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sep 10, 1955 - Saturday Morning as a Dedicated Daypart Is Established

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The three major U.S. networks simultaneously formalized Saturday morning as a children's-only programming block. This scheduling architecture created the first true cognitive environment designed exclusively around child attention, concentrating commercial exposure into a single weekly window that regulators would spend the next three decades trying to govern.

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sep 10, 1955
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~ 70 years ago