Cartoons may be everywhere on TV these days, but in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they dominated Saturday mornings. Plenty of kids loved to kick off their Saturday with a marathon of mindless animated adventures, but the schedules shifted over time, and Saturday morning cartoons went away. It wasn’t as simple as a supervillain saying he was ending all cartoons in an instant though, and there were actually a lot of factors at play. From the programming that was more lucrative to the big switch to cable channels, let’s take a look at the real reason why Saturday morning cartoons disappeared.

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The government did it | 0:00
Advertising regulations | 0:58
Sports and news | 1:33
Syndication | 2:24
Afternoon delight | 3:20
Blame cable TV | 3:55
It's the Internet's fault | 4:19

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