IN Britain, Fox Kids is owned by Sky Television, which is a subsidiary of News Corporation (owners of Fox...) and resides on NTL, Telewest and digital satellite. They also recently opened a +1 channel, which is the same programmes, just one hour later. Apparently this is for the convenience of the viewers, although it seems the main purpose is to fleece advertisers through claiming double fees. The picture quality seems to degrade slightly also on the +1.

Fox Kids output seems to be divided into the following areas:

• Digimon, which occupies a few hours of Fox Kids' broadcasting hours every day. That it is waning in popularity is no matter to the channel's scheduling dept.
• Various mock-anime cartoons which, while being more or less indistinguishable from actual anime, are American ripoffs and therefore suck ass at a rate of knots. These are now classified as weapons of mass destruction under UN law*. cf Totally Spies.
• Actual anime, but hacked to pieces by Fox Kids' patented "All Pissed Off Pensioner Board of Censors" so it resembles the above genericrap ripoffs.
• The Power Rangers, inexplicably still popular.

Apparently in the Netherlands Fox Kids obtains around a 50% audience share among the kids channels, which proves that 8 year olds will watch anything.

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* Still couldn't find them in Iraq though...oooh, cheap shot and it FELT SO GOOD...