Magic Kids (TV channel)
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Magic Kids was a well known Argentinan cable channel where they were issued cartoons, television series and anime series programs for children and adolescents. The channel was founded, on January 12, 1995 and went off the air May 24, 2006, citing economic problems and lack of rating.

During it's most successful period, the signal varied launched merchandising, among which stand out the yo-yo Channel (1997), the magic cube and the monthly Magic Kids.

History

The story begins in Magic Kids 1995, when, in an opening ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel, it was the presentation of what would become his 11 years on screen. The executive head was the driver, Jorge Contreras with extensive experience in television documentary and journalism, but no experience in children's entertainment.
However, this inexperience could be overcome, because in those days, thanks to programs such " Power Rangers
Power Rangers
Power Rangers is a long-running American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes...

 "," X-Men
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...

 "and" Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...

 ", the channel became one of the most watched of the day. The idea was always to have "canned" (term used in the television industry to refer to sets purchased, and that used to come in tins similar to those in the movies).
Moreover, the fact that it was a local landmark enabled it to quickly adapt to the tastes of viewers, something that failed to pan-regional signals.
So it was that Magic Kids began with it's first cartoon: Hugo, which premiered the year after the debut of the channel and stayed until closing. The same thing happened with the Nivel X , which began with the singer driving Symbol, and then followed Lionel Campoy and Natalia Dim Finally, the third program of its own to appear on Magic Kids was " Anime Club " , led first by Leandro Oberto and then by Mariela Carril.
In September of 2001 , the outbreak of the economic crisis in Argentina , which greatly hurt the signal. However, in the same month, it began broadcasting to all Latin America , becoming a pan-regional. This brought about a problem, because if Magic Kids wanted to continue with their regular programming would have to pay for the right to broadcast the series for the region. Instead, they opted to replace the old series programs that were affordable, which alienated many viewers. In addition, stopping issuing anime and unable to compete with other channels, Magic Kids began to lose steam slowly. In early 2006 , stopped producing its own series, and in May of that year, the signal went off the air. Pramer decided to air it out for lack of rating.

Presence in other countries

Before Magic Kids is a pan-regional signal, the channel was a unique signal in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. Then, in some countries of Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 (such as Peru , Chile , Colombia and Ecuador (in 1995 ), among others) opened the signal carried by satellite. In Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 , between 1995 and 1996 , was in various regional cable operators like TV Cable Intercom, who led the Magic Kids sign to the small towns of Santiago and Rancagua until 1996 , when the merger comes Metrópolis Intercom. In 1995 , Magic Kids were in the towns of Region I to Region III by the cable operator Multivision until 1997 , when you switch to VTR Cablexpress . In La Serena , was in the second half of 1995 for a month for Cablevision , replacing the sign of The Big Channel until 1996 , when she returned the signal. In an interview with Jorge Contreras of a popular magazine of Argentina , he said he could issue a Latin American programs that produced the channel, but no foreign series, because they had acquired the rights only to Argentina . In addition, cable operators said that America had launched the Kids Magic signal without authorization, for which he himself had to contact all operators to withdraw the signal to avoid problems. This situation eventually led to hundreds of reviews and complaints from viewers in Latin America to the cable operators for having taken the sign of Magic Kids in their respective countries.

Own productions

Own channel programs were produced in Argentina by the producer's Court and Pramer . These programs were very visible in that country. " To play with Hugo "was the first interactive Latin America , with a telephone set, via the phone keys, you could handle the character named Hugo in the various games. The channel made a similar production in 2001 , called " Kito Pizzas ", but this time with a pizza delivery man named Kito. Other programs included "The Time Milk," " Level X "," Anime Club "," Virtual Zone "and" Tsubasa ".

1995

  • On January 12th of 1995 , the new venture Pramer and Cablevision (which belonged to Eduardo Eurnekian
    Eduardo Eurnekian
    Eduardo Eurnekian is an Argentinian businessman.-Rise to prominence:Eduardo Eurnekian was born to immigrants from Armenia, in 1932...

    ) consisted of a double project: Magic Kids and Magic Club, but the latter became extinct by not having viewers and was replaced by The Big Channel
    The Big Channel
    The Big Channel was a cable channel for childrens from Argentina belonging to the company Pramer, in association with the former importer of toys Cartan.-Early years:...

     .
  • In May , opens a course of thirteen chapters of the first version of " Dragon Ball
    Dragon Ball
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995; later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Dragon Ball was inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the...

     "made by Carl Macek
    Carl Macek
    Carl F. Macek was an American writer and controversial anime pioneer and producer of the 1980s and 1990s.-Robotech and Harmony Gold USA:...

    .
  • In June , opened the Japanese series " Saint Seya . "
  • In August , opened its own block of cartoons on the air channel America 2, which also belonged to Eduardo Eurnekian , which was displayed for 1 hour at 12:00 and 17:00. He stayed until the end of 1996 .

1996

It premiered the first french animated series Cococinel
Cococinel
Cococinel is a French children's television programme. Directed by Raymond Burlet and written by Yolande Baillet and Jean Montagné, 52 episodes of the animated cartoon were made in 1992. The main character is a ladybird who, aided by his friends, teaches about ecology and the environment.-External...

, "Mr. Go", "The Trap Door
The Trap Door
The Trap Door was a claymation-style animated television series, originally shown in the United Kingdom in 1984. The plot revolves around both the daily lives and the misadventures of a group of monsters living in a castle...

" and WMAC Masters
WMAC Masters
WMAC Masters is an American live-action television show produced by Norman Grossfeld featuring choreographed martial arts fights. It was created and licensed by 4Kids Entertainment....

.
  • On March 18 of 1996, opens its first own production, "Hugo, the Troll".
  • In April, Sailor Moon
    Sailor Moon
    Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself...

    , simultaneously with The Big Channel
    The Big Channel
    The Big Channel was a cable channel for childrens from Argentina belonging to the company Pramer, in association with the former importer of toys Cartan.-Early years:...

    . Magic just completed the series, premiering R and S stages in June 1997, Sailor Moon Super S in April 1998 and Sailor Stars in July 1998.

1997

  • In March , opens "La Hora de la Leche" Hosted by Gustavo Monje .
  • In April , the dubbed version is released by Intertrack of Dragon Ball
    Dragon Ball
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995; later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Dragon Ball was inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the...

     .

1998

  • In May, Dragon Ball Z debuts .
  • In June, Magic Kids presents " Scorers ".
  • In August, "Captain Tsubasa
    Captain Tsubasa
    , also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long running Japanese manga, animation, and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in 1981...

    " debuts.
  • In September, under an agreement with the distributor TMS Entertainment , opens "The Magic Knight Rayearth
    Magic Knight Rayearth
    is a Japanese manga series created by Clamp, a manga artist team made up by Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona. Rayearth combines elements from the magical girl and mecha anime genres with parallel world fantasy....

    ".
  • In December, opens "The Anime Club".

1999

  • March: Ranma 1/2
    Ranma ½
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi with an anime adaptation. The story revolves around a 16-year old boy named Ranma Saotome who was trained from early childhood in martial arts...

     arrives
  • April: Zenki
    Zenki
    is a Japanese manga series written by Kikuhide Tani and illustrated by Yoshihiro Kuroiwa. It was serealized in the Shueisha publication, Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 1996. Zenki was adapted into a fifty-one episode anime television series in 1995 by Studio Deen and also spawned five video games...

     premiere , but Virtua Fighter
    Virtua Fighter
    is a 1993 fighting game developed for the Sega Model 1 arcade platform by AM2, a development group within Sega, headed by Yu Suzuki. It is the first game in the Virtua Fighter series, and the first arcade fighting game to feature fully 3D polygon graphics. It has been ported to several home video...

     will premiere intact.
  • May: Pokémon
    Pokémon
    is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...

     debuts. Only issued the first batch of 52 episodes and in disarray.
  • August: Premiere of B't X
    B't X
    , pronounced "beat X", is a science fiction mecha manga series, written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It ran for 16 volumes in manga and was later adapted to anime with 25 episodes, then concluded with a 14 episode OVA . The manga was released in America by Tokyopop. The anime was released in...

    .
  • November: Carland Cross
    Carland Cross (TV series)
    Carland Cross was an 1996 hardboiled animated television series developed with the collaboration of Belgium, France and the Canada broadcasts, the 26 episodes for 26 minutes series, based most of the comics The Adventures of Carland Cross by two Belgians, Olivier Grenson and Michel Oleffe, tell the...

     arrives, the first traditionnal 26 episodes/26 minutes Belgian, Canadian and French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     series.

2000

  • June: It opens in the Anime Club, Case Closed
    Case Closed
    Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...

     .
  • September: within the same block, debuts Slayers
    Slayers
    is a series of over 52 light novels written by Hajime Kanzaka and illustrated by Rui Araizumi. It was later developed into several manga titles, five televised anime series, two three-episode original video animations , and five movies. It also spawned several console role-playing games for the...

     . Opens Dragon Ball GT .
  • October: due to failures in the issuance of Slayers by the tapes had not arrived for the last 2 episodes when it was replaced with Hello Kitty .
  • November: In the Anime Club replace Hello Kitty
    Hello Kitty
    is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow. The character's first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States...

     and Candy Candy
    Candy Candy
    is a Japanese novel, manga, and anime series. The main character, Candice "Candy" White Ardlay is a blonde American girl with freckles, large emerald green eyes and long, curly hair, worn in pigtails with bows. Candy Candy first appeared in a prose novel by famed Japanese writer Kyoko Mizuki in...

     .

2001

  • February: premiere incompletely, Slam Dunk
    Slam Dunk (manga)
    is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which had been broadcast worldwide,...

    .
  • April: In the Anime Club is released Under Arrest .
  • May: Debut The Vision of Escaflowne
    The Vision of Escaflowne
    is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise Studios and directed by Kazuki Akane. It premiered in Japan on April 2, 1996 on TV Tokyo, with the final episode airing on September 24, 1996. Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax also aired the series, both in Japan and on its...

  • September: Magic becomes panregional. Had to be off the air several series for not being able to be traded outside of Argentina . This is how air out Dragon Ball Z , Ranma 1 / 2 , Slam Dunk , Detective Conan , Pokemon and many more are replaced by Ghost Sweeper Mikami
    Ghost Sweeper Mikami
    is a Japanese comedic horror manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. It was published by the weekly manga magazine Shōnen Sunday from 1991 to 1999. In 1993, it won the Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga...

    , Orphen
    Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
    is a series of Japanese fantasy adventure novels and manga, two anime television series , and a video game.-Synopsis:...

    , Dr. Slump
    Dr. Slump
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Shueisha's anthology comic Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980 to 1984 which were collected into 18 tankōbon volumes...

    , Yamazaki
    Yamazaki
    The are descendants of a samurai clan from Kawagoe in the Kantō region. The Yamazaki line dates from the 18th century, and their land was awarded by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo Period.- Descendants :...

     and Voltron Vehicles
    Voltron
    Voltron is the titular super robot of an anime series that features a team of young pilots, known as the Voltron Force. The team’s individual vehicles join together to form the giant super robot, with which they defend the galaxy from evil...

    . Also become so panregional are Under Arrest and Bt'X

2002

  • In January, Argentina devalued and thus, Magic is in financial trouble ending with its closure in 2006, which makes the cost of canned tripled and thus the airing of many animes. Still, they managed to retrieve the first series of Dragon Ball pan-regional.
  • In March, pan-regional premieres Koni Chan
    Dotto! Koni-chan
    is a Japanese anime television series, which premiered in Japan on Animax between November 26, 2000 and May 29, 2001. It was animated by Shaft and produced by Animax and Genco. It had a wide fan base in Latin America, especially in México, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.-External links:*...

    .
  • In April, Magic Kids alters some hours of live programming to create a unique signal to Cablevision and Multicanal in the area of the federal Capital Buenos Aires, and to once again El Chavo (it was expensive to put the channel internationally) on the same schedule as before the pan-regional. The channel in this area and these cable operators, broadcast regular programming, but some times overlapping series, not just El Chavo but also Kenan & Kel
    Kenan & Kel
    Kenan & Kel is an American teen sitcom produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions that originally aired on Nickelodeon from July 1996 to July 2000. The show starred friends and then-All That cast members Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. Sixty-two episodes and a made-for-TV movie were produced over four...

     and ALF
    ALF (TV series)
    ALF is an American science fiction sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1986 to 1990, created by Paul Fusco. The title character was Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF , who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family.The series starred Max...

    , without disrupting schedules Live programs.
  • September: Premiere of Jibaku-kun
    Jibaku-kun
    is a 1999 manga and anime series by Ami Shibata. The anime series ran for a single season of 26 episodes, due to it receiving poor ratings in Japan, but was nevertheless broadcast in the United States and a few countries of Latin America...

     only for Capital and Greater Buenos Aires (Multichannel Signal for Cablevision and).
  • October: Released Irresponsible Captain Tyler pan-regional level.

2003

  • January: Return to Dragon Ball GT only for Capital and Greater Buenos Aires

Premiered Doraemon
Doraemon
is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise...

 and Hunter X
Hunter × Hunter
, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. The story focuses on a young boy named Gon, who discovers that his father, whom he was told was dead, is actually alive and well...

, within the unique signal to Cablevision and Multicanal in the area of Federal Capital and Greater Buenos Aires . Due to the exponential loss rating, Cablevision transmits only the channel from 0:00 AM to 12:00 PM, shared BocaTV but retransmits all day from 2005 until its closure.

2004

No significant changes occur during the year 2004 , however, was achieved with the squalid budget brand channel series Tsubasa "The Original" (Promoted as Captain Tsubasa) for Capital and Greater Buenos Aires

2005

  • In January, take place the latest releases of the channel: "Webdiver", Detective School Q
    Detective School Q
    is a manga series, written by Tadashi Agi and illustrated by Fumiya Satō, originally serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 2001 and 2005, spanning 22-tankōbon volumes...

     and chinese movie Zentrix
    Zentrix
    Zentrix is a 3D-CG Chinese animated TV series directed by Tony Tong and Felix Ip under the Hong Kong based company Imagi Animation Studios. The original story was written by Tony Tang, Benny Chow, Felix Ip and Francis Kao.-Synopsis:...

     . It also returns Dog City
    Dog City
    Dog City is a television series that was produced by Nelvana Limited and Jim Henson Productions and aired on FOX from September 26, 1992 to January 28, 1995, and in Canada on Global in 1993, then on Teletoon until 2000. The show contained both animation by Nelvana, and puppetry by Jim Henson...

    . This coincides with the last big investment was to expand the exclusive signal Multicanal and Cablevision the rest of Argentina and also to Uruguay and Paraguay .
  • On December 31 , issued last self-produced programs. The next day, the schedule is changed to include only animated series. None of these would premiere. This is due to the untenable economic situation at the time of Pramer , owned by Liberty Media decided to auction it to correct judgments of more than U.S. $ 20 million in total (including a dispute over the economic losses of Magic and other channels in addition to the association with Italian group LAMDA amounting to a total of U.S. $ 2 million).

2006

  • On May 26th of 2006 , after the end of his own productions (the last one out of the air was Tsubasa late February) and the grid paralyzed for a year, plus the change in policy from Liberty Global (owners of PRAMER ) to favor the production channels and 100% own and solve the great debt PRAMER held since 2004, Magic Kids are dismissed from the air. Mariela Carril (the former host of the Anime Club , expressed in number 42 of the magazine at the last minute Lazer who were denied a proposed restructuring of the channel to include more adult audience.

Cartoons

  • Animaniacs .
  • Beetlejuice .
  • Red Beard .
  • Cadillacs and Dinosaurs .
  • Carland Cross .
  • Casper .
  • CineMagic .
  • Conan the Adventurer .
  • Creepy Crawlers .
  • Dino Babies
    Dino Babies
    Dino Babies was a family-friendly educational cartoon spotlighting six young dinosaurs who share stories and adventures. It was a BBC television series that aired from September 29, 1993 to May 4, 1995...

     .
  • Dog City
    Dog City
    Dog City is a television series that was produced by Nelvana Limited and Jim Henson Productions and aired on FOX from September 26, 1992 to January 28, 1995, and in Canada on Global in 1993, then on Teletoon until 2000. The show contained both animation by Nelvana, and puppetry by Jim Henson...

     .
  • Doug
    Doug
    Doug is an American animated sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and co-produced by his studio, Jumbo Pictures . Doug centers on the surreal and imaginative exploits of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predicaments while attending middle school. The series lampoons...

     .
  • Dungeons & Dragons .
  • Where's Wally?
    Where's Wally?
    Where's Wally?, published in the United States and Canada as Where's Waldo?, is a series of children's books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things...

     .
  • Tomatoes Attack of the Murderers .
  • The Magic School Bus .
  • The New Pink Panther Show .
  • Phantom 2040 .
  • Garfield .
  • Highlander: The Animated Series .
  • hot wheels .
  • Hulk .
  • Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget is an animated television series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, simple-witted cyborg detective named Inspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr...

     .
  • Iron-Man .
  • The Pink Panther .
  • La Tropa Rex .
  • The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog .
  • Ninja Turtles .
  • Tales from the Crypt .
  • The graphites .
  • The Biker Mice from Mars .
  • The Berenstain Bears .
  • The Flying Bears .
  • Cowboys Moo Mesa .
  • Street Sharks .
  • Marsupilami
    Marsupilami
    Marsupilami is a fictional comic book species created by André Franquin, first published on 31 January 1952 in the magazine Spirou. Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comic book series Spirou et Fantasio until Franquin stopped working on the series in 1968 and the character...

     .
  • Pelswick .
  • RoboCop
    RoboCop
    RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...

     .
  • Rudo and his gang .
  • Rugrats
    Rugrats
    Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on August 11, 1991, and aired its last episode on June 8, 2004....

     .
  • Ren and Stimpy .
  • Skeleton Warriors .
  • Space Goofs .
  • Spider-Man
    Spider-Man
    Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...

     .
  • Snoopy .
  • The Tick: Animated Series .
  • The Visionaries .
  • Tom and Jerry
    Tom and Jerry
    Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...

    .
  • The Adventures of Hijitus .
  • Tom and Oscar .
  • Back to the Future: The Animated Series .
  • X-Men .
  • Zentrix .
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