where 4Kids TV runs on an affiliate of The CW

Note: These CW affiliates run 4Kids TV on Sundays, due to their obligation to carry the The CW4Kids Saturday block

[edit] New World stations and 4Kids TV

Dating back to the Fox Kids days, the stations that Fox acquired from New World Communications in 1996 generally do not air 4Kids TV. In some of the New World markets, 4Kids is not aired on any station. In a majority of these markets, an independent station carries this block: in others, the MyNetworkTV affiliate carries it: in still others, the CW affiliate carries it. The exception is St. Louis, Missouri, where KTVI carries 4Kids TV (2 hours early, beginning at 5:00).

[edit] KTVK and KASW

KASW then signed on in September 1995 on channel 61. It was originally owned by the Brooks family and immediately secured a local marketing agreement with MAC America Communications, then owner of KTVK. KTVK bought the entire broadcast day on the station to run shows that did not fit into KTVK's schedule. The WB affiliation also went from KTVK to KASW. The station ran syndicated cartoons, Kids' WB! cartoons, first-run shows from The WB Television Network, classic sitcoms, recent sitcoms, old movies, and eventually Fox Kids by the end of 1996.

KNXV officially became Phoenix's ABC affiliate in January 1995, and KTVK nominally became the market's WB affiliate. However, it only showed WB programming on Saturday nights, so it was essentially an independent station. It also ran Fox Kids in the early afternoons and weekend mornings for about a year. The station aired Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and several off-network sitcoms during prime time.

KTVK owned a huge programming inventory, but lacked enough time in its broadcast day to air it all even after dropping ABC. As such, when the Brooks family launched a new station, KASW, in September, KTVK immediately entered into a local marketing agreement with the new station. KASW became a WB affiliate, and KTVK bought the new station's entire broadcast day. KTVK then reinstated Saturday morning newscasts.

Ironically, since 2001 Fox owned both KSAZ Fox 10 and KUTP My 45 (then UPN 45). It was thought that 4Kids TV would move to Channel 45 but Fox still passed on it even for their second station in that market. It therefore remained on KASW.

[edit] Markets where 4Kids TV runs on a current independent station

[edit] References

  1. ^ 4Kids TV takes over Kids!WB advertisement. 4Kids TV. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  2. ^ 4Kids takes over Kids!WB advertisment. 4Kids TV. Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
  3. ^ 4Kids TV Schedule. 4Kids TV. Retrieved on 2008-04-21.

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