In January 1998, UPN began discussions with The Walt Disney Company (owner of rival network ABC) to have the company program a daily two-hour children's block for the network, airing on weekdays (during the morning or afternoon hours) and Sunday mornings. Attempts to reach a time-lease agreement deal with Disney were called off one week after negotiations started due to a dispute between Disney and UPN over how the block would be branded and the amount of E/I programming that Disney would provide for the block; UPN then entered into discussions with then-corporate sister Nickelodeon (both networks were owned by Viacom) to produce the new block. That February, UPN entered into an agreement with Saban Entertainment (then a subsidiary of Fox Family Worldwide, owned jointly by Fox, which Disney later acquired in 2019, and founder, Haim Saban, who also owned competing block Fox Kids) – which distributed two series recently aired on the UPN Kids block around that time, "Sweet Valley High" and "Breaker High" – to program the Sunday-to-Friday block.