Mi Tele On December 15, 2001, UniMás (then known as Telefutura) announced that it would launch three children's programming blocks that would eventually premiere on January 15 ("Mi Tele") and January 19, 2002 respectively ("Toonturama" and "Toonturama Junior"), one day after the network was launched on January 14. The blocks featured live-action and animated series aimed at children between the ages of 2 and 14. The first block, "Mi Tele" ("My TV"), a two-hour animation block on weekday mornings featuring a mix of imported Spanish-language cartoons such as
Fantaghiro and
El Nuevo Mundo de los Gnomos ("
The New World of the Gnomes"), as well as two animated series originally produced in English,
Mr. Bogus and
Anatole all premiering on January 15, 2002. The block's run would be short lived as on March 15, 2002, the
Mi Tele block was discontinued. The following week on Monday, the block started airing youth-targeted
telenovelas such as
Carrusel,
Luz Clarita,
Gotita de Amor and
Rayito de Luz as part of the updated programming lineup. On December 24, 2002, Telefutura Network acquired the rights to the popular Warner Bros. Animation television cartoon series,
Animaniacs, and it was partly why some of Telefutura's most popular programs (most notably
Animaniacs) were mainly not included as part of the "Mi Tele" nor "Toonturama" blocks, especially during the more open-formatted cartoon block era. On August 7, 2007,
Mi Tele ended its run, its last program being
Mujeres Engañadas were discontinued. Later in 11 days, Telefutura will be including the changing time zone on the program scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern/Pacific Time Zone in update, including the three former
Mi Tele cartoon shows were moved to
Toonturama including
The New World of the Gnomes,
Mr. Bogus and
Anatole (after week on the first block,
Mi Tele with cartoon were ended in March 15) will be offer date premiered on March 23, 2002, until December 29, 2002. On February 25, 2002, Telefutura acquired the rights to
Zodiac Entertainment (via
Carlton; which is previously cartoons are executive production in the UK), was the new block featured several first-run dubbed versions of original series from production by Zodiac and Calico (owned by
World Events Productions, was the first-time previously aired on the originally Univision's block such as
Voltron: Defender of the Universe and
Denver, the Last Dinosaur), during the addition of the cartoon series and featured archived content from the programming library such as
Mr. Bogus and
Widget the World Watcher. Both cartoon programs originally ran on the network until 2003. On October 6, 2002, Telefutura was completely removed from the Madrid-based BRB Internacional's two cartoon series such as "The New World of the Gnomes" and "Super Models", ahead of the expiry of Telefutura's program supply deal with BRB Internacional for the passed ten-months, due to sale was brokered by Miami's
Venevision International (now
Cisneros Media). Venevision International inked a two-year deal to rep BRB's catalog in North America and Latin America outside
Mexico. The network was changed the schedule and replaced by two Nelvana cartoon series (including "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" and "Tales from the Cryptkeeper") briefly which premiered as rerun in the following week. In September 2005, Telefutura added the four cartoon shows for each Saturday morning schedule was pulling and it was acquired the rights to Australian-based children's media production,
Australian Children's Television Foundation line-up such as ''
Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers and the one CINAR (now WildBrain) series, Flight Squad. In Sunday morning, including the popular Universal Cartoon Studios cartoon series, Problem Child, was based on the 1990 film by Universal Pictures and "Zipi y Zape". In 2007, Telefutura reached a deal with National Geographic, as of remain added with the brand nature television series, Really Wild Animals''. It was the network changed the name, and renamed as "Toonturama Presenta: La Vida Animal" (in English, "Toonturama Present: Animal Life"), were the last "Toonturama" cartoon series to be added to the block on November 4, 2007. The block aired for the final time and ended its run on September 30, 2012, without any announcement of its closure, and it was quietly replaced by the children's live-action documentary and nature series, while the network was carried of the preschool children's Spanish-language adaptation,
Plaza Sésamo until 2016, when it was following week on October 7, 2012. As a result, Telefutura discontinued airing animated programming, making it the network not to air cartoon series within its children's program lineup. On September 9, 2018, in an agreement with
Animaccord Animation Studio in
Russia, the network launched the popular Russian cartoon
Masha and the Bear, airing it every Sunday morning.
Toonturama Junior The two-hour companion block that preceded it on Saturday and Sunday mornings within "Toonturama" sub-block, "Toonturama Junior", was launched on January 19, 2002. The sub-block was featuring programs aimed at preschoolers that fulfilled educational programming requirements defined by the Federal Communications Commission's Children's Television Act (the block aired with including originally distributors by
Venevisión in Venezuela such as
El Club de Los Tigritos, as well as
Rugemania, and
Televisa in Mexico including
El Espacio de Tatiana and
El Cubo de Donalú). The sub-block was the preschool-age children like its competitors with Univision's sister-network,
Galavisión's live-action preschool block, "
Galamiguitos". Among the programs featured preschool children series on "Toonturama Junior" was
Plaza Sésamo ("City Square Sesame"), Televisa and
Sesame Workshop's Spanish-language adaptation of
Sesame Street featuring a mix of original segments featuring characters based on its U.S.-based parent series and dubbed interstitials from the aforementioned originating program, which had aired on Univision since 1995 (ahead to the original "Planeta U" block since 2001 to 2003) after a seven-year run and passed on the U.S. television rights to Telefutura at its launch. ==Programming==