It was at its worst between 1982 and 1990. After the lisence to print money that was Ninja Turtles, concerned parents groups began to put pressure on the FCC to tighten the bolts. The period from 1990 to about 1997 was a time of creativity then, where Warner Brothers especially tried to do more artistic and progressive things with children's animated programming, but the massive anime invasion at the end of the 90s (again a huge commercial force for japanese transmedia franchises) forced broadcasters to take another look at the social value of domestic programming and the bolts were tightened once more. After 2002, you will find action-adventure series in a slump and struggling to be realized. Example that comes to mind is the award winning re-imagining of He Man and the Masters of the Universe, which only got two seasons of air time despite its rich artistic appeal and engaging serial adventure storyline.

I think they just need to stop thinking about it so much

and wait a cartoon can't be commercial anymore then what was Pokemon/Digimon/BEYBLADE etc.

do they even have saturday morning cartoons anymore I thought I tuned in one day and it was Tyra Banks or Judge Judy or someone

I mean there was always a cutoff point like at 2:00 it would become SOUL TRAIN or something but I think this was like at 10:00 AM they were running non-kids stuff

also was the new He-Man actually good. I think it just failed because it's HE-MAN, they should do something new instead of trying to update something like that

The new He-Man was amazing. And its not that a cartoon can't be strictly commercial anymore, but there is a greater demand for edutaining children's programs now, with more of a focus on child delevlopment than child entertainment, and there are broadcasting restrictions on children's content and how much of it should be socially valuable. A lot of the strictly commercial stuff of the last ten years comes from Japan. They rule at capitalism.

And yeah, because of these changes, as well as the rise of digital television, there are no longer saturday morning cartoons. Channels that specialize in children's content have pretty much started to dominate the market in that respect, and so it doesn't make sense for the networks to aim for that audience one day a week when there are half a dozen digital channels who specialize in drawing them pretty much every hour of the day.

do they even have saturday morning cartoons anymore I thought I tuned in one day and it was Tyra Banks or Judge Judy or someone

no they still do because they show HORSELAND and DINO SQUAD which are both hilarious the first time you watch them

man though who wants to wake up saturday morning and watch educational shows?   Like seasme street being on in the evenings is one thing but saturday mornings are like the holy grail of time slots when you're 6

prob'ly should've checked whether they were on DVD first (hint: nope)

what i want to know is why the angry beavers isn't on dvd but THE SECRET WORLD OF ALEX MACK is

i want to know the sales figures for that, i want an exact number of copies of alex mack sold

Did anyone else watch lots of this in their young days?

When I was really young (6 years or less) most of the stuff they had on TV was Japanese or European (or European-Japanese). I do remember TMNT and The Land Before Time though, the latter I bought on VHS; the sequels were awful.

This was pretty scary when I was little

Russian cartoons were the best, the dubbing voice actors had a funny Russian accent

Calimero... he's Italian.

A dragon who wants to become a firefighter?

Alfred J. Kwak... he's Dutch.

Talking car anime thing

I have been watching episodes of Doug online the last few days, everyone else should too.

dude this shows actually really clever!!!!!!