The Disney Afternoon DuckTales, the series which would serve as the launching pad for what would become
The Disney Afternoon, premiered in first-run syndication in the fall of 1987. Two years later in the fall of 1989,
DuckTales was joined by ''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
, and both series were being offered in syndication as an hour-long program block. The Disney Afternoon
kept these shows, added Gummi Bears
and TaleSpin'',
DuckTales had been airing on many affiliates of the then-young
Fox network and its group of
owned-and-operated stations, including
KTTV in
Los Angeles; this may have been due to the fact that
the Walt Disney Company's
chief operating officer at the time,
Michael Eisner, and his then-
Fox counterpart,
Barry Diller, had worked together previously at
ABC and at
Paramount Pictures. However, as ''Chip 'n Dale
was being launched, Disney was in the process of purchasing Los Angeles independent station KHJ-TV from RKO General. Through Buena Vista Television, Disney opted to reclaim the Los Angeles broadcast rights for DuckTales
and moved it from KTTV to be paired with Chip 'n Dale
on its newly purchased station, which was renamed KCAL-TV in December 1989. Furious at the breach of contract, Diller pulled DuckTales'' from all of Fox's other owned-and-operated stations in the fall of 1989. Diller also encouraged the network's affiliates to do the same, though most did not initially. This caused the retaliatory formation of
Fox Kids. The lineup at this point included
Aladdin,
Goof Troop and
Darkwing Duck stripped, The new block did not carry any blanket branding, but was referred to internally as the "Disney-Kellogg Alliance." In 1998, Disney reached a deal to program a new children's block for UPN, ''
Disney's One Too'', as a replacement for that network's internal
UPN Kids block. The syndicated block ran until the debut of
One Too on September 6, 1999. == International broadcasts ==