CBS Kidshow

The CBS Kidshow (originally known as Think CBS Kids) was an American Saturday morning children's programming block that aired on CBS from September 13, 1997 to September 9, 2000. Originally a network-programmed block, Nelvana took over programming responsibilities on October 3, 1998.
== History ==
=== Think CBS Kids ===
In 1997, taking advantage of the tightened Children's Television Act regulations instituted the previous year by the Federal Communications Commission that required broadcasters to carry three hours of educational programming each week, CBS launched an all-"educational/informational" Saturday morning lineup for the 1997-98 season, known as Think CBS Kids (which served as both the block's branding and tagline). The block consisted entirely of live-action series (marking the first time that CBS did not feature animated series within its children's program lineup) – including the youth-oriented game show Wheel 2000 (a spin-off of the syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune), which aired simultaneously on the Game Show Network; Sports Illustrated for Kids (a series based on the youth-oriented magazine spun off from Sports Illustrated); The Weird Al Show; Fudge; The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (a reboot of the popular public television series); and Beakman's World. The one-minute youth-oriented series of segments, In the News, was also briefly revived as part of the new block, hosted by Dan Raviv, a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for CBS Radio News. Think CBS Kids suffered from low ratings as a whole, resulting in the network canceling most of the block's shows after four months. Fudge was subsequently replaced by reruns of CBS Storybreak (the show and Beakman's World were both carried over from the network's previous children's block CBS Kidz).
=== Relaunch as the CBS Kidshow ===
In January 1998, CBS entered into a programming agreement with the Canada-based animation studio Nelvana to program the Saturday morning time slot allocated to children's programming. Think CBS Kids was planned to relaunch as the CBS Kidshow on September 19 of that year, but CBS delayed the block's relaunch to October 3. The new block featured several first-run series co-produced by Nelvana and CBS.
In June 2000, a few months after Viacom (which CBS founded in 1952 as television syndication distributor CBS Films, Inc., and later spun off in 1971 after the then-recently implemented Financial Interest and Syndication Rules barred networks from holding financial interest in syndicated programming content) completed its $37 billion merger with CBS Corporation (which was the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation that purchased CBS in 1995), CBS reached an agreement with new corporate cousin Nickelodeon to air programming from the cable channel's preschool-oriented block Nick Jr. beginning that September. Prior to the deal, former Nick Jr. series Rupert moved to the CBS Kidshow block in January 1999, as part of an agreement in which both it and another animated series, Franklin, swapped networks (with Franklin moving from CBS to the Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon). The CBS Kidshow block ended its run on April 29, 2000, and was replaced the following week on May 6 by CBS Kidz.
== Programming ==
Title 	Release
The Alvin Show 	1961-1962
Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV Series) 	1983-1990
Star Wars: Droids 	1985-1986
Ewoks 	1985-1986
The Berenstain Bears (1985 Series) 	1985-1987
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Series)	1987-1997
Garfield and Friends 	1988-1994
Eek! The Cat 	1992-1997
Power Rangers Series
* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1995)
* Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers (1996)
* Power Rangers Zeo (1996)
* Power Rangers Turbo (1997)
* Power Rangers in Space (1998)
* Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999)
* Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (2000)	1993-2000
VR Troopers 	1994–1996
Masked Rider 	1994-1996
Big Bad Beetleborgs 	1996-1998
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation 	1997-1998
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog 	1998-1999
The Adventures of Mordecai and Rigby 	1998-2000