ABC Kids (originally known as Disney's One Saturday Morning until 2002) was an American Saturday morning children's programming block that aired on ABC from September 13, 1997 to August 27, 2011. It featured a mixture of animated and live-action series from Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel, aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 14.[1] This was the second block that showed cable children's channel content on over-the-air television in the United States, the first being Nickelodeon on CBS.
The block regularly aired on Saturday mornings, though certain programs within the lineup aired on Sundays in some parts nationwide due to station preferences for non-educational programming or scheduling issues with regional or network sports broadcasts.
After five years of mainly reruns of programs introduced onto the block prior to the 2007–08 season, ABC decided it would discontinue providing children's programming during the Saturday morning timeslot, and entered into an agreement with Litton Entertainment to program that period;[2][3] the block closed on August 27, 2011, and Litton's Weekend Adventure, which is structured as a syndication package distributed with virtual exclusivity to ABC's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates, replaced ABC Kids on September 3, 2011.[4]
History
Disney's One Saturday Morning
The Walt Disney Company purchased ABC corporate parent Capital Cities/ABC Inc. in 1995. The merger was completed the following year, and in the fall of 1996, ABC's Saturday Morning lineup aired the fifth season of Doug (which had been acquired from Nickelodeon that year) the third season of Gargoyles (which had previously aired on The Disney Afternoon), Mighty Ducks, and Jungle Cubs.[5][6] The following spring, it premiered the original animated series Nightmare Ned and began airing reruns of Ducktales.[6] It was one of two networks at the time that prominently carried Disney programming on Saturday mornings, as
Programming
- 1 Program also ran on syndication or ABC prior to the block.
- 2 Program moved to Toon Disney for episode premieres.
Disney's One Saturday Morning
Original programming
Animated
Animated
Programming from Disney Channel
Animated
See also
- American Broadcasting Company
- Children's Programming on the American Broadcasting Company
- The Disney Afternoon – a Disney-produced syndicated children's program block that ran from 1990 to 1997.
- Disney's Animation Weekdays – a programming block that aired on UPN from 1999 to 2003 as a successor to UPN Kids.
- List of production companies owned by the American Broadcasting Company
- Mrs. Munger's Class
External links
References
- The Walt Disney Company 2003 Annual Report thewaltdisneycompany.com, The Walt Disney Company, retrieved 8 July 2023^
- ABC Orders Saturday Kids Block From Litton TVNewsCheck, NewsCheck Media, May 24, 2011, retrieved May 24, 2011^
- Litton Announces "ABC Weekend Adventure"