For some reason, the United States Government didn't like Schoolhouse Rock & ABC teaching kids about *reads notes* the United States Government. That's why when they adapted the Children's Television Act of 1990, they largely said that programs like Schoolhouse Rock didn't count as E/I programming.
I think about that a lot on days like today because there's are generations of citizens woefully ignorant of what the government can and can't do, and the generation that came before Schoolhouse Rock are in a position to destroy it forever. It's a circus.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKSG...
And when they started cracking down and restricting EI requirements & children’s programming in 1996, it was the beginning of the end for broadcast Saturday morning cartoons
And here's the thing about that.
No one said that E/I programming had to be limited to Saturday mornings. Broadcast networks could have easily put E/I programming in primetime, but they chose not to. They just got lazy, invested in cable outlets, migrated to that medium, & left broadcast altogether
