While this post isn’t specifically about Duluth, I am hoping that posting will bring some Duluth stories out of the woodwork.
Below are lists of Saturday-morning cartoons as they ran in my childhood. I remember many of them (Scooby-Doo, of course; repackaged cinema cartoons like Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes; originals like the animated Star Trek).
I remember little of the way this TV was shaped locally when I was a kid, other than at 11 a.m., in the mid 1980s, cartoons were pre-empted by a locally produced music video show. That felt to me like the beginning of the end of children’s programming on Saturday morning — adult programming, or maybe just live-action programming, like Saved by the Bell, would be cheaper for what would likely be the same revenue.
(Heck, well into the 1990s, in Milwaukee, you could dial a phone number, pay a fee, and request a specific music video be broadcast on a low-power station, W08BY.)
What was Saturday Morning TV like in Duluth?
