The following is a list of local children's television shows in the United States. These were locally produced commercial television programs intended for the child audience with unique hosts and themes. This type of programming began in the late 1940s and continued into the late 1970s; some shows continued into the 1990s. Author Tim Hollis documented about 1,400 local children's shows in a 2002 book, Hi There, Boys and Girls! The television programs typically aired in the weekday mornings before school or afternoons after school, as well as on weekends (to a lesser degree). There were different formats. Almost all shows had a colorful host who assumed a persona, such as a cowboy/cowgirl, captain/skipper/commodore/admiral, jungle explorer, astronaut, king, princess, clown, sheriff/deputy/trooper, cop, firefighter, hobo/tramp, railroad engineer, magician, "cousin", "grandfather" or "uncle", whose role was not only to be the "DJ" for syndicated material (typically cartoons, although Westerns were more popular earlier on) but also to entertain, often with a live television studio audience of kids, during breaks. Early program fare included cartoon favorites, such as Koko the Clown, Daffy Duck, Crusader Rabbit, Dick Tracy, Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Mighty Mouse, Porky Pig, Deputy Dawg, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, Mel-O-Toons, Woody Woodpecker, The Funny Company, Mr. Magoo, Space Angel and Clutch Cargo, as well as movie shorts, such as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang/The Little Rascals and The Three Stooges, as well as animated versions of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and The Three Stooges, and live action shorts, such as Diver Dan. Some included educational segments like the portraits of wildlife in Nature's Window.

Television broadcast markets

Alabama

Anniston

Birmingham

Dothan

Florence

Huntsville/Decatur

Mobile

Montgomery

Alaska

Anchorage

Fairbanks

Arizona

Phoenix

Tucson

Yuma

Arkansas

El Dorado/Monroe

Fort Smith

Little Rock

California

Bakersfield

Fresno

Glendale

Los Angeles

Oakland

Sacramento/Stockton

San Diego

San Francisco

San Jose

Visalia

Colorado

Colorado Springs

Denver

Connecticut

Hartford

New Haven

Delaware

(see Pennsylvania, Maryland, and District of Columbia markets)

District of Columbia

Washington

Florida

Fort Myers

Jacksonville

Miami

Orlando

St. Petersburg

Tallahassee

Tampa

West Palm Beach

Georgia

Atlanta

Augusta

Columbus

Macon

Savannah

Thomasville

Hawaii

Honolulu

KHON (Channel 2): KGU/KITV/KHVH (now KITV) (Channel 4): KGMB (Channel 9): KTRG (now KHNL) (Channel 13):

Idaho

Boise

Illinois

Chicago

Peoria

Quad Cities

(see Quad Cities, Iowa market)

Quincy

Rockford

Harrisburg

Indiana

Evansville

Fort Wayne

Indianapolis

South Bend

Terre Haute

Iowa

Cedar Rapids/Waterloo

Davenport

(see Quad Cities market)

Des Moines/Ames

Mason City/Fort Dodge

Quad Cities

Sioux City

Kansas

Wichita

Kentucky

Bowling Green

Lexington

Louisville

Paducah

Louisiana

Baton Rouge

Monroe

New Orleans

Shreveport

Maine

Bangor

Portland

Maryland

Baltimore

Massachusetts

Boston

Springfield

Worcester

Michigan

Detroit

Detroit Area

Flint

Grand Rapids

Kalamazoo

Lansing

Minnesota

Austin

Duluth

Minneapolis/St. Paul

Rochester

Mississippi

Columbus

Missouri

Columbia/Jefferson City/Sedalia

Hannibal

Joplin

Kansas City

St. Louis

Springfield

Montana

Billings

Butte

Nebraska

Lincoln

Scottsbluff

KSTF: The Wilmer Worm Show (with June Beaman)

Nevada

Reno ` KAME Space Station 21 { Ricky Price & Jo Anne Buchanan)

Las Vegas

New Hampshire

Manchester

New Jersey

(see New York and Pennsylvania markets)

New Mexico

Albuquerque

New York

Albany/Schenectady

Binghamton

Buffalo

Elmira/Ithaca

New York

Plattsburgh

Rochester

Syracuse/Auburn

Utica/Rome

Watertown

North Carolina

Asheville

Charlotte

Greenville/New Bern

Raleigh/Durham

Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem

North Dakota

Bismarck

Fargo

Ohio

Akron

Canton

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Columbus

Dayton

Lima

WIMA-TV:

Springfield

Steubenville

Toledo

Youngstown

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City

Tulsa

Oregon

Eugene

Portland

Pennsylvania

Erie

Harrisburg/Lancaster

Johnstown/Altoona

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

Rhode Island

Providence

South Carolina

Charleston

Columbia

Florence/Myrtle Beach

Greenville/Spartanburg

South Dakota

Rapid City

Sioux Falls

Tennessee

Chattanooga

Jackson

Knoxville

Memphis

Nashville

Texas

Abilene

Amarillo

Austin

Beaumont/Port Arthur

Corpus Christi

Dallas/Fort Worth

El Paso

Houston/Galveston

Lubbock

Odessa/Midland

San Antonio

Howdy Doody 1951 Chester Howard Little Rascals 1951 Chester Howard Roy Rogers 1951. Chester Howard Gene Autry. 1951. Chester Howard

Utah

Salt Lake City

Vermont

Burlington

Virginia

Norfolk/Portsmouth

Richmond

Roanoke/Lynchburg

Washington, D.C.

Washington

Bellingham

Everett

Seattle/Tacoma

Spokane

Yakima

West Virginia

Charleston/Huntington

Parkersburg

Wheeling

Wisconsin

Eau Claire

Green Bay

Madison

Milwaukee

Wausau

Wyoming

Casper

Cheyenne

Guam