The Definitive Origins of Fox Kids - Fox Kids Club Episode 01

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The Definitive Origins of Fox Kids - Fox Kids Club Episode 01

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It's the end of the 1980s. Television is changing. Kids TV is now big business and entering the beginnings of a renaissance after decades of malaise. We look into the origins of Fox Kids, and it's not as cut and dry as many would have you believe...
00:00 - Support the project on Patreon
00:38 - Introduction
03:38 - Part 1: Independent Beginnings
19:57 - Part 2: Fox In The Henhouse
40:06 - Part 3: Building The Network
57:11 - Why Does Fox Kids Matter?
Special thanks to Sammi Brie and Jeff Harris for research help. Thanks to Lexi for giving me a FANTASTIC vector of the 1987 Fox logo to use in the original thumbnail. And finally, very special thanks to Pop Arena ( / poparena ) for providing the inspiration for this series. Please, check out his Nick Knacks series, it's fantastic!

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@fzerofan3409 Күн бұрын

I hope more videos are coming soon. Very good material and analysis

@nicksullivan4994 6 ай бұрын

I Really miss 1998-1999 FOX Family Channel!😭❤️📺🎶👍🏻

@DigiRangerScott Жыл бұрын

55:58 I would probably be a little more in the dark with the way WPIX acknowledges its history a bit more, and only went by “The CW 11” for about 2 years and has been PIX 11 again ever since

@thinkabout42 Жыл бұрын

I'm honestly in an incredible awe right now as I see people still talking about Fox Kids in 2022! Both that and Jetix are vital parts of my childhood since those "channels" (not sure what's the correct terminology would be here) lived a bit longer in European countries and also here in Russia.

@chelmrtz Жыл бұрын

Excellent start to the series! Looking forward to the next chapter.

@tedyburger 4 ай бұрын

I remember FOX KIDS CLUB Houston. Being huge! With Karen Kay. She was super popular during that time!

@DanZero77 Жыл бұрын

This reminded me when WNEW would have Popeye at 2:15 in 1984! At 2:00 they would have news for 15 minutes. They were the best that year!

@SpongeyTheEditor Жыл бұрын

I'm mostly here for Goosebumps but since that's all the way in 1995 I'll watch the rest of this too lol, Fox Kids was before my time so this should be fun. Cool that most of the big stuff is preserved but sad some of it is still not as well known.

@melasnexperience 10 ай бұрын

Gotta say, I love how many of the examples of local programming (old & current) are from the Philadelphia area. It's super nostalgic, especially good ol Philly 57.

@HulkieD 10 ай бұрын

I mean, that's where I'm from, so of course I'm biased. I love the shit out of Philly 57, it's probably my gold standard for exciting, fun television station presentation.

@nicksullivan4994 6 ай бұрын

I remember watching FOX Kids on FOX 29 WFTC!❤️📺🎶👍🏻

@BalmungHH0 Жыл бұрын

What an interesting time in history. In my childhood, I got into the block during the later years when Digimon was the big thing. Looking forward to future episodes of this. :)

@roysmith4863 5 ай бұрын

This popped up and I’m gonna start tuning in I am a huge fox kids fan that was my Saturday morning so many dope cartoons so many memories

@ArMartz Жыл бұрын

Will you add closed captioning? Great first episode of FKC, BTW. =D

@user-or6vr9ho3j 6 күн бұрын

Awesome

@bluebaron6858 6 ай бұрын

I hope more is made please

@mystical.alexis 7 ай бұрын

Interesting video, thank you! Ahh, Pirates of Dark Water AND Peter Pan and the Pirates, both featuring Tim Curry as a captain of pirates... it was a good time to be a Tim Curry fan...

@HulkieD 7 ай бұрын

Yessssssssss lol. Peter Pan is the next episode and Dark Water's coming up a little after that!

@nathanforester5993 Жыл бұрын

I hope you will eventually talk about the Saban produced shows like Beetleborgs.

@bechak2001 Ай бұрын

Using the novel 4th network, Fox Broadcasting Company arrived in 1987, but it wasn't long until a key war against a splinter group of federal communication commission employees that gave birth to Fox Kids later Fox Family Worldwide after purchasing International Family Entertainment and merging with Saban Entertainment which the first channel would later be succeeded sooner rather than later with Jetix and then after Disney bought Jetix Europe VN it was converted into Disney Extra Dimensional meanwhile Disney Toons premiered in 1998 until 2006 when the European versions of Disney Toons became Disney Cinemagic with 2 blocks 1 on Sky Italy and other on Disney Latin America until shutting down in different ways and being succeeded by different Disney channels from Movistar to being succeeded by Disney Plus Sky then Plus again and eventually Sky New Zealand Saint Television with Sky UK.

@HeroJournalism 5 ай бұрын

Great job, but you underplayed X-Men a bit, it was an instant #1 hit (Fox Kids was in 4th place before X-Men) and was a shock to the industry. It jolted the rival networks to abruptly launch their own (doomed) action competitors. But X-Men hitting #1 in it's timeslot was huge for FK; yeah, B:TAS had already debuted on weekdays, but XMTAS revolutionized Saturday mornings

@MangaDungeon 5 ай бұрын

Im sure ive mentioned this on Blusky or whatever but.... its illegal how you don't have a bajillion subs. Everyone needs to stop playing around and waiting till you get to like Escalfone and Digimon and just watch the videos now!

@PlatformerFan Жыл бұрын

Well done.

@DigiRangerScott Жыл бұрын

For WNYW in NY, as far as court shows go, it was The People’s Court that would get its slot. Here, Judge Judy only ever moved between (W)CBS and (W)NBC

@HulkieD Жыл бұрын

Yeah - it wasn't a one size fits all replacement. (Judy was already the lead-out on Fox 29 Philly, and was simply moved to the 4pm hour when FK left the building.) I think Karn Family Feud moved over from then-co owned WWOR.

@DigiRangerScott Жыл бұрын

@@HulkieD I wish I remembered more about weekday Fox Kids and who were the immediate replacements in the slots