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Xploration Station is an American syndicated programming block that is programmed by Steve Rotfeld Productions, and debuted on September 13, 2014. It airs weekends (typically on Saturday mornings), primarily on Fox-affiliated stations. Aimed towards teenagers, the block consists of four half-hour shows focusing on the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. All of the programs in the two-hour block were produced to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines (stations carrying the block continue to provide E/I-compliant programs acquired from the syndication market to comply with the full three-hour requirement defined by the Federal Communications Commission for television stations to devote to educational programming each week). ==History== On December 17, 2013, Steve Rotfeld Productions announced that it would launch a two-hour syndicated block of live-action educational programs under the working title ''Xploration Nation'', with Fox Television Stations and Tribune Broadcasting initially set to carry the block across their respective Fox owned-and-operated and affiliated stations. The block, aimed towards youth between 13 to 16 years of age, features programs focused on the STEM fields – such as marine biology, astronomy and animal science.〔 Production on one of the four shows, ''Xploration Outer Space'', began in April 2014.〔 The block, by then renamed ''Xploration Station'', premiered on September 13, 2014. On Fox owned-and-operated stations, ''Xploration Station'' replaced ''Weekend Marketplace'', a two-hour block of infomercials first introduced in January 2009 following the discontinuation of 4Kids TV due to conflicts between Fox and the block's programmer 4Kids Entertainment.〔 Several of the Fox stations that initially picked up the block had previously declined to carry the network's former children's programming blocks (Fox Kids, FoxBox and 4Kids TV) and ''Weekend Marketplace'' – particularly, those owned by the core Fox and Tribune groups that affiliated with the network in the mid-1990s under New World Communications ownership. On January 20, 2015, Fox Television Stations renewed the block for the group's Fox owned-and-operated stations through 2017. One of the more notable holdouts for ''Xploration Station'' in its first season and the upcoming second season was Fox's largest affiliate group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, which has several already existing contracts with other E/I production companies to give them compliant programming to meet the standards throughout a chain which consists of numerous network affiliates; Sinclair's Fox stations instead continue to carry ''Weekend Marketplace'' (the sole exception is WLUK-TV in Green Bay, which carries ''Xploration Station'' through an agreement struck prior to the December 2014 closure of Sinclair's purchase of the station and CW-affiliated sister WCWF from LIN Media). This will be rectified in September 2016, when Sinclair will begin to carry ''Xploration Station'' on their Fox stations and two other Sinclair stations associated with a netlet under a five-year agreement with Steve Rotfeld Productions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Xploration Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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