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Saturday-morning cartoon was the colloquial term for the
animated television programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings in the
United States on most major
television networks from the 1960s to 2014. The genre's popularity declined in the mid-late 1990s and 2000s after cable and satellite television,
home video and later online streaming over the Internet, began providing 24-hour access to cartoons for children. The format has continued in a reduced manner through the present day as a way of meeting
educational television mandates. Minor television networks, in addition to the non-commercial
PBS, continue to air Saturday morning cartoons while meeting those mandates.