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4Kids TV

4Kids TV (formerly FoxBox) is an American Saturday morning television programming block. The block is part of the Fox Network schedule, and is promoted as such during some of Fox's primetime programming. However, in several areas, the block airs instead on a local CW, MyNetworkTV, or independent station, or is not aired at all. As a result, there are no references to Fox during the block.

4Kids TV is the result of a four-year agreement reached in January 2002 between 4Kids Entertainment and Fox to lease the network's Saturday morning programming block. The block launched under the name "FoxBox" on September 7, 2002, replacing Fox Kids which was cancelled following the purchase of Fox Family Worldwide by The Walt Disney Company. It was re-branded 4Kids TV in January 2005. 4Kids Entertainment is wholly responsible for the content of the block and collects all advertising revenues from it.

The programming block airs on Saturday mornings in most areas of the United States, though some stations carry it on Sundays. 4Kids actually runs two competing Saturday morning lineups; on May 24 2008, 4Kids Entertaimnent replaced the Kids' WB programming block aired on The CW Television Network on Saturday mornings with a new block, The CW4Kids.

Programming

Shows on 4Kids TV include:

(The dates in parentheses are given for how long the show has been airing on 4Kids TV, repeats included, regardless of airings on other networks)

Currently active

According to the official 4Kids TV schedule, these are the shows that are currently active: 4Kids TV almost has two Saturday morning blocks on The CW (The CW4Kids) and FOX.

Show	First Air Date	Last Air Date	Running Time
Di-Gata Defenders (TV-Y7-FV)	July 28 2007	Present	8/7c
Biker Mice from Mars (TV-Y7-FV)	August 9 2008	Present	8:30/7:30c
Sonic X (TV-Y7-FV)	August 23 2003	Present	9-10/8-9c
Chaotic: M'arrillian Invasion (TV-Y7-FV)	September 13 2008	Present	10/9c
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward (TV-Y7-FV)	July 29, 2006	Present	10:30/9:30c
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (TV-Y7-FV)	September 14 2002	Present	11c/10c
Winx Club (TV-Y7-FV) (E/I)	May 22 2004	Present	11:30/10:30c

4Kids.TV Web exclusives

Released Episodes

Date	Shows	Notes
October 4	GoGoRiki	New episodes, High Defintion
October 11	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back to the Sewer	New episodes, High Defintion
October 18	Chaotic: M'arillian Invasion	New episodes, High Defintion
October 25	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's	New episodes, High Definition
November 1	Dinosaur King, Viva Piñata, Di-Gata Defenders	New episodes, High Definition (Dinosaur King, Viva Piñata)
December 27	Chaotic	Season 1, High Definition
January 10	Dinosaur King	Season 1, High Definition
January 31	Viva Piñata	Season 1, High Definition

After a show has been released, new episodes will be added weekly.

Shows on hiatus

Show	First Air Date	Last Air Date	Status
The Adrenaline Project (TV-G)	September 29, 2007	On Hiatus	(Second season announced for YTV in Canada, unknown if it will air on 4Kids TV)

Former shows

Ended in 2003

Pirate Islands (2003) (TV-Y7)
Ultraman Tiga (September 14, 2002 - 2003) (TV-Y7-FV)
Stargate Infinity (September 2002 - June 2003) (TV-Y7)
Fighting Foodons (September 14, 2002 - August 30, 2003) (TV-Y7-FV)
Back to the Future: The Animated Series (Reruns from CBS) (March 2003 - September 2003) (TV-Y7)

Ended in 2004

Cubix: Robots for Everyone (September 6, 2003 - June 12, 2004) (Reruns from Kids' WB) (TV-Y)
Cabbage Patch Kids (TV Series) (One episode aired as part of a promotion.) (TV-Y)

Ended in 2005

Alien Racers (2005) (TV-Y7)
Incredible Crash Dummies (shorts) (2004 - 2005) (TV-Y)
F-Zero GP Legend (September 4, 2004 - March 5, 2005) (TV-Y7-FV)
The Menu (Summer 2004 - Summer 2005)(TV-Y7)
Shaman King (August 30, 2003 - September 3, 2005) (TV-Y7-FV)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Lost Episodes

4kids TV has aired "The Lost Episodes" of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which is known as the Ninja Tribunal saga. 4Kids aired all thirteen "Lost Episodes" from February 9 to May 3, 2008. These episodes are from Season 5. The entire season was sent to DVD May 20, 2008.

Relationship with FOX and broadcast ambiguities

The block has a somewhat unusual relationship to the Fox Network. The programming is produced for Fox and offered to Fox affiliates first, so the Fox affiliate in any given area has right of first refusal. In the event a Fox affiliate or in some cases an O & O, Owned and Operated, Fox affliate opts not to carry 4Kids TV the block then is available in the market for another television station to pick up.

Most 4Kids TV programming does not meet the criteria to be considered educational and does not count toward the 3 hour per week mandatory educational children's programming quotas. The lone current exception is Winx Club. Previous exceptions included The Adrenaline Project, Magical DoReMi, Stargate Infinity, reruns of Back to the Future: the Animated Series, and Cubix.

Markets where 4Kids TV does not run at all

Atlanta, GA - WAGA FOX Affiliate
Austin, TX - KTBC FOX Affiliate
Birmingham, AL - WBRC FOX Affiliate
Greensboro, NC - WGHP FOX Affiliate
Greenwood, MS - WABG-DT2 FOX Affiliate (station does not sign on until 4PM on Saturdays, or earlier if there are sports scheduled)
Mushroom Kingdom - WGFO (formerly a NBC station, then UPN)

Markets where 4Kids TV runs on a MyNetworkTV affiliate

Chicago, IL - WFLD FOX Affiliate, WPWR-TV MyNetworkTV Affiliate (FTSG duopoly)
Miami, FL - WSVN FOX Affiliate, WBFS MyNetworkTV Affiliate
Portland, OR - KPTV FOX Affiliate, KPDX MyNetworkTV Affiliate (Meredith duopoly)
Tucson, AZ - KMSB-TV FOX Affiliate, KTTU MyNetworkTV Affiliate (Belo duopoly)
Detroit, MI - WJBK FOX affiliate, WMYD MyNetworkTV affiliate (airs 4Kids TV on Sundays due to previous affiliation with The WB)
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX - KDFW FOX Affiliate, KDFI MyNetworkTV Affiliate (FTSG duopoly)
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, KMSP-TV FOX Affiliate, WFTC MyNetworkTV Affiliate (FTSG duopoly)
San Antonio, Texas - KABB FOX Affiliate, KMYS MyNetworkTV Affiliate (Sinclair duopoly)

Markets where 4Kids TV runs on an affiliate of The CW

Note: These CW affiliates run 4Kids TV on Sundays, due to their obligation to carry the The CW4Kids Saturday block.

Cleveland, OH - WJW FOX affiliate, WBNX The CW affiliate
Fresno - KMPH FOX affiliate, KFRE The CW affiliate (Pappas duopoly)
Phoenix, AZ - KSAZ FOX affiliate, KASW The CW affiliate
Omaha, NE - KPTM FOX Affiliate, KXVO The CW affiliate (Pappas duopoly)

New World stations and 4Kids TV

Dating back to the Fox Kids days, the stations that Fox acquired from New World Communications in 1996 generally do not air 4Kids TV. In some of the New World markets, 4Kids is not aired on any station. In a majority of these markets, an independent station carries this block: in others, the MyNetworkTV affiliate carries it: in still others, the CW affiliate carries it. The exception is St. Louis, Missouri, where KTVI carries 4Kids TV (2 hours early, beginning at 5:00).

KTVK and KASW

KASW then signed on in September 1995 on channel 61. It was originally owned by the Brooks family and immediately secured a local marketing agreement with MAC America Communications, then owner of KTVK. KTVK bought the entire broadcast day on the station to run shows that did not fit into KTVK's schedule. The WB affiliation also went from KTVK to KASW. The station ran syndicated cartoons, Kids' WB! cartoons, first-run shows from The WB Television Network, classic sitcoms, recent sitcoms, old movies, and eventually Fox Kids by the end of 1996.

KNXV officially became Phoenix's ABC affiliate in January 1995, and KTVK nominally became the market's WB affiliate. However, it only showed WB programming on Saturday nights, so it was essentially an independent station. It also ran Fox Kids in the early afternoons and weekend mornings for about a year. The station aired Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and several off-network sitcoms during prime time.

KTVK owned a huge programming inventory, but lacked enough time in its broadcast day to air it all even after dropping ABC. As such, when the Brooks family launched a new station, KASW, in September, KTVK immediately entered into a local marketing agreement with the new station. KASW became a WB affiliate, and KTVK bought the new station's entire broadcast day. KTVK then reinstated Saturday morning newscasts.

Ironically, since 2001 Fox owned both KSAZ Fox 10 and KUTP My 45 (then UPN 45). It was thought that 4Kids TV would move to Channel 45 but Fox still passed on it even for their second station in that market. It therefore remained on KASW.

Markets where 4Kids TV runs on a current independent station

Kansas City, MO - WDAF-TV FOX Affiliate, KMCI Independent (38 The Spot) (airs 4Kids TV on Saturdays at 8am)
Milwaukee, WI - WITI FOX Affiliate, WMLW-CA Independent (airs 4Kids TV on Sundays at 8am )
Tampa, FL - WTVT FOX Affiliate, WMOR-TV Independent (airs 4Kids TV on Sundays at 8am)