ABC Kids (TV programming block)

**ABC Kids** was an American television programming block produced by ABC Productions. It was distributed by Buena Vista Television Group, a division of Disney Media Networks, which aired on ABC. It broadcasted several different children’s television series. These series were all owned by Disney Media Networks, the owner of ABC Entertainment Group. Most of them were also shown on Buena Vista Television Group’s own network Disney Channel.

## History

On September 13, 1997, _Disney's One Saturday Morning_ started out as a two-hour block on the _ABC Saturday Morning_ lineup, and aired some of the former's shows. In 1999, it was extended to 5 hours. On September 6, 1999, a spin-off, _Disney's One Too_, aired on UPN and in syndication every weekday in the morning or afternoon and Sunday morning. _One Saturday Morning_ last aired on September 7, 2002.

On September 14, 2002, Disney renamed _One Saturday Morning_ to ABC Kids. The block originally had new programs, but by the end, all of ABC Kids programs became repeats of Disney Channel originals.

_Power Rangers_ was previously aired on Fox Kids until halfway through the _Wild Force_ season, when _Power Rangers_ moved to ABC Kids for the 2002 Fall season due to the Fox Family Channel/Saban Entertainment purchase by Disney in 2001. Starting with the episode "Unfinished Business", the remainder of the _Wild Force_ season premiered on ABC Kids. During its time on both Fox Kids and ABC Kids the entire _Wild Force_ season also ran again later on ABC Family (in part both before the introduction of and during the ABC Family Action Block). The following _Ninja Storm_ season also premiered on ABC Kids and then ran again later on the ABC Family Action Block. The _Dino Thunder_, _S.P.D._, _Mystic Force_, _Operation Overdrive_ and _Jungle Fury_ seasons were all shown on Jetix and then ran again on ABC Kids. The _RPM_ season and broadcasts of the first season of _Mighty Morphin_, when revised, aired exclusively on ABC Kids.

_Power Rangers_ ended its run on ABC Kids on August 28, 2010, nationwide due to Haim Saban having bought back the intellectual rights to the franchise from Disney and giving airing rights to Nickelodeon in May 2010. Airings ended slightly earlier on August 14, 2010, on West coast affiliates caused by the 2010 Little League World Series and the E/I recovery that resulted from it. On September 4, 2010, the hour held by _Power Rangers_ was returned to the local affiliates. After its completion on ABC Kids, _Power Rangers_ moved to Nickelodeon. All new seasons (starting with the _Samurai_ season) began to show on the main Nickelodeon channel on February 7, 2011. Repeats of new seasons and all previous seasons began airing on Nicktoons on February 11, 2011.

With the rise of federally-mandated E/I programming rules, some of the network's partner groups, primarily Hearst Television and Allbritton Communications, refused to carry any show that did not meet E/I requirements (such as _Kim Possible_ or the _Power Rangers_ series during their time on ABC Kids) in order to instead free up time to air locally produced shows. However, some stations shifted the time these shows aired either to very early in the morning Saturday or to Sunday, often before local news, _Good Morning America_ and/or that week's "live" portion of the ABC Kids block began.

ABC Kids was aired for the final time on August 27, 2011. After that, ABC discontinued airing animated programming, making it the first time they did not air animated programs since September 1992, when NBC stopped airing animated programs to make room for TNBC.

### _Litton's Weekend Adventure_

On May 24, 2011, ABC announced that it had reached a deal with broadcast syndication production company Litton Entertainment to produce original content for the Saturday morning block. The _Litton's Weekend Adventure_ block launched on September 3, 2011, replacing ABC Kids.

## Other websites

- Disney's One Saturday Morning official site
- Blast From The Past 1990s ABC
- A Tribute to Disney's One Saturday Morning

## Infobox (programming block)

- **name**: ABC Kids
- **image**: ABC Kids Logo.svg
- **image size**: 177px
- **channel**: American Broadcasting Company, ABC
- **country**: United States
- **parent**: The Walt Disney Company
- **formerly known**: Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997–2002)
- **format**: Defunct Saturday morning cartoon, Saturday morning children's program block
- **runtime**: * 5 hours (1997–2004)
* 4 hours (2004–2010)
* 3 hours (2010–2011)
- **language**: English language, English
- **slogan**: ABC's block for Kids