NBC Kids

NBC Kids was an American Saturday morning children's television programming block that aired on NBC from July 7, 2012 to September 24, 2016. Telemundo also aired a version of the block under the "MiTelemundo" title, which featured a separate lineup of Spanish-dubbed programs until December 31, 2017. NBC Kids, which replaced the Qubo block (as a result of NBCUniversal dropping out of the joint venture, which also included Ion Media Networks), was programmed by the other Sprout preschool cable network, as they were both targeted at children ages 2 to 6.
The three-hour block featured educational entertainment series for younger children, which met programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission's Children's Television Act.
The block was replaced by Litton Entertainment's The More You Know, which features live-action educational programming on October 8, 2016 on NBC, and January 6, 2018 on Telemundo (retaining the MiTelemundo title).
== History[edit] ==
On March 28, 2012, NBC announced that the three-hour children's programming time period allocated by the network on Saturday mornings would be taken over by Sprout (which had become a sister television property to NBC following parent company NBCUniversal's 2010 majority purchase by Comcast; NBC later took full ownership of the network, whose owners previously included Sesame Workshop and HIT Entertainment) and launch a new Saturday morning block called NBC Kids, which was aimed at preschoolers and grade school-aged children ages 2 to 6. Sprout also produced a Spanish-language sister block for Telemundo known as MiTelemundo.
NBC Kids debuted on July 7, 2012, one week after the Qubo block ended its run on both NBC and Telemundo on June 30 (leaving Ion Television as the only network to retain a Qubo-branded children's block, as Ion Media Networks was now sole owner of the Qubo properties including the flagship Qubo Channel television service).
On October 8, 2016, NBC Kids was replaced by The More You Know, a live action educational block produced by Litton Entertainment. MiTelemundo continued with its prior format until January 6, 2018, when Telemundo relaunched MiTelemundo with Spanish-language dubs of The More You Know's programming.
== Programming[edit] ==
=== Final programming[edit] ===
==== NBC[edit] ====
===== Original programming[edit] =====
Title 	Premiere date 	End date 	Source(s)
Noodle and Doodle 	July 7, 2012 	September 24, 2016	
The Chica Show 	February 2, 2013	September 24, 2016	
Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave	July 4, 2015 	September 24, 2016	
Nina's World 	January 2, 2016 	September 24, 2016	
Floogals 	February 6, 2016	September 24, 2016	
Terrific Trucks 	July 16, 2016 	September 24, 2016	
===== Acquired programming[edit] =====
Title 	Premiere date 	End date 	Source(s)
Poppy Cat 	July 7, 2012 	June 1, 2013 	
Poppy Cat 	October 4, 2014 	September 26, 2015	
Justin Time 	July 7, 2012 	September 27, 2014	
Pajanimals 	July 7, 2012 	January 26, 2014 	
Astroblast! 	October 4, 2014 	July 10, 2016 	
LazyTown 	July 7, 2012 	March 27, 2016 	
The Wiggles 	July 7, 2012 	February 2, 2013 	
Tree Fu Tom 	June 8, 2013 	January 2, 2016 	
Make Way for Noddy	October 12, 2013	March 29, 2014 	
Zou 	April 5, 2014 	September 27, 2014	
Earth to Luna! 	April 4, 2015 	January 30, 2016 	
Clangers 	October 3, 2015 	March 26, 2016