Disney's 'Aladdin,' 'Gargoyles' top new strips, weeklies: Saban strong; FCC-friendly market looks for action. (Special Report: NATPE 1995)

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 1995 by Tobenkin, David

There were no runaway hits on the scale of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers among this season's debuting kids shows, but new strips from Saban and Disney found a strong audience response as the storm clouds of increased competition from the new UPN and WB networks loomed.

Buena Vista Television's Aladdin earned a 5.5 gross average audience Nielsen children's 2-11 rating from the beginning of the season through Dec. 11, 1994, while Saban's V.R. Troopers liveaction follow-up to its Mighty Morphin Power Rangers hit earned a 5.0. The Saban show skewed more strongly to boys and the Buena Vista show to girls.

Alladin is clearned on 172 stations, V.R. on 116. In Nielsen's Cassandra rankings for the November sweeps (which does not weight the numbers according...

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