television channels specializing in children's programming such as Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel as well as video on demand streaming media such as Netflix, Hulu, iTunes and Amazon Prime Video, Redbox, television video on demand services and other video rental outlets that also provide alternative ways of distributing children's programming at any time of day or week, without restrictions placed on such programming that an FCC-licensed broadcast station must honor to stay in business or the need for advertising to fund it. KidsClick was an attempt by Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the United States' largest owners of broadcast television stations, to re-establish a market for entertainment-based children's programming and cartoons on broadcast television. Launching July 1, 2017, KidsClick was carried on stations owned by Sinclair and by This TV, as Sinclair was attempting to attempted acquisition of Tribune Media by Sinclair Broadcast Group at the time (when the deal collapsed amid antitrust concerns, KidsClick moved to TBD, already owned by Sinclair in July 2018). It consisted mostly of rerun and imported programming from the past decade, none of which had any educational content. KidsClick ended its run March 31, 2019, 21 months after its launch. Cable television Numerous early cable networks that began in the 1970s and 1980s followed a similar full-service approach to their programming to their broadcast counterparts; this included children's programming blocks, both on weekdays and Saturday mornings. The number of cable channels began to increase rapidly in the 1990s, allowing the diverse full-service networks to split their programming onto specialized networks. In the fall of 1996, the USA Network discontinued its long-running animation block, the USA Cartoon Express; its sister block, the USA Action Extreme Team, which began in 1995, continued until 1998. TNT followed in the fall of 1998, replacing its cartoons with drama series; TBS (as well as its then-Atlanta parent station WPCH-TV) also followed suit in the fall of 1999 to focus on sitcoms (in those cases, it was specifically to direct viewers to co-owned Cartoon Network and later, Boomerang). In September 2006, ABC Family dropped its Jetix lineup, making it exclusive to Toon Disney. "Ready Set Learn" ended its run on TLC in 2008 and became exclusive only to Discovery Kids. Also, in 2014, Disney Channel's weekday lineup would consist solely of its live-action sitcoms. Today, weekday cartoons are relegated to basic cable networks such as Nickelodeon and Disney Channel