Their tiny, their toony, their all a little looney!

Truthfully, I had a hard time thinking about what to post to my blog this week. For me this has been a really hectic week, so I didn’t get to do all the things that I wanted to or do all the research that I wanted to do for this blog. However, there was a very interesting news story for me. I am a very big fan of cartoons and I plan on doing voices for cartoons as a career. So those type of news tend to attract my attention. The news was that the long time cartoon block of KidsWB will be ending it’s run as of September 2008.
Now, this wasn’t the first time, that the block was in danger. When the WB network merged with UPN in the beginning of 2006, the KidsWB was one of the only blocks to completely survive the merger. At first I was really worried that the block would be cancelled. Just as a side note, the KidsWB block has been one of my favorite blocks in years past, and has recently has had some of the better programming at least on over the air television.
Another danger sign was several years ago, with the AOL Time Warner Merger, Cartoon Network and KidsWB began to share programming. Luckily, this did not last for very long, and they both went back to original programming.
But now comes the big clincher. When the 2008-2009 rolls around, the new programming block with be taken over by 4Kids Entertainment. I don’t have anything against 4Kids, in fact I do like some of their programming. But not everything is gold, so to speak.
The main problem comes from the fact that currently 4Kids also has their own programming block called the 4Kids TV on Fox stations. They took over the programming block that Fox had previously called FOX Kids. I really liked that block and 4Kids has filled its place with some interesting programming. However their contract for this block was just renewed until 2009. That means for at least 1 year at this point, that 4Kids will be programming TWO different programming blocks. Unfortunately, I don’t think that they have enough licensed programs to be able to put new programs on both networks.
But at this time, we will just have to see if any of the shows currently airing now will survive until next season. And what kind of programming 4Kids will be able to offer.
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