The Cookie Jar Kids Network (formerly DiC Kids Network) was a
syndicated children's programming block that airs selected
Cookie Jar Group
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shows on local
Fox
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,
The CW
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,
MyNetworkTV
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, and
independent
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stations to provide them with a source of
E/I programming required by federal law. The block is known on air as simply
Cookie Jar
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. It was first formed in 2003 as the DIC Kids Network, and was syndicated by
Tribune Entertainment
Tribune Entertainment (formerly Mid-America Video Tape Productions, WGN Continental Productions, Tribune Productions and Tribune Entertainment Company) was a television production and broadcast syndication company owned and operated by Tribune Br ...
from 2003 to 2008, and then by
Ascent Media
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from 2008 to 2011.
National ad sales for the syndicated blocks were handled by Tribune Entertainment with barter basis available.
[ Ads could have stitched together other programs throughout the three blocks.][
]
History
In January 2003, DIC announced three syndicated children's programming E/I blocks called DIC Kids Network with 200 stations including those owned by Tribune
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, Sinclair
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* Lake Sinclair, near Milledgeville, Georgia
* Sinclair, Iowa
* Sinclair, West Virginia
* Sinclair, Wyoming
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* Sinclair Township, Minnesota
* Sinclair, Manitoba
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* ...
, Clear Channel and Cox
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* Cox (surname), including people with the name
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* Cox Enterprises, a media and communications company
** Cox Communications, cable provider
** Cox Media Group, a company that owns television and radio stations
** ...
signed up to carry the blocks. Margaret Loesch
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and Donald Roberts, a specialist in kids and media at Stanford University, help develop the blocks. By August, 400 stations had signed 3 to 5 year deals to air the block, and it was also announced that the block would launch on September 1st. With its three feeds, DIC Kids was on Fox
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, The WB
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and UPN
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affiliates and out fulfilled the networks' Saturday morning blocks by December 1.
On March 9, 2004, DIC acquired the North American broadcast rights to ''Ace Lightning
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'' from Alliance Atlantis
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, and would premiere the series on April 5th of that year. On the same day, ''Liberty's Kids
''Liberty's Kids'' (stylized on-screen as ''Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776'') is an American animated historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, and originally aired on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002, to April 4, 2003, with r ...
'' was announced to be added to the block, alongside the return of '' Sabrina: The Animated Series''. A holiday lineup consisting of specials and movies like ''A Christmas Carol
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'' and ''Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas
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Synopsis
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'' was also planned. DIC also planned to offer up acquired programmes for the block as well.
In September 2004, DIC acquired the syndicated television rights to 26 select episodes of ''The Smurfs
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'' and the first three seasons of ''The Adventures of Captain Planet
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'' from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
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for a January 2005 broadcast window.
In early 2008, the group announced that they would renew the focus of the block with an emphasis on offering DIC Entertainment
DIC Entertainment Corporation (; also known as DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, DIC Animation City, DIC Entertainment, L.P., and DIC Productions), branded as The Incredible World of DIC, was an international film and television production comp ...
programming to additional digital subchannel
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s to meet their E/I needs.DIC E/I Block is Back! 2/17/09
/ref> On June 20, 2008, it has been announced that DIC Entertainment would be acquired by Canada-based Cookie Jar. On July 23, 2008, the deal was completed, and the block was later relaunched as the Cookie Jar Kids Network in late 2009. The block ceased to exist on September 17, 2011.
As of 2022, no known footage of the 2009-2011 block has been surfaced online, and the bumpers and content of the 2009-2011 block are considered lost media.
Programming
Notes:
-Shows marked with a * do not fulfill E/I requirements.
-The programming premiere and end dates are based on weekday broadcasts.
Lineup
All schedules correspond to markets which opted to carry DIC/Cookie Jar programming on weekdays. Except where affiliates opt to carry programming on weekends instead due to scheduling conflicts including paid programming
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* Paide
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, religious programming, and local morning newscasts. The block offered three separate exclusive programming feeds. This lineup only shows content that fulfill E/I requirements.
1This programming feed is exclusive to The WB 100+
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and that feed was intended for areas where they didn't opt to carry DIC Kids Network programming C programs, and it also ran under the Kids' WB
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brand in those markets. The feed was dropped in late 2005.
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
Note: The WB 100+
The WB 100+ Station Group (originally called The WeB from its developmental stages until March 1999) was a national programming service of The WB—owned by the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, the Tribune Company, and group f ...
dropped DIC Kids Network programming D in late 2005.
2006-2007
Note: Most stations transitioned from DIC Kids Network programming C to programming B while other stations dropped programming altogether possibly due to the 2006 United States broadcast television realignment.
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
Affiliate list
The following is a list of stations, which carried DIC/Cookie Jar Kids Network programming between 2003 and 2009.
Legend
* Light purple indicates stations ran DIC Kids Network programming A
* Pink indicates stations ran DIC Kids Network programming B
* Light yellow indicates stations ran DIC Kids Network programming C
* Light indigo indicates stations ran DIC Kids Network programming D
See also
* Cookie Jar TV
Cookie Jar TV was an American children's programming block that aired on CBS, originally premiering on September 16, 2006, as the KOL Secret Slumber Party; the block was later rebranded as KEWLopolis ( ) on September 15, 2007, and then as Cookie ...
(Cookie Jar
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's former Saturday morning children's block on CBS
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)
* Cookie Jar Toons
Cookie Jar Toons (also known as This Is for Kids) was a daily children's programming block on the This TV digital broadcast network when that network was partially owned by the former Weigel Broadcasting (7 years later, the network was acquired ...
(Cookie Jar
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's former daily children's block on This TV
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)
References
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