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** Wash. DC channels are that way, too. Sort of advertising deal?

** What's the second channel? The CW is half-owned by CBS, so if it's that channel, it would explain things.

*** Fox has changed to infomercials now, so this question is no longer relevant.

* Why do they dub anime if they have to change practically everything about a show to make it acceptable for them to air? Why not just write your own stuff from wholecloth if you're, well, going to do that ''anyway''?

* Why, ''why'' does 4Kids always remove lettering from signs, computer screens, etc., even when it's already in English, and replace it with symbols, new lettering, or just random shapes? Does this have to do with Al Kahn (''Kaaaaaaaaahn!'') and his firm belief that kids don't read?

** Given Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's particular text edits (where text is changed into non-text symbols signifying roughly the same things) my theory is that it's because they believe it makes the series easier to export. For example, a German or Brazilian version of the show would have to change the various text in a duel runner HUD's to reflect their respective languages (taking in mind that these are shows for kids--depending on the place, they may not have learned English as a second language) in order to make them understandable; not so if it's a set of universal, widely-understood symbols. Basically, they do the work so that other places don't have to.

** 4Kids actually prided itself on 'the kids don't even realise they're from Japan anymore'. Nuff said.

*** And detractors always prided themselves by making such half-baked remarks.