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52-419: The block is syndicated to ABC stations directly rather than being part of the network's official schedule. This was the result of a compromise between the network and its stations after ABC management decided in 2010 that it no longer wanted to provide educational programming. Thus, Weekend Adventure does not contain any ABC branding or promotions, and likewise is not promoted directly by ABC on-air or mentioned on

104-578: A Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Series. In 2013, Born to Explore was nominated for 2 Daytime Emmys, including Outstanding Travel Program and won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Single Camera Photography. In 2014, the series received 5 Emmy nominations for Outstanding Travel/Adventure series, Outstanding Host in a Lifestyle/Travel Program, Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary Travel Program, Outstanding Writing Special Class, and Outstanding Music Composition and Direction. In 2015,

156-455: A bit about it at the time and the technology used was just starting to be developed, Disney and ABC liked the idea. He hired Prudence Fenton as consultant manager and co-executive producer. Together, they sampled virtual set technology at the 1997 NAB Show and chose technology developed by Accom and ELSET. Rutherford Bench Productions, which had previously worked with Disney on other projects, hired Pacific Ocean Post (now POP Sound) to produce

208-737: A brief scene with Brooke Shields in Endless Love and in 1986, as 'Chris' in Club Paradise . He was host of Exploration with Richard Wiese , a TV series that was syndicated in the U.S. and distributed internationally. He also hosted Hell on Earth , which aired on Discovery in the U.S. and BBC in the UK. He also hosted NOW ( Network of the World) in London with Brian Cox. Wiese also occasionally appeared in various skits on Saturday Night Live in

260-454: A bright spot for the block; the new series dethroned Pokémon to become broadcast television's most-watched Saturday morning cartoon, though all of the broadcast networks had fallen behind Nickelodeon. The block received a new brand identity in the fall of 2000; this was followed by the shorts and hosted segments being discontinued on December 16 in a reformatting of the ABC block. By this time,

312-410: A few. During his tenure he established the first annual Global Exploration Summit in partnership with the nation of Portugal, which is often referred to as the "Davos of Exploration." He is also the founder of The Explorers Club 50 - "Fifty people who are changing the world, that the world needs to know about", as well as the organization's first Diversity and Inclusion program. He also negotiated

364-469: A given season) featuring moral lessons and/or educational anecdotes. The episodes were selected by both the Standards and Practices Division of the network and any educational consultants who were attached to the shows. The Replacements and Hannah Montana were the last two Disney Channel series to be added to the block in the fall of 2006. Beginning with the 2007–08 season, ABC Kids programming (with

416-675: A longtime essential of ABC's Saturday morning block since 1973, also aired as an interstitial segment during The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show , likewise a carryover from the pre-Disney era (it would continue until ABC's contract with then- AOL Time Warner expired in 2000). Disney’s One Saturday Morning was initially a massive success, beating Fox Kids during its first season to be the most-watched Saturday morning block on broadcast television. It remained competitive in its second season, beating all of Fox Kids' shows except Power Rangers . The third season remained competitive with its broadcast peers on Fox and Kids WB , with The Weekenders being

468-563: A subtle nod to the Fox Kids brand acquired by Disney through its purchase of Fox Family Worldwide, to ABC Kids (as a result of the sale, Fox Kids ceased to exist; Fox's children's program lineups would be handled from that point onward by 4Kids Entertainment until 2008). The rechristened block originally contained a mix of first-run programs exclusive to the block, as well as reruns of several original series from both Disney Channel and Toon Disney . NBA Inside Stuff also began airing on

520-540: A television version of Everyday Health 's YouTube series Recipe Rehab (one of several web series directly funded by the video sharing website as a part of a premium content initiative) would premiere on the block beginning on October 6, 2012 replacing the Everyday Health series. On September 28, 2013, Litton launched a competing Saturday morning block for CBS , the CBS Dream Team (which replaced

572-560: A three-book deal with Crowne/Random House. Wiese was invited and spoke at the United Nations on Global Climate change in 2019. He also climbed and sampled Tanzania 's volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai and participated in two expeditions to Antarctica to core glaciers for climatological studies. Born to Explore with Richard Wiese was one of six original half-hour educational/informational (E/I) programs on Litton's Weekend Adventure. The series aired Saturday mornings on ABC stations in

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624-688: Is an American explorer, the longest serving President of The Explorers Club , and Executive Producer and Host of the multiple Emmy Award-winning ABC and PBS program, Born to Explore. Wiese was born on Long Island, New York. His father, Richard Wiese Sr. , was the first man to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in an aircraft. Richard first climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania at the age of 11. He attended St. Anthony's High School in Smithtown NY, and then Brown University . At Brown, he

676-782: The Cookie Jar TV block). The following week on October 5, 2013, the Weekend Adventure block's "Health and Wellness Hour" (consisting of health and culinary programs that filled the third hour of the block) was discontinued as part of a refocusing towards exclusively wildlife-focused programs, with the move, Recipe Rehab migrated to CBS's Dream Team block. Subsequently, on October 4, 2014, Expedition Wild moved from Weekend Adventure to another Saturday morning block produced by Litton that launched on that date, One Magnificent Morning on The CW . In 2016, two stations disaffiliated from ABC due to varied issues; WKPT-TV in

728-654: The Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, and WSVI in the U.S. Virgin Islands , but as the Litton syndication contract for Weekend Adventure is separate from their expired ABC affiliation agreements, were able to continue to air Weekend Adventure for the time being. The new Tri-Cities ABC affiliate, WJHL-DT2 , used programming from the Fox-associated Xploration Station block (which

780-1100: The working title "ABC Weekend Adventure." ABC initially signed deals with its owned-and-operated station group ABC Owned Television Stations , as well as affiliates owned by Cox Broadcasting , The McGraw-Hill Companies , Newport Television , and Post-Newsweek Stations to carry the block; these were followed by May 2011 with distribution agreements involving ABC stations owned by Belo , Bonten Media Group , Chambers Communications Corporation , Fisher Communications , Gannett Company , Hubbard Broadcasting , The E. W. Scripps Company , LIN TV Corporation , News-Press & Gazette Company , Young Broadcasting , and Weigel Broadcasting . The renamed Litton's Weekend Adventure launched on September 3, 2011, with six series: Jack Hanna 's Wild Countdown , Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin , Born to Explore with Richard Wiese , Culture Click , Everyday Health , and Food for Thought with Claire Thomas (originally titled The Delicious Adventures of Claire Thomas prior to its debut). Two other series were also initially announced to be in development:

832-666: The 1980s. In 2003, he was named as one of People Magazine's "Hottest Bachelors." He has appeared on Late Night with Craig Ferguson, CNN, Dateline, FOX News, BBC, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS Morning Show, Good Morning America, WB11's Morning Show, and many other programs, as well as in USA Today, the New York Times, Newsday, People, Esquire, Science, the Washington Post, National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times,

884-638: The 2011–12 season. The block aired for the final time on August 27, 2011 without any announcement of its closure, and was quietly replaced by Litton's Weekend Adventure the following week on September 3. † - Program transitioned to ABC Kids ‡ - Program transitioned from final schedule of Fox Kids/4Kids The following programs were planned to air on Disney's One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids, but they were pulled. † - Program transitioned from Disney's One Saturday Morning ‡ - Program transitioned from final schedule of Fox Kids Born to Explore with Richard Wiese Richard Wiese (born July 13, 1959)

936-529: The ABC Saturday Morning lineup. It was originally scheduled to debut the Saturday prior on September 6, but coverage by all U.S. networks of the funeral of Princess Diana pushed back the premiere by one week to September 13. Disney's One Saturday Morning featured two parts: three hours of regularly scheduled cartoons and a two-hour flagship show that included feature segments, comedy skits, and

988-520: The Children's Television Act; cultural shifts and changes in viewing habits through the migration of younger viewers to cable channels, recordable and streaming media were also affecting viewership of children's lineups carried by broadcast television networks. As a compromise, the network's affiliate board agreed to instead look for a syndication package that would air exclusively on ABC owned-and-operated and affiliate stations. Litton Entertainment

1040-607: The Times of London, Wine Spectator, and Forbes. Wiese is the author of the guidebook, Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer, published by Harper in 2009. In 2006, the American Museum of Natural History Expeditions named Wiese as an 'Explorer in Residence.' He was honored at the 2005 Boy Scout National Jamboree, where he addressed 90,000 people and had a camp named after him. By invitation of King Mohammad VI, he

1092-591: The United States and was distributed internationally on National Geographic by Rive Gauche Television. The series premiered on September 3, 2011, and aired its final show on September 24, 2016. In January 2017, Born to Explore debuted on American Public Television (APT) stations nationwide. In 2012, Wiese won the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism and the series received

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1144-516: The birth temple of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. In addition, he led a 2009 expedition to bio-prospect for extremophiles and new life forms in Mount Kilimanjaro's Ngorongoro Crater, resulting in the discovery of 29 species. That expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro also involved placing the first weather station on its slopes, which has been crucial for tracking the effects of global warming. In 2020, Wiese traveled to

1196-524: The block as a result of ABC's acquisition of the broadcast television rights to the NBA from NBC (where the series originally premiered in 1990), beginning with the 2002–03 season 's Christmas Day game ; Inside Stuff continued to air on ABC Kids until 2004. The series premiere of Disney Channel's Lilo & Stitch: The Series was also held on ABC Kids on September 20, 2003, with a delayed premiere on Disney Channel on October 12, 2003. The new block abandoned

1248-681: The block between September 2005 and May 2007, all of which were out of production by the time ABC Kids ended its run. In addition, before Haim Saban and Saban Brands repurchased the rights to the Power Rangers franchise from The Walt Disney Company in 2010, several station groups that owned ABC affiliates (such as Hearst Television , which would later acquire a majority stake in Litton Entertainment in 2017 and Allbritton Communications ) refused to carry any series from that franchise (or any other non-E/I-compliant shows within

1300-463: The block such as Kim Possible ) or chose to run them only in low-rated early morning timeslots, and had demanded any lineup be fully educational so the stations would not have to purchase E/I programming from syndication distributors. Most of the major commercial networks began restructuring their Saturday morning children's program blocks (with Fox dropping theirs outright) to comply to tightened educational content and advertising regulations in

1352-523: The block that resulted from this deal – Litton's Weekend Adventure , which is structured as a syndication package distributed with virtual exclusivity to ABC's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates – replaced ABC Kids on September 3, 2011. Immediately after The Walt Disney Company purchased ABC corporate parent Capital Cities/ABC Inc. in 1996, the network's children's program block ABC Saturday Morning, aired such Disney-produced series as The Mighty Ducks , Jungle Cubs and Gargoyles ; it

1404-578: The block's first season in 1997, and later by MeMe ( Valarie Rae Miller ) beginning in September 1998; the segments also featured an elephant named Jelly Roll (voiced by stand up comedian and actor Brad Garrett ), who served as a sidekick to the human host, while the eccentric Manny the Uncanny ( Paul Rugg ), host of his own standalone segment where he visited and observed various jobs, made occasional appearances outside that segment. Schoolhouse Rock! ,

1456-707: The case of college football tournaments) scheduled in earlier Saturday timeslots as makegoods to comply with the E/I regulations. Some stations may air the entirety of the Weekend Adventure block on tape delay to accommodate local news or other programs of local interest (such as public affairs shows, real estate or lifestyle programs). In 2014, Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin won two Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Travel Program". ABC Kids (TV programming block) ABC Kids (originally titled Disney's One Saturday Morning until 2002)

1508-557: The environment-focused Agents of Change (from producer Mark Koops) and Earth: Angry Planet ; however, neither show was picked up to series. When the block debuted, Litton's Weekend Adventure became the first Saturday morning block to present all of its programs in high definition . On May 2, 2012, ABC and Litton reached an agreement to broadcast Weekend Adventure worldwide on the American Forces Network , beginning that June. On September 24, 2012, Litton announced that

1560-510: The exception of Power Rangers ) became fully automated, putting the same handful of episodes of each show ( The Emperor's New School , The Replacements , That's So Raven , Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody ) on a permanent rotation for the block's remaining four years. In March 2010, ABC made the decision to cease providing a three-hour block of E/I-compliant , repurposed Disney Channel programming sent to its own stations and ABC affiliates. The network chose to lease out

1612-629: The first microbial survey of Central Park in New York, and founded the Central Park "Bio Blitz": a 24-hour cataloging of all life forms in the park. During the same period, Wiese joined a medical expedition on Mount Everest . He also skied cross-country to the North Pole, and was a member of a 2004 expedition to Yeronisos island in Cyprus , which consisted of an archaeological dig to find

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1664-576: The franchise back and Nickelodeon acquired broadcast rights to the series. In the 2004–05 season, ABC Kids dropped its two remaining original series, Fillmore! and Recess (the latter of which was airing in reruns on the block since it ended in 2001). With the transfer of Walt Disney Television Animation to Disney Channels Worldwide , ABC fulfilled the FCC's three-hour quota by carrying select episodes of Disney Channel live-action comedies and animated series (anywhere between nine and thirteen episodes from

1716-604: The imagery of the One Saturday Morning era in favor of a sports stadium motif, which, in 2006, was changed to a rock concert design that remained throughout the last five years of ABC Kids. Through Disney's acquisition of Saban Entertainment, the Power Rangers series moved from Fox Kids to the ABC Kids block. All first-run episodes from the franchise premiered on ABC Kids beginning with the second half of

1768-680: The interstitials within the block were relegated to bumpers and program promotions . The change proved to be disastrous; by February 2001, ratings had fallen to less than half of its competitors' on Fox, The WB and Nickelodeon. In the fall of 2001, live-action series were added to the One Saturday Morning lineup with the addition of the "Zoog Hour," an hour-long sub-block featuring the Disney Channel original series Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens (the sub-block, advertised in promos for Disney’s One Saturday Morning promoting

1820-469: The lineup aired on Sundays in some parts of the country due to station preferences for non- educational programming or scheduling issues with regional or network sports broadcasts . After five years of mainly repeats of programs introduced onto the block prior to the 2007–08 season, ABC decided it would cease to provide children's programming during the Saturday morning timeslot, and entered into an agreement with Litton Entertainment to program that period;

1872-763: The low ratings of the Jungle Fury season, as well as the merger between Jetix and Toon Disney to form Disney XD in 2009, the RPM season aired exclusively on ABC Kids. After production on RPM had concluded, instead of producing a new season, Disney produced a re-version of the first 32 episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers , which included a new logo, an updated title sequence, comic book-referenced graphics, and extra alternative visual effects. The re-version aired from January 2 to August 28, 2010 (the 17th anniversary of Power Rangers ), after which Haim Saban bought

1924-477: The network's website. The block came as a result of ABC's decision in March 2010 to no longer provide E/I programming as part of its Saturday morning network lineup to its affiliates; the network had not introduced any new E/I programs for its ABC Kids block since 2007, and those that had been airing on the network at the time of the decision consisted of reruns of Disney Channel sitcoms that had first aired on

1976-497: The programs shown on One Saturday Morning (including Recess , Pepper Ann and Sabrina: The Animated Series ). On July 23, 2001, the Walt Disney Company purchased Fox Family Worldwide , primarily for its Fox Family Channel , which was included in the sale as well as Saban Entertainment , a company in which Fox purchased a 50% interest in 1994. On September 14, 2002, ABC rebranded its Saturday morning block, as

2028-1124: The series was nominated for Outstanding Travel program and Outstanding Writing Special Class and won the Daytime Emmy® for Outstanding Sound Mixing. In 2016, Born to Explore received two nominations for Outstanding Travel and Outstanding Sound Mixing. The series has been honored with the Parents' Choice Gold Award for teens 13–16, the CINE Golden Eagle and numerous Telly awards. The production team filmed in Botswana , Uganda , Iceland , England , Morocco , Australia , Canada , Hawaii , North Carolina , Chile , Cyprus , South Africa , Namibia , India , British Columbia , and South Dakota . Other locations included Scotland , Indonesia , India, South Africa, Namibia, Arizona , Maine and New York City . From 2018 to 2019, Richard hosted 38 episodes of Weekend With Yankee on PBS 's Create . Wiese appeared in two feature films: in 1981, in

2080-697: The show's Wild Force season (starting with the episode "Unfinished Business"), with the entirety of the Wild Force and Ninja Storm seasons subsequently airing in reruns on ABC Family (the former season aired in part both before the introduction of and during the ABC Family Action Block ). However, when Toon Disney and ABC Family jointly launched the action-oriented Jetix block in 2004, Jetix handled all first-run episode debuts of subsequent seasons from Dino Thunder to Jungle Fury , while ABC Kids aired these seasons in reruns. Due to

2132-683: The sub-arctic territory of the Yukon in Canada with HRH Prince Albert of Monaco to retrace the last 42-kilometre leg of the 1934 expedition to Telegraph Creek by his grandfather. In 2002, Wiese was elected as the youngest club president in the organization's history and has also been elected president to more terms (7) than any other president in its 118-year history. As the President of The Explorers Club, he developed and negotiated multi-year partnerships with Rolex, Microsoft, and Discovery Networks to name

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2184-541: The three-hour time slot and seek other programmers for an agreement to produce a syndicated block, not for the network, but for each ABC station as the network was turning the E/I responsibility back to local ABC stations. A month later, ABC's affiliate board announced that it had reached a deal with Litton Entertainment , a production company which produced syndicated programming (including educational programs aimed at children and teenagers), to produce six, all-new, original half-hour E/I series exclusively for ABC stations for

2236-688: The three-hour weekly minimum for E/I content defined by the Federal Communications Commission . However, some ABC stations may carry syndicated educational programs to provide additional E/I content supplementary to the block. Programs aired within the block may be deferred to Sunday daytime slots, or (in the case of affiliates in the Western United States) Saturday afternoons due to breaking news or severe weather coverage or, more commonly, regional or select national sports broadcasts (especially in

2288-438: The time. In February 1997, Peter Hastings left Warner Bros. Animation and joined Disney, where he was tasked with overhauling ABC's Saturday morning lineup in order to compete against Fox Kids and Kids' WB . He pitched an idea around the concept that Saturday is different from every other day of the week, and the representation of weekdays as buildings. Hastings also proposed the use of virtual set technology; although he knew

2340-444: The two programs as "powered by Zoog," was named after Disney Channel's weekend programming block at the time, Zoog Disney). A spin-off of Disney's One Saturday Morning, Disney's One Too , debuted on UPN on September 6, 1999; produced through a time-lease agreement between Disney and UPN, the block aired each weekday (either in the morning or afternoon, depending on the station's preference) and on Sunday mornings, and featured many of

2392-401: The virtual set. The building was initially a drawing of Grand Central Terminal with a roller coaster added but evolved into a towering mechanical structure. Even the interior has similarities such as a central high raised room, with two wings on the left and right sides and another on the south side. On September 13, 1997, Disney's One Saturday Morning premiered as a two-hour sub-block within

2444-511: The virtual world which Hastings had proposed, along with newer episodes of three animated series: Doug (which had been acquired from Nickelodeon in 1996), Recess and Pepper Ann . Doug , Recess and Pepper Ann were each nominally given 40-minute time slots. The extended 10 minutes during each show's slot were for One Saturday Morning's interstitial segments and educational features. The live-action wraparound segments were originally hosted by Charlie (portrayed by Jessica Prunell ) for

2496-1023: Was a brother in the Phi Psi fraternity, subsequently graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Biology . He also studied Applied Physiology at Columbia University and completed the USDA Graduate Program in Meteorology . As a teenager, Wiese helped create the first artificial reef in the Long Island Sound in 1977. He has worked in Mexico's Yucatán jungle, placing satellite collars on jaguars . He also climbed and recovered samples from Tanzania 's volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, and also participated in two expeditions to Antarctica to core glaciers for climatological studies. In 2006, he co-discovered 202 species in

2548-483: Was an American Saturday morning children's programming block that aired on ABC from September 13, 1997 to August 27, 2011. It featured a mixture of animated and live-action series from Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel , aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 14. This was the only time Disney Channel content aired on over-the-air television in the United States. The block regularly aired on Saturday mornings, though certain programs within

2600-420: Was eventually selected by the ABC affiliate board to program the block, beating out two other competitors as a part of the winning presentation in which Litton suggested counterprogramming the then-usual Saturday morning fare by featuring unscripted and "pro-social programming" aimed at children and teenagers ages 7–17. ABC and Litton Entertainment announced the block on May 24, 2011, for a fall 2011 launch, under

2652-444: Was one of two networks at the time that prominently carried Disney programming on Saturday mornings, as CBS also carried Disney cartoons (CBS' were mostly television spin-offs of Disney Renaissance films, whereas ABC's were mostly other Disney properties). After Disney formally took over ABC's operations, Disney head Michael Eisner sought to create a Saturday morning block that was different from those carried by its competitors at

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2704-409: Was turned down by WEMT ) and other syndicated programming for their E/I contributions instead. In April 2017, Weekend Adventure moved to WJHL-DT2 after WKPT voided all of their syndication contracts to become a full-time carrier of Cozi TV . Programs featured on Litton's Weekend Adventure are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines, allowing ABC stations to comply with

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