Saturday Morning Cartoons Officially Dead

<p>One of the best places to catch cartoons in the 20th century was on the coveted time slot of Saturday mornings&period; It was the kid&&num;8217&semi;s primetime block that introduced generations to such series as <em><strong>Super Friends<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; <em><strong>Transformers<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>and <em><strong>Pinky &amp&semi; The Brain<&sol;strong><&sol;em> just to name a few&period; With cartoons airing on Saturdays for all the major networks&comma; every kid was able to catch these programs from the richest kids with cable to the poor ones with rabbit ear antennas&period; But now those days are over&period; <strong>Vortexx<&sol;strong>&comma; one of the last Saturday morning cartoon blocks on network television &lpar;<strong>The CW<&sol;strong>&rpar;&comma; has now ended&period; The block aired several new and syndicated animated series that included <em><strong>Cubix<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; <strong><em>Sonic X<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&comma; <em><strong>Dragon Ball Z<&sol;strong><&sol;em> and <em><strong>Kai<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; <strong><em>Digimon Fusion<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&comma; <em><strong>Yu-Gi-Oh&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; <em><strong>Transformers Prime<&sol;strong><&sol;em> and <em><strong>Justice League Unlimited<&sol;strong><&sol;em> among others&period; <strong>The CW<&sol;strong> will replace the block with a series of live-action educational programs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s seemed like Saturday morning cartoons have been dead for quite some time&period; <strong>NBC<&sol;strong> got out of the game early in 1992&comma; <strong>CBS<&sol;strong> followed in the late 90&&num;8217&semi;s and the rest soon followed as new content slowed to a crawl&period; Partial blame could be given to the FCC mandated E&sol;I act in which a certain number of educational programs&comma; usually aimed at kids&comma; had to be aired on the major networks&period; Most networks found it easiest to place this programming on their Saturday time slots&period; It was therefore easier to simply acquire a few syndicated educational programs to slap on the morning block rather than produce expensive animated cartoons&period; A few E&sol;I blocks may exist with some animated programs in some areas&comma; but there won&&num;8217&semi;t be any new content specifically aimed at kids in the form of animation blocks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thus ends an unforgettable era of television animation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;slashfilm&period;com&sol;saturday-morning-cartoons-dead&sol;">Slashfilm<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;