[4KIDS NEWS] Say Hello to the "Fox Box"
Matt W.
their block. It's called the "Fox Box". Here's our official lineup, as
detailed in Broadcasting and Cable:
8am: STARGATE INFINITY
8:30am: ULTRAMAN TIGA
9am: KIRBY
9:30am: KINNIKUMAN: ULTIMATE MUSCLE
10am: ULTRAMAN TIGA(new TMNT series begins in this slot in 2003)
10:30am KINNIKUMAN(different ep than 9:30 Kinnikuman)
11am: KIRBY(different ep)
11:30am: FOOD FEUD
Here's the B&C article, discussing the promotion plans. Seems like Fox is
going to promote this more than it ever has promoted FK in its final years:
4Kids Opens Lid on ‘Fox Box’
By John Eggerton
Broadcasting & Cable
5/14/2002 3:44:00 PM
Programmer and product-licensing company 4Kids Entertainment Inc. has
unveiled the name -- 'Fox Box' -- and lineup for its new
Saturday-morning children's block on Fox stations.
The programmer paid $100 million for a four-year shot at programming
Fox's Saturday-morning block after the network sold off its children's
programming to The Walt Disney Co. as part of its $5 billion sale of
Fox Family Entertainment Inc.
4Kids joins Nickelodeon, which programs co-owned CBS' Saturday
morning, and Discovery Communications Inc., which has dibs on NBC, in
the growing ranks of network programmers-by-proxy.
4Kids is arguably best known for producing The WB Television Network's
Pokémon series, which, as expected, remains on that network.
But it has a well-thought-out strategy for capturing the hearts,
minds, eyeballs and, eventually, parents' pocketbooks of its young
viewers with a lineup of shows including another Nintendo spinoff,
Kirby.
Fox Box debuts Sept. 14. Inside (subject to some fine-tuning of the
times) will be: Stargate Infinity (8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.); Ultraman Tiga
(8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.); Kirby (9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.); Kinnikuman:
Ultimate Muscle (9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.); a new Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles (beginning first-quarter 2003, with a second Ultraman until
then, 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.); more Ultimate Muscle and Kirby from
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (they will be different episodes, as well);
and a heaping helping of Food Feud, featuring the 'secret art of
culinary combat,' at 11:30 a.m.
The lineup features predominately Japanese imports with strong track
records in that country.
Per its contract with Fox, there is one Federal Communications
Commission-friendly show, Stargate Infinity from DIC Entertainment.
4Kids CEO Al Kahn said his company's goal is to get kids 'invested' in
Fox Box, adding that his company is investing 'millions and millions'
in marketing dollars to achieve that goal.
Kahn said Fox has given the company some spots to promote the lineup
in shows that skew younger, including The Simpsons and Malcolm in the
Middle, but 4Kids has also made 52-week buys on competing networks to
promote the block.
Kahn has also lined up some partners for an in-store summer promotion
in which 4Kids will give away 'Fox Boxes' containing video or DVD
samplings of the shows, plus tchotchkes.
In addition, Fox will run a prime time special promoting the block
sometime in late August or early September, according to Kahn.
While 4Kids clearly hopes to cash in on the block -- and help defray
some of that $100 million price tag -- through lucrative
product-licensing deals, Kahn said the shows will have to prove
themselves first.
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Burgundy Ranger
>
>Yes, they have FINALLY announced their new schedule-- and the new name for
>their block. It's called the "Fox Box". Here's our official lineup, as
>detailed in Broadcasting and Cable:
(snip)
Ahhh, and Matt completes the hat trick. I know I went immediately into "post"
mode
without checking the NG first.
But, Batman's right. ABC/ABCFam have no more excuses. I had half a hunch they
might
unveil the Saturday lineup as an offshoot of today's primetime upfront, but they
didn't.
I'm thinking it has to come out by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, before
everyone
scatters for the Memorial Day weekend.
Burgundy Ranger
>
>In article <20020514162256...@mb-mg.aol.com>, Matt W. says...
>>
>>Yes, they have FINALLY announced their new schedule-- and the new name for
>>their block. It's called the "Fox Box". Here's our official lineup, as
>>detailed in Broadcasting and Cable:
>
>(snip)
>
http://news.toonzone.net/images/foxbox.jpg
mike quAsAr
That's pretty sad looking.
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says...
> >
> >In article <20020514162256...@mb-mg.aol.com>, Matt W. says...
> >>
> >>Yes, they have FINALLY announced their new schedule-- and the new name
for
> >>their block. It's called the "Fox Box". Here's our official lineup, as
> >>detailed in Broadcasting and Cable:
It's a change...
ShadowForce
For those who don't like it (personally, since I'll probably never watch the
network, I think it looks fine), maybe it's just a preliminary logo, like
that weird PRLG one from Funaroverse and that LR one that Sir Stack had in
the "affiliates" snaps. Although, simply changing "KIDS" to "BOX" and
keeping the same color setup would be a little weird.
What's worse: All those promos on the Fox side of things will have to be
covered by our Fox station, since I doubt ol' Fox 8 will carry the kids'
lineup. (They never have, yet they had the PRT cast interview back in 1997.
Go figure...) They'd rather run syndie-X-Files and syndie-VIP in the
mornings. Oh, and the double-run of "In The House"... we can't forget that.
Maybe things will change and they'll carry it to compete with Kids' WB. Who
knows?
Yellow Lightning
news:20020514162256...@mb-mg.aol.com...
> Yes, they have FINALLY announced their new schedule-- and the new name for
> their block. It's called the "Fox Box". Here's our official lineup, as
> detailed in Broadcasting and Cable:
ROFL! The Fox Box? Im sorry, but that just sounds really stupid.
> 8am: STARGATE INFINITY
> 8:30am: ULTRAMAN TIGA
> 9am: KIRBY
> 9:30am: KINNIKUMAN: ULTIMATE MUSCLE
> 10am: ULTRAMAN TIGA(new TMNT series begins in this slot in 2003)
> 10:30am KINNIKUMAN(different ep than 9:30 Kinnikuman)
> 11am: KIRBY(different ep)
> 11:30am: FOOD FEUD
I don't anything about these new shows, so I can't comment. But I will watch
to see how it all looks. And I'll defenetly tune in for the Turtles.
> Here's the B&C article, discussing the promotion plans. Seems like Fox is
> going to promote this more than it ever has promoted FK in its final
years:
And then they'll wonder why this block will get better ratings..........
> 4Kids Opens Lid on 'Fox Box'
>
> By John Eggerton
> Broadcasting & Cable
> 5/14/2002 3:44:00 PM
>
> Programmer and product-licensing company 4Kids Entertainment Inc. has
> unveiled the name -- 'Fox Box' -- and lineup for its new
> Saturday-morning children's block on Fox stations.
>
> The programmer paid $100 million for a four-year shot at programming
> Fox's Saturday-morning block after the network sold off its children's
> programming to The Walt Disney Co. as part of its $5 billion sale of
> Fox Family Entertainment Inc.
That makes it sound like all the FK programs were sold........
(snip)
> Kahn said Fox has given the company some spots to promote the lineup
> in shows that skew younger, including The Simpsons and Malcolm in the
> Middle, but 4Kids has also made 52-week buys on competing networks to
> promote the block.
This is what FK needed to do. Not change the lineup and hope the ratings
will go up.
> Kahn has also lined up some partners for an in-store summer promotion
> in which 4Kids will give away 'Fox Boxes' containing video or DVD
> samplings of the shows, plus tchotchkes.
O_O Looks like they really want this block to succeed. And what's a
tchotchkes?
> In addition, Fox will run a prime time special promoting the block
> sometime in late August or early September, according to Kahn.
What?! Geez, are you guys over at FK reading this? THIS is how you promote a
kids block.
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It's more ugly than sad.