FOX Kids

**Fox Kids** (originally known as **Fox Children's Network** and later as the **Fox Kids Network**) was an American children's programming block and branding for a slate of international children's television channels. Originally a joint venture between the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) and its affiliated stations,

### Launched

September 8, 1990(Original)September 2, 2019(Revived)

### Owned by

Fox Corporation(50%)Saban Corporation(50%)

### Replaced

The Original FOX Kids(1998-2002)Xploration Station

### Sister channel(s)

Sony Wonder Kids ClubFX Kids ClubMyKidsTV

it was later owned by Fox Family Worldwide.[1]

Fox Kids originated as a programming block that aired on the Fox network from September 8, 1990 to September 7, 2002. The block aired on Saturday mornings throughout its existence (Sunday mornings in Canada), with an additional block on Monday through Friday afternoons airing until January 2002. Fox Kids is the only form of daytime television programming, outside of sports, aired by the Fox network to date.[2][3] Following then-Fox parent News Corporation's sale of Fox Kids Worldwide to The Walt Disney Company in July 2001, Fox put the remaining Saturday morning timeslot up for bidding, with 4Kids Entertainment winning and securing the rights to program that period. The Fox Kids block continued to air in repeats until September 7, 2002, and was replaced the following week (on September 14) by the 4Kids-programmed FoxBox.[4]

Outside the United States, the first Fox Kids-branded television channel launched on October 1, 1995, on Foxtel in Australia. Beginning in 2004, the international and Latin American channels were gradually relaunched under the Jetix brand following Disney's acquisition of Fox Family Worldwide.[*citation needed*]

Starting in Sept 2, FOX revived the entire block and add new shows with shows that is on it's sister block Sony Wonder Kids Club.

## End of Original Fox Kids

By 2001, members of the Fox affiliate board had felt they were on much more even footing with the "Big Three" networks and wanted to take back the time allocated to the Fox Kids programming blocks to air their own programming. Saturday mornings, long the only province of children's programming, had become a liability as the other networks started to extend their weekday morning news programs to weekends.[*citation needed*]

Fox Kids, which had been the top-rated children's program block among the major networks since 1992, had been overtaken in the ratings by ABC's *One Saturday Morning* block in 1998,[17] then by Kids' WB(later in 2019 as WB Kids) a year later with the stronger animation block backed by Warner Bros. that included shows such as *Pokémon* and *Yu-Gi-Oh!*. ABC and UPN aired mostly comedy-based cartoons at this time, with the exception of live-action teen-oriented sitcoms *Lizzie McGuire* and *Even Stevens* (both originated on Disney Channel as part of what would be a gradual takeover of ABC's Saturday morning lineup by the cable channel's programming), while CBS aired E/I compliant preschool programming from Nick Jr., and NBC was airing teen-oriented sitcoms (later to be replaced the following year by E/I-compliant programming sourced from Discovery Kids), splintering the audience. The added factor of Nickelodeon's aggressive schedule that outrated all of the broadcast networks among children on Saturday mornings[18] left Fox Kids behind, and the programmers could find no way to catch up and stand out in this crowded field. Fox Family, despite good reviews, had a 35% audience decline, which led to Fox Kids Worldwide and Fox Family Worldwide (along with Saban Entertainment) being sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2001.[*citation needed*]

After Fox Family Worldwide was sold to The Walt Disney Company in July 2001, Fox Kids was placed under the oversight of Fox Television Entertainment and moved its programming operations to Fox's headquarters on the 20th Century Fox studio lot;[1] Fox discontinued daytime children's programming in December 2001, giving the time back to its affiliates.[19] In addition, from September 2001 until the weekday block was discontinued, network flagship stations WNYW and KTTV deferred it to their UPN-affiliated sister stations while continuing to air the block on Saturday mornings.[19] Fox put its children's programming block up for bidding, and 4Kids Entertainment, then-producers of the English dub of *Pokémon*, purchased the remaining four-hour Saturday time period. Fox Kids maintained a Saturday morning-only schedule until September 7, 2002, a week before it gave the time to 4Kids Entertainment.[4]

Fox Kids was replaced by the 4Kids Entertainment-produced ***FoxBox*** on September 14, 2002. The block, renamed ***4Kids TV*** on January 22, 2005, ran until December 27, 2008, marking Fox's complete withdrawal from children's programming. It was not until 2014 that Fox would reverse course and return to children's programming with the launch of a E/I programming block called *Xploration Station*, which is produced by Steve Rotfeld Productions.

## Relaunch of Fox Kids

On June 22nd, FOX decides to make a children television block that is not only for 6-14 but for 14-16 years and has 2 e/i shows for 14-16 like Power Rangers and