The Hub - Plans to remove sitcoms from its lineup

[mets82]

I liked it better with the classic tv lineups. Maybe the reason why the Hub is failing is because the children shows are competing with up to a dozen other children channels out there. Disney Jr. is one example. Dont compete with an already saturated market.

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Originally Posted by mets82

I liked it better with the classic tv lineups. Maybe the reason why the Hub is failing is because the children shows are competing with up to a dozen other children channels out there. Disney Jr. is one example. Dont compete with an already saturated market.

I'm trying to compile a list of the "biggest mistakes" that Hasbro made regarding the Hub. Here's (w/o going all the way back into this particular thread) what I have so far:
*Thinking they could take on the Disney (and Nickelodeon for that matter) juggernaut and putting the network on what's essentially a pay tier.

*Gutting GI JOE: Renegades was arguably a huge mistake because they banked on Transformers, which the success of remains debatable since it's been overshadowed so heavily by Ponies.

*Poor scheduling of original series like Dan Vs. and Spooksville.

*Airing the same 10-20 family movies endlessly on the network and running these same movies every single night.

*Becoming FAR too reliant on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and to a lesser extent Littlest Pet Shop.

*Cancelling The Aquabats Super Show! at the height of the shows' popularity in favor of more "cost efficient" programming such as Parents Just Don't Understand.

*Not having any original programming in prime time on weeknights or on weekends.

*Not launching a weekend premiere block for kid friendly programming.

*Abandoning program blocks which gave a variety to the network such as Hub-Bub and Huboom in favor of yet more LPS and MLP encores.

*Having the night time lineup consist of nothing but reruns of domestic sitcoms reruns from the 1970s to the 1990s. I thought that was a bad idea from the start and I knew that that decision would come back to bite the network in the butt later on. I was hoping that the sitcoms reruns were just placeholders until the network had some original shows to air on the network, but that never happened.

*Becoming complacent and thinking they could just coast on MLP's huge success rather than continuing to innovate and develop new shows which could have become their equivalent to the Nicktoons and Cartoon-Cartoons. Hasbro figured, "Hey, this Pony show is huge! Why should we bother making anything new when we can just ram Ponies down everyone's throats?" It would be like if Nickelodeon decided to stop creating new shows after Rugrats became a phenomenon. It just made no sense for one of the biggest toy and game companies in the world which has several properties under their umbrella and a TV network to spotlight them on to only try to capitalize on 2 or 3 of them. Even if they had opted to go the route of most Disney Channel shows and not go beyond 2 seasons or do like many WB toons and only make enough episodes for a weekly or daily run of about 52 episodes in total, that would've been better than nothing, as they still could have accrued a sizable amount of reruns to fill those gaps in the daily schedule.

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It makes me wish that Hasbro had partnered with some other company to launch it's family oriented family cable channel and Discovery wasn't involved at all. This leads me to ponder what things may have been like had Hasbro hitched it's wagon to another company besides Discovery. Here are a few choices. Before I start, I'm going to say that the Big 3 (Disney, Warner Brothers and Viacom) are already off of the table, since they already have active family oriented cable channels, so we don't have to imagine what their family channels would be like. That said, to borrow DiscFam's tagline, Let's go!

HASBRO AND DREAMWORKS

Dreamworks wouldn't want to do this, and they have no reason to do it, but imagine if Hasbro and DreamWorks had partnered up and launched a family oriented cable channel. Not only would said channel be able to air all of the movies from the Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda franchises as well as How To Train Your Dragon, but they'd also be able to air the DreamWorks series such as Monsters VS Aliens, Penguins of Madagascar, Dragons: Riders/Defenders of Berk, Kung-Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and the upcoming animated series based on The Croods. Also Dreamworks currently owns the Classic Media library, which includes the UPA TV catalogue, Harvey Entertainment, Big Idea Productions, Filmation and the license rights to Gumby, Voltron and the Jay Ward productions. This means that this hypothetical channel could also air reruns of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Felix the Cat, as well as any new adaptations of said projects. Add to that My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic, Transformers and Littlest Pet Shop, and it sounds like a winner to me.

HASBRO AND 20TH CENTURY FOX

I know that FOX wouldn't be interested in doing this, since their last attempt at a family friendly cable channel (Fox Family) didn't end well and they already have a couple of cable channels under their belt, but it would be pretty cool if FOX had a showcase for their Fox Kids library of shows, as well as any new series that the studio would want to produce. Furthermore, there wouldn't be the issue of what the channel would air at night after the kids have gone to bed, since this channel could air the FOX prime time shows and/or some of the FX or FXX programs. Plus, FOX owns The Simpsons lock, stock and barrel, so there wouldn't be any issues if they wanted to air reruns of that on this channel.

HASBRO AND NBC/UNIVERSAL

I think that Hasbro and Universal would get along pretty well. Partnered with Universal, this hypothetical channel could air the likes of Woody Woodpecker and some of Universal Studios movies. Plus, Universal owns Qubo and Sprout. ' Nuff said.

HASBRO AND COOKIE JAR

Under this partnership, we would have a channel that had access to all of the Hasbro properties as well of all of the shows on Cookie Jar TV and KEWLopolis.