Had to reupload. apparently i found out El Rey Rebel Existed. the crazy thing is that there's barely any promotion or news regarding its relaunch. so it just fell off my radar :P
it's crazy to me how the hub collapsed so quickly. i remember how almost everything randomly everything just got canceled out of nowhere, like mid production. if i remember correctly, the aquabats super show got canceled while the band was between shooting and on tour. insane how channels that look like their doing well have so much stuff going on internally
@@Bot-Mann Still stunning to me that it was only the Warner Bros side of things that was met with extreme austerity, while Discovery assets were left untouched, so TVN could keep their baker's dozen of channels in Poland.
*Discovery family takes over* Discovery family to its cartoons: all right, get lost all of your fired get outta here you moochers Also discovery family: *points at friendship is magic* except you you stay.
The Hub was such a hidden gem, before it became the MLP network. It had a nice balance of old and current shows that CN and Nick lacked at the time (Nick still suffers from this, but CN with Checkered past helped)
It's only ponies during the day, as the evening usually has a lot of off-network reality show repeats, apparently about cakes. "Ponies, cakes and Buddy Valastro" is a more apt description of Discovery Family at the moment.
I disagree on the Cartoon Network part they still played older cartoons in the early 2010s especially on boomerang and them bringing back cartoon plant in 2012 I agree on Nickelodeon but even then they brought back the 90s shows with the 90s is all that block
@@topdawg2916 Cartoon Planet was short lived and got replaced by that Pizza Steve block, which contributed to more hate on Uncle Grandpa. Then to cap it all out, TTG premiered the next year and the scheduling became worse.
I can thank The Hub for putting the 90s Warner Bros cartoons on my radar as a kid. Eating peanut butter Pop Tarts while watching Batman TAS before school is a core memory.
The Hub will forever be missed, I remember them and I miss them so much, I just wished that they never shutdown. Thanks for making this video, it's very interesting knowing about defunct networks
Honestly I think it’s crazy that Noggin is now Nick Jr and Playhouse Disney is now Disney Jr weird how both originally failed until the rebrand and are still doing well despite cable cutting and UA-cam
Mister Roger's Neighborhood launched on NET. In fact one of the buildings in the land of make believe had the NET logo lopsided roof. When PBS launched the still lopsided roof had the NET logo removed. Sesame Street also had its start on NET.
When this video is reuploaded, I have to say this again. The fact that the Hub Network had some shows sharing the same channel together such as "Dan Vs." and "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" is just like where two shows predate Isabelle and Doomguy or Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Discovery Kids had one of the best Saturday night blocks in the 2000s. Truth or Scare, Mystery Hunters, and Black Hole High were awesome when I was a kid.
El Rey oddly enough was airing episodes of the 80s tv show Freddy's Nightmares at 2am which is how I found them. The picture was fuzzy and not sized for modern screens so had a massive box around. It was like watching a bootleg upload but on broadcast tv. Magic!
That window is an unfortunate effect of 1.33-aspect screens being an afterthought. The only alternatives are to stretch (that's wrong, too) or centre-cut (which will trim areas from shows shot/edited for 1.78 screens).
Yeah the aspect ratio and the fuzzy visuals were because Freddy's nightmares was shot on video tape as opposed to actual film. So no matter what you do remaster wise to the masters it's not going to fix much.
Just recently, the Pac-12 Network collapsed after 10 of the 12 college football teams left for other conferences. Would love to see that covered in another video
I remember watching the hub because I was watching the game show "Family Game Night", "Transformers Prime", and watching the Movie "Robots" and realizing how the network was short-lived that's surprising
honestly considering how Esquire Magazine allows people to submit stories to their publication its a shame that the magazine did not create an anthology TV show to feature TV versions of peoples short stories.
Damn, people say we're easily offended and censor everything nowadays but back in the black and white TV days, just having your villain kill people was apparently enough to get you cancelled.
And married couples couldn't share a bed in most shows. Married....couples. People in the 50s would die of brain aneurysms if they saw what you can show on Netflix today so no we are not more offended jesus fucking christ.
Meanwhile in Poland: Public broadcaster TVP made a music channel in the style of early MTV - Tylko Muzyka. By the time the channel launched however (1997), Action TV was already available in many cable channels and in 3 years time about to merge and adopt MTV branding, so there was little reason to keep it. The plug was pulled on the channel less than a year after launch, but it and rise of other cable TV channels would make TVP eventually make more subject-based channels like it. (Yes, I know I mostly wrote this already yesterday; I'm just rewriting from scratch due to the reupload thanks to me not expecting it)
Great work on this video! Btw, props to you mentioning WATL 36; as an Atlanta native, it brought back memories of when it was a FOX affiliate before transitioning into a WB affiliate until WB merged with UPN.
omg jerseylicious i loved that show so damn much. me and my sister were OBSESSED! i hated when style made the switch the esquire i had to watch the final season on youtube. the only time that the final season aired on tv was when style network only still existed in certain countries. there was also a spin off for alexa based on her and her salon glam fairy.
There were only two shows on the Style network I enjoyed watching: "Clean House" as it really helped to show people the importance of keeping their house clean and organized. The other show is called "Running in Heels" and followed the lives of interns at the New York offices of Marie Claire magazine. In an interview with "The Early Show" on CBS; Joanna Coles (the editor in chief of Marie Claire at the time) explained that the reason why the show would focus on the interns instead of on her is because if the show focused on her as the editor in chief it would have been terribly boring. In addition; Joanna explained that the reason why she agreed to the show is due to the unimaginable levels of popularity of films such as "The Devil Wears Prada."
Great video. Some channels you could do for a part 4 are SportsChannel America which lasted from 1988-1993 and was a joint venture between NBC & Cablevision, Fox Sports World/Fox Soccer Channel (1997-2013) , Speedvision/Speed (1995-2013) & NBCSN which lasted from 1995-2021.
I hope you get to discuss Locomotion channel someday! It was a Spanish/Portuguese-language channel from 1996-2005 that focused on airing adult animation, anime, and obscure/experimental cartoons. What makes it unique is that their bumpers have a y2k (more specifically vectorheart) look to them. Afaik, no other channels aside from MTV were/are like this.
Hub was such a goated channel back when I was a kid. Feels like it was just yesterday I was 6 years old and singing along to the songs of Littlest Pet Shop. Also, since MLP:FiM is technically (and partially) owned by WBD now.. does that mean MordeTwi can be canon?
Anyone watch Kenny the Shark for Shark Week? But seriously, I remember when The Hub launched at the same time as a Ben 10 marathon (get it?) and missing the Discovery Kids logo while admiring the creativity of The Hub logo. This was where I watched Lois and Clark for the first time. I also watched a few of episodes of Dan Vs, Jem, BTAS, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Haunting Hour. I remember a promo where Taylor Swift released a documentary on the Fearless album and another promo for a Transformers cartoon I didn’t watch! Turducken! Out of the channels you covered, this one feels the least changed throughout the decades. Just the name.
Something to add about Discovery Kids/ The Hub: in 1996 the Discovery Kids Channel launched in Latin America, being a 1:1 version of the america channel, with science stuff and everything, but it didn't seem to suceed, falling behind Cartoon Network and Nick, so they rebranded around the year 2000 to be a preschool channel, as the likes of nick jr, but that hasn't lauched over here yet, so Discovery Kids became the main channel for babies, with light educational shows like The Backyardigans, Lazy Town, Thomas and Friends, Pinky Dinky Doo, Dragon Tales, Charlie and Lola, etc (notice like its all aquired from different networks like Nick jr, PBS and Cbeebies) The preschool version was SO sucesseful that the Hub Rebranding didn't happen in latin territories, but the hasbro shows aired in the network, so My Little Pony over here aired in a preschool channel. To this day the discovery kids branding is going strong, thanks to they having the rights to fucking peppa pig of all things
Pound Puppies on the Hub was my total jam way back then! Such a shame that channel ended so quickly, especially since so many classic shows like Jem and Goosebumps were finally being aired again on there after years of no syndication...
1:51 This is Bob Richards. He ended up here in my hometown of St. Louis and was the meteorologist for station KSDK. Unfortunately he ended up commiting suicide in 1995.
For those wondering…. The stinger used to open this video is from Worldvision Enterprises, used from the mid- to late eighties to the early nineties. If there aren’t enough channels to do a fourth episode of “Defunct Nostalgia,” a series about decaying networks should be considered. There are a lot of channels that could keep you occupied for quite a while.
Blah, forget the first comment I made (you totally didn’t hear I had an mlp phase) but the Hub was my mainstay when it came to watching cable tv at my grandmas. It genuinely doesn’t feel the same anymore after the rebrand…
I miss El Rey being its own channel. From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and Lucha Underground were my two favorite series on the network and I got to see Heavy Metal, the classic movie, on there and I also got to see Quantum Leap on there! Also love The Hub. We got to see Kids’ WB! stuff on there which made me happy. Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond being two of my favorites. Also, Margaret Loesch used to run Fox Kids so I love she was involved in The Hub. She did think the Saturday morning cartoons would eventually move to weekday afternoons which I wouldn’t have minded. Great video man and keep the awesome stuff coming. Would you consider doing one based on The WB and Kids’ WB!? Those are some of my favorite lineups and ty again!
I miss the Hub. I watched it for the Warner bros shows and adored it. It reintroduced me to a Childhood favorite movie too (Tiny Toons how I spent my vacation.) I hate that it no longer exists. Especially with the fate of those WB shows since MAX doesn't have the original ones on their platform and Hulu no longer has them (except for the far inferior reboot of Animaniacs they created.)
Well Warner discovery has been working with the new Metv toons network and they got Freakazoid and Hysteria from them already(on top of the Looney toons and Hannah Barbara catalog) so maybe eventually they will get Tiny toons and Animaniacs as well
My father actually used to sometimes watch the El Rey network when it was still a thing, he likes watching what my mom likes to call "violent/graphic" movies so to have a network that oddly enough partially cater to his very niche interest was pretty cool to see. I remembered the channel playing those kung-fu films, and occasionally showing very obscure "grind house" style films and what not. It wasn't for me but hey, my father enjoyed it lol then one day it either disappeared or my father just moved on to HBO, so it's nice to see you talking about it.
I would love a potential continuation of this sub-series that could branch out towards channels outside of America, most notably, defunct british channels. There is a massive cesspool of defunct british channels. Trouble, Bravo, Nick Toonsters, CNX, Galaxy, Capital TV, amongst many others. Either way, I love returning to this series. Really excited for what you do next!
Love this series! I have fallen down many a rabbit hole related to defunct TV channels, so it's great for people like you to be capable of making the stories more concise and straightforward. Would you possibly do another to cover Nick GAS, Trio and Nostalgia/Youtoo America? That one I've found tough to get much for because UA-cam obviously has a lot to sift through with that keyword.
Honestly I'm hoping you do a Discontinued Nostalgia episode on defunct video game companies because there are some interesting stories such as 38 Studios, Recreational Software Designs & Ocean Software.
Fun Fact: The Discovery Kids brand is still thriving in only two parts of the world, that being Latin America and India, and while India airs indian originated shows and even Billy and Mandy or Haddi Mera Buddy as it is localized (look that up), Latin American DK is one of the major networks along with Disney and Nick with mostly acquired programming (mostly from Nick Jr and others) and some original shows, like the show based off of the channels mascot, Doki.
20:20 as part of today’s youth, I can say that I’m one of few people I know who won’t internally tolerate the use of words such as skibidi, rizz, gyatt, etc. I will internally scream upon hearing those words
Bro back when I was a kid I was huge wrestling nerd and would literally scour the earth just to get my fix beyond WWE, and one day I just happened to stumble across Lucha Underground and it was honestly one of the coolest promotions I had ever laid eyes on. I honestly wish we could get another promotion that would follow the same format of "we all know it's fake so why don't we just dial the fakeness up to 11 and make it as cinematic as possible?" cause it was a really unique concept that really stood out from the other promotions
Oh there was attempts, Impact wrestling tried for awhile to become a new Lucha underground , MLW even got the guy who played Dario from Lucha underground to come back and do a Lucha underground reboot but they never worked.
I remember enjoying the hub, I watched Transformers Prime as it aired and then I'd later watch reruns of BTAS before school in the mornings. It was certainly an odd mashup of programming, but it was a good channel in spite of everything.
man I miss Tutenstein.. at least the creator got to make another show! I hope that the network that aired it, despite giving it an ending, doesnt fuck it over by putting it at 6 am slots near the end of season 2 !!!
I’m one of those folks that watched Style and stopped when it became Esquire. There wasn’t any point to watch it if all the things I watched were taken away. The Tia and Tamera reality show was pretty good for that sort of genre. Like everyone else, I still miss The Hub 😢 I would get in from work and watch old repeats of Jem and the animated Carmen San Diego. Can’t remember the name but there was a RL Stein show that was good too.
I remember when I used to watch the Hub. I was only there for only Transformers Prime, G.I. Joe, Batman 60's and Animated, Superman, and all of my favorite 70's and 80's shows like Happy Days and Alf.
Discovery Kids was my main addicted channel given the fact that They had an animation block Real Toons. And it was the next Nickelodeon Disney channel that had Preschool content main content and content in the night for Teens.
I'd love to see a part 4 where you go more in depth on the DuMont network that you mentioned in this. I did some research on them and their overall history is just so fascinating given the time that it occurred
Dan Vs feels like it should’ve been given to Adult Swim since it’s about a guy who seem to not catch a break and many adult would probably relate to him
if you ever talk about Qubo in the next episode, you might wanna mention that one disturbing sign-off message when the channel was shut down. Thankfully, said disturbing sign-off message was a hoax, however, I do advise researching this with caution, as you will get scarred for life.
The Hub was a great alternate to the other channels you have mentioned. But when people like Nikki Reed and Henry Schleiff took over, they killed it off after 4 years (FOUR!!). And with Discovery merged with Warner Bros., under David Zaslav's leadership, no force in this universe will ever do another awesome channel like the Hub was. So the way I see it, if Henry Schleiff is Tirek, I guess that makes Zaslav the world destroying monstrosity known as Unicron. Why do good channels like the Hub have to fall due to executive meddling, anyway? Bummer.
Honestly, Cable isn't doing that hot in general because of most of the consumer base being tapped out. Never mind the "Roach Motel" model that Pay-TV bases itself around. The immediate vociferous applause for the 'MeTV Toons' network should've given you that one clue. The other clue people missed is that cartoons weren't common in the air since Scripps shut down Qubo in 2021.
I remember The Hub having Family Movie Night. They showed Spaceballs one night. My family and I looked at each other when we saw this on the guide and laughed. It was painful to watch because all of the jokes were cut out, but my first thought was "How is this a kids movie?! It's not appropriate!"
Since the Olympics are coming up, I remember for the Barcelona 92 Olympics there were 3 channels dedicated to the games, the red, white, and blue channels. It flopped and the idea was never done again.
I had watched part 1 of the defunct [American] t.v channels and I must say that even though I live outside the U.S, I am familiar with maybe one or two cable channels. And on this video, I realized that I miss Style [network]. In my Southeast Asian country, one or two shows from Style network was syndicated on our local Lifestyle network - most notably, Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic (aired during 10 pm) while some cooking shows from Food Network dominated the mornings and a handful of shows from HGTV were shown sporadically during the late afternoons in between local t.v programs. Sorry for the long comment
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Was the Overmyer Network the OG Fyre Festival?
sounds about right
@@AmusingLuisI grew up with playhouse disney and noggin and spike and I remember watching star wars on spike
Are you finished the the Nickelodeon part 2
@@AmusingLuis when are you gonna do nickelodeon again?
Had to reupload. apparently i found out El Rey Rebel Existed. the crazy thing is that there's barely any promotion or news regarding its relaunch. so it just fell off my radar :P
oh ok
@@AmusingLuis gotcha!
Its okay
Yeah I was gonna say El Rey is still on Roku, although I swear LU got their own channel too for a bit XD
Hey, so when is part two to the Nickelodeon history video?
it's crazy to me how the hub collapsed so quickly. i remember how almost everything randomly everything just got canceled out of nowhere, like mid production. if i remember correctly, the aquabats super show got canceled while the band was between shooting and on tour. insane how channels that look like their doing well have so much stuff going on internally
there's a tons of gears moving in the back. and mergers can really change things for better or worse.
@@AmusingLuis yeah if WBD is anything to go by lol
@@Bot-Mann Still stunning to me that it was only the Warner Bros side of things that was met with extreme austerity, while Discovery assets were left untouched, so TVN could keep their baker's dozen of channels in Poland.
The Hub Network was underrated
OMG HI BOT MAN
*Discovery family takes over*
Discovery family to its cartoons: all right, get lost all of your fired get outta here you moochers
Also discovery family: *points at friendship is magic* except you you stay.
@@millfilm1 Typical Discovery, ruining everything.
now they're adding CN and WBA content
@@kyletoons9821to be fair Cartoon network hasn't been the same since regular show ended
Discovery Family could add back some of the Hub-era shows due to them merging with WarnerMedia.
It was a sad depressing day when discovery took over
The Hub was such a hidden gem, before it became the MLP network. It had a nice balance of old and current shows that CN and Nick lacked at the time (Nick still suffers from this, but CN with Checkered past helped)
Ah, the SpongeBob standard.
It's only ponies during the day, as the evening usually has a lot of off-network reality show repeats, apparently about cakes.
"Ponies, cakes and Buddy Valastro" is a more apt description of Discovery Family at the moment.
@@Code7Unltd I mentioned MLP network cause that was the start of the scheduling variety dying off which made The Hub great
I disagree on the Cartoon Network part they still played older cartoons in the early 2010s especially on boomerang and them bringing back cartoon plant in 2012 I agree on Nickelodeon but even then they brought back the 90s shows with the 90s is all that block
@@topdawg2916 Cartoon Planet was short lived and got replaced by that Pizza Steve block, which contributed to more hate on Uncle Grandpa. Then to cap it all out, TTG premiered the next year and the scheduling became worse.
Fun Fact: Dan Vs. was originally going to be a show on Adult Swim but it got rejected (this was a comment on the original upload)
I can thank The Hub for putting the 90s Warner Bros cartoons on my radar as a kid. Eating peanut butter Pop Tarts while watching Batman TAS before school is a core memory.
Neato about the El Ray Chanel is still “Technically” Alive.
Glad to watch this great video again! 😊
thanks for watching again :)
The Hub will forever be missed, I remember them and I miss them so much, I just wished that they never shutdown.
Thanks for making this video, it's very interesting knowing about defunct networks
I have a hole in my heart shaped just like the Hub logo.
That's what happens when you take something people hold dear away from them.
What if Discovery Kids and The Hub would be converge Together?
El Rey Network was my first exposure to the movies, Pumpkinhead, Road Games, Dolemite, and other movies
Suggestions for episode 4: Playhouse Disney and Discovery Wings (the latter of which you briefly mentioned here)
Another suggestion: Qubo, as teased in episode 1
What About Fusion?
Honestly I think it’s crazy that Noggin is now Nick Jr and Playhouse Disney is now Disney Jr weird how both originally failed until the rebrand and are still doing well despite cable cutting and UA-cam
@@bingofromblueyfan And both rebranded names have "Jr/Junior" in them.
Sadly, Playhouse Disney never got a channel in the USA.
Mister Roger's Neighborhood launched on NET. In fact one of the buildings in the land of make believe had the NET logo lopsided roof. When PBS launched the still lopsided roof had the NET logo removed.
Sesame Street also had its start on NET.
When this video is reuploaded, I have to say this again. The fact that the Hub Network had some shows sharing the same channel together such as "Dan Vs." and "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" is just like where two shows predate Isabelle and Doomguy or Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Dora and SpongeBob 😆
super milk chan amd cowboy bebop
Barbie and oppenheimer weren't even that great and same with the others.
@@nathandanczak7822👈🏽 this guy dips his fries in milk.
@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 I don't worship those two movies. That's so wrong?
Babe wake up a new defunct TV channels epsiode released
Discovery Kids had one of the best Saturday night blocks in the 2000s. Truth or Scare, Mystery Hunters, and Black Hole High were awesome when I was a kid.
I genuinely do miss the hub
Fr. Dan vs and LPS were my favorite shows on the channel
Me too. Littlest Pet Shop was a goated show.
@@ipostrandomclipsif u wanna see and not sail the seas it's on Tubi
@@ipostrandomclipsI honestly thought Dan VS was a Cartoon Network show not the hub
I loved the Hub. Between My Little Pony, Animaniacs, and the movies, it was almost like if I ran a channel
El Rey oddly enough was airing episodes of the 80s tv show Freddy's Nightmares at 2am which is how I found them. The picture was fuzzy and not sized for modern screens so had a massive box around. It was like watching a bootleg upload but on broadcast tv. Magic!
That's Kruger not Fazbear just to be clear lol
That window is an unfortunate effect of 1.33-aspect screens being an afterthought. The only alternatives are to stretch (that's wrong, too) or centre-cut (which will trim areas from shows shot/edited for 1.78 screens).
Yeah the aspect ratio and the fuzzy visuals were because Freddy's nightmares was shot on video tape as opposed to actual film. So no matter what you do remaster wise to the masters it's not going to fix much.
Although I don't live in the US and don't understand couple things but something in these videos is kinda comforting. Keep going dude
Just recently, the Pac-12 Network collapsed after 10 of the 12 college football teams left for other conferences. Would love to see that covered in another video
I remember watching the hub because I was watching the game show "Family Game Night", "Transformers Prime", and watching the Movie "Robots" and realizing how the network was short-lived that's surprising
Literally every time I tuned into the Hub it was playing Friendship is Magic
Yeah Sucks that The Hub Network was Short Lived 😕 I Really Wished they would've been Longer
honestly considering how Esquire Magazine allows people to submit stories to their publication its a shame that the magazine did not create an anthology TV show to feature TV versions of peoples short stories.
Damn, people say we're easily offended and censor everything nowadays but back in the black and white TV days, just having your villain kill people was apparently enough to get you cancelled.
hahahaha
The 'Joker' Tax joke in real life nice
And married couples couldn't share a bed in most shows. Married....couples. People in the 50s would die of brain aneurysms if they saw what you can show on Netflix today so no we are not more offended jesus fucking christ.
@@pegasusactua2985 now I'm reminded of in Moral Orel where the parents have a divider between their beds
@@aeroblu2002
Moral Orel was parodying that trope. Like they visciously parodied countless other cliches from the 50s/60s.
Meanwhile in Poland: Public broadcaster TVP made a music channel in the style of early MTV - Tylko Muzyka. By the time the channel launched however (1997), Action TV was already available in many cable channels and in 3 years time about to merge and adopt MTV branding, so there was little reason to keep it. The plug was pulled on the channel less than a year after launch, but it and rise of other cable TV channels would make TVP eventually make more subject-based channels like it.
(Yes, I know I mostly wrote this already yesterday; I'm just rewriting from scratch due to the reupload thanks to me not expecting it)
Great work on this video! Btw, props to you mentioning WATL 36; as an Atlanta native, it brought back memories of when it was a FOX affiliate before transitioning into a WB affiliate until WB merged with UPN.
omg jerseylicious i loved that show so damn much. me and my sister were OBSESSED! i hated when style made the switch the esquire i had to watch the final season on youtube. the only time that the final season aired on tv was when style network only still existed in certain countries. there was also a spin off for alexa based on her and her salon glam fairy.
wow dumping a shows final season on youtube in 2013 sounds pretty ahead of its time
There were only two shows on the Style network I enjoyed watching: "Clean House" as it really helped to show people the importance of keeping their house clean and organized. The other show is called "Running in Heels" and followed the lives of interns at the New York offices of Marie Claire magazine. In an interview with "The Early Show" on CBS; Joanna Coles (the editor in chief of Marie Claire at the time) explained that the reason why the show would focus on the interns instead of on her is because if the show focused on her as the editor in chief it would have been terribly boring. In addition; Joanna explained that the reason why she agreed to the show is due to the unimaginable levels of popularity of films such as "The Devil Wears Prada."
I miss the hub.. I watched a few Fraggle Rock episodes for the first time on that channel, I'll never forgive them for taking it away... 💔
Great video. Some channels you could do for a part 4 are SportsChannel America which lasted from 1988-1993 and was a joint venture between NBC & Cablevision, Fox Sports World/Fox Soccer Channel (1997-2013) , Speedvision/Speed (1995-2013) & NBCSN which lasted from 1995-2021.
You know, everyone goes on about how they watched the Hub for My Little Pony, but my jam was Transformers Prime. That show was absolute PEAK!
@@thrillhouse3224 I watched it for Littlest Pet Shop. I liked those funny singing animals.
Heck,I loved both MLP AND Transformers Prime. To me,that was the two-sided coin of the Hub. You aren't kidding about Prime though. 😁
I hope you get to discuss Locomotion channel someday! It was a Spanish/Portuguese-language channel from 1996-2005 that focused on airing adult animation, anime, and obscure/experimental cartoons. What makes it unique is that their bumpers have a y2k (more specifically vectorheart) look to them. Afaik, no other channels aside from MTV were/are like this.
Hub was such a goated channel back when I was a kid.
Feels like it was just yesterday I was 6 years old and singing along to the songs of Littlest Pet Shop.
Also, since MLP:FiM is technically (and partially) owned by WBD now.. does that mean MordeTwi can be canon?
Anyone watch Kenny the Shark for Shark Week?
But seriously, I remember when The Hub launched at the same time as a Ben 10 marathon (get it?) and missing the Discovery Kids logo while admiring the creativity of The Hub logo.
This was where I watched Lois and Clark for the first time. I also watched a few of episodes of Dan Vs, Jem, BTAS, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Haunting Hour. I remember a promo where Taylor Swift released a documentary on the Fearless album and another promo for a Transformers cartoon I didn’t watch! Turducken!
Out of the channels you covered, this one feels the least changed throughout the decades. Just the name.
Something to add about Discovery Kids/ The Hub:
in 1996 the Discovery Kids Channel launched in Latin America, being a 1:1 version of the america channel, with science stuff and everything, but it didn't seem to suceed, falling behind Cartoon Network and Nick, so they rebranded around the year 2000 to be a preschool channel, as the likes of nick jr, but that hasn't lauched over here yet, so Discovery Kids became the main channel for babies, with light educational shows like The Backyardigans, Lazy Town, Thomas and Friends, Pinky Dinky Doo, Dragon Tales, Charlie and Lola, etc (notice like its all aquired from different networks like Nick jr, PBS and Cbeebies)
The preschool version was SO sucesseful that the Hub Rebranding didn't happen in latin territories, but the hasbro shows aired in the network, so My Little Pony over here aired in a preschool channel. To this day the discovery kids branding is going strong, thanks to they having the rights to fucking peppa pig of all things
Pound Puppies on the Hub was my total jam way back then! Such a shame that channel ended so quickly, especially since so many classic shows like Jem and Goosebumps were finally being aired again on there after years of no syndication...
>Goosebumps
>No syndication
I recall Cartoon Network repeating Goosebumps in 2007.
@@Code7Unltd It did, but it still had been about 4 years between that before Netflix got the rights after the Hub went defunct
I'm now picturing JBL having his own show, watching the border like he did on Smackdown in 2004.
1:51 This is Bob Richards. He ended up here in my hometown of St. Louis and was the meteorologist for station KSDK. Unfortunately he ended up commiting suicide in 1995.
Jesus that's horrible!
This just got dark and sad quickly
For those wondering….
The stinger used to open this video is from Worldvision Enterprises, used from the mid- to late eighties to the early nineties.
If there aren’t enough channels to do a fourth episode of “Defunct Nostalgia,” a series about decaying networks should be considered. There are a lot of channels that could keep you occupied for quite a while.
Blah, forget the first comment I made (you totally didn’t hear I had an mlp phase) but the Hub was my mainstay when it came to watching cable tv at my grandmas. It genuinely doesn’t feel the same anymore after the rebrand…
i read everything 😆😆😆
@@AmusingLuismight as well just say it’s one of the 3 things that contributed to me becoming a furry. literally the profile says it all.
I miss El Rey being its own channel. From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and Lucha Underground were my two favorite series on the network and I got to see Heavy Metal, the classic movie, on there and I also got to see Quantum Leap on there!
Also love The Hub. We got to see Kids’ WB! stuff on there which made me happy. Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond being two of my favorites.
Also, Margaret Loesch used to run Fox Kids so I love she was involved in The Hub. She did think the Saturday morning cartoons would eventually move to weekday afternoons which I wouldn’t have minded.
Great video man and keep the awesome stuff coming. Would you consider doing one based on The WB and Kids’ WB!? Those are some of my favorite lineups and ty again!
thanks for watching! a part 4 will be coming soon!
@@AmusingLuis my pleasure and ty I definitely can’t wait!
I miss the Hub. I watched it for the Warner bros shows and adored it. It reintroduced me to a Childhood favorite movie too (Tiny Toons how I spent my vacation.) I hate that it no longer exists. Especially with the fate of those WB shows since MAX doesn't have the original ones on their platform and Hulu no longer has them (except for the far inferior reboot of Animaniacs they created.)
I lowkey like the new Animaniacs and Tiny Toona
Tiny Toons will always be my favorite Looney adaptation.
God, I wish the OG was still able to be streamed somewhere..
@@ZeepAtomic There is a DVD release I think.
Yeah there are some DVD releases so that's not a bad thing.
Well Warner discovery has been working with the new Metv toons network and they got Freakazoid and Hysteria from them already(on top of the Looney toons and Hannah Barbara catalog) so maybe eventually they will get Tiny toons and Animaniacs as well
Really missed The Hub. It was a really good channel. My mom even loved it for the classic shows they played at night
Anyone else remember when "Family Game Night" was the jam?
I do!
14:41 "…as a tax write-off, a fate arguably worse than death."
yep, can't argue with that. [looks at the current state of streaming]
9:51 that’s our networks wtol 11 cbs, wtvg 13 abc and wnwo 24 nbc! Thanks for the mention!
My father actually used to sometimes watch the El Rey network when it was still a thing, he likes watching what my mom likes to call "violent/graphic" movies so to have a network that oddly enough partially cater to his very niche interest was pretty cool to see. I remembered the channel playing those kung-fu films, and occasionally showing very obscure "grind house" style films and what not. It wasn't for me but hey, my father enjoyed it lol
then one day it either disappeared or my father just moved on to HBO, so it's nice to see you talking about it.
I would love a potential continuation of this sub-series that could branch out towards channels outside of America, most notably, defunct british channels.
There is a massive cesspool of defunct british channels. Trouble, Bravo, Nick Toonsters, CNX, Galaxy, Capital TV, amongst many others.
Either way, I love returning to this series. Really excited for what you do next!
Might I point you toward @Jonkasonic?
Love this series! I have fallen down many a rabbit hole related to defunct TV channels, so it's great for people like you to be capable of making the stories more concise and straightforward. Would you possibly do another to cover Nick GAS, Trio and Nostalgia/Youtoo America? That one I've found tough to get much for because UA-cam obviously has a lot to sift through with that keyword.
Honestly I'm hoping you do a Discontinued Nostalgia episode on defunct video game companies because there are some interesting stories such as 38 Studios, Recreational Software Designs & Ocean Software.
that has been on my bucket list
Fun Fact: The Discovery Kids brand is still thriving in only two parts of the world, that being Latin America and India, and while India airs indian originated shows and even Billy and Mandy or Haddi Mera Buddy as it is localized (look that up), Latin American DK is one of the major networks along with Disney and Nick with mostly acquired programming (mostly from Nick Jr and others) and some original shows, like the show based off of the channels mascot, Doki.
20:20 as part of today’s youth, I can say that I’m one of few people I know who won’t internally tolerate the use of words such as skibidi, rizz, gyatt, etc. I will internally scream upon hearing those words
Very cool series you're making. Waiting to hear about more television channels :)
Discovery Kids/The Hub is the only channel mentioned here that I’ve heard of.
Bro back when I was a kid I was huge wrestling nerd and would literally scour the earth just to get my fix beyond WWE, and one day I just happened to stumble across Lucha Underground and it was honestly one of the coolest promotions I had ever laid eyes on. I honestly wish we could get another promotion that would follow the same format of "we all know it's fake so why don't we just dial the fakeness up to 11 and make it as cinematic as possible?" cause it was a really unique concept that really stood out from the other promotions
Oh there was attempts, Impact wrestling tried for awhile to become a new Lucha underground , MLW even got the guy who played Dario from Lucha underground to come back and do a Lucha underground reboot but they never worked.
I remember enjoying the hub, I watched Transformers Prime as it aired and then I'd later watch reruns of BTAS before school in the mornings. It was certainly an odd mashup of programming, but it was a good channel in spite of everything.
I remember the hub some memories when I was younger came from the channel
OH YEAH WE’RE BACK
man I miss Tutenstein.. at least the creator got to make another show! I hope that the network that aired it, despite giving it an ending, doesnt fuck it over by putting it at 6 am slots near the end of season 2 !!!
Mega Movie Magic! I have tried to remember the name of the show for so long!
your welcome :D
I’m one of those folks that watched Style and stopped when it became Esquire. There wasn’t any point to watch it if all the things I watched were taken away. The Tia and Tamera reality show was pretty good for that sort of genre.
Like everyone else, I still miss The Hub 😢 I would get in from work and watch old repeats of Jem and the animated Carmen San Diego. Can’t remember the name but there was a RL Stein show that was good too.
discussing more networks would be fun, but would also enjoy diving in to video game companies, toy lines, books, stores, movie studios, etc
Ooo
You should do a video about defunct TV network programming blocks
I remember when I used to watch the Hub. I was only there for only Transformers Prime, G.I. Joe, Batman 60's and Animated, Superman, and all of my favorite 70's and 80's shows like Happy Days and Alf.
Also Rescue Bots
I hope you do more Discounted Nostalgia videos!
I miss The Hub and it should come back one day. 😀👍
The Hub may as well have been "That Transformers Prime channel" to me. Good show.
Hey! We’re back! And TIL we’ve still got an El Rey Network!
Discovery Kids was my main addicted channel given the fact that They had an animation block Real Toons. And it was the next Nickelodeon Disney channel that had Preschool content main content and content in the night for Teens.
I'd love to see a part 4 where you go more in depth on the DuMont network that you mentioned in this. I did some research on them and their overall history is just so fascinating given the time that it occurred
I miss El Ray network and it should come back one day. 😀👍
There are so much channels from the past, some gives just nice Nostalgie.
I miss watching kung fu movies on El Rey Network, including "The Five Venoms".
Dan Vs feels like it should’ve been given to Adult Swim since it’s about a guy who seem to not catch a break and many adult would probably relate to him
LMFAO The JBL reference
i love this series so much bruhh😭😭
No PTV? The iconic channel founded by Peter Griffin?
anyone else remember staying up until 5-6 a.m. to watch In The Night Garden? good times❣
I watched Discovery Kids and Ready Set Learn before The Hub, my favorite show on Discovery Kids was Peep And The Big Wide World
Mine was Growing Up Creepie. 🕷
The fact that your also a wrestling fan like me is a W!
if you ever talk about Qubo in the next episode, you might wanna mention that one disturbing sign-off message when the channel was shut down. Thankfully, said disturbing sign-off message was a hoax, however, I do advise researching this with caution, as you will get scarred for life.
I’m sure you’ve heard it a thousand times already but I’m still waiting for Qubo lol
I also wonder if the pbs Spanish Chanel Veme would be included
You should do discontinued tv blocks. Max After Dark would be a good one
Nice, video! I want to see more past channels not just in USA, also in UK, also closed more channels in past.
Loved the JBL reference; iconic segment. 😄
At least Discovery Family is slowly improving with WB shows. As next year is possible with the Hasbro shows leaving.
I remember the hub network very well
24:54 I understand you now
The Hub was a great alternate to the other channels you have mentioned. But when people like Nikki Reed and Henry Schleiff took over, they killed it off after 4 years (FOUR!!). And with Discovery merged with Warner Bros., under David Zaslav's leadership, no force in this universe will ever do another awesome channel like the Hub was. So the way I see it, if Henry Schleiff is Tirek, I guess that makes Zaslav the world destroying monstrosity known as Unicron. Why do good channels like the Hub have to fall due to executive meddling, anyway? Bummer.
Honestly, Cable isn't doing that hot in general because of most of the consumer base being tapped out. Never mind the "Roach Motel" model that Pay-TV bases itself around.
The immediate vociferous applause for the 'MeTV Toons' network should've given you that one clue. The other clue people missed is that cartoons weren't common in the air since Scripps shut down Qubo in 2021.
The Hub was definitely a hub... For Bronies.
the hub was rebranded because they were afraid of kids saying "hey mom I'm watching the hub" at least that's my theory.
😂
I remember The Hub having Family Movie Night. They showed Spaceballs one night. My family and I looked at each other when we saw this on the guide and laughed. It was painful to watch because all of the jokes were cut out, but my first thought was "How is this a kids movie?! It's not appropriate!"
Hub finally gave one of my favorite bands a chance. I'm really glad the aquabats finally got their TV show
How have you not talked about Chiller? That was one of my favorite channels that's now gone :(
chiller's gone?! I remember watching some movie about twin sisters and one escaping this abusive guy with a baby on it before
6:42 Twins!
Since the Olympics are coming up, I remember for the Barcelona 92 Olympics there were 3 channels dedicated to the games, the red, white, and blue channels. It flopped and the idea was never done again.
Not gonna lie why is the Skibidi Toilet series actually pretty good. The only reason why it's bad is because the content farms are making it worse
I would only watch the globe roll around when I was on Discovery.
I remember the hub
El rey kicked ass
IT'S A TRILOGY NOW ‼‼‼‼‼‼
I had watched part 1 of the defunct [American] t.v channels and I must say that even though I live outside the U.S, I am familiar with maybe one or two cable channels. And on this video, I realized that I miss Style [network].
In my Southeast Asian country, one or two shows from Style network was syndicated on our local Lifestyle network - most notably, Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic (aired during 10 pm) while some cooking shows from Food Network dominated the mornings and a handful of shows from HGTV were shown sporadically during the late afternoons in between local t.v programs.
Sorry for the long comment
comment away. longer comments are better than the ai generated ones
18:52 These networks still exist in the form of Discovery Family. (If only Batman Beyond returned to the lineup...)