Nelvana has announced that Medabots will be appearing daily on ABC Family (f/k/a Fox Family) at 8:30 a.m. ET/PT.  ABC Family is distributed in over 84 million homes, and this daily time slot will be a good one for the summer months, when the target audience is home and planted in front of the tube.  The ABC Family deal will make up for the exposure lost when 4Kids bought the Fox Kids block wholesale (see '4Kids Gets Fox Kid Block').   According to the announcement, Medabots '...emerged at the top of the all-important boys 6-11 ratings when the series debuted last fall on Fox Kids,' and Nelvana hopes for a similar reaction in the new spot. 

 

Merchandising opportunities include the Hasbro toys (see 'Licensing Is Back at Hasbro'), an Upper Deck CCG (see 'Upper Deck Gets Medabots'), and the manga from Viz (see 'Viz Launches Medabots Manga').