The children's sports show This Week in Baseball began being shown in widescreen in 2009, while Sunday political talk program Fox News Sunday converted to HD when Fox News Channel launched their new HD facilities in November 2008 ( before the network's widescreen presentation effort went into effect in September 2010, it was the final Fox News program to be produced to fit the 4: 3 safe area, as Fox News Channel itself converted to a full-time widescreen presentation on both their HD and standard definition channels in 2009 ).

On September 16, 2002, the Vault Disney block was discontinued in favor of same-day repeats of the channel's original and off-network series, primarily to contribute to the network's then-upcoming " hip " image ; the removal of the block resulted in Disney Channel not featuring any programming targeted at adult audiences for the first time in the channel's history – with the only programming that intentionally targets the entire family being the channel's primetime feature films ; as of June 2011, Disney Channel is the only one of the largest American children's cable networks that does not target both kids during the daytime, and a family / adult audience at night ( Nickelodeon, The Hub and Cartoon Network each feature program blocks that target such a dual audience ).

Around the same time, Disney Channel began supplying its original programming to corporate sister ABC for the network's Saturday morning children's program block.

Generally most of the network's series run new episodes through the summer and original movies premiere in these months to take advantage of the largest possible children's audience, as do most children's networks.

As part of the agreement, WGN would carry The WB's primetime schedule ( and upon its September 1995 debut, Kids ' WB children's programming ) on its national superstation feed, in order to make the network's programming available to areas of the United States that did not yet have a locally-based WB affiliate.

" Ready Set Learn ", the network's children's block, was slowly reduced through the years as the network deliberately redirected viewers towards the full-day line-up of children's programming on Discovery Kids until completely evaporating in late 2008, while Cable in the Classroom programming, meant for recording by teachers, had completely disappeared by the early 2000s.

That year also was the premiere of Sítio do Picapau Amarelo ( Yellow Woodpecker Ranch ), one of the network's famous children's series.

The network's other big program was its coverage of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, plus the first telecast of the Criança Esperança children's charity show, which Renato Aragão ( of Os Trapalhões ) hosted.

Since the network's inception it has featured a broad range of original regional programming, currently including the children's program The Saturday Club with Doopa Dog ; as well as community service strand GWN7 InfoNet, a series of short updates listing local community events.

In 1985, CBS ' head of children's programming Judy Price had commissioned a animated television series based on the Garfield prime time special series, later ultimately titled Garfield and Friends, which took three years for Roman to decide developing and producing the program before it eventually aired on the network's Saturday morning time slot, premiering on September 17, 1988.

The network's schedule included a variety of programs including religious programs, sports, music, talk shows, and children's programs.

Koz later returned to WFLD in various capacities, mainly as the host of its Fox Kids Club and The Koz Zone weekday afternoon children's programming, even appearing as an announcer on the Fox network's 1988 New Year's Eve broadcast.

WAWV clears most of the ABC network schedule, though the station preempts the network's Saturday morning block Litton's Weekend Adventure in favor of syndicated children's programming ( this is despite the fact that the Weekend Adventure block is in full compliance with the FCC's E / I programming guidelines, negating the need for stations to carry syndicated children's programming that fills the full three hours per week E / I content quota ).

KCTV currently carries all CBS network programming, though due to the Sunday morning edition of KCTV 5 News This Weekend, Face the Nation is generally delayed to Sunday late nights ; the station also is one of several CBS affiliates to split the network's Saturday morning children's programming to Saturday and Sunday mornings, as one hour of the lineup airs on Sunday mornings before CBS News Sunday Morning.

Also, OS / 2 was used for the host PC used to control the Satellite Operations Support System equipment installed at NPR member stations from 1994 to 2007, and used to receive the network's programming via satellite.

Moreover, when stations return to network programming from commercial breaks, the station identification is displayed in the first few seconds before switching to the network's logo.

In the Philippines, in practice, the terms network, station and channel are used interchangeably as programming line-ups are mostly centrally planned from the networks ' main offices, and since provincial / regional stations usually just relay the broadcast from their parent company network's flagship station ( usually based in the Mega Manila area ).

Fox maintains several venues to watch their network's programming via video on demand, including a traditional video-on-demand service called Fox on Demand that is carried on most traditional cable and telco providers.

Fox is a part-owner of the streaming video service Hulu, and offers most of their programming through that service, along with traditional streaming via the network's Full Episode portal on Fox. com.

Although the Fox network itself does not carry any national, regularly scheduled news programming other than Fox News Sunday, both this program and the network's breaking-news coverage are produced by the Fox News Channel, and are regular subjects of controversy.

Also in 2007, ABC unveiled a new, glossier logo and their new imaging campaign, revolving around the slogan ABC: Start Here, which signifies the network's news content and entertainment programming being accessible through not only television, but also the Internet, portable media devices, podcasting, and mobile device-specific content from the network.

In its early years, WJZ-TV was programmed much like an independent station, as the ABC television network was still, for the most part, in its very early stages of development ; the ABC-owned stations did air some common programming during this period, especially after the 1949 fall season when the network's schedule in prime time began to expand.

A few popular DuMont programs, such as Cavalcade of Stars and Emmy Award winner Life Is Worth Living, appear in TV retrospectives or are mentioned briefly in books about U. S. television history, but almost all the network's programming was destroyed in the 1970s.

He and incoming Vice President Bob Boden began the biggest original programming venture since the network's inception, launching Whammy!

Game Show Reunion Week, a series of one-off episodes of classic game shows for the network's morning show, Good Morning America, in exchange for promotion of the September 2008 Play It Back programming blocks, which featured marathons of game shows from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

In 2005, That's So Raven became the network's highest-rated series since the network's move to basic cable ; as well as being the first original series to beat the 65-episode limit ( the highly controversial programming rule implemented in 1998, had guaranteed any original series would end after 65 episodes to prevent production costs from increasing ; however this rule is no longer enforced ); the series eventually hit 100 episodes, becoming the channel's longest-running original series until October 2011 and became the first to spawn a spin-off, Cory in the House.

* Christmas-The network's December schedule usually focuses on Christmas programming, with the title of the branding changing every year.

* DisneyChannel. com, the network's website, features additional content relating to the channel's programming, streaming video, and other content.

Experts criticize the company for programming that has pulled away from the characters that the network's parent company, The Walt Disney Company was based on: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy and thus more " traditionalist " fans of the network have gone so far to say that the network is no longer really a Disney Channel.

Softcore erotica programming typically does not air within the block and adult films have been absent from the main Showtime channel since the mid-2000s ( though a limited amount of original erotica series have resurfaced on the main channel in 2010 such as Beach Heat: Miami, after having been absent for most of the previous decade ), although the network's multiplex channels Showtime 2 and Showcase do occasionally feature adult films on their overnight schedules.

The fledgling Fox network launched their Fox Kids programming block on weekdays and Saturdays in 1990, while The WB joined the competition with a kid's programming block shortly after the network's 1995 launch.

Later, Nickelodeon partnered with Sony Wonder and released top selling video cassettes of the network's programming until 1997.

On July 25, 2011, TeenNick began airing The ' 90s Are All That, a block of Nickelodeon's most popular 1990s programming, targeting the network's target demographic from that era.

Nick HD is the on-air name for a feed provided by Nickelodeon to broadcast a limited schedule of programming, mainly the network's post-2008 live action series and some animation, and much of Nick @ Nite's programming created for HD presentation after 2000 or earlier filmed sitcoms remastered for HD, in 1080i high definition, which is carried by most of the major American cable providers on a simulcast schedule that programs based on an Eastern / Central and a Pacific / Mountain schedule.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

Smith moved to ABC at a time when that network's news division was a distant third among the " Big Three " networks.

The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the network's Nickelodeon Movies film production division ( whose films are distributed by sister company Paramount Pictures ); however, despite the fact that the film division bears the Nickelodeon name, the Nickelodeon cable channel does not have access to most Nickelodeon Movies-produced films released through Paramount.

Don Ohlmeyer ( born Donald Winfred Ohlemeyer Jr. on February 3, 1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) is a US television producer and former president of the NBC network's west coast division.

He later moved to NBC as executive producer of the network's sports division, a position he held from 1977 to 1982.

As war clouds darkened over Europe in the late 1930s, Paley recognized Americans ' desire for news coverage of the coming war and built the CBS news division into a dominant force just as he had previously built the network's entertainment division.

MTV News segments ( usually not pertaining to news but segments about upcoming films and albums ) also air on the network, and is currently the only daily presence of the network's news division on any of MTV's American networks.

From 1953 to 1960, he anchored ABC news broadcasts and was the face of the network's news division, even though What's My Line?

NBCNews. com covers national and international news of general interest, using original and wire service reporting, as well as videos from the network's television division, and partners including The New York Times, Newsweek and The Washington Post.

A number of reporters and anchors have been able to move on to positions for Noticiero Univision, the network's news division and several network newsmagazines.

Most local stations across the United States that interrupt regular program for a news story use the breaking news and special report terms, with a voice-over stating either " This is a breaking news special report " or " This is a special breaking news report " or " This is a ( network name ) News Special Report ", followed by a disclaimer for viewers who would like more information to see the network's news division website.

The station also gathers news for CBS Radio in Milwaukee, due to the lack of any area radio station broadcasting the network's radio newscasts ( WOKY had broadcast the network's hourly newscasts until a September 2008 format change, but does not have a news division ), and has a forecast and advertising agreement with the stations of the Milwaukee Radio Alliance, which includes WLDB, WLUM-FM, and WMCS.

Prior to September 2, 2006, the broadcast network's coverage carried the ABC Sports brand, although integration of ABC's sports division with ESPN had begun a decade earlier.

On January 24, 2006, Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment division and CBS Corporation announced that their respectively-owned broadcast networks, The WB ( which Time Warner jointly-owned with Tribune Company ) and UPN, would cease operations with programming from both networks consolidated onto a single broadcast network created as a joint venture between the two companies called The CW Television Network ( the " CW " name representing the first initials of each of the network's corporate parents ), which would replace The WB and UPN starting on September 18, 2006.

The name CTV News is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's owned-and-operated stations ( O & Os ), which are closely tied to the national news division.