[2][3] The three-hour block—which aired on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time—featured live action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14.
All other time periods with Infomercials (thought some Telemundo affiliates choice to pre-empt the block of favor of the commercials and bumpers).
The block's initial lineup consisted mainly of the originally produced and broadcast in English included Ni Ni's Treehouse, Men in Black: The Series, Dragon Tales, Jackie Chan Adventures and Max Steel, as well as the Japanese anime series such as Dragon Ball Z.
While Nelvana had begun combining production show of the agreement picking up programs for the Univision's sister channel, Telefutura cartoons for children's programming block, Toonturama line-up with the seven shows (such as Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Stickin' Around, Anatole, Ned's Newt, Mythic Warriors and The Dumb Bunnies) as part of the growing cross-promotion aired from 2002 to 2005.
In May 2006, NBC, Telemundo and Ion Media Networks unveiled a joint venture with Corus Entertainment, Scholastic, Nelvana, Classic Media (and its subsidiary Big Idea Productions) known as Qubo, which would aim to provide educational programming aimed at children between the ages of 4 and 8.
This multi-platform programming endeavor would also comprise children's program blocks airing both English version on NBC and Ion Media's i: Independent Television (now Ion Television), the Spanish version block on Telemundo, as well as a 24-hour digital multicast channel on i's owned-and-operated stations (alternatively known as Qubo Channel), video on demand services and a branded website.
and Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures (produced by Classic Media subsidiary Big Idea Entertainment) – marking the first time that VeggieTales had ever been broadcast as a television program.
[9][10][11][12] Initially, VeggieTales episodes aired on the block excised religious content originally incorporated before and after the main feature in the home video releases.
This drew criticism for the block and NBC in particular from the conservative watchdog group Parents Television Council, as well as VeggieTales co-creator Phil Vischer, who claimed that he was unaware of the intent to edit out the religious material when Qubo acquired the program distribution rights, stating that he was not informed that religious content would be removed from the series, and that he would have refused to sign a contract with Qubo if he had known of the decision beforehand.
'"[14] The reasoning why the name "qubo" was chosen for the endeavor, or why its logo is a cube, has never been publicly explained by any of the partners, although general manager Rick Rodriguez stated in an interview with Multichannel News that the name was intended to be something that sounded fun, and be a brand that could easily be used uniformly in English and Spanish.
[16][17] The six Telemundo Kids animated and live-action Spanish-dubbed shows including Jackie Chan Adventures, Dragon Tales, Juana la Iguana, Las Tres Mellizas, Nico and Dragon Ball Z were having a changed schedule for a weekend is now Sábados de Fantasía (Fantasy Saturdays) for putting on the every Saturday, but the six shows were still included with Domingos de Aventura (Adventure Sundays) in scheduled and changing the time at 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET/PT on Telemundo since October 25, 2003 with the Paid Programming has continued with Telemundo Kids in the next schedule time clock area on weekends.