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Saturday-morning cartoon

Saturday-morning cartoon is a colloquial term for the original animated television programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings in the United States on the major television networks. The genre's popularity had a broad peak from the late 1960s through the early 1990s, after this point, it declined in the face of changing cultural norms, increased competition from formats available at all times, and heavier regulations. [1] In the last two decades of the genre's existence, Saturday-morning cartoons were primarily created and aired to meet educational television mandates, or E/I. Minor television networks, in addition to the non-commercial PBS in some markets, continue to air animated programming on Saturday while partially meeting those mandates. [2] [3] In the United States, the generally accepted times for these and other children's programs to air on Saturday mornings were from 8:00 a.m. to noon Eastern Time. Until the late 1970s, American networks a...