UPN Kids

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UPN Kids

Type	Broadcast television network
Country	United States
Availability	National
Launch date	January 22, 1995
Closure date	September 2003

UPN Kids was part of the weekday's & weekend's children portion of the UPN's programming.

[edit] History

When UPN launched in 1995, it aired cartoons on weekends; the lineup was known as UPN Kids. In 1997, UPN went a different way with its children's program block by airing reruns of the syndicated Sweet Valley High and a new series, Breaker High on weekdays and weekends aiming the programs at teenagers. As opposed to ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX stations, some UPN affiliates aired the weekend children's program block on Sunday mornings instead of Saturdays.

UPN was one of only two of the broadcast networks (PAX was the other) not to air a children's programming block on weekend mornings. In 1999, UPN made a deal with Disney to air select programming from ABC's One Saturday Morning block (now ABC Kids) in place of the teen series. The new lineup would be called Disney's One Too. Recess and Sabrina, the Animated Series were among the programming on the original lineup. In 2002, however, Digimon: Digital Monsters moved to the lineup from Fox Kids.

After eight years of airing children's programming, UPN dropped out of the kids program business in September 2003 when Disney's contract with UPN came to an end. In 2006, UPN and The WB announced plans to launch the CW Television Network in September 2006. Kids' WB serves as part of the new network airing children shows.