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''Toonturama'' is an American
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that airs on the
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UniMás UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. ...
(formerly known as Telefutura Network) which debuted on January 15, 2002 ("Mi Tele") and January 19, 2002 ("Toonturama" and "Toonturama Junior"). The four-hour block—which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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and
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—features
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and
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aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14. It was the network's attempt to have a Saturday morning block. Programs featured on the block consist of a mixture of series originally produced in Spanish and dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English. All shows featured on ''Toonturama'' are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the
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(FCC) via the
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.


History


Mi Tele

On December 15, 2001, UniMás (then known as Telefutura) plans to announced that it would debuted three children's programming blocks with the new weekday and Saturday and Sunday morning cartoon blocks was premiered on January 15 ("Mi Tele"), and January 19, 2002 ("Toonturama" and "Toonturama Junior"), one day after the network was launched on January 14. Featuring live-action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14. It was planned to launch a new block, as part of the programming consisting four to eight shows for 30-minute episodes and aimed at marking the first time that exclusively animated cartoons for different youth audiences. The first children's block, "Mi Tele" ("My TV"), a two-hour animation block on weekday mornings featuring a mix of imported Spanish-language cartoons such as '' Fantaghiro'' and ''El Nuevo Mundo de los Gnomos'' (" The New World of the Gnomes"), as well as the originally produced in English as the Zodiac Entertainment cartoon series, '' Mr. Bogus'' and the Nelvana cartoon series, '' Anatole'' debuted on January 15, 2002. Later on March 15, 2002, the ''Mi Tele'' originally cartoon block ended. The following week on Monday, the featuring with the youth-targeted children's
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s ('' Carrusel'', '' Luz Clarita'', '' Gotita de Amor'' and '' Rayito de Luz'') airs on the block beginning on March 18, 2002, as part of the update scheduled programming. Though the block was intended to air on weekday mornings on the holidays some of the years. However, some of the youth-targeted novelas aired on ''Mi Tele'' block weekday morning or ''Toonturama'' weekend morning cartoon block will delayed in order next week and full schedule on Sunday due to the network will picking line-up with all of the holidays and family movies marathon with the attempt of animated movies by
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Telefutura Network has distribution and acquired the rights to air on the Warner Bros. animated series within movies by
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,
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and
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such as ''
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'' (" Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" and " Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost"), ''
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'' (" The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie"), ''
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'' (" Tom and Jerry: The Movie"), ''
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'' (" Jetsons: The Movie") and '' Batman: The Animated Series'' (" Batman: Mask of the Phantasm"). On December 24, 2002, Telefutura Network acquired the rights to the popular Warner Bros. Animation television cartoon series, ''
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'', and it was partly for this reason why some of Telefutura's most popular programs (most notably ''Animaniacs'') were mainly not included as part of the "Mi Tele" or "Toonturama" block, especially during the more open-formatted cartoon block era. However, Telefutura was planned to added in the feature-length direct-to-video movie as the Spanish-dubbed language including '' Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish'', aired on the holiday movie briefly on December 24, 2002, to September 5, 2005, instead. On August 7, 2007, ''Mi Tele'' ended its run, its last program being '' Mujeres Engañadas'' were discontinued. Telefutura kept some of the programming on the second children's cartoon block ''Toonturama'' until September 30, 2012.


Toonturama

On January 19, 2002, Telefutura Network (now UniMás) was a two separate known as occupied by the children's programming blocks named, "Toonturama" and "Toonturama Junior" were launched. – It was first four hours of the secondary weekend schedule which features some programs compliant with Federal Communications Commission and educational programming requirements – on the airs for four-hours each Saturday and Sunday mornings at 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, the other remaining weekend time periods are filled with
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s. The introduced a new logo with font text (Rat Fink Heavy) with different colors (red and black with the extruded font, and white text for "Toonturama") alongside bumpers and promos with the CGI computer-animated and controlled by TelevisaUnivision USA (formerly Univision Communications; same as the block was launched as " Planeta U" on September 15, 2001, which is designer along with the 3D computer-animated with bumpers and promos on
Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the L ...
), where was tasked with overhauling Univision, Telefutura and Galavisión's Saturday and Sunday morning lineup in order to compete against the arch-rival network,
Telemundo Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. It provides content ...
weekend children's block, " Telemundo Kids". The block included a four-hour lineup that consisted mainly of dubbed versions of American, Canadian, and European animated series. The network opted to fully program the block with shows acquired from various programming production companies and distributors. After the network premiered on January 14, 2002, in the next day, Telefutura entered into a programming three-year agreement with the Canada-based animated studio
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(owned by
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) to program the "Mi Tele" and "Toonturama" block for the first US network deal with the Spanish-dubbed aired on the block has originally produced in English including '' Anatole'', ''
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'', '' Stickin' Around'', '' Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'', '' Mythic Warriors'', '' Tales from the Cryptkeeper'' and '' The Dumb Bunnies'', as well as the Japanese
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series (such as '' Lost Universe'', '' Tenchi Universe'', and ''
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'') as part of its inaugural lineup. ''Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'' and ''Tales from the Cryptkeeper'', was the only exception that two cartoons series are previously aired with the original English predecessor premiered on September 18, 1993, from the both networks,
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and ABC's children block on Saturday morning cartoons. On February 8, 2002, Telefutura began discussions and partnership with the Madrid-based animation studio
BRB Internacional BRB Internacional S.A.U was a Spanish licensing and production company of animated television series such as '' Around the World with Willy Fog'', ''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' and '' The World of David the Gnome''. At the end of January ...
to have the company program a daily two-hour children's block for the network, segment line-up scheduled from the series featured in the block produced in
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(such as "Super Models" and "Yolanda: Daughter of the Black Corsair"). Later in 11 days, Telefutura will be including the changing time zone on the program scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern/Pacific Time Zone in update, including the three former ''Mi Tele'' cartoon shows were moved to ''Toonturama'' including ''The New World of the Gnomes'', ''Mr. Bogus'' and ''Anatole'' (after week on the first block, ''Mi Tele'' with cartoon were ended in March 15) will be offer date premiered on March 23, 2002, until December 29, 2002. On February 25, 2002, Telefutura acquired the rights to Zodiac Entertainment (via Carlton; which is previously cartoons are executive production in the UK), was the new block featured several first-run dubbed versions of original series from production by Zodiac and Calico (owned by World Events Productions, was the first-time previously aired on the originally Univision's block such as '' Voltron: Defender of the Universe'' and '' Denver, the Last Dinosaur''), during the addition of the cartoon series and featured archived content from the programming library such as '' Mr. Bogus'' and ''
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''. Both cartoon programs originally ran on the network until 2003. On October 6, 2002, Telefutura was completely removed from the Madrid-based BRB Internacional's two cartoon series such as "The New World of the Gnomes" and "Super Models", ahead of the expiry of Telefutura's program supply deal with BRB Internacional for the passed ten-months, due to sale was brokered by Miami's Venevision International (now Cisneros Media). Venevision International inked a two-year deal to rep BRB's catalog in North America and Latin America outside
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. The network was changed the schedule and replaced by two Nelvana cartoon series (including "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" and "Tales from the Cryptkeeper") briefly which premiered as rerun in the following week. However, Telefutura was carrying over the BRB Internacional-produced shows to the block offer next year. In January 2003, Telefutura acquired the rights and plans to contract with North Hollywood-based
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, and added its first time in nearly two-years of the former Univision children's cartoon program as part of the block, "¡De Cabeza!" three cartoon shows. Univision subsequently moved forward to produce a Saturday and Sunday morning cartoon block, Toonturama (the network previously aired the three Film Roman-produced series from 2000 to 2001), for Univision's sister-network, Telefutura, which would premiere a two years afterward. Featuring based on
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characters from the popular television animated series, ''
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''. The second line-up cartoon starring
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, a character voice from the series, '' Bruno the Kid'', as well as based on the popular
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series by
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as '' Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm''. The three cartoon series aired briefly on January 4, 2003, when it was added as educational children's series, ''
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'' within Toonturama Junior block premiered in May 3 of the year. On August 2, 2003, Telefutura under the contract with
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in UK, Junior and EM.TV & Merchandising AG in Germany, premiered as a one-hour block for many of which came from the block as the preschool television series, ''
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'', '' Fairy Tale Police Department'' and '' Mummy Nanny''. Later on September 6, the block introduced animated cartoon program with entered into an agreement with Toadbag Productions, including the new popular children's animated series, '' Toad Patrol'' (also known in Spanish as "Patrulla de Sapitos"), replacing ''Bruno the Kid'' and the Japanese-anime series, ''Red Baron''. The series was an exception to the dubbing as it needed to use an English dub to fix translation issues. ''Toad Patrol'' was originally aired and it was almost exclusively carried for the animated series as it ran from September 6, 2003, to March 11, 2012. As of January 8, 2005, Telefutura removed from the Canada-based Nelvana shows (including "Ned's Newt", "The Dumb Bunnies" and Tales from the Cryptkeeper"), due to the network changing the schedule listing update to being dropped from the lineup block. However, the rival network, Telemundo's children's block, "Telemundo Kids" added ''
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'' has previously aired with its Spanish dub premiered on January 9, 2005, before Telemundo was under contract with Nelvana. "Jacob Two-Two" was the only carried over to the block's direct successor and transition to Telemundo's
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block ("Qubo en Telemundo"; along with
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and
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) debut on September 9, 2006, included a three-hour Saturday and Sunday morning block on the network in 90-minute blocks. In September 2005, Telefutura added the four cartoon shows for each Saturday morning schedule was pulling and it was acquired the rights to Australian-based children's media production,
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line-up such as '' Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers'' and the one
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(now
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) series, '' Flight Squad''. In Sunday morning, including the popular Universal Cartoon Studios cartoon series, '' Problem Child'', was based on the 1990 film by
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and "Zipi y Zape". In 2007, Telefutura reached a deal with
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, as of remain added with the brand
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television series, '' Really Wild Animals''. It was the network changed the name, and renamed as "Toonturama Presenta: La Vida Animal" (in English, "Toonturama Present: Animal Life"), were the last "Toonturama" cartoon series to be added to the block on November 4, 2007. The block aired for the final time and ended its run on September 30, 2012, without any announcement of its closure, and it was quietly replaced by the children's live-action documentary and nature series, while the network was carried of the preschool children's Spanish-language adaptation, ''Plaza Sésamo'' until 2016, when it was following week on October 7, 2012. As a result, Telefutura discontinued airing animated programming, making it the network not to air cartoon series within its children's program lineup. On September 9, 2018, in an agreement with Animaccord Animation Studio in
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, the network launched the popular Russian cartoon '' Masha and the Bear'', airing it every Sunday morning.


Toonturama Junior

The two-hour companion block that preceded it on Saturday and Sunday mornings within "Toonturama" sub-block, "Toonturama Junior", was launched on January 19, 2002. The sub-block was featuring programs aimed at preschoolers that fulfilled educational programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission's Children's Television Act (the block aired with including originally distributors by
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in Venezuela such as '' El Club de Los Tigritos'', as well as ''Rugemania'', and
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in Mexico including ''El Espacio de Tatiana'' and ''El Cubo de Donalú''). The sub-block was the preschool-age children like its competitors with Univision's sister-network,
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's live-action preschool block, " Galamiguitos". Among the programs featured preschool children series on "Toonturama Junior" was ''Plaza Sésamo'' ("City Square Sesame"), Televisa and
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's Spanish-language adaptation of ''
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'' featuring a mix of original segments featuring characters based on its U.S.-based parent series and dubbed interstitials from the aforementioned originating program, which had aired on Univision since 1995 (ahead to the original "Planeta U" block since 2001 to 2003) after a seven-year run and passed on the U.S. television rights to Telefutura at its launch.


Programming


Scheduling variances and pre-emptions

All of the programs aired within the block featured content compliant with educational programming requirements as mandated by the Children's Television Act. Though the block was intended to air on weekday mornings and Saturday and Sunday mornings, some UniMás affiliates deferred certain programs aired within the block to Saturday and Sunday afternoons, including tape delayed the entire block in order to accommodate local weekend morning newscasts, "Miami Ahora" (which is simulcast of the Univision's owned-and-operated, WLTV-23 in
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/Miami) or other programs of local interest (for example, then-affiliate KTFQ in Albuquerque, New Mexico, – now owned-and-operated by Entravision – aired the Toonturama block from timeslot at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) Monday to Friday afternoons due to select national sports broadcasts (especially in the case of
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and/or
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soccer tournaments) or the network airing with the consisted of feature films including all of the Hollywood movies earlier attempt daytime or all of the animated holiday movies produced by Warner Bros. (via
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,
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and
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) and MGM scheduled in earlier timeslots to comply with the E/I regulations. Alleviating stations carrying UniMás network programming via that feed from the responsibility of purchasing the local rights to such as paid programs. † - Indicates that the program ran on
Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the L ...
prior to the block/program moved to "Toonturama" block within Saturday and Sunday mornings.
‡ - Indicates that the original Univision's "¡De Cabeza!" block program moved to Telefutura for its series premieres.


Current programming


Former programming


Acquired programming


Animated movies programming


Notes


See also

* Planeta U - The weekend morning children's block on
Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the L ...
. * Galamiguitos - The preschool block on
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. * Univision y Los Niños - The Monday to Friday and Saturday morning block on Univision from 1989 to 1990. * La Piñata Loca - The host of George Ortuzar from Saturday and Sunday morning block on Univision from 1996 to 2000.


References


External links

* {{KidsTVBlocksUS UniMás original programming Television programming blocks in the United States 2002 American television series debuts