by new sister network Sprout. Ion continued to operate the Qubo channel until January 2021, when it was shut down as part of the merger of Ion's operations with new owner Scripps Media. In 2012, Saban Capital Group acquired some of 4Kids' assets as part of its chapter 11 bankruptcy, which included the company's contract to program The CW's Saturday morning lineup. Toonzai was subsequently re-launched by Saban as Vortexx in August 2012, with a mix of animated and live-action series (the latter including the Power Rangers franchise, and the WWE wrestling show Saturday Morning Slam). The CW remained the last major U.S. network to still program non-educational children's programming on weekend mornings. Shift in demographics and content The growing regulatory scrutiny, increasing competition from cable channels such as Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon, as well as video on-demand and streaming services, brought changes to viewing habits that made non-educational Saturday morning programming less viable for networks. Throughout the 2010s, the major networks began to change the manner in which they fulfilled their E/I obligations, by airing factual, documentary- and reality-style series aimed at a teen (13–16 years old) audience, rather than preschool or preteen audiences. As they are not targeting viewers 12 and younger, these programs are not subject to the restrictions on advertising prescribed by the Children's Television Act. ABC (Litton's Weekend Adventure in 2011), CBS (CBS Dream Team in 2013), The CW (One Magnificent Morning in 2014; The Washington Post wrote that its replacement of Vortexx signaled the "end" of Saturday morning cartoons), and NBC (The More You Know in 2016) all leased their weekend morning blocks to Litton Entertainment to air such E/I programming. Fox entered into a similar arrangement with Steve Rotfeld Productions to produce the STEM-based block Xploration Station for its affiliates, which premiered in September 2014. NBC argued that its The More You Know block was a better lead-out for Weekend Today's audience than the preschool programming it had aired before. Peggy Charren's daughter Claudia Moquin criticized Litton for contravening the spirit of the CTA by including product placement and host-selling from "underwriters" in some of their programs, such as Electronic Arts, Norwegian Cruise Line, and SeaWorld. Litton defended its practices, stating that its programming was designed to meet "child psychologist-developed standards that did not exist prior to 1990", and considered the brand placements in the programs to be "a far better