A Saturday-morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings in the United States on most major Television networks from the 1960s through the present day. The genre's popularity declined in the 1990s and 2000s after cable and satellite television, and later the Internet, began providing 24-hour access to cartoons for children. The format continued in a reduced manner through the present day as a way of meeting educational television mandates.