The Rise & Fall of Fox Family

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A look at the Fox Family Channel, the cable network which launched in 1998 and ambitiously attempted to create a full schedule from the ground up.
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0:00 Intro
0:39 Pat Robertson's Family Channel
4:46 Saban/NewsCorp Partnership
5:41 Launch of Fox Family Channel
9:44 Ratings Struggles
15:04 Shakeups and Rebranding
17:22 Dissolution of Fox Family Channel
19:43 Pat Robertson Controversies
21:08 Conclusion

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  • @skeletankmcgraw7343
    @skeletankmcgraw7343 Жыл бұрын

    I can't help but find it hilarious that part of the deal of selling Family Channel is that no matter who owns it they are obligated to keep 700 Club as part of their daily programming. I always found it odd that 700 Club came on everyday as it didn't fit well with all the other shows on the network.

  • @Sorvea

    @Sorvea

    Жыл бұрын

    Right 😂😂. They have tried to buy them out of their time slots so many times and they reject them. And I’m here for it!

  • @lamontyaboy718

    @lamontyaboy718

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah they would air like the fosters or some other show that features lots of swearing, gay relationships, sex scenes, violence and drug use. Then immediately after that a show that caters heavily to only old conservative people that definently did not just watch show that was on an hour ago. Like what? They could atleast try to air something that kinda makes sense to ease audiences into 700 club like a family sitcom or something.

  • @emptyspotlight

    @emptyspotlight

    Жыл бұрын

    right? i really found that weird

  • @Father_of_Death

    @Father_of_Death

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Sorveathat might change now that Pat Robertson is dead.

  • @Sorvea

    @Sorvea

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Father_of_Death depends if his son wants to continue it or not.

  • @jimmythetvfanatic7402
    @jimmythetvfanatic74023 жыл бұрын

    Despite the financial problems they stumbled into, I really enjoyed most of what Fox Family had to offer. They even showed reruns of Digimon, Mega Man, Real Ghostbusters, and even some of the short lived cartoons like Camp Candy and All Dogs Go To Heaven (based off the film). ABC Family was good until they got rid of Jetix shifting away from children's programming altogether. Nevertheless I had fond memories watching that channel.

  • @AnErrorOccurred

    @AnErrorOccurred

    Жыл бұрын

    Completely agree, see my comments above. What I guess you have to remember is, that turn of the century was when everybody started wanting the more formulaic kind of stuff, and FFC was kind of way to original and outside the box for those kind of tastes.

  • @thelthrythquezada8397

    @thelthrythquezada8397

    Жыл бұрын

    Digimoooon tho! That theme song is dope!

  • @cherishoneal9108

    @cherishoneal9108

    Жыл бұрын

    Some of the wholesome content was good.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    700 club is outlasting everything. While the network is bellying up I'll still be. There.

  • @Aster_Risk
    @Aster_Risk2 жыл бұрын

    You're absolutely right it left its mark. I'm 31 years old, and still think of this as channel as Fox Family even though I know that it changed to ABC Family and Freeform. I guess ages 7-10 were probably some of my most memorable years for TV.

  • @susanfit47
    @susanfit479 ай бұрын

    Fox Family was way huge in my household in the late 90's to early 2000's, from August 15, 1998 until November 10, 2001. In its 3-year run during the Fox Family era, they aired original programs like The 3 Friends and Jerry, Walter Melon, Bad Dog, Donkey Kong Country (based on the immensly popular Super Nintendo game Donkey Kong Country by Nintendo & Rare), Show Me the Funny, Ohh Nooo! Mr. Bill Presents, Mumfie, Enigma, The New Addams Family, Great Pretenders, Big Wolf on Campus, Rotten Ralph, I Was A 6th Grade Alien, Angela Anaconda, Weird-Ohs, The Kids from Room 402, Mega Babies, S Club 7 in Miami, S Club 7 in L.A., & S Club 7 in Hollywood, So Little Time, Moolah Beach, Braceface, What's With Andy?, Totally Spies!, and acquired reruns of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Eek! Stravanganza!, Spider-Man: The Animated Series (based on the Marvel Comics superhero), Bobby's World, Camp Candy, Creepy Crawlers (based on ToyMax's Creepy Crawlers activity toy), Dennis the Menace (based on the Hank Ketchum comic strip of the same name), The Harveytoons Show, Heathcliff, The Real Ghostbusters (a spin-off/sequel of the 1984 Columbia Pictures movie Ghostbusters), The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper (a spin-off show and a sequel of the movie Casper, which, in turn was based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost), Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (based on a series of computer games by Broderbund), The Why Why Family, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension (an Eerie, Indiana spin-off), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (based on the 1978 of the same name & its 1988 sequel of Return of the Killer Tomatoes), All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (based on the 1989 Don Bluth/MGM movie), Mr. Bogus (based on the French/Belgain clay animation series of shorts simply titled, Bogus), Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates, Mork & Mindy, Mr. Bean, The Bradys, The Partridge Family, Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High, The Mouse and the Monster, DinoBabies, The Mr. Potato Head Show (based on the Hasbro toyline of the same name), Space Goofs, Toonsylvania, Tenko & the Guardians of the Magic, Oggy and the Cockroaches, The Mask: Animated Series (based on the 1994 New Line Cinema movie The Mask, itself which was based on the comic book by Dark Horse Comics), Mega Man (based on the video game series by Capcom), Who's The Boss?, Life With Louie, Digimon, Goosebumps, Monster Rancher, Early Edition, My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Coach, The Drew Carey Show, Weird Science (based on the 1985 Universal Pictures movie of the same title), Step By Step, Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths & Legends, Garfield and Friends (based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis), Inspector Gadget, Growing Pains, and The Wonder Years.

  • @mordaciousfilms
    @mordaciousfilms Жыл бұрын

    I was totally a FOX KIDS fan back then. Never really into Disney Channel or Cartoon Network. I was all about FOX KIDS, PBS Kids and NICKELODEON! Man, what an innovative time for television.

  • @retroroy8720
    @retroroy87202 жыл бұрын

    Fox Family was one of my favorite channels as a kid. Loved their "Made in Japan" block they had on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings, it was mostly Saban anime dubs and stuff from the Fox Kids library like Digimon. I was also a huge fan of The New Addams Family.

  • @matthewcampbell7985

    @matthewcampbell7985

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too I was a 4 grader In shoreheaven elementary Shows i loved pee wee mr.bill and the Addams family.

  • @MrKenichi22

    @MrKenichi22

    Жыл бұрын

    That takes me back, had not seen Made in Japan, with Digímon and Flint the Time Detective, or the 1998 New Adam’s Family, or Oh no Mr Bill, in 21 years

  • @christhewhiz

    @christhewhiz

    Жыл бұрын

    Made in Japan caught my attention when I was flipping through the channels. I was really into anime at the time, so watching it was really fun.

  • @thekidfromiowa

    @thekidfromiowa

    4 ай бұрын

    Nothing like getting up at dawn on Sundays in 2000 to watch and tape reruns of the Mega Man cartoons. Of course, they had plenty of other shows that intrigued me like Kids From Room 402 and Angela Anaconda.

  • @jamesoffutt2801
    @jamesoffutt2801 Жыл бұрын

    The summer of 2000 for cable TV and just life itself for teenagers was the best

  • @alechorowitz5279
    @alechorowitz52793 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this a lot. Covering histories of defunct TV channels be a really interesting series. You should do more.

  • @channelserfer

    @channelserfer

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, my next video will be in that vein so stay tuned

  • @AnErrorOccurred

    @AnErrorOccurred

    Жыл бұрын

    @@channelserfer also, it should be noted that Rich Cronin went to Game Show Network after he left FFC, and really ran that went in the ground too.

  • @lenzzzzzzz
    @lenzzzzzzz Жыл бұрын

    Fox Family channel brought S club 7 into my life and for that I’ll always be grateful

  • @kellymiller1891

    @kellymiller1891

    3 ай бұрын

    @lenzzzzzzz I have a 3-year-old son named Tyler, He just Loves the All-New Captain Kangaroo, His Favorite Characters Are, Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit, and he also likes, All Dogs go to Heaven the Series (Animated Series), The Animal Shelf, Bad Dog Animated Series, Little Mouse on the Prairie Animated Series, Mega Babies Animated Series, also my 16-year-old son named Wesley just loves watching the children's Game Show "The Great Pretenders",

  • @Cardioqueenmom

    @Cardioqueenmom

    8 сағат бұрын

    Ain’t no party like an Sclub party 🎉

  • @KevMessick27
    @KevMessick27 Жыл бұрын

    Something interesting not mentioned here is that FOX Family was the channel that introduced the Aussie children’s music icons The Wiggles to American television

  • @The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane
    @The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane2 жыл бұрын

    I grew up with Fox Family back in 1998-2000 when News Corporation bought out The Family Channel. It has some shows I really like (weather it's original programming or off-network shows) aired on the channel. Fox Family was one of my favorite basic cable channels I watched as a kid.

  • @Ibrahim_M
    @Ibrahim_M Жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate all of the work that had to have gone into this. Finding all of that footage, writing the narration, recording it, editing, etc. Thank you for making this unique content.

  • @Sandlot1992
    @Sandlot19923 жыл бұрын

    Fox Family channel brings back memories to me!

  • @ricardohuff8774

    @ricardohuff8774

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here love that channel.

  • @JinxSanity
    @JinxSanity3 жыл бұрын

    ".. values between husbands and wives and children, where they can have loving, caring relationships in which children aren't smart alecks and the parents aren't buffoons" Hee hee, is funny because currently the 700 Club is followed every night by 2 hours of The Simpsons.

  • @robtheoutsider

    @robtheoutsider

    2 жыл бұрын

    And the fact that The Simpsons actually made it to the channel eventually is really funny.

  • @Hagashager

    @Hagashager

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@robtheoutsider funnier still is that The Simpaons was, at one point, too radical. It says a lot about both modern entertainment and entertainment of the past that The Simpsons began life as a "radical" show.

  • @nicksullivan4994
    @nicksullivan49943 жыл бұрын

    I Really miss FOX Family Channel!😭❤️📺🎶👍🏻

  • @AnErrorOccurred

    @AnErrorOccurred

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too. Isn’t it strange that, when Disney bought them in 2001, they became even less family oriented than before. SMH.

  • @chrisdigitalartist

    @chrisdigitalartist

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AnErrorOccurred And now Disney owns Fox! I am still upset that Fox sold to Disney!

  • @kurttoy5035

    @kurttoy5035

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrisdigitalartist Actually Disney owns the 20th Century Studios movie and TV operation. Fox is still controlled by 21st Century Fox.

  • @ACARDtvMusic

    @ACARDtvMusic

    17 күн бұрын

    If you wanna watch our long block of it and other childhood channels growing up, there’s a channel on KZread that shows nothing but that for Disney, Cartoon Network, toonami and Fox family channel and so many more

  • @bradleymiller437
    @bradleymiller43711 ай бұрын

    Kids TV networks were incredible. Was like having Disney World in my house. 13 Days of Halloween and 25 Days of Christmas were EXCELLENT. #FugkFreeform

  • @phoenixrage1
    @phoenixrage13 жыл бұрын

    I really miss the Fox Family Channel. Thanks for this!

  • @thegregbooyah
    @thegregbooyah Жыл бұрын

    Fox Family was huge in my household in the late 90s I still think about it to this day. The music video countdown show was great, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Goosebumps, Camp Candy so many great memories.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    I found outrageous on KZread. Just likr two episodes.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Remember they had host hosting The cartoons? It was similar to what nickelodeon an Cartoon network did.

  • @CRiver396
    @CRiver396 Жыл бұрын

    For clarification: The Family Channel operated as a separate entity from CBN and was likely driven by strategic and programming considerations. Both channels shared a commitment to family-friendly and wholesome content. While CBN likely focused more on religious programming, news, and talk shows with a specific appeal to Christian viewers, The Family Channel aimed to cater to a broader audience of families looking for general family-oriented entertainment, including classic TV shows, movies, and cartoons.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    700 club is never going away from That network an there's a reason for it. It was there since the family channel. FAMILY CHANNEL!!!!

  • @hamursh
    @hamursh3 жыл бұрын

    You know it's been almost 25 years since Fox Family was launched and 20 years since ABC Family was launched and some things have changed, one of the biggest changes was Disney buying Fox. If Disney bought Fox back in the 90s they would still have the rights to the Saban library!

  • @technicolordreamer
    @technicolordreamer2 жыл бұрын

    Great job on the research of this video (and introducing me to the "Golden Banana" song). Never knew they had so many problems with money and low viewership. Thank you for helping me relive some of my childhood! It seems though that most people have forgotten about the channel. I liked the channel better when it was Fox Family. I remember cool shows like Braceface, Great Pretenders, So Little Time, Big Wolf on Campus, and S Club 7. I also remember Angela Anaconda, New Addams Family, Early Edition, Higher Ground, and original movies like Au Pair. One of my favorite shows during that time was State of Grace. No one ever talks about it, and you can't find it anywhere to watch. I wish I could. Do you think you may ever go more in depth with the different periods from The Family Channel to Fox Family to ABC Family? I think each era has an interesting history and variety of shows.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader86013 жыл бұрын

    Saban was a powerhouse for kids entertainment

  • @JustinaLynn
    @JustinaLynn3 жыл бұрын

    I remember Inspector Gadget aired on the original Family Channel back in the med 90s and aired again in Fox Family Channel in 2001 when Disney merged.

  • @Tazzer88
    @Tazzer8811 ай бұрын

    I definitely have strong memories of Fox Family and the very early days of ABC Family mainly through the kids' and animated content. It gave me my first real exposure to Pee-wee's Playhouse, as I was too young to know of it during its original CBS run, reinforced my love of anime through the Made in Japan block that was an accompanying block to the content Fox Kids was showing and by the time the switchover happened gave me the guilty pleasure 1-2 punch of Braceface and Totally Spies.

  • @Webshooters1
    @Webshooters12 жыл бұрын

    Despite the troubles it had I have a fond nostalgia for the Fox Family channel. They showed reruns of cartoons I never knew about and I loved their 13 Days Of Halloween/25 Days Of Christmas thing. I always looked forward to them every year. I also just loved the bumpers they had.

  • @mayflower7811

    @mayflower7811

    Жыл бұрын

    Some of the special events are still around pn Freeform except it's now called 31 nights of #Halloween

  • @chrisdigitalartist
    @chrisdigitalartist3 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching Rescue 911 on The Family Channel in the early 90s. Fox Family Channel era is my favorite era. I particularly remember watching it in 1998. ABC Family was okay. Free-form is garbage. Also, didn't the contract say it is suppose to always have the word "family" in it?

  • @looneyloaiza4419
    @looneyloaiza44193 жыл бұрын

    I would like to see a full on review/retrospective on the channels' show "The Three Friends and Jerry", it's criminally underrated and needs more love, it was way ahead of its' time and was very creative and funny.

  • @BluLiron

    @BluLiron

    Жыл бұрын

    I have been looking for the name of this show for years. Finally seen a photo of them in the thumbnail and your comment finally helped me rememebr the name of show!

  • @seanbeard7558

    @seanbeard7558

    5 ай бұрын

    I interviewed the creator a few years back. Great show

  • @MaxxVelo
    @MaxxVelo3 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic ride dude. would love to see a video on the Saturday morning cartoon wars of the 90s/ early 00s.

  • @johnnyballenatl
    @johnnyballenatl Жыл бұрын

    I’m old enough to remember when the channel was CBN; Doris Day had a show on there, in which Rock Hudson made his final public appearance just weeks before dying from AIDS (another CBN original series I remember was Celebrity Chefs). During the Family Channel era, they had a Fun Town/FamTV kids’ block similar to USA’s or TBS’, as well as “That’s My Dog!” (which they imported from the UK) and a reboot of It Takes Two with Dick Clark, now with civilian partners. As Fox Family, they had Paranoia (Peter Tomarken’s last game show) and some reality home video show called “Life Camera Action!” (with a young Ryan Seacrest as the announcer). Since becoming ABC Family and now Freeform, they’ve brought us The Secret Life of the American Teenager (introducing the world to Shailene Woodley), Melissa & Joey (starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence of course), and Pretty Little Liars (which probably had older males watching just for Lucy Hale). Boy…they’ve sure come a long way from when they were originally a religious channel!

  • @lilacswimmer
    @lilacswimmer3 жыл бұрын

    hell yes, so glad to see a new upload!!

  • @TBONE_2004
    @TBONE_2004 Жыл бұрын

    The only thing I remember from The Family Channel is the game show blocks, with noteworthy titles being Masters of the Maze, Maximum Drive, reruns of The $100,000 Name That Tune, the 1986 revival of Split Second, and Wink Martindale's quadrilogy of Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Shuffle, and Jumble.

  • @natewatson6962
    @natewatson69622 жыл бұрын

    fox family had some heat, 13 days of halloween and 25 days of christmas always hit. basement block was interesting, oh no mr. bill was AMAZING (but i only saw it like once). When ABC family started showing whose line was a great time too. I think whose line came on at 10 to 11, then 11 i'd turn to adult swim and finish watching aqua teen hunger force and all those shows.. good times.

  • @lexzone-six9912
    @lexzone-six9912 Жыл бұрын

    I liked Saban's version of Fox Family when I was a kid. That's where I use to get part of my anime Fix watching Digimon and Monster Rancher.

  • @MasterSanders
    @MasterSanders Жыл бұрын

    A great video! I don't think I watched the channel much, but this video jogged my memory regarding "Itsy Bitsy Time."

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    We use to watch that in our hotel Room at the beach a lot. That 64 zoo Lane song still runs in My head😖

  • @MasterSanders

    @MasterSanders

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nehemiahpouncey3607 Same. It’s an ear worm, to be sure.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MasterSanders they got the song From howdy doody. You know that old show with the Puppet?

  • @MasterSanders

    @MasterSanders

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nehemiahpouncey3607 I know, I was referring to the 64 Zoo Lane theme ear worm.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MasterSanders oh ok.

  • @boneyard009
    @boneyard0092 жыл бұрын

    As a child/kid in the 90s, man I had energy to get up super early in the morning. As early as 4:30am watching reruns, to dragon ball z. Most shows started around 7:00am but hey, I wanted to unlock the dragon. Lol

  • @Jamessmith-xk3fh
    @Jamessmith-xk3fh2 жыл бұрын

    I definitely loved the Fox Kids channel. I was a huge Power Rangers fan and I loved the WB cartoons and Marvel

  • @SoftwareAgentsTV
    @SoftwareAgentsTV Жыл бұрын

    I have a bit of Fox Family nostalgia. That was my first time seeing The Real Ghostbusters.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Remember fox also had a reality channel?

  • @youloveanthony
    @youloveanthony3 жыл бұрын

    @channelserfer you are one of the greatest info streamers that have been on KZread! The nostalgia of it all, and to the answers to questions I've always wanted has made my day! Pleeaase continue with more content(i.e UPN, WB - CW, MTV from music to TV shows & BET the same) Lovin this channel! Also would love to meet you lol

  • @larryinc64
    @larryinc64 Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate the Sgt. Pepper homage in the thumbnail

  • @Jamessmith-xk3fh
    @Jamessmith-xk3fh2 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching the Family movies on CBN as a kid. I enjoyed The Family Channel as a kid but it wasn't my only channel I watched

  • @Musicradio77Network

    @Musicradio77Network

    Жыл бұрын

    And not only that, CBN had game shows like “Treasure Hunt”, “Tic Tac Dough”, “Name That Tune” and others. When CBN rebranded as the Family Channel, it also has game shows like “Trivial Pursuit” with Wink Martindale in both regular and interactive versions, along with the “Interactive Play Break” segments ran in-between commercials. I missed those days.

  • @Superlad9494

    @Superlad9494

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@Musicradio77Network there is one problem with having gameshows in the PTA Hour from 1983-2009 though. Who in their right minds thought they actually stood a chance against Pat, Vanna, Charlie O, Alex and Johnny? I mean that's just asking to get creamed and still is...unless you're Family Feud which can be a third evening player...but you're still better off for good clean fun with Vanna and her sidekicks. That's why when Price did night specials after 1995 they never ever set them at the same time....they just placed them after to kick off Prime Time....which works.

  • @CaptainBadNews
    @CaptainBadNews Жыл бұрын

    13 Days of Halloween was AMAZING when I was young!

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    It's still there today

  • @mewdreamer
    @mewdreamer Жыл бұрын

    I have fond memories of watching Fox Family back in the day. I would watch quite a few of their animated series like Camp Candy, Braceface and reruns of Digimon. I also remember watching Big Wolf on Campus, The New Adams Family and State of Grace. I'm not too surprised that the channel was struggling. I wasn't aware of it at the time and I remember being surprised when the logo changed to ABC Family, but I think it was too hard for the channel to get the kind of attention that other more established channels and blocks at the time already had. ABC Family was still a pretty solid channel until they got rid of Jetix. While I enjoyed some of their reruns of 90's sitcoms, the channel was just never the same for me once they stopped airing animated series. Now I rarely watch Freeform outside of its Halloween and Christmas events, which is a bit of a shame. With better management from the start, I wonder if they could have had a more successful launch for Fox Family and still be around now, or at least they could have possibly lasted longer than they did.

  • @bradleymiller437
    @bradleymiller43711 ай бұрын

    If network TV was still like this, I'd subscribe and never leave my house for anything other than groceries and work again.

  • @OddOneOut665
    @OddOneOut665 Жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see you cover the early history of the FX Channel and Noggin/Nick Jr down the line!

  • @HoroJoga
    @HoroJoga23 күн бұрын

    I like how to 'most repeated' part of the video is literally the part where most viewers lost attention and had to go back to catch up

  • @pacmancdi
    @pacmancdi2 жыл бұрын

    This video is awesome!! I adored the fox family channel when I was younger and still miss it today. One thing that wasn't touched upon in this video was the awesome anime block they used to have on Sunday mornings.

  • @evilmidget
    @evilmidget11 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I'm both proud and ashamed that Superbook was my first exposure to anime. To say the least, going from THAT to Sailor Moon was....a memorable experience.

  • @blackmesacake5361
    @blackmesacake5361 Жыл бұрын

    I religiously watched Fox Family growing up, and the 700 Club never made sense to me even as a child, it didn't fit. I really hated baseball, and I'll never forget that feeling I got as more and more of my shows gave way to baseball games, but 700 Club never did. It was soul crushing.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Someone needs to make a theory or Creepypasta about why the 700 Club has never went away from the Network.👹

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Why the network is going through changes it will always be there staring You in the face. Never been moved or put to a different hour.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    It's like pat threaten them on the phone about moving it. If you take 700 club off I'll send my Goons to your house an your body Will be in a river buddy.😂

  • @mrnasty02106

    @mrnasty02106

    11 ай бұрын

    You're not the only one who hates baseball. Try watching WGN (the original, Chicago feed), and a Cubs game comes on, that takes up to 3 hours to finish. Another reason I hated growing up outside that cesspool. The 700 Club doesn't make sense to millions of people, worldwide. It's stupid AF. Any idiot (even my mentally ill brother) would agree that it is all nonsense. No cancellation (moneymaker?)

  • @SoulSocietySounds
    @SoulSocietySounds2 жыл бұрын

    Great retrospective! Thank you for making these videos!

  • @ryanjones358
    @ryanjones358 Жыл бұрын

    My parents didn't have cable when I was growing up (save for two years from 1996-1997) because it was too expensive. I would always see advertisements for Fox Family channel in Sonic the Hedgehog comics (the only comics I read) and would be so upset that we didn't have cable and I couldn't watch the shows being advertised. As a gamer and big fan of Mario I especially hated missing out on getting to watch Donkey Kong Country. I had to settle for whatever episodes would sometimes air on Fox Kids to get my fix of the show. Fortunately now I have internet and the first season of Donkey Kong Country on DVD so I can watch it whenever I want.

  • @ricardohuff8774
    @ricardohuff87743 жыл бұрын

    I really miss this channel is pretty awesome back then.

  • @8ullfrog
    @8ullfrog3 ай бұрын

    There is a clicking sound through the whole video that made me think I was going insane.

  • @RazorFoxDV
    @RazorFoxDV Жыл бұрын

    I love that, as of this writing in August 2023, this same channel known today as Freeform bookends the still-obligatory airings of the 700 Club with a comedy series about a religious cult.

  • @derekclancy6916

    @derekclancy6916

    11 ай бұрын

    Im surprised they still have to air that program since Pat Robertson is now dead.

  • @Yaddlezap
    @Yaddlezap3 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff. Keep it up!

  • @dallasoleary187
    @dallasoleary187Ай бұрын

    I was part of a focus group for Fox Family Channel before it launched. Everybody there was a guy in their 20s. They asked us about the slogan "Fox Family Channel - You Belong" and then asked what we thought about the programming and shows that would be on the network without showing us clips of any of the shows. I had heard of Mr. Bean, but hadn't heard of any of the other shows, so I couldn't really comment on whether I would watch. I thought it was a weird focus group, since I didn't feel like we were the target audience.

  • @nottoday7377
    @nottoday73772 жыл бұрын

    Very well done, hope to see newer content

  • @aresef
    @aresef3 жыл бұрын

    We all wish we could hustle like Haim Saban. Fox wanted to buy Saban Entertainment, he said nah and ended up with that joint venture instead. That’s why he got so rich off Eisner’s folly.

  • @thebasedrealist2263
    @thebasedrealist22632 жыл бұрын

    This is so ridiculously good. Your modern marvels style voice is smooth af. Would love to see you cover g4.

  • @vgtrp
    @vgtrp Жыл бұрын

    I used to like to watch Fox Family when it 1st launched, and I really enjoyed it during its run. It's one of those now defunct cable channels I really missed.

  • @TeagueChrystie
    @TeagueChrystie9 ай бұрын

    You belong, you belong, you belong... you belong on Fox Family! I can't believe I still remember this bumper.

  • @rayj5091
    @rayj50912 жыл бұрын

    FOX Family was the best thing!

  • @Cyklopz007
    @Cyklopz0072 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video! Freaking loved that channel.

  • @honeyyb
    @honeyyb Жыл бұрын

    It's so fascinating to find out the very adult reasons why my favorite networks and shows made changes that to me, as a kid, were dumb and pointless 😅 I remember it took me a long time to get used to saying ABC instead of Fox when they took over 😅

  • @thomascrowley9122
    @thomascrowley9122 Жыл бұрын

    Loved Fox Family back in the day. So many shows to pick from.

  • @C_R_B_R_E_A_K_R
    @C_R_B_R_E_A_K_R Жыл бұрын

    Seriously a big part of my childhood, loved it

  • @bigmikeystyle
    @bigmikeystyle2 жыл бұрын

    12:02 sorry Pat Robertson but preschoolers and teenagers home sick from school aren't going to watch your vomit when blues clues and gullah gullah island are happening just one channel away.

  • @mr.tomraypaz6085
    @mr.tomraypaz6085Ай бұрын

    I loved Fox Family when it first debuted! It had a great variety of shows, especially a lot of the ones I loved. It marked the return of Pee-wee’s Playhouse reruns to national television, which I had missed since it was pulled from CBS 7 years earlier following Paul Reubens arrest. I also liked that shows such as All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series, DIC’s Dennis The Menace cartoon, and Bobby’s World were on there too. I liked The New Addams Family too. The channel felt like paradise in my mind. But then, by the latter part of 1999, it didn’t seem quite the same anymore, as they pulled a bunch of the shows I liked from the schedule.

  • @sailorstarlesbian
    @sailorstarlesbian3 жыл бұрын

    Your content is so good! You eserve so many more views

  • @bradleymiller437
    @bradleymiller43711 ай бұрын

    I loved Family Channel / Fox Family Channel! Fox Kids! Big Wolf on Campus!!! 13 Days of Halloween and 25 Days of Christmas were EXCELLENT. #FugkFreeform

  • @mariesmith6744
    @mariesmith6744 Жыл бұрын

    I remember w it was Fox Family, I love 13 Nights Of Halloween Big Wolf On Campus & State Of Grace, Angela Anaconda. I always was curious as to why 700 Club was on there but that wasn't until I was an adult. But I do love you channel and the stuff you cover. Great Work!

  • @johnnyballenatl
    @johnnyballenatlАй бұрын

    Oh, International Family Entertainment also owned MTM, who brought us Mary Tyler Moore, Newhart, WKRP In Cincinnati, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, and several other shows, it would be absorbed into 20th Century Fox Television.

  • @robtheoutsider
    @robtheoutsider Жыл бұрын

    It would have been better if they aired the preschool stuff in the early afternoons since Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney would have signed off around that time.

  • @garythreat5
    @garythreat5 Жыл бұрын

    I've been binging this channel, so good

  • @blackjackthompson1017
    @blackjackthompson1017 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Brings back a lot of memories! Seems like some fever dream of a world forgotten.

  • @VideoZion
    @VideoZion2 жыл бұрын

    Interesting take on the whole channel and it's neverending changes through the years. I used to love watching it with my sisters growing up and we loved everything from It's Itsy Bitsy Time for the magic tricks, to Real Scary Stories/Scariest Places and even some of the teen shows and for me it was the cartoons I was so annoyed that ABC family got rid of a bunch of shows I loved when they bought the network. Like Totally Spies -ABC made a massive mistake in getting rid of that one.

  • @DiamondDust132
    @DiamondDust13229 күн бұрын

    We finally got cable literal weeks before Fox Family switched to ABC Family, so I sometimes wonder if the former was just a fever dream I had as a child lol

  • @thomastheconjunctionfriend7908
    @thomastheconjunctionfriend7908Ай бұрын

    11:58 Thomas the tank engine also used to air on the Network from 1998-2000 with Reruns of Shining Time Station, along with The Show Airing as a segment on Mister Moose’s Fun Time, and a New Series "Storytime with Thomas".

  • @edlaca
    @edlaca3 жыл бұрын

    "The Virginian Pilot" It took me a minute to realize that's the name of a newspaper and not referring to the pilot episode of a show called The Virginian, lol

  • @mishaa7263
    @mishaa726311 ай бұрын

    I was obsessssed with that movie Au Pair

  • @tmwk__
    @tmwk__ Жыл бұрын

    I remember it being the "Reject" channel for Fox shows that didn't last on the main network.

  • @dontkootunes
    @dontkootunes2 жыл бұрын

    I only know ABC Family/Freeform for the 25 Days of Christmas event, because they at least aired classic Christmas specials, like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, with some Disney classics and the Pixar shorts.

  • @firelightyear
    @firelightyear Жыл бұрын

    That three friends and Jerry animated sitcom needs more talk and I believe that Saberspark is the one to talk about this show.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Why haven't that show been put on DVD yet? Plus da mob.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Remember walter melon? He was dressing up as famous people From movies?

  • @firelightyear

    @firelightyear

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nehemiahpouncey3607 I don’t know they should release the show on DVD with the Gogs shorts uncut, yes Three friends and Jerry had the Gogs localized here in the United States.

  • @carybeweary7209
    @carybeweary7209 Жыл бұрын

    Fox Family Channel was absolutely my jam when I was 8 years old. It was where I first saw PeeWee's Playhouse every morning before I went to school. #RIPPaulReubens. I watched some of the 31 Days Of Halloween a few years ago too and I think it's such a cool idea

  • @Eric_1991
    @Eric_1991 Жыл бұрын

    I didn’t really watch this block that much except for Goosebumps reruns

  • @l.c.ArTByLora
    @l.c.ArTByLora Жыл бұрын

    I lived a lot of their shows... nostalgic ❤

  • @greenkoopa
    @greenkoopa Жыл бұрын

    I liked it, Big Wolf on Campus was my jam

  • @teddyfurstman1997
    @teddyfurstman19973 жыл бұрын

    I did not know that Pat Robberson (That guy from The 700 Club) invented The FOX Family Channel. lol

  • @therealhuttertube

    @therealhuttertube

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup.. And unless a total buyout.. Every channel it become got to air the 700 club n once a year a telethon I believed

  • @sirekumasutra7022
    @sirekumasutra7022 Жыл бұрын

    So many cool shows but my favorite will always be S Club 7 in LA/Miami.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Remember the safari one?

  • @kermitTHEdinosaur93
    @kermitTHEdinosaur93 Жыл бұрын

    I remembered watching Digimon, some of the Rankin-Bass specials during the 25 Days of Christmas, and the TV Series of All Dogs Go to Heaven.

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    The 25 days tradition still lives on the Network. Halloween too. The only thing that has never been Removed.

  • @kermitTHEdinosaur93

    @kermitTHEdinosaur93

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nehemiahpouncey3607 yeah though it's different now

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader86013 жыл бұрын

    the zack files was broadcasted early in the mornings on CH 4 in the uk

  • @alexreitz3072
    @alexreitz307210 ай бұрын

    I keep coming back to a show that I used to watch I believe it was on abc/fox family, if not Nick, probably late 90s-early 2000s, not sure how many seasons but it involved multiple little shorts, in between there was a wizard, with the hat and cape with stars who would draw with marker on a white background and the things would become 2d objects. I remember one of the shorts was a farm village claymation I believe. I have never been able to find what it’s called or see it since childhood but it was regularly on during the middle of weekdays maybe mornings even. I feel like the name was something like the magical world of.. but that’s totally a guess.. basically it was a longer name.. please help!!

  • @BigBlackGuyReviews
    @BigBlackGuyReviews11 ай бұрын

    WHAT'S THE BACKGROUND SONG AT THE 15 MINUTE MARK?!?!? I GOTTA KNOW! IT SLAPS!!!!

  • @channelserfer

    @channelserfer

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you, its all original music

  • @frankie2time298
    @frankie2time298 Жыл бұрын

    11:02 does anyone know the name of this puppet show? I remember seeing advertisements for the channel and they would always show a quick shot of the yellow puppet, I've always been curious what the show was called and what was it all about

  • @artlopez5475
    @artlopez547511 ай бұрын

    That beat in the beginning was fire

  • @oddcreatureX
    @oddcreatureXАй бұрын

    Fox Family was a fun channel, I especially loved S Club 7. Hard to believe it's not streaming anywhere!

  • @edlaca
    @edlaca3 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know that show Early Edition, but I recognized a young Kyle Chandler. I didn't know who he was until Friday Night Lights

  • @JamesLawner
    @JamesLawnerАй бұрын

    I never watched this channel, but I remember some of their shows.

  • @TrvisXXIII
    @TrvisXXIII Жыл бұрын

    Maaaaannn I vividly remember moving to a new neighborhood and this network airing for the first time and it fell right in line with the new school year in the fall haha let’s just say I connected instantly to it as a middle school kid

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607

    @nehemiahpouncey3607

    Жыл бұрын

    Two episodes of outrageous are still on KZread today.

  • @CaptainBadNews
    @CaptainBadNews Жыл бұрын

    I VIVIDLY remember the debut of this network. Like first day where they were breaking down all the shows that were coming or returning like “the basement” and “700 hunZzZZZzz club” I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who could see the fox family channel on TV!

  • @ACARDtvMusic
    @ACARDtvMusic17 күн бұрын

    Rotten Ralph and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was shown on this channel as well back in 1999!