Why did Vortexx fail? It had more availability than Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel?
Why did Vortexx fail? It had more availability than Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel?
Why did Vortexx fail? It had more availability than Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel?
The CW is known for live action schlock, not cartoons.
Anyone?
if you need to ask that then it means your thread is shit
By the time it aired, all the other networks had dropped Saturday morning cartoons. The target audience wasn't looking to network television for these kinds of shows anymore.
Hell, they weren't even looking to television in general by this point. Vortexx was an absurd anachronism that probably only millennial boomers watched.
4Kids was on the verge, if not bankrupt by that time.
It wasn't done by 4Kids though. It was done by Saban. The block had replaced The CW4Kids
Nothing but reruns is not a good way to run a block.
Vortexx was essentially a reskinned version of CW 4Kids. It has the same pattern too: adding more syndicated shows at first (this time there's wrestling), and losing said shows later on. The block sustains itself with syndication, but it can't rely on it forever. Vortexx at least had more effort early on by having bumpers and The Hub-esqe redubs, but they went away as more shows left. In retrospect Vortexx was a good send off to 2000-2010's Saturday morning cartoons, but it repeated the same mistakes other blocks have done.
>t. 4Kids > Kids WB > CW 4Kids > CW 4Kids Toonzai! > Vortexx
And I'm still upset DBZ Kai and Digimon Fusion hadn't concluded.
kids wb went through a lot of weird name changes.
I liked that they aired the Tiny Toons halloween special. It was a pleasant surprise to see something related to Tiny Toons airing on broadcast TV. Its a shame the show itself (aside from the halloween special) never aired on the block
Most of the shows they aired were basically reruns of anime and import shows that already ended plus by this time kids were already watching cartoons on the internet so this block was basically outdated
Many reasons but for me it's that it didn't have enough personality to captivate new or nostalgic audiences.
This block failing led to Sonic X no longer airing on tv once the block shut down
The network only aired it in Saturdays, so you tell me.
ABC, CBS, and NBC only aired cartoons on Saturdays and they did incredibly well back in the 70s and 80s
Yeah and what's the biggest difference between then and now you fricking moron? Hint: you're doing it right now.
The Internet
You know how it was cheaper to acquire shows then make new shows for the education requirement?
It was EVEN cheaper to produce insanely low budget live action Litton shows and not remotely have to pretend one meets educational requirements. Plus that educational programming is required for the main broadcast channels and little we’re watching Saturday cartoons anymore so everyone switched to that
Litton's garbage meets the E/I standard far better than what Disney passed off in the last years of ABC Kids. They claimed that Power Rangers and the Disney kid sitcoms were educational.