Toonturama

Toonturama is an American children's programming block that airs on the Spanish-language television network UniMás which debuted on January 15, 2002. The three-hour block—which airs Saturday and Sunday mornings from 8 to 11 a.m. ET/PT—features live action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14.

Programs featured on the block consist of a mixture of series originally produced in Spanish and dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English. All shows featured on Toonturama are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via the Children's Television Act.

Mi Tele
On January 15, 2002, one day after the network launched, UniMás (then known as Telefutura) announced that it would debuted three children's program blocks with the new weekday morning and Saturday and Sunday morning block featuring live-action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14. It aimed at marking the first time that exclusively animated cartoons for different youth audiences.

"Mi Tele" ("My TV"), a two-hour animation block on weekday mornings featuring a mix of imported Spanish-language cartoons such as Fantaghiro and El Nuevo Mundo de los Gnomos ("The New World of the Gnomes"), as well as the originally produced in English as El Señor Bogus ("Mr. Bogus") and Anatole. Later on March 15, 2002, the Mi Tele originally cartoon block were ended. The following week on Monday, the featuring with the youth-targeted children's telenovelas (Carrusel, Luz Clarita, Gotita de Amor and Rayito de Luz) airs on the block beginning on March 18, 2002.

Though the block was intended to air on weekday morning on the holidays some of the years. However, some of the youth-targeted novelas aired on Mi Tele block weekday morning or Toonturama weekend morning cartoon block will delayed in order next week and full schedule on Sunday due to the network will picking line-up with all of the holidays and family movies marathon with the attempt of animated movies by Warner Bros..

On August 7, 2007, Mi Tele ended its run, its last program being Mujeres Engañadas were discontinued. Telefutura kept some of the programming on the second children's cartoon block Toonturama until September 30th, 2012.

Toonturama
On January 19, 2002, two separate children's programming blocks known as "Toonturama" and "Toonturama Junior" – which features some programs compliant with Federal Communications Commission and educational programming requirements – debuted on the airs for five hours each Saturday and Sunday mornings at 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. All other time periods are filled with Informercials.

The introduced a new logo with font text (Rat Fink Heavy) with different colors (red and black with the extruded font, and white text for "Toonturama") alongside bumpers and promos CGI computer animated and controlled by TelevisaUnivision USA (formerly Univision Communications; same as the block was launched as "Planeta U" on April 5, 2008, which is designer along with the 3D computer with bumpers and promos on Univision).

The block included a four-hour lineup that consisted mainly of dubbed versions of American, Canadian, and European animated series came the network opted to fully program the block with shows acquired from various programming production companies and distributors (the network was carry pick-up the cartoon shows entered into a programming agreement with the Canada-based animation studio Nelvana, the European-based animation studio BRB Internacional in Spain, Junior and EM.TV & Merchandising AG in Germany, as well as the three United States-based animation studios including Zodiac Entertainment (via Carlton; which is previously cartoons are executive production in England), Universal Cartoons Studios (based on the 1990 film, was adapted into an animated television series) and Film Roman).

On February 19, 2002, Telefutura will be including the changing time zone on scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern/Pacific Time Zone including the three former Mi Tele cartoon shows were moved to the children's block on weekend mornings including The New World of the Gnomes, Mr. Bogus and Anatole (after week of the first block, Mi Tele with cartoon were ended in March 15) will be offer date premiered on March 23, 2002, until December 29, 2002.

On September 9, 2018, in an agreement with Animaccord, the network launched the popular Russian cartoon Masha and the Bear, airing it every Sunday morning.

Toonturama Junior
The two-hour companion block that preceded it on Saturday and Sunday mornings, Toonturama Junior, featuring programs aimed at preschoolers that fulfilled educational programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission's Children's Television Act (the block aired with including originally distributors by Venevisión in Venezuela and Televisa in Mexico such as El Club de Los Tigritos, El Espacio de Tatiana and El Cubo de Donalú).

Among the programs featured on "Toonturama Junior" was Plaza Sésamo ("City Square Sesame"), Televisa and Sesame Workshop's Spanish-language adaptation of Sesame Street featuring a mix of original segments featuring characters based on its U.S.-based parent series and dubbed interstitials from the aforementioned originating program, which had aired on Univision since 1995 after a seven-year run and passed on the U.S. television rights to Telefutura at its launch.

Programming
All of the programs aired within the block featured content compliant with educational programming requirements as mandated by the Children's Television Act.

Though the block was intended to air on weekday mornings and Saturday and Sunday mornings, some UniMás affiliates deferred certain programs aired within the block to Saturday and Sunday afternoons, or (in the case of affiliates in the Western United States; including Albuquerque, New Mexico timeslot at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) Monday to Friday afternoons due to select national sports broadcasts (especially in the case of 2002 FIFA World Cup and/or 2006 FIFA World Cup soccer tournaments) or the network airing with the consisted of feature films including all of the Hollywood movies earlier attempt daytime or all of the animated holiday movies produced by Warner Bros. (via Warner Bros. Animation, DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera) and MGM scheduled in earlier timeslots to comply with the E/I regulations. Alleviating stations carrying UniMás network programming via that feed from the responsibility of purchasing the local rights to such programs.

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