4Kids TV

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4Kids TV
Image:4kidstv Gamestation.png
Type Weekend morning cartoon block
Country United States
Availability National
Slogan The Game Station
Owner 4Kids Entertainment (timed leased from News Corporation)
Key people Alfred R. Kahn
Launch date September 14, 2002
Former names FoxBox
Fox Kids
Affiliation FOX in most markets
Website
www.4kids.com

4Kids TV (formerly FoxBox) is a soon-to-be defunct American Saturday morning television programming block. The block is part of the Fox Network schedule, and is promoted as such during some of Fox's primetime programming. However, in several areas, the block airs instead on a local CW, MyNetworkTV, or independent station, or is not aired at all. As a result, there are no references to Fox during the block.

4Kids TV is the result of a four-year agreement reached in January 2002 between 4Kids Entertainment and Fox to lease the network's Saturday morning programming block. The block launched under the name "FoxBox" on September 7, 2002, replacing Fox Kids which was cancelled following the purchase of Fox Family Worldwide by The Walt Disney Company. It was re-branded 4Kids TV in January 2005. 4Kids Entertainment is wholly responsible for the content of the block and collects all advertising revenues from it.

The programming block airs on Saturday mornings in most areas of the United States, though some stations carry it on Sundays. 4Kids actually runs two competing Saturday morning lineups; on May 24, 2008, 4Kids Entertaimnent replaced the Kids' WB programming block aired on The CW Television Network on Saturday mornings with a new block, The CW4Kids.[1][2]

It was announced in November 2008 that the 4Kids TV block will conclude at the end of the year, making its final broadcast on December 27, 2008. [1] Fox has indicated that the time will no longer be used for kids programming, but rather for other types of programming yet to be determined. [2]

Contents

Programming

The 4Kids TV logo from January 2005 to September 2007

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)

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 blocks on The CW (The CW4Kids) and FOX.

Show First Air Date Last Air Date Running Time
Di-Gata Defenders (TV-Y7-FV) July 28, 2007 Present 8/7c
Biker Mice from Mars (TV-Y7-FV) August 9, 2008 Present 8:30/7:30c
Sonic X (TV-Y7-FV) August 23, 2003 Present 9-10/8-9c
Chaotic: M'arrillian Invasion (TV-Y7-FV) September 13, 2008 Present 10/9c
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward (TV-Y7-FV) July 29, 2006 Present 10:30/9:30c
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (TV-Y7-FV) September 14, 2002 Present 11c/10c
Winx Club (TV-Y7-FV) (E/I) May 22, 2004 Present 11:30/10:30c

4KidsTV.com Streaming Video

Currently released

Show Currently released episodes Notes
The Adrenaline Project Episodes 1-9 Unknown if series will finish.
Biker Mice from Mars Episodes 1-3 Is currently showing episodes on 4Kids TV. Unknown if or when more will be added.
Chaotic Episodes 1-40 Complete first season.
Chaotic: M'arillian Invasion Episodes 41-48 (1-8) Currently showing on 4Kids TV.
Cubix: Robots for Everyone Episodes 1-26 Complete series.
Dinosaur King Episodes 1-31 Complete first season, and first three episodes of season 2. More episodes to be added soon.
Di-Gata Defenders Episodes 1-13 More episodes being added.
Fighting Foodons Episodes 1-26 Complete series.
Funky Cops Episodes 1-26 Complete first season, including several episodes that never aired on television. No plans for second season.
GoGoRiKi Episodes 1-2, 4-7 No info.
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Episodes 1-18 Unknown if or when more episodes will be added.
Magical DoReMi Episodes 1-51 (50) Complete series, including Season 2 which never aired on television. Episode 30 was never dubbed. No plans for any further episodes.
Pat and Stan (Pat et Stanley) Unknown Series of shorts featuring an animated hippo and dog
Skunk Fu! Episodes 1-3, 5-7, 9 Status unknown.
Sonic X Episodes 1-78 Complete series.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Episodes 1-117 (116) This includes "Insane in the Membrane" which never aired on television in the US. Production was never completed on episode 110.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer Episodes 144-151 (1-7) 4kids is showing this currently.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward Episodes 118-143 (1-26) Complete season. TMNT, Fast Forward, and Back to the Sewer are treated as different shows on the video player, even though the storyline is intact and TMNT and Fast Forward are the same site.
Viva Piñata Episodes 6, 21-34 Status unknown.
Winx Club Episodes 1-78 Complete series.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Episodes 1-97 Complete first and second season.
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Episodes 1-8 Release schedule unknown.
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Episodes 1-18 Status unknown.

Released Episodes Schedule

Date Shows Notes
October 4 GoGoRiki New episodes, High Definition
October 11 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer New episodes, High Definition
October 18 Chaotic: M'arillian Invasion, Dinosaur King New episodes
October 25 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's New episodes, High Definition
November 1 Dinosaur King, Viva Piñata, Di-Gata Defenders New episodes, High Definition (Dinosaur King, Viva Piñata)
December 27 Chaotic Season 1, High Definition
January 10 Dinosaur King Season 1, High Definition
January 31 Viva Piñata Season 1, High Definition

After a show has been released, new episodes will be added weekly, the week after it airs on TV. Sometimes, a show will be released 2 days early.

Chaotic: M'arillian Invasion was supposed to be encoded into High Definition October 18, but due to lack of time, 4Kids announced on their forums that some Dinosaur King season 2 episodes would be released that day instead. M'arillian Invasion was added, but not in HD.

Shows on hiatus

Show First Air Date Last Air Date Status
The Adrenaline Project (TV-G) September 29, 2007 On Hiatus (Second season announced for YTV in Canada, unknown if it will air on 4Kids TV)

Former shows

Ended in 2003

Ended in 2004

Ended in 2005

Ended in 2006

Ended in 2007

  • Bratz (August 20, 2005 - April 7, 2007) (TV-Y7)
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! (September 2, 2006 - August 25, 2007) (TV-Y7-FV)

Ended in 2008

Other site features

Papercrafts

4Kids has Papercrafts, where you can make paper characters from 4Kids shows.

Show Character(s)
Chaotic Chaor, Maxxor, H'earring
Dinosaur King Chomp
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Kirby, Meta-Knight, Waddle Dee
The Spectacular Spider-Man Venom, Spider-Man, Black Spider-Man
Sonic X Sonic, Knuckles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Michaelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, Splinter
Viva Piñata Fergy
Yu-Gi-Oh! Yugi

Stamp Collection

Each Stamp will appear on the site each day or week. It also has covers which you can pick the one you like the most. Collect 11 stamps to receive a bonus stamp.

Show Stamps Bonus Stamp
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Escargoon, Falala, Fololo, Kirby, King Dedede, Lady Like, Meta-Knight, Sir Ebrum, Tiff, Tuff, Waddle Dee
Sonic X Amy, Big the Cat, Cheese, Chris, Cream, Eggman, Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Sonic, Tails
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward Bishop, Cody, Donatello, Hovershell, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Serling, Splinter, Starlee, Tank
Winx Club Amore, Bloom, Chatta, Flora, Layla, Lockette, Musa, Piff, Stella, Tecna, Tune
Chaotic

Covers

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.

Markets where 4Kids TV does not run at all

Markets where 4Kids TV runs on a MyNetworkTV affiliate

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.

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).

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.

Markets where 4Kids TV runs on a current independent station

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.

External links

v • d • e
Children's Television Blocks in the United States
Present
ABC Kids (ABC)  · The CW4Kids (CW)  · 4Kids TV (FOX, various)1  · KEWLopolis (CBS)  · PBS Kids / GO! / Miss Lori and Hooper (PBS)  · Planeta U (UNI)  · qubo (NBC/ION/TMD)  · Toonturama (TFU)  · Smile of a Child (TBN)  · Jetix (Toon Disney)4  · Playhouse Disney (Disney Channel)
Former
BKN (syndicated)  · CBS Kids (CBS)  · Discovery Kids (NBC)  · The Disney Afternoon (syndicated)  · Disney's One Too (UPN)  · DiC Kids Network (syndicated)2  · Fox Box (FOX)  · Fox Kids (FOX)  · KOL Secret Slumber Party (CBS)  · Kids' WB (WB, CW)  · Nick on CBS (CBS)  · Nick Jr. on CBS (CBS)  · One Saturday Morning (ABC)  · Pillow Head Hour (WB)  · TNBC (NBC)  · Cartoon Quest (SciFi)  · Animation Station (SciFi)  · UPN Kids (UPN)  · USA Cartoon Express (USA)  · Toonami (Cartoon Network)  · Miguzi (Cartoon Network)  · Master Control (Cartoon Network) 3  · PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch (PBS)  · PAX Kids (PAX)  · Marvel Action Universe (syndicated)  · Nick in the Afternoon (Nickelodeon)  · The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (syndicated)  · AC/Magintude/DCD (Disney Channel)
1To end December 27, 2008.
2To return starting February 17, 2009.
3Currently on Hiatus.
4To end February 17, 2009.
See Also
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4Kids_TV"

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