gboiler1 said:
My DD grew up on Disney Channel like "Bear In The Big Blue House", "Rolie Polie Olie", "Stanley", etc. and it's good programming but my gosh cater to a wider variety later in the day. It would be great to see Mickey Mouse Club, Wonderful World of Disney, Classic Movies, Cartoons, some live/taped events from the parks, etc. There has to be tons of programming locked away. Move all the new cartoons to Toon Disney and diversify TDC!
Hear, hear.
There used to be some sense of programming like that -- what you just said (and everyone has said on this thread) -- went through the whole age group demographic pretty much.
I wonder what it would have been like in the recent years, and even this year, as Disney celebrated 100 years and now 50 years of Disney. It would have been awesome to see live, or tape-delayed segments from the July 17, 2005, ceremony.
Maybe something like that will return again, but it seems that many cable stations (and radio stations) today, Disney included, are tweaking and revamping programming seeking for that share in viewership - that edge. Those stations that I'm talking about include BET, MTV, VH1 - music stations that hardly play music or have strayed away from the format that put them on the block in the first place - to name a few.
I guess Disney is using its cable channel today in a way to attract a much younger audience, even though the adults tuning in today were once weened/grew up on the Disney Channel. I admit it, I tune in every now and then just to see what it on and what my life was like back when I watched the channel, more than I do today. I guess Disney is a big enough monster that it has many stations it can cater its public to -- ESPN, ABC, ABC Family, Toon Disney, Disney Channel, etc. So, pick your choice and you can see the programming is very wide.
But I hear you and I strongly feel that Disney, as a whole, should have put more effort on-air-wise covering recent "historical" Disney events like the 100th birthday of Walt and Disneyland's 50th in July. I'm sad that there were no big specials right around the actual date. Heck I remember Disney or ABC had specials on the opening of EuroDisney and, I believe, a 15th-20th anniversary special for Disneyworld back in the 1990s (I've got one of them on VHS somewhere).
Maybe it will in the future as these current crop of kids watching the Disney Channel will get older and Disney will have to re-tune its programming for the next market. But the main point Disney should always know is that we are all kids of the Kingdom, regardless of age. We have seen that in other advertising -- vacation planning targeted at the older generation, baby boomers, Gen X and Y. I just agree that there should be an age-spectrum of programming on the Disney Channel, because everything old is new again. The historical value and heritage of Disney should be preserved, even through all the changes.
Tell the story, update the story, and move on the story for future generations.
