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The WB Television Network was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995,as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company,with the former acting as controlling partner. The network aired programs targeting teenagers and young adults between the ages of 13 and 34,while its children's division,Kids' WB,targeted children between the ages of 6 and 12.
Bratz is an American fashion doll and media franchise created by former Mattel employee Carter Bryant for MGA Entertainment,which debuted in 2001.
8 Simple Rules is an American television sitcom originally starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal as middle-class parents Paul and Cate Hennessy,raising their three children. Kaley Cuoco,Amy Davidson,and Martin Spanjers co-starred as their teenage kids:Bridget,Kerry,and Rory Hennessy. The series ran on ABC from September 17,2002,to April 15,2005. The first season focused on Paul being left in charge of the children after Cate takes a full-time job as a nurse,with comedic emphasis on his often strict rules concerning his daughters and dating. The series' name and premise were derived from the book 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter by W. Bruce Cameron.
4Kids TV was an American television programming block and Internet-based video on demand children's network operated by 4Kids Entertainment. It originated as a weekly block on Saturday mornings on the Fox network,which was created out of a four-year agreement reached on January 22,2002,between 4Kids Entertainment and Fox to lease the five-hour Saturday morning time slot occupied by the network's existing children's program block,Fox Kids. It was targeted at children aged 7–11. The 4Kids TV block was part of the Fox network schedule,although it was syndicated to other broadcast television stations in certain markets where a Fox affiliate declined to air it.
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Tokyo Mew Mew is a Japanese manga series created and written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by Mia Ikumi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi from September 2000 to February 2003,with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. It focuses on five girls infused with the DNA of endangered animals which gives them special powers and allows them to transform into "Mew Mews". Led by Ichigo Momomiya,the girls protect Earth from aliens who wish to "reclaim" it.
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Pokémon:Indigo League is the first season of the Pokémon animated television series known in Japan as Pocket Monsters. It originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 1,1997,to January 21,1999. It later aired in the United States in first-run syndication from September 8 to November 20,1998,and on Kids' WB/The WB from February 13 to November 27,1999,concluding with the airing of the previously unreleased episode 18 on June 24,2000.
One Piece is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation that premiered on Fuji TV in October 1999. It is based on Eiichiro Oda's manga series of the same name. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy,a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. With his crew,named the Straw Hat Pirates,Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the world's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next Pirate King.
Toonzai was an American Saturday morning cartoon children's television block that aired on The CW from May 24,2008 to August 18,2012. The block was created as a result of a four-year agreement between 4Kids Entertainment and The CW. The original name for the block from May 24,2008 to August 7,2010,The CW4Kids,was retained as a sub-brand through the end of the block's run in order to fulfill branding obligations per 4Kids Entertainment's contract to lease The CW's Saturday morning time slots. The name is a portmanteau of "toon" and the Japanese term banzai,reflecting the majority of anime programming on the block.
The broadcast of educational children's programming by terrestrial television stations in the United States is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),under regulations colloquially referred to as the Children's Television Act (CTA),the E/I rules,or the Kid Vid rules. Since 1997,all full-power and Class A low-power broadcast television stations have been required to broadcast at least three hours per-week of programs that are specifically designed to meet the educational and informative (E/I) needs of children aged 16 and younger. There are also regulations on advertising in broadcast and cable television programming targeting children 12 and younger,including limits on ad time,and prohibiting the airing of advertising for products related to the program currently airing.
The fifth and final season of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters,loosely based on the manga by Kazuki Takahashi,aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from December 24,2003,to September 29,2004. The official name of the latter arc of the season is Pharaoh's Memories arc. In the United States,the season aired from August 27,2005,to June 10,2006,on Kids' WB and broadcast under the Grand Championship and Dawn of the Duel subtitles.
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