UPN KIDS - History

History

When UPN launched in 1995, it aired cartoons Space Strikers and Teknoman on weekends; the lineup was known as UPN Kids.

In 1997, UPN went a different way with its children's program block by airing new episodes as well as reruns of the syndicated Sweet Valley High and a new series, Breaker High on weekdays and Sundays aiming the programs at teenagers.

In January 1998, UPN began talks with The Walt Disney Company to run a daily two-hour Disney kids block but the talks with Disney were called off a week later do to a dispute over branding the block and deciding how much E/I programming Disney would provide, UPN then began talks with Nickelodeon. At which time UPN made a deal with Saban Entertainment to program the block on Sunday mornings and air shows like The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Spider-Man and Big Bad Beetleborgs.

In March 1998, UPN resumed talks with Disney and in April, UPN made a deal with Disney to air Disney programming on weekday and Sunday mornings. The new lineup, a sister block to Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC, would be called Disney's One Too.

Read more about this topic:  UPN KIDS

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    Bias, point of view, fury—are they ... so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the hills flattened and the contours leveled? The professors talk ... about passion and point of view in history as a Calvinist talks about sin in the bedroom.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)