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The programming block aired on Saturday mornings in most areas of the [[United States]], though some stations carried it on Sundays (often due to scheduling conflicts resulting from the block airing on stations affiliated with other minor networks that had their own older children's anime program blocks which competed with FoxBox/4Kids TV, including the [[Kids' WB]] on [[The WB]] and later [[The CW]], and for its first year, the [[Disney's One Too]] block on [[UPN]]). On October 2, 2007, 4Kids Entertainment announced it would program a competing Saturday morning lineup for The CW, the new block, The CW4Kids (later renamed [[Toonzai]], with the original name becoming a secondary brand), premiered on May 24, 2008, replacing the [[Kids' WB]] programming block, which had been carried over to The CW from one of its predecessors, [[The WB]], when it launched on September 23, 2006. The block was renamed as [[Toonzai]] on August 14, 2010, and continued to air until it ended August 18, 2012, being replaced by [[Vortexx]] a week later and the block continued to air until it ended on September 27, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=CW Turns Over Saturday Morning to 4Kids|url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/10/cw_turns_over_saturday_morning.php|work=TelevisionWeek|date=October 2007|access-date=August 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502130708/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/10/cw_turns_over_saturday_morning.php|archive-date=May 2, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=CW turns to 4Kids on Saturdays|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973235.html?categoryid=14&cs=1|author=Michael Schneider|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=October 2, 2007|access-date=August 12, 2012}}</ref>
On November 10, 2008, 4Kids Entertainment announced that 4Kids TV would conclude at the end of the year due to intervening conflicts between Fox and 4Kids, as the latter company had not paid the network for the time lease for some time, while the network was unable to maintain the guaranteed 90% clearance for the block due to affiliate refusals and an inability to secure secondary affiliates to carry the programming in markets where the Fox station denied clearance for the block. 4Kids TV ended on December 27, 2008, ending Fox's nearly two-decade commitment to children's animation programming.<ref>{{cite news|title=4Kids Entertainment Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results and Settlement of Fox Litigation |url=http://app.quotemedia.com/data/newsItem.htm?webmasterId=92403&storyId=14004012&topic=KDE |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090227133036/http://app.quotemedia.com/data/newsItem.htm?webmasterId=92403&storyId=14004012&topic=KDE |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 27, 2009 |work=QuoteMedia.com |date=November 10, 2008 |access-date=December 16, 2015 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=October 2019}} Fox announced that the four-hour time period would no longer be used for children's programming, owing that it was no longer viable due to the insurmountable competition from children's [[cable television|cable]] channels (such as [[Nickelodeon]], [[Cartoon Network]], and [[Disney Channel]]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/business/media/25kidstv.html|title=Fox Ends Saturday-Morning Cartoons|date=November 24, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 18, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> On January 3, 2009, the network gave two hours of the programming time that the 4Kids TV block occupied back to its affiliates, while the other two hours would be retained by the network for a [[informercial|paid programming]] block titled ''[[Weekend Marketplace]]'', which replaced 4Kids TV on January 3, 2009.<ref>{{cite news|title=Longform Ads Replace Kid Fare on Fox|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996360.html|author=Michael Schneider|work=Variety|date=November 23, 2008|access-date=January 11, 2009}}</ref> The 4KidsTV logo now only exists as the [[production logo|closing logo]] for 4Kids Entertainment for shows produced by the company distributed outside of the [[United States]] (particularly those made before the 2012 auction of most of 4Kids' assets to [[Saban Capital Group#Saban Brands|Saban Brands]]).
Fox would reverse course and indirectly resume airing children's programming for the first time since 4Kids TV ended through an agreement announced on December 17, 2013, when it signed a deal with [[Steve Rotfeld Productions]] to launch ''[[Xploration Station]]'', a two-hour block of live-action educational programs focused on the [[STEM fields]], which debuted on September 13, 2014. As the block accounts for two of the three weekly hours of educational programming required by the [[Federal Communications Commission]]'s [[Children's Television Act]], the Fox affiliates that opted against airing 4Kids TV, Fox Kids, or ''Weekend Marketplace'' (including those [[Fox Television Stations|owned by the network]] that were acquired through its 1996 merger with [[New World Communications]] and those acquired through that deal that were owned by [[Tribune Broadcasting]], now [[Nexstar Media Group]]) elected to run ''Xploration Station'' as it is an E/I-compliant lineup syndicated primarily to the network's affiliates, relieving them of taking on the full burden of purchasing educational programming aimed at children from the [[broadcast syndication|syndication market]] (although some Fox stations, including those owned by the [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]]—the vast majority of its stations had carried Fox's previous children's blocks, decided to decline the block anyway due to existing commitments to syndicated programs compliant with Children's Television Act recommendations).<ref>{{cite web|title=Fox Stations Add SRP's Two-Hour STEM Block|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/syndication-and-distribution/fox-stations-add-srps-two-hour-stem-block/128024|author=Paige Albiniak|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]] |date=December 17, 2013|access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/12/18/steve-rotfield-clears-new-science-and-technology-two-hour-ei-block-with-fox-station-group/223509/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222140946/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/12/18/steve-rotfield-clears-new-science-and-technology-two-hour-ei-block-with-fox-station-group/223509/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 22, 2013|title=Steve Rotfield Clears New Science and Technology Two Hour E/I Block With FOX Station Group|author=Amanda Kondolojy |work=[[TV by the Numbers]] |date=December 18, 2013|access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref>
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