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Nickelodeon

Logo used since September 28, 2009
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	One Astor Plaza New York City, New York, U.S.
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish (via SAP audio track)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Paramount Media Networks (Paramount Global)
Parent	Nickelodeon Group
Sister channels	List Nick at Nite Nick Jr. Nicktoons TeenNick Noggin NickMusic CBS MTV BET VH1 Comedy Central TV Land Logo CMT Pop TV Showtime The Movie Channel Flix Paramount Network Smithsonian Channel
History
Launched	April 1, 1979; 43 years ago
Former names	Pinwheel (1977–1979)
Links
Website	www.nick.com

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children.^[1] It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division’s Kids and Family Group. The channel is primarily aimed at children aged 2–17,^[2] along with a broader family audience through its program blocks.

The channel began life as a test broadcast on December 1, 1977^[3] as part of QUBE,^[4] an early cable television system broadcast locally in Columbus, Ohio.^[5] The channel, now named Nickelodeon, launched to a new countrywide audience on April 1, 1979,^[6] with Pinwheel as its inaugural program.^[5] The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984.^[7][8]

Throughout history, Nickelodeon has introduced several sister channels and programming blocks. Nick Jr. is a preschool morning block launched on January 4, 1988. Nicktoons, based on the flagship brand, launched as a separate sister channel in 2002. In 1999, Nickelodeon partnered with Sesame Workshop to create Noggin, an educational brand consisting of a cable channel and an interactive website. Two blocks aimed at a teenage audience, TEENick (previously on Nickelodeon) and The N (previously on Noggin), were merged into a standalone channel, TeenNick, in 2009.

As of September 2018, the channel is available to about 87.167 million households in the United States.^[9]

History

The channel’s name comes from the first five-cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Its history dates back to December 1, 1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first 2-way interactive cable system, QUBE,^[4] in Columbus, Ohio. The C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time,^[4][10] and the channel was labelled «Pinwheel» on remote controllers, as it was the only program broadcast. Initially scheduled for a February 1979 launch,^[11] Nickelodeon launched on April 1, 1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder (the owner of the satellite, RCA Americom, later became GE Americom as a result of General Electric’s acquisition of RCA Americom’s parent company, RCA Corporation, before merging with Luxembourg-based Société Européenne des Satellites to form SES Global, now SES S.A, which one of the ancestors of the Satcom series, the SES and AMC satellite constellations, still operate, Nickelodeon presently broadcasts on AMC-11).^[12] Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984.^[7]

Programming

Programming seen on Nickelodeon includes animated series (such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, Middlemost Post, The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, The Smurfs, Rugrats and Monster High), live-action, scripted series (such as Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan and That Girl Lay Lay), and original made-for-TV movies, while the network’s daytime schedule is dedicated to shows targeting preschoolers (such as Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, and Blue’s Clues & You!).

A re-occurring program was bi-monthly special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee,^[13] a news magazine series aimed at children that debuted in 1992 as a weekly series and ended in 2015.^[14] In June 2020, Nickelodeon announced that they would bring back Nick News in a series of hour-long specials. The first installment, Kids, Race and Unity: A Nick News Special premiered on June 29, 2020, and was hosted by R&B musician Alicia Keys.^[15]

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is the branding for Nickelodeon’s original animated television series.^[16][17] Until 1991, the animated series that aired on Nickelodeon were largely imported from foreign countries, with some original animated specials that were also featured on the channel up to that point.^[18][19] Though the Nicktoons branding has infrequently been used by the network itself since the 2002 launch of the channel of the same name, original animated series continue to make up a substantial portion of Nickelodeon’s lineup.^[17] Roughly, six to seven hours of these programs are seen on the weekday schedule, and around nine hours on weekends, including a dedicated weekend morning animation block.^[18]

In 2006, the channel struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation to develop the studio’s animated films into television series (such as The Penguins of Madagascar).^[20] Since the early 2010s, Nickelodeon Animation Studio has also produced series based on preexisting IP purchased by Paramount, such as Winx Club and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Movies

Nickelodeon has produced a variety of original made-for-TV movies, which usually premiere in weekend evening timeslots or on school holidays. Nickelodeon also periodically acquires theatrically-released feature films for broadcast on the channel.

The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the network’s Nickelodeon Movies film production division (whose films are distributed by sister company Paramount Pictures). Although the film division bears the Nickelodeon brand name, the channel does not have access to most of the movies produced by its film unit. The majority of the live-action feature films produced under the Nickelodeon Movies banner are licensed for broadcast by various free-to-air and pay television outlets within the United States other than Nickelodeon (although the network has aired a few live-action Nickelodeon Movies releases such as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Good Burger).

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series as movies;^{[citation needed]} though the «TV movie» versions of Nickelodeon’s original series differ from traditional television films in that they have shorter running times (approximately 45 minutes, as opposed to 75–100 minute run times that most television movies have), and use a traditional multi-camera setup for regular episodes (unless the program is originally shot in the single-camera setup common of films) with some on-location filming.

In 2002, Nickelodeon entered a long-standing broadcast partnership with Mattel to air films and specials based on the toy company’s Barbie (and later Monster High) dolls. The first Barbie movie to air on Nickelodeon was Barbie as Rapunzel on November 24, 2002.^[21] The Barbie and Monster High films are usually aired under a brokered format in which Mattel purchases the time in order to promote the release of their films on DVD within a few days of the Nickelodeon premiere, an arrangement possible as Nickelodeon does not have to meet the Federal Communications Commission rules which disallow that arrangement for broadcast channels due to regulations banning paid programming to children.

Programming blocks

The network’s main programming is usually broadcast from 6:30 a.m. — 9 p.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. — 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 6 a.m. — 8 p.m on Sundays (Eastern and Pacific Time) (the sign-off time varies with holidays and special programming).

Current

• Nick Jr. – Nickelodeon currently broadcasts shows targeted at preschool-aged children on Monday through Fridays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (7:00 to 10:00 a.m. during the summer months, other designated school break periods, and on national holidays). The block primarily targets audiences of preschool age as Nickelodeon’s usual audience of school-aged children are in school during the block’s designated time period. Programs currently seen in this block include PAW Patrol, Peppa Pig (from the UK), Blaze and the Monster Machines, Ryan’s Mystery Playdate, Blue’s Clues & You!, Santiago of the Seas, and Baby Shark’s Big Show!.
• Nick at Nite – Nickelodeon’s nighttime programming service,^[22] which premiered on July 1, 1985, and broadcasts Mondays to Thursday nights from 9 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT, Friday and Saturday nights from 9 p.m. — 6 a.m. ET/PT, and Sunday nights from 8 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT. Originally featured classic sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s such as The Donna Reed Show,^[22] Mr. Ed and Lassie, programming eventually shifted towards repeats of popular sitcoms from the 1980s to the 2000s such as Home Improvement, The Cosby Show and Roseanne.^[23] In 1996, a pay television channel, TV Land (formerly Nick at Nite’s TV Land, until 1997) based on the block, launched with a similar format of programs.^[24] Nick at Nite has also occasionally incorporated original scripted and competition series, with some in recent years produced through its parent network’s Nickelodeon Productions unit. As of 2021, programming on Nick at Nite consists entirely of acquired shows such as Full House, Friends, Mom and Young Sheldon. Since 2004, Nielsen has broken out the television ratings of Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon as two separate networks.^[23]
• That New Thursday Night – a live-action comedy block airing from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The schedule features Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, That Girl Lay Lay, and Warped! (all first-run episodes are cycled on the schedule, giving it a variable schedule).
• New Friday Night – an animation block airing from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, featuring new episodes of a rotating selection of Nickelodeon animated series. The series featured are SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and The Casagrandes.

Former

• SNICK – «SNICK» (short for «Saturday Night Nickelodeon») was the network’s first dedicated Saturday primetime block that aired from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. Geared toward preteens and teenagers, it debuted on August 15, 1992 (with the initial lineup featuring two established series that originally aired on Sundays, Clarissa Explains It All and The Ren & Stimpy Show, and two new series, Roundhouse and Are You Afraid of the Dark?). The block mainly featured live-action series (primarily comedies), although it periodically featured animated series. SNICK was discontinued on January 29, 2005, and was replaced the following week (February 5, 2005) by a Saturday night edition of the TEENick block.
• Nick in the Afternoon – «Nick in the Afternoon» was a daytime block that ran on weekday afternoons during the summer months from 1995 to 1997, and aired in an extended format until December for its final year in 1998. It was hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick character (puppeteered by Rick Lyon and voiced by actor Paul Christie, who would later voice the Noggin mascot Moose A. Moose). The block was replaced for Summer 1999 by «Henry and June’s Summer» (hosted by the animated hosts of the anthology series KaBlam!). From 2011 to 2012, Stick Stickly returns to television for TeenNick’s «The ’90s Are All That» to host «U-Pick with Stick» on Friday nights as a concept of user-chosen programming.
• U-Pick Live – «U-Pick Live» (originally branded as «U-Pick Friday» from 1999 to late 2000, and originally hosted by the Henry and June characters from KaBlam!) was a block that aired weekday afternoons from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time from October 14, 2002, to May 27, 2005, which was broadcast from studios in New York City’s Times Square district, where Nickelodeon is headquartered. Using a similar concept that originated in 1994 with the Nick in the Afternoon block, «U-Pick Live» allowed viewer interaction in selecting the programs (usually cartoons) that would air on the block via voting on the network’s website.
• TEENick – «TEENick» was a teenage-oriented block that ran from March 4, 2001, to February 1, 2009, which ran on Sundays from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time; a secondary block on Saturdays launched in 2005, taking over the 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific timeslot long held by SNICK. It was originally hosted by Nick Cannon, and then by Jason Everhart (aka «J. Boogie»). Beginning in January 2007, Noggin’s own teenage-targeted block The N ran a spin-off block called «TEENick on The N.» The TEENick name, which was removed on February 1, 2009, later became the name of the channel TeenNick on September 28, 2009.
• ME:TV – «ME:TV» was a short-lived live hosted afternoon block that ran during summer 2007, which ran on weekday afternoons from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Time.
• Nick Saturday Nights – a primetime live-action block airing from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. It was introduced on September 22, 2012, as Gotta See Saturday Nights. Recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. Premieres of the network’s original made-for-TV movies also occasionally aired during the primetime block, usually in the form of premiere showings. Saturday premieres were discontinued for the time being on December 11, 2021.
• Nick Studio 10 – «Nick Studio 10» was a short-lived late afternoon programming block that ran from February 18 to June 17, 2013, which ran weekdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The block featured wraparound segments based on episodes of the network’s animated series, which were shown in an off-the-clock schedule due to the segments that aired following each program’s individual acts.

Special events

• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards – The Kids’ Choice Awards are a 90-minute-long annual live awards show held on the fourth Saturday night in March (formerly the first Saturday in April until 2008, but returned in 2011). The award show (whose winners are selected by Nickelodeon viewers though voting on the channel’s website and through text messaging) honors popular television series and movies, actors, athletes and music acts, with winners receiving a hollow orange blimp figurine (one of the logo outlines used for much of the network’s «splat logo» era from 1984 to 2009).
• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports – A spin-off of the Kids’ Choice Awards, «Kids Choice Sports» is held in July with the same KCA voting procedures and differing categories for team sports and athlete achievements for the past year (featuring categories such as «Best Male Athlete», «Best Female Athlete», «King Of Swag», and «Queen Of Swag»), along with the award featuring a sports-specific purple mohawk. Its inaugural ceremony aired on July 17, 2014.
• Nickelodeon HALO Awards – The HALO Awards features five ordinary teens who are Helping And Leading Others (HALO). Its inaugural ceremony aired on December 11, 2009. The awards show is hosted by Nick Cannon and airs on Nickelodeon and TeenNick every November/December until 2017.
• Worldwide Day of Play – The «Worldwide Day of Play» is an annual event held on a Saturday afternoon in late September that began on October 2, 2004, to mark the conclusion of the «Let’s Just Play» campaign launched that year, which are both designed to influence kids to exercise and participate in outdoor activities; schools and educational organizations are also encouraged to host local events to promote activity among children during the event. Nickelodeon and its sister channels (except for the Pacific and Mountain Time Zone feeds and the Nick 2 Pacific feed that is distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones), some of the network’s international channels and associated websites are suspended (with a message encouraging viewers to participate in outdoor activities during the period) from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time on the day of the event.^[25] Since 2010, the Worldwide Day of Play event became part of The Big Help program, as part of an added focus on healthy lifestyles in addition to the program’s main focus on environmental issues.

Blocks on broadcast networks

• Untitled UPN block – In 1998, Viacom’s UPN then entered into discussions with the network to produce a new block.^[26]
• Nickelodeon en Telemundo – On November 9, 1998, Telemundo introduced a daily block of Spanish dubs of Nickelodeon’s series (such as Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold!, Rocko’s Modern Life, and Blue’s Clues); the weekday edition of the block ran until September 5, 2000, when it was relegated to weekends in order to make room for the morning news program Hoy En El Mundo; Nickelodeon’s contract with Telemundo ended in November 2001, after the network was acquired by NBC.

• Nick on CBS/Nick Jr. on CBS – On September 14, 2002, Nickelodeon began producing a two-hour Saturday morning block for CBS (which was co-owned with Nickelodeon at the time as a result of then-network parent Viacom’s 1999 acquisition of CBS) to comply with the Children’s Television Act. The block featured episodes of series such as As Told by Ginger, The Wild Thornberrys, Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, and Pelswick which premiered on most CBS stations. The block was retooled in 2004 as a preschool-oriented block featuring Nick Jr. shows (such as Blue’s Clues, Dora the Explorer, and Little Bill); «Nick Jr. on CBS» was replaced in September 2006 by the KOL Secret Slumber Party block (produced by DIC Entertainment, which was subsequently acquired by Canada-based Cookie Jar (now WildBrain), as a result of CBS and Viacom’s split into separate companies earlier that year, but re-merged in late 2019.

Related networks and services

Current sister channels

Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. (Nick Jr. Channel on-air to differentiate itself from the block) is a pay television network aimed mainly at children between 2 and 7 years of age. It features a mix of current and former preschool-oriented programs from Nickelodeon, as well as some shows that are exclusive to the channel. The Nick Jr. Channel launched on September 28, 2009, as a spin-off of Nickelodeon’s long-running preschool programming block of the same name, which had aired since January 4, 1988.^[27] The channel replaced Noggin, which was relaunched as a streaming service in 2015 and acts as a separate sister brand. Noggin’s programming is distinct from the Nick Jr. channel’s; it mainly carried preteen-oriented programs at its launch,^[28] and its 2015 streaming service features a variety of exclusive series. On October 1, 2012, the Nick Jr. Channel introduced NickMom, a four-hour nighttime block aimed at parents,^[29] which ran until September 28, 2015.^[30][31] While traditional advertising appeared on the channel during the NickMom block, the network otherwise only runs programming promotions and underwriter-style sponsorships in lieu of regular commercials.

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is a pay television network that launched on May 1, 2002,^[27] as Nicktoons TV; it was renamed Nicktoons in May 2003 and rebranded as Nicktoons Network in 2005 before reverting to its previous name in September 2009. The network airs a mix of newer live-action and animated shows from Nickelodeon such as Henry Danger, The Fairly OddParents, The Loud House, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles alongside original series airing exclusively on Nicktoons.

TeenNick

TeenNick is a pay television network that is aimed at adolescents and young adults, named after the TEENick block that aired on Nickelodeon from March 2001^[32] to February 2009. The channel merged programming from the TEENick block with The N, a former block on Noggin. Although TeenNick has more relaxed program standards than the other Nickelodeon channels (save for Nick at Nite and the NickMom block on Nick Jr.) – allowing for moderate profanity, suggestive dialogue and some violent content – the network has shifted its lineup almost exclusively towards current and former Nickelodeon series (including some that are burned off due to low ratings on the flagship channel) that have stricter content standards. It also airs some acquired sitcoms and drama series.

NickMusic

NickMusic is a pay television network in the United States mainly featuring music video and music-related programming from younger pop artists that appeal to Nickelodeon’s target audience. It launched on the channel space formerly held by MTV Hits on September 9, 2016.

Former sister channels

• Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids (commonly branded as Nickelodeon GAS or Nick GAS), was a pay television network that launched on March 1, 1999, as part of the suite of high-tier channels launched by MTV Networks. It ran a mix of game shows and other competition programs from Nickelodeon (essentially formatted as a children’s version of—and Viacom’s answer to—the Game Show Network). The channel formally ceased operations on December 31, 2007, and it was replaced by a short-lived 24-hour version of Noggin’s teen-oriented block The N. However, an automated loop of Nick GAS continued to be carried on Dish Network due to unknown factors until April 23, 2009.
• NickMom (stylized as nickmom) was a programming block launched on October 1, 2012, airing in the late night hours on the Nick Jr. Channel. The block aired its own original programming aimed at parents until 2014, then began to carry acquired films and sitcoms. Due to Viacom’s 2015 cutbacks involving acquired programming and low ratings, the NickMom block and associated website were discontinued in the early morning hours of September 28, 2015.^[33]

• Nick 2 was the off-air brand for a secondary timeshift channel of Nickelodeon formerly available on the high-tier packages exclusively on cable providers as a complement to the main Nickelodeon feed, repackaging Nickelodeon’s Eastern and Pacific Time Zone feeds for the appropriate time zone – the Pacific feed was distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones, and the Eastern feed was distributed to the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones – resulting in the difference in local airtimes for a particular program between two geographic locations being three hours at most, allowing viewers a second chance to watch a program after its initial airing on the Eastern Time Zone feed or to watch the show ahead of its airing on the Pacific Time Zone feed of the main channel (for example, the Nick at Nite block would respectively start at 9:00 p.m (Sundays-Fridays) & At 10:30 p.m (Saturdays) Eastern on Nick 2 Pacific or 12:00 p.m. (weekdays) 10:00 a.m (weekends) Pacific weeknights on Nick 2 Eastern). Nick 2 would never broadcast in high definition. The service existed from around 2000 until November 2018, launching as Nick TOO. The timeshift channel was originally offered as part of the MTV Networks Digital Suite, a slate of channels exclusive to high-tier cable packages (many of the networks also earned satellite carriage over time), and was the only American example of two feeds of a non-premium service being provided to cable and IPTV providers. A Nick TOO logo was used on the channel until 2004, when MTV Networks decided to stop using customized branding on the feed (a logo for Nick 2 was only used for identification purposes on electronic program guides as a placeholder image); most television listings thus showed the additional channel under the brandings «Nick Pacific (NICKP)/Nick West (NICKW),» or «Nick East (NICKE).» DirecTV and Dish Network also offer both Nickelodeon feeds, though they carry both time zone feeds of most of the children’s networks that the providers offer by default. Viacom Media Networks discontinued the Nick 2 digital cable service on November 22, 2018, likely due to video on demand options making timeshift channels for the most part superfluous. Both time zone feeds continue to be offered on Xfinity, unbranded.^[34]
• NickRewind (TeenNick block) On July 25, 2011, TeenNick began airing The ’90s Are All That, renamed The Splat in October 2015, a block of Nickelodeon’s most popular 1990s programming, targeting the network’s target demographic from that era.^[35] After several name changes, the block was finally called «NickRewind» and focused on programming from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (mainly the latter two), and aired nightly. On January 31, 2022, the block was discontinued, with TeenNick’s overnight programming mainly consisting of regular reruns.

Other services

Service	Description
Nickelodeon HD	Nickelodeon HD is the high-definition simulcast feed of Nickelodeon that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format; the feed first began broadcasting in 2008.[36] Most of the network’s original series since 2008 – mainly its live-action series and some animated content – as well as episodes of programs carried by Nick at Nite (that were either natively produced in HD after 2000 or were remastered in high definition) are broadcast in HD, along with feature films, Nickelodeon original movies made after 2005 and select episodes, films and series produced before 2008. Other programs unavailable in HD broadcast in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. As of 2018, many subscription providers carry the high-definition feed and downscale it for the standard-definition feed. Nickelodeon’s standard-definition feed uses a downscaled version of the high-definition feed, which is broadcast in 16:9 letterboxed to fit the 4:3 ratio.
Nick on Demand	Nick on Demand is the network’s video-on-demand service, which is available on most subscription providers. It carries Nickelodeon’s live-action, animated and preschool programming. Nick at Nite has no on-demand service due to daypart-defined contractual limits for its programming, as its programs are exclusive to an evening timeslot.
Noggin	Noggin launched as a TV channel in a partnership with Sesame Workshop on February 2, 1999. It has transformed into an educational mobile app aimed at preschoolers. The app launched on March 5, 2015.[37]
Nick Pluto TV	Launched May 1, 2019, Nick Pluto is one of several free versions of ViacomCBS channels that were introduced on Pluto TV shortly after Viacom acquired the advertiser-supported service in January 2019. It carries mostly archival programs from Nickelodeon’s library. Nick Jr. programming is its separate channel, while Nick at Nite programming is instead put under the TV Land branding, and only includes syndicated programming Paramount Global has full day rights to. Pluto TV used to carry additional Nickelodeon-branded networks, among them NickGames (containing the network’s game show and reality competition library), and NickMovies (featuring movies produced by Nickelodeon), along with single full-time channels carrying one series and limited-run channels timed to an event or holiday.[38]
Paramount+	The streaming service of Paramount Global, Paramount+ houses much of Nickelodeon’s library, adding productions from the «classic» era such as You Can’t Do That on Television and Double Dare following its rebrand from CBS All Access in 2021.[39]

Production studios

Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Nickelodeon Animation Studio (formerly Games Productions, Inc.) is a production firm with two main locations (one in Burbank, California, and the other in New York City).^[40] They serve as the animation facilities for many of the network’s Nicktoons and Nick Jr. series.

Nickelodeon Productions

Nickelodeon Productions is a production studio in New York, that provides original sitcoms, animated shows and game-related programs for Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon on Sunset

Nickelodeon on Sunset was a studio complex in Hollywood, California which served as the primary production facility for Nickelodeon’s series from 1997 until 2017; the studio is designated by the National Register for Historic Places as a historical landmark as a result of its prior existence as the Earl Carroll Theater, a prominent dinner theater. It served as the production facilities for several Nickelodeon series.

Media

Nickelodeon Games

Nickelodeon Games (formerly Nick Games from 2002 to 2009, from 1997 to 2002, Nickelodeon Software, and from 1993 to 1997, Nickelodeon Interactive) is the video gaming division of Nickelodeon. It was originally a part of Viacom Consumer Products, with early games being published by Viacom New Media.^[41] They started a long-standing relationship with game publisher THQ. THQ’s relationship with the network started off when THQ published their Ren & Stimpy game for Nintendo consoles in 1992,^[42] followed by a full-fledged console deal in 1998 with several Rugrats titles,^[43] and expanded in 2001, when THQ acquired some of the assets from Mattel Interactive, namely the computer publishing rights, and all video game rights to The Wild Thornberrys.^[44] Nickelodeon also worked, alongside THQ on an original game concept, Tak and the Power of Juju.^[45]

Nick.com

Nick.com is Nickelodeon’s main website, which launched in October 1995 as a component of America Online’s Kids Only channel before eventually moving to the full World Wide Web.^[46] It provides content, as well as video clips and full episodes of Nickelodeon series available for streaming. The website’s popularity grew to the point where in March 1999, Nick.com became the highest rated website among children aged 6–14 years old. Nickelodeon used the website in conjunction with television programs which increased traffic.^[47] In 2001, Nickelodeon partnered with Networks Inc. to provide broadband video games for rent from Nick.com; the move was a further step in the multimedia direction that the developers wanted to take the website. Skagerlind indicated that over 50% of Nick.com’s audience were using a high speed connection, which allowed them to expand the gaming and video streaming options on the website.^[48]

Mobile apps

Nickelodeon released a free mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers operating on the Apple and Android platforms in February 2013.^[49] Like Nick.com, a TV Everywhere login code provided by participating subscription providers is required to view individual episodes of the network’s series.

Nickelodeon Movies

Nickelodeon Movies is a motion picture production unit that was founded in 1995, as a family entertainment arm of Paramount Pictures (owned by Nickelodeon’s corporate parent, Viacom).^[50] The first film released from the studio was the 1996 mystery/comedy Harriet the Spy.^[51] Nickelodeon Movies has produced films based on Nickelodeon animated programs including The Rugrats Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as well as other adaptations and original live-action and animated projects.

Nickelodeon Magazine

Nickelodeon Magazine was a print magazine that was launched in 1993; the channel had previously published a short-lived magazine effort in 1990. Nickelodeon Magazine incorporated informative non-fiction pieces, humor (including pranks and parodical pieces), interviews, recipes (such as green slime cake), and a comic book section in the center of each issue featuring original comics by leading underground cartoonists as well as strips about popular Nicktoons.^[52] It ceased publication after 16 years in December 2009, citing a sluggish magazine industry.^[53] A new version of the magazine was published by Papercutz from June 2015^[54] to mid-2016.

Nick Radio

Nick Radio was a radio network that launched on September 30, 2013, in a partnership between both the network and iHeartMedia (then called Clear Channel Communications), which distributed the network mainly via its iHeartRadio web platform and mobile app. Its programming was also streamed via the Nick.com website and on New York City radio station WHTZ as a secondary HD channel. Nick Radio focused on Top 40 and pop music (geared towards the network’s target audience of children, with radio edits of some songs incorporated due to inappropriate content), along with celebrity interview features. In addition to regular on-air DJs, Nick Radio also occasionally featured guest DJ stints by popular artists as well as stars from Nickelodeon’s original series.^[55][56][57]

Nick Radio shut down without warning on July 31, 2019, and was replaced by Hit Nation Junior, likely due to the network’s general failure to establish any sustained «triple threat» artists/actors throughout the 2010s, along with the general failure of the children’s-only radio format in the streaming age. It was also a non-prime asset in Viacom’s current ‘six prime networks’ strategy, leaving it vulnerable to being terminated.

Themed experiences and hotels

Nickelodeon Universe

Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America is the second indoor theme park in the United States. On August 18, 2009, Nickelodeon and Southern Star Amusements announced that it would build a second Nickelodeon Universe in New Orleans, Louisiana on the site of the former Six Flags New Orleans by the end of 2010,^[58] which was set to be the first outdoor Nickelodeon Universe theme park. On November 9, 2009, Nickelodeon announced that it had ended the licensing agreement with Southern Star Amusements.^[59][60]

Nickelodeon Universe has a second location at the American Dream Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, that opened on October 25, 2019.^[61] Upon opening the New Jersey Nickelodeon Universe became the largest indoor theme park in the western hemisphere, unseating the Minnesota Nickelodeon Universe who had the title from 2008 to 2019.^[62]

Theme park areas

Current attractions

• Nickland is an area inside of Movie Park Germany featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides, including a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed «Splash Battle» ride, and a Jimmy Neutron-themed roller coaster.
• Nickelodeon Land opened on May 4, 2011, at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, featuring several rides based on Nickelodeon series including SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dora the Explorer, and The Fairly OddParents.
• Nickelodeon Land opened in September 2015 at Sea World, featuring multiple rides based on Nickelodeon programs including a SpongeBob junior roller coaster, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed flyer.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Land is also an area within Parque de Atracciones de Madrid. Opened in 2014, this area contains rides and attractions based on Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and other Nickelodeon franchises.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Playtime/Nickelodeon Adventure are two themed children’s entertainment centers in Essex, England and Shenzen, China. Play areas and attractions in these centers are immersively themed to SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and additional Nickelodeon shows.^[63]

Closed areas

• Nickelodeon Universe was also an area inside of Paramount’s Kings Island featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides and attractions. It was one of the largest sections in the park and was voted «Best Kid’s Area» by Amusement Today magazine from 2001 until its closure in 2009 after the park’s sale to Cedar Fair (the Paramount Parks ended up with CBS Corporation in the 2006 CBS/Viacom split, which CBS immediately sold off as soon as possible as non-critical surplus assets for that company).
• Nickelodeon Studios was an attraction at the Universal Orlando Resort that opened on June 7, 1990, and housed production for many Nickelodeon programs (including Clarissa Explains It All, What Would You Do? and All That). It closed on April 30, 2005, after Nickelodeon’s production facilities were moved to New York City and Burbank, California. The building that formerly housed it was recently occupied by the Blue Man Group Sharp Aquos Theatre, closed in February 2021. Another Nickelodeon-themed attraction at the park, Jimmy Neutron’s Nicktoon Blast, opened in 2003 but closed in 2011 to make way for the new ride Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem. In 2012, a store based on SpongeBob SquarePants opened in Woody Woodpecker’s Kidzone, replacing Universal’s Cartoon Store.
• Nickelodeon Central was an area inside of the Paramount Parks properties, including California’s Great America, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Canada’s Wonderland, and Dreamworld that featured shows, attractions and themes featuring Nickelodeon characters, all of which were wound down when CBS Corporation was given ownership of the theme parks in the Viacom/CBS split and eventually sold most of the properties to Cedar Fair without renewal of the Nickelodeon licensing agreements. The only Nickelodeon Central remaining in existence was at Dreamworld in Australia, which is not under Cedar Fair ownership. The license was revoked in 2011 and became «Kid’s World» and later DreamWorks Experience.
• Nickelodeon Blast Zone was an area in Universal Studios Hollywood that featured several attractions inspired by Nickelodeon shows. The four attractions that were present in the area were «Nickelodeon Splash», a waterpark-style area, «The Wild Thornberrys Adventure Temple», a jungle-themed foam ball play area, and «Nick Jr. Backyard», a medium-sized toddler playground. It ran from 2001 to 2007 and was rethemed as «The Adventures of Curious George» which closed in 2008 to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Studios Hollywood). Adjacent to Nickelodeon Blast Zone was the «Panasonic Theatre» which housed Totally Nickelodeon, an audience-participated game show which ran from 1997 to 2000. «Rugrats Magic Adventure» replaced the game show in 2001, but closed in 2002 to make way for Shrek 4-D which ran from May 2003 to August 2017. It closed to make way for DreamWorks Theatre Featuring Kung Fu Panda which opened on June 15, 2018.
• Nickelodeon Splat City was an area inside California’s Great America (from 1995 to 2002), Kings Island (from 1995 to 2000) and Kings Dominion (from 1995 to 1999), that featured messy- and water-themed attractions. The slime refinery theme was carried out in the attractions such as the «Green Slime Zone Refinery», the «Crystal Slime Mining Maze», and the «Green Slime Transfer Truck». All of these areas were later transformed into either Nickelodeon Central or Nickelodeon Universe before being discontinued as mentioned above when sold off by CBS Corporation.

Hotel brands

• Nickelodeon Suites Resort was a Nickelodeon-themed hotel in Orlando, Florida, located near the Universal Orlando Resort and 1-mile (1.6 km) from Walt Disney World. The hotel originally opened in 1999, and re-opened under its Nickelodeon re-theming in 2005. It included one-to-three bedroom themed kid suites, a water park area, arcade, and various forms of entertainment themed after Nickelodeon shows. It also contained a Nick at Nite-themed lounge area for adults. The property was re-themed to «Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites» on June 1, 2016.
• Nickelodeon Resorts by Marriott was a proposed hotel chain similar to the Nickelodeon Suites Resort, featuring a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) waterpark area and 650 hotel rooms. Announced in 2007,^[64] the first location was scheduled to open in San Diego in 2010, however, the plans were canceled in 2009.^[65] Plans for the remaining 19 hotels originally slated to open remain unclear.
• Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts is a hotel chain that opened its first location in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in 2016, in association with Karisma Hotels and Resorts.^[66] The second location opened in Riviera Maya, Mexico in 2021,^[67] and a third location is currently in development for a 2027 opening in Garden Grove, California.^[68]

Cruises

• Nickelodeon at Sea is a series of Nickelodeon-themed cruise packages in partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line. They feature special amenities and entertainment themed to various Nickelodeon properties.^[69] This was later removed in 2015.^[70]
• Norwegian Cruise Line also hosted some Nickelodeon Cruises on the Norwegian Jewel and Norwegian Epic liners, as part of Nickelodeon at Sea.^[71]

International

Between 1993 and 1995, Nickelodeon opened international channels in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany; by the later year, the network had provided its programming to broadcasters in 70 countries. Since the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon as a brand has expanded into include language- or culture-specific channels for various other territories in different parts of the world including Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Canada, and has licensed some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to free-to-air networks and subscription channels such as KI.KA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two (English language) and TG4 (Irish language) in Ireland, YTV (in English) and Vrak.TV (in French) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece, CNBC-e in Turkey and 10 Shake in Australia (which is a sister network to Nickelodeon).

See also

• List of Nickelodeon novelizations
• Nicktoons
• Boomerang
• Cartoon Network
• Disney XD
• Disney Channel

References

Bibliography

• Hendershot, Heather, ed. (2004). Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3652-1.
• Klickstein, Mathew (2013). SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age. New York: Plume. ISBN 978-0-1421-9685-4.

External links

• Official website

Nickelodeon

Logo used since September 28, 2009
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	One Astor Plaza New York City, New York, U.S.
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish (via SAP audio track)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Paramount Media Networks (Paramount Global)
Parent	Nickelodeon Group
Sister channels	List Nick at Nite Nick Jr. Nicktoons TeenNick Noggin NickMusic CBS MTV BET VH1 Comedy Central TV Land Logo CMT Pop TV Showtime The Movie Channel Flix Paramount Network Smithsonian Channel
History
Launched	April 1, 1979; 43 years ago
Former names	Pinwheel (1977–1979)
Links
Website	www.nick.com

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children.^[1] It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division’s Kids and Family Group. The channel is primarily aimed at children aged 2–17,^[2] along with a broader family audience through its program blocks.

The channel began life as a test broadcast on December 1, 1977^[3] as part of QUBE,^[4] an early cable television system broadcast locally in Columbus, Ohio.^[5] The channel, now named Nickelodeon, launched to a new countrywide audience on April 1, 1979,^[6] with Pinwheel as its inaugural program.^[5] The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984.^[7][8]

Throughout history, Nickelodeon has introduced several sister channels and programming blocks. Nick Jr. is a preschool morning block launched on January 4, 1988. Nicktoons, based on the flagship brand, launched as a separate sister channel in 2002. In 1999, Nickelodeon partnered with Sesame Workshop to create Noggin, an educational brand consisting of a cable channel and an interactive website. Two blocks aimed at a teenage audience, TEENick (previously on Nickelodeon) and The N (previously on Noggin), were merged into a standalone channel, TeenNick, in 2009.

As of September 2018, the channel is available to about 87.167 million households in the United States.^[9]

History

The channel’s name comes from the first five-cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Its history dates back to December 1, 1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first 2-way interactive cable system, QUBE,^[4] in Columbus, Ohio. The C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time,^[4][10] and the channel was labelled «Pinwheel» on remote controllers, as it was the only program broadcast. Initially scheduled for a February 1979 launch,^[11] Nickelodeon launched on April 1, 1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder (the owner of the satellite, RCA Americom, later became GE Americom as a result of General Electric’s acquisition of RCA Americom’s parent company, RCA Corporation, before merging with Luxembourg-based Société Européenne des Satellites to form SES Global, now SES S.A, which one of the ancestors of the Satcom series, the SES and AMC satellite constellations, still operate, Nickelodeon presently broadcasts on AMC-11).^[12] Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984.^[7]

Programming

Programming seen on Nickelodeon includes animated series (such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, Middlemost Post, The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, The Smurfs, Rugrats and Monster High), live-action, scripted series (such as Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan and That Girl Lay Lay), and original made-for-TV movies, while the network’s daytime schedule is dedicated to shows targeting preschoolers (such as Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, and Blue’s Clues & You!).

A re-occurring program was bi-monthly special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee,^[13] a news magazine series aimed at children that debuted in 1992 as a weekly series and ended in 2015.^[14] In June 2020, Nickelodeon announced that they would bring back Nick News in a series of hour-long specials. The first installment, Kids, Race and Unity: A Nick News Special premiered on June 29, 2020, and was hosted by R&B musician Alicia Keys.^[15]

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is the branding for Nickelodeon’s original animated television series.^[16][17] Until 1991, the animated series that aired on Nickelodeon were largely imported from foreign countries, with some original animated specials that were also featured on the channel up to that point.^[18][19] Though the Nicktoons branding has infrequently been used by the network itself since the 2002 launch of the channel of the same name, original animated series continue to make up a substantial portion of Nickelodeon’s lineup.^[17] Roughly, six to seven hours of these programs are seen on the weekday schedule, and around nine hours on weekends, including a dedicated weekend morning animation block.^[18]

In 2006, the channel struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation to develop the studio’s animated films into television series (such as The Penguins of Madagascar).^[20] Since the early 2010s, Nickelodeon Animation Studio has also produced series based on preexisting IP purchased by Paramount, such as Winx Club and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Movies

Nickelodeon has produced a variety of original made-for-TV movies, which usually premiere in weekend evening timeslots or on school holidays. Nickelodeon also periodically acquires theatrically-released feature films for broadcast on the channel.

The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the network’s Nickelodeon Movies film production division (whose films are distributed by sister company Paramount Pictures). Although the film division bears the Nickelodeon brand name, the channel does not have access to most of the movies produced by its film unit. The majority of the live-action feature films produced under the Nickelodeon Movies banner are licensed for broadcast by various free-to-air and pay television outlets within the United States other than Nickelodeon (although the network has aired a few live-action Nickelodeon Movies releases such as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Good Burger).

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series as movies;^{[citation needed]} though the «TV movie» versions of Nickelodeon’s original series differ from traditional television films in that they have shorter running times (approximately 45 minutes, as opposed to 75–100 minute run times that most television movies have), and use a traditional multi-camera setup for regular episodes (unless the program is originally shot in the single-camera setup common of films) with some on-location filming.

In 2002, Nickelodeon entered a long-standing broadcast partnership with Mattel to air films and specials based on the toy company’s Barbie (and later Monster High) dolls. The first Barbie movie to air on Nickelodeon was Barbie as Rapunzel on November 24, 2002.^[21] The Barbie and Monster High films are usually aired under a brokered format in which Mattel purchases the time in order to promote the release of their films on DVD within a few days of the Nickelodeon premiere, an arrangement possible as Nickelodeon does not have to meet the Federal Communications Commission rules which disallow that arrangement for broadcast channels due to regulations banning paid programming to children.

Programming blocks

The network’s main programming is usually broadcast from 6:30 a.m. — 9 p.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. — 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 6 a.m. — 8 p.m on Sundays (Eastern and Pacific Time) (the sign-off time varies with holidays and special programming).

Current

• Nick Jr. – Nickelodeon currently broadcasts shows targeted at preschool-aged children on Monday through Fridays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (7:00 to 10:00 a.m. during the summer months, other designated school break periods, and on national holidays). The block primarily targets audiences of preschool age as Nickelodeon’s usual audience of school-aged children are in school during the block’s designated time period. Programs currently seen in this block include PAW Patrol, Peppa Pig (from the UK), Blaze and the Monster Machines, Ryan’s Mystery Playdate, Blue’s Clues & You!, Santiago of the Seas, and Baby Shark’s Big Show!.
• Nick at Nite – Nickelodeon’s nighttime programming service,^[22] which premiered on July 1, 1985, and broadcasts Mondays to Thursday nights from 9 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT, Friday and Saturday nights from 9 p.m. — 6 a.m. ET/PT, and Sunday nights from 8 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT. Originally featured classic sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s such as The Donna Reed Show,^[22] Mr. Ed and Lassie, programming eventually shifted towards repeats of popular sitcoms from the 1980s to the 2000s such as Home Improvement, The Cosby Show and Roseanne.^[23] In 1996, a pay television channel, TV Land (formerly Nick at Nite’s TV Land, until 1997) based on the block, launched with a similar format of programs.^[24] Nick at Nite has also occasionally incorporated original scripted and competition series, with some in recent years produced through its parent network’s Nickelodeon Productions unit. As of 2021, programming on Nick at Nite consists entirely of acquired shows such as Full House, Friends, Mom and Young Sheldon. Since 2004, Nielsen has broken out the television ratings of Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon as two separate networks.^[23]
• That New Thursday Night – a live-action comedy block airing from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The schedule features Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, That Girl Lay Lay, and Warped! (all first-run episodes are cycled on the schedule, giving it a variable schedule).
• New Friday Night – an animation block airing from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, featuring new episodes of a rotating selection of Nickelodeon animated series. The series featured are SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and The Casagrandes.

Former

• SNICK – «SNICK» (short for «Saturday Night Nickelodeon») was the network’s first dedicated Saturday primetime block that aired from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. Geared toward preteens and teenagers, it debuted on August 15, 1992 (with the initial lineup featuring two established series that originally aired on Sundays, Clarissa Explains It All and The Ren & Stimpy Show, and two new series, Roundhouse and Are You Afraid of the Dark?). The block mainly featured live-action series (primarily comedies), although it periodically featured animated series. SNICK was discontinued on January 29, 2005, and was replaced the following week (February 5, 2005) by a Saturday night edition of the TEENick block.
• Nick in the Afternoon – «Nick in the Afternoon» was a daytime block that ran on weekday afternoons during the summer months from 1995 to 1997, and aired in an extended format until December for its final year in 1998. It was hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick character (puppeteered by Rick Lyon and voiced by actor Paul Christie, who would later voice the Noggin mascot Moose A. Moose). The block was replaced for Summer 1999 by «Henry and June’s Summer» (hosted by the animated hosts of the anthology series KaBlam!). From 2011 to 2012, Stick Stickly returns to television for TeenNick’s «The ’90s Are All That» to host «U-Pick with Stick» on Friday nights as a concept of user-chosen programming.
• U-Pick Live – «U-Pick Live» (originally branded as «U-Pick Friday» from 1999 to late 2000, and originally hosted by the Henry and June characters from KaBlam!) was a block that aired weekday afternoons from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time from October 14, 2002, to May 27, 2005, which was broadcast from studios in New York City’s Times Square district, where Nickelodeon is headquartered. Using a similar concept that originated in 1994 with the Nick in the Afternoon block, «U-Pick Live» allowed viewer interaction in selecting the programs (usually cartoons) that would air on the block via voting on the network’s website.
• TEENick – «TEENick» was a teenage-oriented block that ran from March 4, 2001, to February 1, 2009, which ran on Sundays from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time; a secondary block on Saturdays launched in 2005, taking over the 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific timeslot long held by SNICK. It was originally hosted by Nick Cannon, and then by Jason Everhart (aka «J. Boogie»). Beginning in January 2007, Noggin’s own teenage-targeted block The N ran a spin-off block called «TEENick on The N.» The TEENick name, which was removed on February 1, 2009, later became the name of the channel TeenNick on September 28, 2009.
• ME:TV – «ME:TV» was a short-lived live hosted afternoon block that ran during summer 2007, which ran on weekday afternoons from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Time.
• Nick Saturday Nights – a primetime live-action block airing from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. It was introduced on September 22, 2012, as Gotta See Saturday Nights. Recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. Premieres of the network’s original made-for-TV movies also occasionally aired during the primetime block, usually in the form of premiere showings. Saturday premieres were discontinued for the time being on December 11, 2021.
• Nick Studio 10 – «Nick Studio 10» was a short-lived late afternoon programming block that ran from February 18 to June 17, 2013, which ran weekdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The block featured wraparound segments based on episodes of the network’s animated series, which were shown in an off-the-clock schedule due to the segments that aired following each program’s individual acts.

Special events

• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards – The Kids’ Choice Awards are a 90-minute-long annual live awards show held on the fourth Saturday night in March (formerly the first Saturday in April until 2008, but returned in 2011). The award show (whose winners are selected by Nickelodeon viewers though voting on the channel’s website and through text messaging) honors popular television series and movies, actors, athletes and music acts, with winners receiving a hollow orange blimp figurine (one of the logo outlines used for much of the network’s «splat logo» era from 1984 to 2009).
• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports – A spin-off of the Kids’ Choice Awards, «Kids Choice Sports» is held in July with the same KCA voting procedures and differing categories for team sports and athlete achievements for the past year (featuring categories such as «Best Male Athlete», «Best Female Athlete», «King Of Swag», and «Queen Of Swag»), along with the award featuring a sports-specific purple mohawk. Its inaugural ceremony aired on July 17, 2014.
• Nickelodeon HALO Awards – The HALO Awards features five ordinary teens who are Helping And Leading Others (HALO). Its inaugural ceremony aired on December 11, 2009. The awards show is hosted by Nick Cannon and airs on Nickelodeon and TeenNick every November/December until 2017.
• Worldwide Day of Play – The «Worldwide Day of Play» is an annual event held on a Saturday afternoon in late September that began on October 2, 2004, to mark the conclusion of the «Let’s Just Play» campaign launched that year, which are both designed to influence kids to exercise and participate in outdoor activities; schools and educational organizations are also encouraged to host local events to promote activity among children during the event. Nickelodeon and its sister channels (except for the Pacific and Mountain Time Zone feeds and the Nick 2 Pacific feed that is distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones), some of the network’s international channels and associated websites are suspended (with a message encouraging viewers to participate in outdoor activities during the period) from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time on the day of the event.^[25] Since 2010, the Worldwide Day of Play event became part of The Big Help program, as part of an added focus on healthy lifestyles in addition to the program’s main focus on environmental issues.

Blocks on broadcast networks

• Untitled UPN block – In 1998, Viacom’s UPN then entered into discussions with the network to produce a new block.^[26]
• Nickelodeon en Telemundo – On November 9, 1998, Telemundo introduced a daily block of Spanish dubs of Nickelodeon’s series (such as Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold!, Rocko’s Modern Life, and Blue’s Clues); the weekday edition of the block ran until September 5, 2000, when it was relegated to weekends in order to make room for the morning news program Hoy En El Mundo; Nickelodeon’s contract with Telemundo ended in November 2001, after the network was acquired by NBC.

• Nick on CBS/Nick Jr. on CBS – On September 14, 2002, Nickelodeon began producing a two-hour Saturday morning block for CBS (which was co-owned with Nickelodeon at the time as a result of then-network parent Viacom’s 1999 acquisition of CBS) to comply with the Children’s Television Act. The block featured episodes of series such as As Told by Ginger, The Wild Thornberrys, Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, and Pelswick which premiered on most CBS stations. The block was retooled in 2004 as a preschool-oriented block featuring Nick Jr. shows (such as Blue’s Clues, Dora the Explorer, and Little Bill); «Nick Jr. on CBS» was replaced in September 2006 by the KOL Secret Slumber Party block (produced by DIC Entertainment, which was subsequently acquired by Canada-based Cookie Jar (now WildBrain), as a result of CBS and Viacom’s split into separate companies earlier that year, but re-merged in late 2019.

Related networks and services

Current sister channels

Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. (Nick Jr. Channel on-air to differentiate itself from the block) is a pay television network aimed mainly at children between 2 and 7 years of age. It features a mix of current and former preschool-oriented programs from Nickelodeon, as well as some shows that are exclusive to the channel. The Nick Jr. Channel launched on September 28, 2009, as a spin-off of Nickelodeon’s long-running preschool programming block of the same name, which had aired since January 4, 1988.^[27] The channel replaced Noggin, which was relaunched as a streaming service in 2015 and acts as a separate sister brand. Noggin’s programming is distinct from the Nick Jr. channel’s; it mainly carried preteen-oriented programs at its launch,^[28] and its 2015 streaming service features a variety of exclusive series. On October 1, 2012, the Nick Jr. Channel introduced NickMom, a four-hour nighttime block aimed at parents,^[29] which ran until September 28, 2015.^[30][31] While traditional advertising appeared on the channel during the NickMom block, the network otherwise only runs programming promotions and underwriter-style sponsorships in lieu of regular commercials.

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is a pay television network that launched on May 1, 2002,^[27] as Nicktoons TV; it was renamed Nicktoons in May 2003 and rebranded as Nicktoons Network in 2005 before reverting to its previous name in September 2009. The network airs a mix of newer live-action and animated shows from Nickelodeon such as Henry Danger, The Fairly OddParents, The Loud House, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles alongside original series airing exclusively on Nicktoons.

TeenNick

TeenNick is a pay television network that is aimed at adolescents and young adults, named after the TEENick block that aired on Nickelodeon from March 2001^[32] to February 2009. The channel merged programming from the TEENick block with The N, a former block on Noggin. Although TeenNick has more relaxed program standards than the other Nickelodeon channels (save for Nick at Nite and the NickMom block on Nick Jr.) – allowing for moderate profanity, suggestive dialogue and some violent content – the network has shifted its lineup almost exclusively towards current and former Nickelodeon series (including some that are burned off due to low ratings on the flagship channel) that have stricter content standards. It also airs some acquired sitcoms and drama series.

NickMusic

NickMusic is a pay television network in the United States mainly featuring music video and music-related programming from younger pop artists that appeal to Nickelodeon’s target audience. It launched on the channel space formerly held by MTV Hits on September 9, 2016.

Former sister channels

• Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids (commonly branded as Nickelodeon GAS or Nick GAS), was a pay television network that launched on March 1, 1999, as part of the suite of high-tier channels launched by MTV Networks. It ran a mix of game shows and other competition programs from Nickelodeon (essentially formatted as a children’s version of—and Viacom’s answer to—the Game Show Network). The channel formally ceased operations on December 31, 2007, and it was replaced by a short-lived 24-hour version of Noggin’s teen-oriented block The N. However, an automated loop of Nick GAS continued to be carried on Dish Network due to unknown factors until April 23, 2009.
• NickMom (stylized as nickmom) was a programming block launched on October 1, 2012, airing in the late night hours on the Nick Jr. Channel. The block aired its own original programming aimed at parents until 2014, then began to carry acquired films and sitcoms. Due to Viacom’s 2015 cutbacks involving acquired programming and low ratings, the NickMom block and associated website were discontinued in the early morning hours of September 28, 2015.^[33]

• Nick 2 was the off-air brand for a secondary timeshift channel of Nickelodeon formerly available on the high-tier packages exclusively on cable providers as a complement to the main Nickelodeon feed, repackaging Nickelodeon’s Eastern and Pacific Time Zone feeds for the appropriate time zone – the Pacific feed was distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones, and the Eastern feed was distributed to the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones – resulting in the difference in local airtimes for a particular program between two geographic locations being three hours at most, allowing viewers a second chance to watch a program after its initial airing on the Eastern Time Zone feed or to watch the show ahead of its airing on the Pacific Time Zone feed of the main channel (for example, the Nick at Nite block would respectively start at 9:00 p.m (Sundays-Fridays) & At 10:30 p.m (Saturdays) Eastern on Nick 2 Pacific or 12:00 p.m. (weekdays) 10:00 a.m (weekends) Pacific weeknights on Nick 2 Eastern). Nick 2 would never broadcast in high definition. The service existed from around 2000 until November 2018, launching as Nick TOO. The timeshift channel was originally offered as part of the MTV Networks Digital Suite, a slate of channels exclusive to high-tier cable packages (many of the networks also earned satellite carriage over time), and was the only American example of two feeds of a non-premium service being provided to cable and IPTV providers. A Nick TOO logo was used on the channel until 2004, when MTV Networks decided to stop using customized branding on the feed (a logo for Nick 2 was only used for identification purposes on electronic program guides as a placeholder image); most television listings thus showed the additional channel under the brandings «Nick Pacific (NICKP)/Nick West (NICKW),» or «Nick East (NICKE).» DirecTV and Dish Network also offer both Nickelodeon feeds, though they carry both time zone feeds of most of the children’s networks that the providers offer by default. Viacom Media Networks discontinued the Nick 2 digital cable service on November 22, 2018, likely due to video on demand options making timeshift channels for the most part superfluous. Both time zone feeds continue to be offered on Xfinity, unbranded.^[34]
• NickRewind (TeenNick block) On July 25, 2011, TeenNick began airing The ’90s Are All That, renamed The Splat in October 2015, a block of Nickelodeon’s most popular 1990s programming, targeting the network’s target demographic from that era.^[35] After several name changes, the block was finally called «NickRewind» and focused on programming from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (mainly the latter two), and aired nightly. On January 31, 2022, the block was discontinued, with TeenNick’s overnight programming mainly consisting of regular reruns.

Other services

Service	Description
Nickelodeon HD	Nickelodeon HD is the high-definition simulcast feed of Nickelodeon that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format; the feed first began broadcasting in 2008.[36] Most of the network’s original series since 2008 – mainly its live-action series and some animated content – as well as episodes of programs carried by Nick at Nite (that were either natively produced in HD after 2000 or were remastered in high definition) are broadcast in HD, along with feature films, Nickelodeon original movies made after 2005 and select episodes, films and series produced before 2008. Other programs unavailable in HD broadcast in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. As of 2018, many subscription providers carry the high-definition feed and downscale it for the standard-definition feed. Nickelodeon’s standard-definition feed uses a downscaled version of the high-definition feed, which is broadcast in 16:9 letterboxed to fit the 4:3 ratio.
Nick on Demand	Nick on Demand is the network’s video-on-demand service, which is available on most subscription providers. It carries Nickelodeon’s live-action, animated and preschool programming. Nick at Nite has no on-demand service due to daypart-defined contractual limits for its programming, as its programs are exclusive to an evening timeslot.
Noggin	Noggin launched as a TV channel in a partnership with Sesame Workshop on February 2, 1999. It has transformed into an educational mobile app aimed at preschoolers. The app launched on March 5, 2015.[37]
Nick Pluto TV	Launched May 1, 2019, Nick Pluto is one of several free versions of ViacomCBS channels that were introduced on Pluto TV shortly after Viacom acquired the advertiser-supported service in January 2019. It carries mostly archival programs from Nickelodeon’s library. Nick Jr. programming is its separate channel, while Nick at Nite programming is instead put under the TV Land branding, and only includes syndicated programming Paramount Global has full day rights to. Pluto TV used to carry additional Nickelodeon-branded networks, among them NickGames (containing the network’s game show and reality competition library), and NickMovies (featuring movies produced by Nickelodeon), along with single full-time channels carrying one series and limited-run channels timed to an event or holiday.[38]
Paramount+	The streaming service of Paramount Global, Paramount+ houses much of Nickelodeon’s library, adding productions from the «classic» era such as You Can’t Do That on Television and Double Dare following its rebrand from CBS All Access in 2021.[39]

Production studios

Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Nickelodeon Animation Studio (formerly Games Productions, Inc.) is a production firm with two main locations (one in Burbank, California, and the other in New York City).^[40] They serve as the animation facilities for many of the network’s Nicktoons and Nick Jr. series.

Nickelodeon Productions

Nickelodeon Productions is a production studio in New York, that provides original sitcoms, animated shows and game-related programs for Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon on Sunset

Nickelodeon on Sunset was a studio complex in Hollywood, California which served as the primary production facility for Nickelodeon’s series from 1997 until 2017; the studio is designated by the National Register for Historic Places as a historical landmark as a result of its prior existence as the Earl Carroll Theater, a prominent dinner theater. It served as the production facilities for several Nickelodeon series.

Media

Nickelodeon Games

Nickelodeon Games (formerly Nick Games from 2002 to 2009, from 1997 to 2002, Nickelodeon Software, and from 1993 to 1997, Nickelodeon Interactive) is the video gaming division of Nickelodeon. It was originally a part of Viacom Consumer Products, with early games being published by Viacom New Media.^[41] They started a long-standing relationship with game publisher THQ. THQ’s relationship with the network started off when THQ published their Ren & Stimpy game for Nintendo consoles in 1992,^[42] followed by a full-fledged console deal in 1998 with several Rugrats titles,^[43] and expanded in 2001, when THQ acquired some of the assets from Mattel Interactive, namely the computer publishing rights, and all video game rights to The Wild Thornberrys.^[44] Nickelodeon also worked, alongside THQ on an original game concept, Tak and the Power of Juju.^[45]

Nick.com

Nick.com is Nickelodeon’s main website, which launched in October 1995 as a component of America Online’s Kids Only channel before eventually moving to the full World Wide Web.^[46] It provides content, as well as video clips and full episodes of Nickelodeon series available for streaming. The website’s popularity grew to the point where in March 1999, Nick.com became the highest rated website among children aged 6–14 years old. Nickelodeon used the website in conjunction with television programs which increased traffic.^[47] In 2001, Nickelodeon partnered with Networks Inc. to provide broadband video games for rent from Nick.com; the move was a further step in the multimedia direction that the developers wanted to take the website. Skagerlind indicated that over 50% of Nick.com’s audience were using a high speed connection, which allowed them to expand the gaming and video streaming options on the website.^[48]

Mobile apps

Nickelodeon released a free mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers operating on the Apple and Android platforms in February 2013.^[49] Like Nick.com, a TV Everywhere login code provided by participating subscription providers is required to view individual episodes of the network’s series.

Nickelodeon Movies

Nickelodeon Movies is a motion picture production unit that was founded in 1995, as a family entertainment arm of Paramount Pictures (owned by Nickelodeon’s corporate parent, Viacom).^[50] The first film released from the studio was the 1996 mystery/comedy Harriet the Spy.^[51] Nickelodeon Movies has produced films based on Nickelodeon animated programs including The Rugrats Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as well as other adaptations and original live-action and animated projects.

Nickelodeon Magazine

Nickelodeon Magazine was a print magazine that was launched in 1993; the channel had previously published a short-lived magazine effort in 1990. Nickelodeon Magazine incorporated informative non-fiction pieces, humor (including pranks and parodical pieces), interviews, recipes (such as green slime cake), and a comic book section in the center of each issue featuring original comics by leading underground cartoonists as well as strips about popular Nicktoons.^[52] It ceased publication after 16 years in December 2009, citing a sluggish magazine industry.^[53] A new version of the magazine was published by Papercutz from June 2015^[54] to mid-2016.

Nick Radio

Nick Radio was a radio network that launched on September 30, 2013, in a partnership between both the network and iHeartMedia (then called Clear Channel Communications), which distributed the network mainly via its iHeartRadio web platform and mobile app. Its programming was also streamed via the Nick.com website and on New York City radio station WHTZ as a secondary HD channel. Nick Radio focused on Top 40 and pop music (geared towards the network’s target audience of children, with radio edits of some songs incorporated due to inappropriate content), along with celebrity interview features. In addition to regular on-air DJs, Nick Radio also occasionally featured guest DJ stints by popular artists as well as stars from Nickelodeon’s original series.^[55][56][57]

Nick Radio shut down without warning on July 31, 2019, and was replaced by Hit Nation Junior, likely due to the network’s general failure to establish any sustained «triple threat» artists/actors throughout the 2010s, along with the general failure of the children’s-only radio format in the streaming age. It was also a non-prime asset in Viacom’s current ‘six prime networks’ strategy, leaving it vulnerable to being terminated.

Themed experiences and hotels

Nickelodeon Universe

Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America is the second indoor theme park in the United States. On August 18, 2009, Nickelodeon and Southern Star Amusements announced that it would build a second Nickelodeon Universe in New Orleans, Louisiana on the site of the former Six Flags New Orleans by the end of 2010,^[58] which was set to be the first outdoor Nickelodeon Universe theme park. On November 9, 2009, Nickelodeon announced that it had ended the licensing agreement with Southern Star Amusements.^[59][60]

Nickelodeon Universe has a second location at the American Dream Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, that opened on October 25, 2019.^[61] Upon opening the New Jersey Nickelodeon Universe became the largest indoor theme park in the western hemisphere, unseating the Minnesota Nickelodeon Universe who had the title from 2008 to 2019.^[62]

Theme park areas

Current attractions

• Nickland is an area inside of Movie Park Germany featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides, including a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed «Splash Battle» ride, and a Jimmy Neutron-themed roller coaster.
• Nickelodeon Land opened on May 4, 2011, at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, featuring several rides based on Nickelodeon series including SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dora the Explorer, and The Fairly OddParents.
• Nickelodeon Land opened in September 2015 at Sea World, featuring multiple rides based on Nickelodeon programs including a SpongeBob junior roller coaster, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed flyer.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Land is also an area within Parque de Atracciones de Madrid. Opened in 2014, this area contains rides and attractions based on Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and other Nickelodeon franchises.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Playtime/Nickelodeon Adventure are two themed children’s entertainment centers in Essex, England and Shenzen, China. Play areas and attractions in these centers are immersively themed to SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and additional Nickelodeon shows.^[63]

Closed areas

• Nickelodeon Universe was also an area inside of Paramount’s Kings Island featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides and attractions. It was one of the largest sections in the park and was voted «Best Kid’s Area» by Amusement Today magazine from 2001 until its closure in 2009 after the park’s sale to Cedar Fair (the Paramount Parks ended up with CBS Corporation in the 2006 CBS/Viacom split, which CBS immediately sold off as soon as possible as non-critical surplus assets for that company).
• Nickelodeon Studios was an attraction at the Universal Orlando Resort that opened on June 7, 1990, and housed production for many Nickelodeon programs (including Clarissa Explains It All, What Would You Do? and All That). It closed on April 30, 2005, after Nickelodeon’s production facilities were moved to New York City and Burbank, California. The building that formerly housed it was recently occupied by the Blue Man Group Sharp Aquos Theatre, closed in February 2021. Another Nickelodeon-themed attraction at the park, Jimmy Neutron’s Nicktoon Blast, opened in 2003 but closed in 2011 to make way for the new ride Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem. In 2012, a store based on SpongeBob SquarePants opened in Woody Woodpecker’s Kidzone, replacing Universal’s Cartoon Store.
• Nickelodeon Central was an area inside of the Paramount Parks properties, including California’s Great America, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Canada’s Wonderland, and Dreamworld that featured shows, attractions and themes featuring Nickelodeon characters, all of which were wound down when CBS Corporation was given ownership of the theme parks in the Viacom/CBS split and eventually sold most of the properties to Cedar Fair without renewal of the Nickelodeon licensing agreements. The only Nickelodeon Central remaining in existence was at Dreamworld in Australia, which is not under Cedar Fair ownership. The license was revoked in 2011 and became «Kid’s World» and later DreamWorks Experience.
• Nickelodeon Blast Zone was an area in Universal Studios Hollywood that featured several attractions inspired by Nickelodeon shows. The four attractions that were present in the area were «Nickelodeon Splash», a waterpark-style area, «The Wild Thornberrys Adventure Temple», a jungle-themed foam ball play area, and «Nick Jr. Backyard», a medium-sized toddler playground. It ran from 2001 to 2007 and was rethemed as «The Adventures of Curious George» which closed in 2008 to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Studios Hollywood). Adjacent to Nickelodeon Blast Zone was the «Panasonic Theatre» which housed Totally Nickelodeon, an audience-participated game show which ran from 1997 to 2000. «Rugrats Magic Adventure» replaced the game show in 2001, but closed in 2002 to make way for Shrek 4-D which ran from May 2003 to August 2017. It closed to make way for DreamWorks Theatre Featuring Kung Fu Panda which opened on June 15, 2018.
• Nickelodeon Splat City was an area inside California’s Great America (from 1995 to 2002), Kings Island (from 1995 to 2000) and Kings Dominion (from 1995 to 1999), that featured messy- and water-themed attractions. The slime refinery theme was carried out in the attractions such as the «Green Slime Zone Refinery», the «Crystal Slime Mining Maze», and the «Green Slime Transfer Truck». All of these areas were later transformed into either Nickelodeon Central or Nickelodeon Universe before being discontinued as mentioned above when sold off by CBS Corporation.

Hotel brands

• Nickelodeon Suites Resort was a Nickelodeon-themed hotel in Orlando, Florida, located near the Universal Orlando Resort and 1-mile (1.6 km) from Walt Disney World. The hotel originally opened in 1999, and re-opened under its Nickelodeon re-theming in 2005. It included one-to-three bedroom themed kid suites, a water park area, arcade, and various forms of entertainment themed after Nickelodeon shows. It also contained a Nick at Nite-themed lounge area for adults. The property was re-themed to «Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites» on June 1, 2016.
• Nickelodeon Resorts by Marriott was a proposed hotel chain similar to the Nickelodeon Suites Resort, featuring a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) waterpark area and 650 hotel rooms. Announced in 2007,^[64] the first location was scheduled to open in San Diego in 2010, however, the plans were canceled in 2009.^[65] Plans for the remaining 19 hotels originally slated to open remain unclear.
• Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts is a hotel chain that opened its first location in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in 2016, in association with Karisma Hotels and Resorts.^[66] The second location opened in Riviera Maya, Mexico in 2021,^[67] and a third location is currently in development for a 2027 opening in Garden Grove, California.^[68]

Cruises

• Nickelodeon at Sea is a series of Nickelodeon-themed cruise packages in partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line. They feature special amenities and entertainment themed to various Nickelodeon properties.^[69] This was later removed in 2015.^[70]
• Norwegian Cruise Line also hosted some Nickelodeon Cruises on the Norwegian Jewel and Norwegian Epic liners, as part of Nickelodeon at Sea.^[71]

International

Between 1993 and 1995, Nickelodeon opened international channels in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany; by the later year, the network had provided its programming to broadcasters in 70 countries. Since the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon as a brand has expanded into include language- or culture-specific channels for various other territories in different parts of the world including Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Canada, and has licensed some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to free-to-air networks and subscription channels such as KI.KA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two (English language) and TG4 (Irish language) in Ireland, YTV (in English) and Vrak.TV (in French) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece, CNBC-e in Turkey and 10 Shake in Australia (which is a sister network to Nickelodeon).

See also

• List of Nickelodeon novelizations
• Nicktoons
• Boomerang
• Cartoon Network
• Disney XD
• Disney Channel

References

Bibliography

• Hendershot, Heather, ed. (2004). Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3652-1.
• Klickstein, Mathew (2013). SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age. New York: Plume. ISBN 978-0-1421-9685-4.

External links

• Official website

Nickelodeon

Logo used since September 28, 2009
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	One Astor Plaza New York City, New York, U.S.
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish (via SAP audio track)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Paramount Media Networks (Paramount Global)
Parent	Nickelodeon Group
Sister channels	List Nick at Nite Nick Jr. Nicktoons TeenNick Noggin NickMusic CBS MTV BET VH1 Comedy Central TV Land Logo CMT Pop TV Showtime The Movie Channel Flix Paramount Network Smithsonian Channel
History
Launched	April 1, 1979; 43 years ago
Former names	Pinwheel (1977–1979)
Links
Website	www.nick.com

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children.^[1] It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division’s Kids and Family Group. The channel is primarily aimed at children aged 2–17,^[2] along with a broader family audience through its program blocks.

The channel began life as a test broadcast on December 1, 1977^[3] as part of QUBE,^[4] an early cable television system broadcast locally in Columbus, Ohio.^[5] The channel, now named Nickelodeon, launched to a new countrywide audience on April 1, 1979,^[6] with Pinwheel as its inaugural program.^[5] The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984.^[7][8]

Throughout history, Nickelodeon has introduced several sister channels and programming blocks. Nick Jr. is a preschool morning block launched on January 4, 1988. Nicktoons, based on the flagship brand, launched as a separate sister channel in 2002. In 1999, Nickelodeon partnered with Sesame Workshop to create Noggin, an educational brand consisting of a cable channel and an interactive website. Two blocks aimed at a teenage audience, TEENick (previously on Nickelodeon) and The N (previously on Noggin), were merged into a standalone channel, TeenNick, in 2009.

As of September 2018, the channel is available to about 87.167 million households in the United States.^[9]

History

The channel’s name comes from the first five-cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Its history dates back to December 1, 1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first 2-way interactive cable system, QUBE,^[4] in Columbus, Ohio. The C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time,^[4][10] and the channel was labelled «Pinwheel» on remote controllers, as it was the only program broadcast. Initially scheduled for a February 1979 launch,^[11] Nickelodeon launched on April 1, 1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder (the owner of the satellite, RCA Americom, later became GE Americom as a result of General Electric’s acquisition of RCA Americom’s parent company, RCA Corporation, before merging with Luxembourg-based Société Européenne des Satellites to form SES Global, now SES S.A, which one of the ancestors of the Satcom series, the SES and AMC satellite constellations, still operate, Nickelodeon presently broadcasts on AMC-11).^[12] Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984.^[7]

Programming

Programming seen on Nickelodeon includes animated series (such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, Middlemost Post, The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, The Smurfs, Rugrats and Monster High), live-action, scripted series (such as Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan and That Girl Lay Lay), and original made-for-TV movies, while the network’s daytime schedule is dedicated to shows targeting preschoolers (such as Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, and Blue’s Clues & You!).

A re-occurring program was bi-monthly special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee,^[13] a news magazine series aimed at children that debuted in 1992 as a weekly series and ended in 2015.^[14] In June 2020, Nickelodeon announced that they would bring back Nick News in a series of hour-long specials. The first installment, Kids, Race and Unity: A Nick News Special premiered on June 29, 2020, and was hosted by R&B musician Alicia Keys.^[15]

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is the branding for Nickelodeon’s original animated television series.^[16][17] Until 1991, the animated series that aired on Nickelodeon were largely imported from foreign countries, with some original animated specials that were also featured on the channel up to that point.^[18][19] Though the Nicktoons branding has infrequently been used by the network itself since the 2002 launch of the channel of the same name, original animated series continue to make up a substantial portion of Nickelodeon’s lineup.^[17] Roughly, six to seven hours of these programs are seen on the weekday schedule, and around nine hours on weekends, including a dedicated weekend morning animation block.^[18]

In 2006, the channel struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation to develop the studio’s animated films into television series (such as The Penguins of Madagascar).^[20] Since the early 2010s, Nickelodeon Animation Studio has also produced series based on preexisting IP purchased by Paramount, such as Winx Club and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Movies

Nickelodeon has produced a variety of original made-for-TV movies, which usually premiere in weekend evening timeslots or on school holidays. Nickelodeon also periodically acquires theatrically-released feature films for broadcast on the channel.

The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the network’s Nickelodeon Movies film production division (whose films are distributed by sister company Paramount Pictures). Although the film division bears the Nickelodeon brand name, the channel does not have access to most of the movies produced by its film unit. The majority of the live-action feature films produced under the Nickelodeon Movies banner are licensed for broadcast by various free-to-air and pay television outlets within the United States other than Nickelodeon (although the network has aired a few live-action Nickelodeon Movies releases such as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Good Burger).

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series as movies;^{[citation needed]} though the «TV movie» versions of Nickelodeon’s original series differ from traditional television films in that they have shorter running times (approximately 45 minutes, as opposed to 75–100 minute run times that most television movies have), and use a traditional multi-camera setup for regular episodes (unless the program is originally shot in the single-camera setup common of films) with some on-location filming.

In 2002, Nickelodeon entered a long-standing broadcast partnership with Mattel to air films and specials based on the toy company’s Barbie (and later Monster High) dolls. The first Barbie movie to air on Nickelodeon was Barbie as Rapunzel on November 24, 2002.^[21] The Barbie and Monster High films are usually aired under a brokered format in which Mattel purchases the time in order to promote the release of their films on DVD within a few days of the Nickelodeon premiere, an arrangement possible as Nickelodeon does not have to meet the Federal Communications Commission rules which disallow that arrangement for broadcast channels due to regulations banning paid programming to children.

Programming blocks

The network’s main programming is usually broadcast from 6:30 a.m. — 9 p.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. — 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 6 a.m. — 8 p.m on Sundays (Eastern and Pacific Time) (the sign-off time varies with holidays and special programming).

Current

• Nick Jr. – Nickelodeon currently broadcasts shows targeted at preschool-aged children on Monday through Fridays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (7:00 to 10:00 a.m. during the summer months, other designated school break periods, and on national holidays). The block primarily targets audiences of preschool age as Nickelodeon’s usual audience of school-aged children are in school during the block’s designated time period. Programs currently seen in this block include PAW Patrol, Peppa Pig (from the UK), Blaze and the Monster Machines, Ryan’s Mystery Playdate, Blue’s Clues & You!, Santiago of the Seas, and Baby Shark’s Big Show!.
• Nick at Nite – Nickelodeon’s nighttime programming service,^[22] which premiered on July 1, 1985, and broadcasts Mondays to Thursday nights from 9 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT, Friday and Saturday nights from 9 p.m. — 6 a.m. ET/PT, and Sunday nights from 8 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT. Originally featured classic sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s such as The Donna Reed Show,^[22] Mr. Ed and Lassie, programming eventually shifted towards repeats of popular sitcoms from the 1980s to the 2000s such as Home Improvement, The Cosby Show and Roseanne.^[23] In 1996, a pay television channel, TV Land (formerly Nick at Nite’s TV Land, until 1997) based on the block, launched with a similar format of programs.^[24] Nick at Nite has also occasionally incorporated original scripted and competition series, with some in recent years produced through its parent network’s Nickelodeon Productions unit. As of 2021, programming on Nick at Nite consists entirely of acquired shows such as Full House, Friends, Mom and Young Sheldon. Since 2004, Nielsen has broken out the television ratings of Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon as two separate networks.^[23]
• That New Thursday Night – a live-action comedy block airing from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The schedule features Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, That Girl Lay Lay, and Warped! (all first-run episodes are cycled on the schedule, giving it a variable schedule).
• New Friday Night – an animation block airing from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, featuring new episodes of a rotating selection of Nickelodeon animated series. The series featured are SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and The Casagrandes.

Former

• SNICK – «SNICK» (short for «Saturday Night Nickelodeon») was the network’s first dedicated Saturday primetime block that aired from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. Geared toward preteens and teenagers, it debuted on August 15, 1992 (with the initial lineup featuring two established series that originally aired on Sundays, Clarissa Explains It All and The Ren & Stimpy Show, and two new series, Roundhouse and Are You Afraid of the Dark?). The block mainly featured live-action series (primarily comedies), although it periodically featured animated series. SNICK was discontinued on January 29, 2005, and was replaced the following week (February 5, 2005) by a Saturday night edition of the TEENick block.
• Nick in the Afternoon – «Nick in the Afternoon» was a daytime block that ran on weekday afternoons during the summer months from 1995 to 1997, and aired in an extended format until December for its final year in 1998. It was hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick character (puppeteered by Rick Lyon and voiced by actor Paul Christie, who would later voice the Noggin mascot Moose A. Moose). The block was replaced for Summer 1999 by «Henry and June’s Summer» (hosted by the animated hosts of the anthology series KaBlam!). From 2011 to 2012, Stick Stickly returns to television for TeenNick’s «The ’90s Are All That» to host «U-Pick with Stick» on Friday nights as a concept of user-chosen programming.
• U-Pick Live – «U-Pick Live» (originally branded as «U-Pick Friday» from 1999 to late 2000, and originally hosted by the Henry and June characters from KaBlam!) was a block that aired weekday afternoons from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time from October 14, 2002, to May 27, 2005, which was broadcast from studios in New York City’s Times Square district, where Nickelodeon is headquartered. Using a similar concept that originated in 1994 with the Nick in the Afternoon block, «U-Pick Live» allowed viewer interaction in selecting the programs (usually cartoons) that would air on the block via voting on the network’s website.
• TEENick – «TEENick» was a teenage-oriented block that ran from March 4, 2001, to February 1, 2009, which ran on Sundays from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time; a secondary block on Saturdays launched in 2005, taking over the 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific timeslot long held by SNICK. It was originally hosted by Nick Cannon, and then by Jason Everhart (aka «J. Boogie»). Beginning in January 2007, Noggin’s own teenage-targeted block The N ran a spin-off block called «TEENick on The N.» The TEENick name, which was removed on February 1, 2009, later became the name of the channel TeenNick on September 28, 2009.
• ME:TV – «ME:TV» was a short-lived live hosted afternoon block that ran during summer 2007, which ran on weekday afternoons from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Time.
• Nick Saturday Nights – a primetime live-action block airing from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. It was introduced on September 22, 2012, as Gotta See Saturday Nights. Recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. Premieres of the network’s original made-for-TV movies also occasionally aired during the primetime block, usually in the form of premiere showings. Saturday premieres were discontinued for the time being on December 11, 2021.
• Nick Studio 10 – «Nick Studio 10» was a short-lived late afternoon programming block that ran from February 18 to June 17, 2013, which ran weekdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The block featured wraparound segments based on episodes of the network’s animated series, which were shown in an off-the-clock schedule due to the segments that aired following each program’s individual acts.

Special events

• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards – The Kids’ Choice Awards are a 90-minute-long annual live awards show held on the fourth Saturday night in March (formerly the first Saturday in April until 2008, but returned in 2011). The award show (whose winners are selected by Nickelodeon viewers though voting on the channel’s website and through text messaging) honors popular television series and movies, actors, athletes and music acts, with winners receiving a hollow orange blimp figurine (one of the logo outlines used for much of the network’s «splat logo» era from 1984 to 2009).
• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports – A spin-off of the Kids’ Choice Awards, «Kids Choice Sports» is held in July with the same KCA voting procedures and differing categories for team sports and athlete achievements for the past year (featuring categories such as «Best Male Athlete», «Best Female Athlete», «King Of Swag», and «Queen Of Swag»), along with the award featuring a sports-specific purple mohawk. Its inaugural ceremony aired on July 17, 2014.
• Nickelodeon HALO Awards – The HALO Awards features five ordinary teens who are Helping And Leading Others (HALO). Its inaugural ceremony aired on December 11, 2009. The awards show is hosted by Nick Cannon and airs on Nickelodeon and TeenNick every November/December until 2017.
• Worldwide Day of Play – The «Worldwide Day of Play» is an annual event held on a Saturday afternoon in late September that began on October 2, 2004, to mark the conclusion of the «Let’s Just Play» campaign launched that year, which are both designed to influence kids to exercise and participate in outdoor activities; schools and educational organizations are also encouraged to host local events to promote activity among children during the event. Nickelodeon and its sister channels (except for the Pacific and Mountain Time Zone feeds and the Nick 2 Pacific feed that is distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones), some of the network’s international channels and associated websites are suspended (with a message encouraging viewers to participate in outdoor activities during the period) from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time on the day of the event.^[25] Since 2010, the Worldwide Day of Play event became part of The Big Help program, as part of an added focus on healthy lifestyles in addition to the program’s main focus on environmental issues.

Blocks on broadcast networks

• Untitled UPN block – In 1998, Viacom’s UPN then entered into discussions with the network to produce a new block.^[26]
• Nickelodeon en Telemundo – On November 9, 1998, Telemundo introduced a daily block of Spanish dubs of Nickelodeon’s series (such as Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold!, Rocko’s Modern Life, and Blue’s Clues); the weekday edition of the block ran until September 5, 2000, when it was relegated to weekends in order to make room for the morning news program Hoy En El Mundo; Nickelodeon’s contract with Telemundo ended in November 2001, after the network was acquired by NBC.

• Nick on CBS/Nick Jr. on CBS – On September 14, 2002, Nickelodeon began producing a two-hour Saturday morning block for CBS (which was co-owned with Nickelodeon at the time as a result of then-network parent Viacom’s 1999 acquisition of CBS) to comply with the Children’s Television Act. The block featured episodes of series such as As Told by Ginger, The Wild Thornberrys, Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, and Pelswick which premiered on most CBS stations. The block was retooled in 2004 as a preschool-oriented block featuring Nick Jr. shows (such as Blue’s Clues, Dora the Explorer, and Little Bill); «Nick Jr. on CBS» was replaced in September 2006 by the KOL Secret Slumber Party block (produced by DIC Entertainment, which was subsequently acquired by Canada-based Cookie Jar (now WildBrain), as a result of CBS and Viacom’s split into separate companies earlier that year, but re-merged in late 2019.

Related networks and services

Current sister channels

Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. (Nick Jr. Channel on-air to differentiate itself from the block) is a pay television network aimed mainly at children between 2 and 7 years of age. It features a mix of current and former preschool-oriented programs from Nickelodeon, as well as some shows that are exclusive to the channel. The Nick Jr. Channel launched on September 28, 2009, as a spin-off of Nickelodeon’s long-running preschool programming block of the same name, which had aired since January 4, 1988.^[27] The channel replaced Noggin, which was relaunched as a streaming service in 2015 and acts as a separate sister brand. Noggin’s programming is distinct from the Nick Jr. channel’s; it mainly carried preteen-oriented programs at its launch,^[28] and its 2015 streaming service features a variety of exclusive series. On October 1, 2012, the Nick Jr. Channel introduced NickMom, a four-hour nighttime block aimed at parents,^[29] which ran until September 28, 2015.^[30][31] While traditional advertising appeared on the channel during the NickMom block, the network otherwise only runs programming promotions and underwriter-style sponsorships in lieu of regular commercials.

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is a pay television network that launched on May 1, 2002,^[27] as Nicktoons TV; it was renamed Nicktoons in May 2003 and rebranded as Nicktoons Network in 2005 before reverting to its previous name in September 2009. The network airs a mix of newer live-action and animated shows from Nickelodeon such as Henry Danger, The Fairly OddParents, The Loud House, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles alongside original series airing exclusively on Nicktoons.

TeenNick

TeenNick is a pay television network that is aimed at adolescents and young adults, named after the TEENick block that aired on Nickelodeon from March 2001^[32] to February 2009. The channel merged programming from the TEENick block with The N, a former block on Noggin. Although TeenNick has more relaxed program standards than the other Nickelodeon channels (save for Nick at Nite and the NickMom block on Nick Jr.) – allowing for moderate profanity, suggestive dialogue and some violent content – the network has shifted its lineup almost exclusively towards current and former Nickelodeon series (including some that are burned off due to low ratings on the flagship channel) that have stricter content standards. It also airs some acquired sitcoms and drama series.

NickMusic

NickMusic is a pay television network in the United States mainly featuring music video and music-related programming from younger pop artists that appeal to Nickelodeon’s target audience. It launched on the channel space formerly held by MTV Hits on September 9, 2016.

Former sister channels

• Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids (commonly branded as Nickelodeon GAS or Nick GAS), was a pay television network that launched on March 1, 1999, as part of the suite of high-tier channels launched by MTV Networks. It ran a mix of game shows and other competition programs from Nickelodeon (essentially formatted as a children’s version of—and Viacom’s answer to—the Game Show Network). The channel formally ceased operations on December 31, 2007, and it was replaced by a short-lived 24-hour version of Noggin’s teen-oriented block The N. However, an automated loop of Nick GAS continued to be carried on Dish Network due to unknown factors until April 23, 2009.
• NickMom (stylized as nickmom) was a programming block launched on October 1, 2012, airing in the late night hours on the Nick Jr. Channel. The block aired its own original programming aimed at parents until 2014, then began to carry acquired films and sitcoms. Due to Viacom’s 2015 cutbacks involving acquired programming and low ratings, the NickMom block and associated website were discontinued in the early morning hours of September 28, 2015.^[33]

• Nick 2 was the off-air brand for a secondary timeshift channel of Nickelodeon formerly available on the high-tier packages exclusively on cable providers as a complement to the main Nickelodeon feed, repackaging Nickelodeon’s Eastern and Pacific Time Zone feeds for the appropriate time zone – the Pacific feed was distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones, and the Eastern feed was distributed to the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones – resulting in the difference in local airtimes for a particular program between two geographic locations being three hours at most, allowing viewers a second chance to watch a program after its initial airing on the Eastern Time Zone feed or to watch the show ahead of its airing on the Pacific Time Zone feed of the main channel (for example, the Nick at Nite block would respectively start at 9:00 p.m (Sundays-Fridays) & At 10:30 p.m (Saturdays) Eastern on Nick 2 Pacific or 12:00 p.m. (weekdays) 10:00 a.m (weekends) Pacific weeknights on Nick 2 Eastern). Nick 2 would never broadcast in high definition. The service existed from around 2000 until November 2018, launching as Nick TOO. The timeshift channel was originally offered as part of the MTV Networks Digital Suite, a slate of channels exclusive to high-tier cable packages (many of the networks also earned satellite carriage over time), and was the only American example of two feeds of a non-premium service being provided to cable and IPTV providers. A Nick TOO logo was used on the channel until 2004, when MTV Networks decided to stop using customized branding on the feed (a logo for Nick 2 was only used for identification purposes on electronic program guides as a placeholder image); most television listings thus showed the additional channel under the brandings «Nick Pacific (NICKP)/Nick West (NICKW),» or «Nick East (NICKE).» DirecTV and Dish Network also offer both Nickelodeon feeds, though they carry both time zone feeds of most of the children’s networks that the providers offer by default. Viacom Media Networks discontinued the Nick 2 digital cable service on November 22, 2018, likely due to video on demand options making timeshift channels for the most part superfluous. Both time zone feeds continue to be offered on Xfinity, unbranded.^[34]
• NickRewind (TeenNick block) On July 25, 2011, TeenNick began airing The ’90s Are All That, renamed The Splat in October 2015, a block of Nickelodeon’s most popular 1990s programming, targeting the network’s target demographic from that era.^[35] After several name changes, the block was finally called «NickRewind» and focused on programming from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (mainly the latter two), and aired nightly. On January 31, 2022, the block was discontinued, with TeenNick’s overnight programming mainly consisting of regular reruns.

Other services

Service	Description
Nickelodeon HD	Nickelodeon HD is the high-definition simulcast feed of Nickelodeon that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format; the feed first began broadcasting in 2008.[36] Most of the network’s original series since 2008 – mainly its live-action series and some animated content – as well as episodes of programs carried by Nick at Nite (that were either natively produced in HD after 2000 or were remastered in high definition) are broadcast in HD, along with feature films, Nickelodeon original movies made after 2005 and select episodes, films and series produced before 2008. Other programs unavailable in HD broadcast in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. As of 2018, many subscription providers carry the high-definition feed and downscale it for the standard-definition feed. Nickelodeon’s standard-definition feed uses a downscaled version of the high-definition feed, which is broadcast in 16:9 letterboxed to fit the 4:3 ratio.
Nick on Demand	Nick on Demand is the network’s video-on-demand service, which is available on most subscription providers. It carries Nickelodeon’s live-action, animated and preschool programming. Nick at Nite has no on-demand service due to daypart-defined contractual limits for its programming, as its programs are exclusive to an evening timeslot.
Noggin	Noggin launched as a TV channel in a partnership with Sesame Workshop on February 2, 1999. It has transformed into an educational mobile app aimed at preschoolers. The app launched on March 5, 2015.[37]
Nick Pluto TV	Launched May 1, 2019, Nick Pluto is one of several free versions of ViacomCBS channels that were introduced on Pluto TV shortly after Viacom acquired the advertiser-supported service in January 2019. It carries mostly archival programs from Nickelodeon’s library. Nick Jr. programming is its separate channel, while Nick at Nite programming is instead put under the TV Land branding, and only includes syndicated programming Paramount Global has full day rights to. Pluto TV used to carry additional Nickelodeon-branded networks, among them NickGames (containing the network’s game show and reality competition library), and NickMovies (featuring movies produced by Nickelodeon), along with single full-time channels carrying one series and limited-run channels timed to an event or holiday.[38]
Paramount+	The streaming service of Paramount Global, Paramount+ houses much of Nickelodeon’s library, adding productions from the «classic» era such as You Can’t Do That on Television and Double Dare following its rebrand from CBS All Access in 2021.[39]

Production studios

Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Nickelodeon Animation Studio (formerly Games Productions, Inc.) is a production firm with two main locations (one in Burbank, California, and the other in New York City).^[40] They serve as the animation facilities for many of the network’s Nicktoons and Nick Jr. series.

Nickelodeon Productions

Nickelodeon Productions is a production studio in New York, that provides original sitcoms, animated shows and game-related programs for Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon on Sunset

Nickelodeon on Sunset was a studio complex in Hollywood, California which served as the primary production facility for Nickelodeon’s series from 1997 until 2017; the studio is designated by the National Register for Historic Places as a historical landmark as a result of its prior existence as the Earl Carroll Theater, a prominent dinner theater. It served as the production facilities for several Nickelodeon series.

Media

Nickelodeon Games

Nickelodeon Games (formerly Nick Games from 2002 to 2009, from 1997 to 2002, Nickelodeon Software, and from 1993 to 1997, Nickelodeon Interactive) is the video gaming division of Nickelodeon. It was originally a part of Viacom Consumer Products, with early games being published by Viacom New Media.^[41] They started a long-standing relationship with game publisher THQ. THQ’s relationship with the network started off when THQ published their Ren & Stimpy game for Nintendo consoles in 1992,^[42] followed by a full-fledged console deal in 1998 with several Rugrats titles,^[43] and expanded in 2001, when THQ acquired some of the assets from Mattel Interactive, namely the computer publishing rights, and all video game rights to The Wild Thornberrys.^[44] Nickelodeon also worked, alongside THQ on an original game concept, Tak and the Power of Juju.^[45]

Nick.com

Nick.com is Nickelodeon’s main website, which launched in October 1995 as a component of America Online’s Kids Only channel before eventually moving to the full World Wide Web.^[46] It provides content, as well as video clips and full episodes of Nickelodeon series available for streaming. The website’s popularity grew to the point where in March 1999, Nick.com became the highest rated website among children aged 6–14 years old. Nickelodeon used the website in conjunction with television programs which increased traffic.^[47] In 2001, Nickelodeon partnered with Networks Inc. to provide broadband video games for rent from Nick.com; the move was a further step in the multimedia direction that the developers wanted to take the website. Skagerlind indicated that over 50% of Nick.com’s audience were using a high speed connection, which allowed them to expand the gaming and video streaming options on the website.^[48]

Mobile apps

Nickelodeon released a free mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers operating on the Apple and Android platforms in February 2013.^[49] Like Nick.com, a TV Everywhere login code provided by participating subscription providers is required to view individual episodes of the network’s series.

Nickelodeon Movies

Nickelodeon Movies is a motion picture production unit that was founded in 1995, as a family entertainment arm of Paramount Pictures (owned by Nickelodeon’s corporate parent, Viacom).^[50] The first film released from the studio was the 1996 mystery/comedy Harriet the Spy.^[51] Nickelodeon Movies has produced films based on Nickelodeon animated programs including The Rugrats Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as well as other adaptations and original live-action and animated projects.

Nickelodeon Magazine

Nickelodeon Magazine was a print magazine that was launched in 1993; the channel had previously published a short-lived magazine effort in 1990. Nickelodeon Magazine incorporated informative non-fiction pieces, humor (including pranks and parodical pieces), interviews, recipes (such as green slime cake), and a comic book section in the center of each issue featuring original comics by leading underground cartoonists as well as strips about popular Nicktoons.^[52] It ceased publication after 16 years in December 2009, citing a sluggish magazine industry.^[53] A new version of the magazine was published by Papercutz from June 2015^[54] to mid-2016.

Nick Radio

Nick Radio was a radio network that launched on September 30, 2013, in a partnership between both the network and iHeartMedia (then called Clear Channel Communications), which distributed the network mainly via its iHeartRadio web platform and mobile app. Its programming was also streamed via the Nick.com website and on New York City radio station WHTZ as a secondary HD channel. Nick Radio focused on Top 40 and pop music (geared towards the network’s target audience of children, with radio edits of some songs incorporated due to inappropriate content), along with celebrity interview features. In addition to regular on-air DJs, Nick Radio also occasionally featured guest DJ stints by popular artists as well as stars from Nickelodeon’s original series.^[55][56][57]

Nick Radio shut down without warning on July 31, 2019, and was replaced by Hit Nation Junior, likely due to the network’s general failure to establish any sustained «triple threat» artists/actors throughout the 2010s, along with the general failure of the children’s-only radio format in the streaming age. It was also a non-prime asset in Viacom’s current ‘six prime networks’ strategy, leaving it vulnerable to being terminated.

Themed experiences and hotels

Nickelodeon Universe

Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America is the second indoor theme park in the United States. On August 18, 2009, Nickelodeon and Southern Star Amusements announced that it would build a second Nickelodeon Universe in New Orleans, Louisiana on the site of the former Six Flags New Orleans by the end of 2010,^[58] which was set to be the first outdoor Nickelodeon Universe theme park. On November 9, 2009, Nickelodeon announced that it had ended the licensing agreement with Southern Star Amusements.^[59][60]

Nickelodeon Universe has a second location at the American Dream Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, that opened on October 25, 2019.^[61] Upon opening the New Jersey Nickelodeon Universe became the largest indoor theme park in the western hemisphere, unseating the Minnesota Nickelodeon Universe who had the title from 2008 to 2019.^[62]

Theme park areas

Current attractions

• Nickland is an area inside of Movie Park Germany featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides, including a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed «Splash Battle» ride, and a Jimmy Neutron-themed roller coaster.
• Nickelodeon Land opened on May 4, 2011, at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, featuring several rides based on Nickelodeon series including SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dora the Explorer, and The Fairly OddParents.
• Nickelodeon Land opened in September 2015 at Sea World, featuring multiple rides based on Nickelodeon programs including a SpongeBob junior roller coaster, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed flyer.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Land is also an area within Parque de Atracciones de Madrid. Opened in 2014, this area contains rides and attractions based on Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and other Nickelodeon franchises.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Playtime/Nickelodeon Adventure are two themed children’s entertainment centers in Essex, England and Shenzen, China. Play areas and attractions in these centers are immersively themed to SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and additional Nickelodeon shows.^[63]

Closed areas

• Nickelodeon Universe was also an area inside of Paramount’s Kings Island featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides and attractions. It was one of the largest sections in the park and was voted «Best Kid’s Area» by Amusement Today magazine from 2001 until its closure in 2009 after the park’s sale to Cedar Fair (the Paramount Parks ended up with CBS Corporation in the 2006 CBS/Viacom split, which CBS immediately sold off as soon as possible as non-critical surplus assets for that company).
• Nickelodeon Studios was an attraction at the Universal Orlando Resort that opened on June 7, 1990, and housed production for many Nickelodeon programs (including Clarissa Explains It All, What Would You Do? and All That). It closed on April 30, 2005, after Nickelodeon’s production facilities were moved to New York City and Burbank, California. The building that formerly housed it was recently occupied by the Blue Man Group Sharp Aquos Theatre, closed in February 2021. Another Nickelodeon-themed attraction at the park, Jimmy Neutron’s Nicktoon Blast, opened in 2003 but closed in 2011 to make way for the new ride Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem. In 2012, a store based on SpongeBob SquarePants opened in Woody Woodpecker’s Kidzone, replacing Universal’s Cartoon Store.
• Nickelodeon Central was an area inside of the Paramount Parks properties, including California’s Great America, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Canada’s Wonderland, and Dreamworld that featured shows, attractions and themes featuring Nickelodeon characters, all of which were wound down when CBS Corporation was given ownership of the theme parks in the Viacom/CBS split and eventually sold most of the properties to Cedar Fair without renewal of the Nickelodeon licensing agreements. The only Nickelodeon Central remaining in existence was at Dreamworld in Australia, which is not under Cedar Fair ownership. The license was revoked in 2011 and became «Kid’s World» and later DreamWorks Experience.
• Nickelodeon Blast Zone was an area in Universal Studios Hollywood that featured several attractions inspired by Nickelodeon shows. The four attractions that were present in the area were «Nickelodeon Splash», a waterpark-style area, «The Wild Thornberrys Adventure Temple», a jungle-themed foam ball play area, and «Nick Jr. Backyard», a medium-sized toddler playground. It ran from 2001 to 2007 and was rethemed as «The Adventures of Curious George» which closed in 2008 to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Studios Hollywood). Adjacent to Nickelodeon Blast Zone was the «Panasonic Theatre» which housed Totally Nickelodeon, an audience-participated game show which ran from 1997 to 2000. «Rugrats Magic Adventure» replaced the game show in 2001, but closed in 2002 to make way for Shrek 4-D which ran from May 2003 to August 2017. It closed to make way for DreamWorks Theatre Featuring Kung Fu Panda which opened on June 15, 2018.
• Nickelodeon Splat City was an area inside California’s Great America (from 1995 to 2002), Kings Island (from 1995 to 2000) and Kings Dominion (from 1995 to 1999), that featured messy- and water-themed attractions. The slime refinery theme was carried out in the attractions such as the «Green Slime Zone Refinery», the «Crystal Slime Mining Maze», and the «Green Slime Transfer Truck». All of these areas were later transformed into either Nickelodeon Central or Nickelodeon Universe before being discontinued as mentioned above when sold off by CBS Corporation.

Hotel brands

• Nickelodeon Suites Resort was a Nickelodeon-themed hotel in Orlando, Florida, located near the Universal Orlando Resort and 1-mile (1.6 km) from Walt Disney World. The hotel originally opened in 1999, and re-opened under its Nickelodeon re-theming in 2005. It included one-to-three bedroom themed kid suites, a water park area, arcade, and various forms of entertainment themed after Nickelodeon shows. It also contained a Nick at Nite-themed lounge area for adults. The property was re-themed to «Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites» on June 1, 2016.
• Nickelodeon Resorts by Marriott was a proposed hotel chain similar to the Nickelodeon Suites Resort, featuring a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) waterpark area and 650 hotel rooms. Announced in 2007,^[64] the first location was scheduled to open in San Diego in 2010, however, the plans were canceled in 2009.^[65] Plans for the remaining 19 hotels originally slated to open remain unclear.
• Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts is a hotel chain that opened its first location in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in 2016, in association with Karisma Hotels and Resorts.^[66] The second location opened in Riviera Maya, Mexico in 2021,^[67] and a third location is currently in development for a 2027 opening in Garden Grove, California.^[68]

Cruises

• Nickelodeon at Sea is a series of Nickelodeon-themed cruise packages in partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line. They feature special amenities and entertainment themed to various Nickelodeon properties.^[69] This was later removed in 2015.^[70]
• Norwegian Cruise Line also hosted some Nickelodeon Cruises on the Norwegian Jewel and Norwegian Epic liners, as part of Nickelodeon at Sea.^[71]

International

Between 1993 and 1995, Nickelodeon opened international channels in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany; by the later year, the network had provided its programming to broadcasters in 70 countries. Since the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon as a brand has expanded into include language- or culture-specific channels for various other territories in different parts of the world including Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Canada, and has licensed some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to free-to-air networks and subscription channels such as KI.KA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two (English language) and TG4 (Irish language) in Ireland, YTV (in English) and Vrak.TV (in French) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece, CNBC-e in Turkey and 10 Shake in Australia (which is a sister network to Nickelodeon).

See also

• List of Nickelodeon novelizations
• Nicktoons
• Boomerang
• Cartoon Network
• Disney XD
• Disney Channel

References

Bibliography

• Hendershot, Heather, ed. (2004). Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3652-1.
• Klickstein, Mathew (2013). SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age. New York: Plume. ISBN 978-0-1421-9685-4.

External links

• Official website

Nickelodeon

Logo used since September 28, 2009
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	One Astor Plaza New York City, New York, U.S.
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish (via SAP audio track)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Paramount Media Networks (Paramount Global)
Parent	Nickelodeon Group
Sister channels	List Nick at Nite Nick Jr. Nicktoons TeenNick Noggin NickMusic CBS MTV BET VH1 Comedy Central TV Land Logo CMT Pop TV Showtime The Movie Channel Flix Paramount Network Smithsonian Channel
History
Launched	April 1, 1979; 43 years ago
Former names	Pinwheel (1977–1979)
Links
Website	www.nick.com

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children.^[1] It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division’s Kids and Family Group. The channel is primarily aimed at children aged 2–17,^[2] along with a broader family audience through its program blocks.

The channel began life as a test broadcast on December 1, 1977^[3] as part of QUBE,^[4] an early cable television system broadcast locally in Columbus, Ohio.^[5] The channel, now named Nickelodeon, launched to a new countrywide audience on April 1, 1979,^[6] with Pinwheel as its inaugural program.^[5] The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984.^[7][8]

Throughout history, Nickelodeon has introduced several sister channels and programming blocks. Nick Jr. is a preschool morning block launched on January 4, 1988. Nicktoons, based on the flagship brand, launched as a separate sister channel in 2002. In 1999, Nickelodeon partnered with Sesame Workshop to create Noggin, an educational brand consisting of a cable channel and an interactive website. Two blocks aimed at a teenage audience, TEENick (previously on Nickelodeon) and The N (previously on Noggin), were merged into a standalone channel, TeenNick, in 2009.

As of September 2018, the channel is available to about 87.167 million households in the United States.^[9]

History

The channel’s name comes from the first five-cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Its history dates back to December 1, 1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first 2-way interactive cable system, QUBE,^[4] in Columbus, Ohio. The C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time,^[4][10] and the channel was labelled «Pinwheel» on remote controllers, as it was the only program broadcast. Initially scheduled for a February 1979 launch,^[11] Nickelodeon launched on April 1, 1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder (the owner of the satellite, RCA Americom, later became GE Americom as a result of General Electric’s acquisition of RCA Americom’s parent company, RCA Corporation, before merging with Luxembourg-based Société Européenne des Satellites to form SES Global, now SES S.A, which one of the ancestors of the Satcom series, the SES and AMC satellite constellations, still operate, Nickelodeon presently broadcasts on AMC-11).^[12] Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984.^[7]

Programming

Programming seen on Nickelodeon includes animated series (such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, Middlemost Post, The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, The Smurfs, Rugrats and Monster High), live-action, scripted series (such as Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan and That Girl Lay Lay), and original made-for-TV movies, while the network’s daytime schedule is dedicated to shows targeting preschoolers (such as Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, and Blue’s Clues & You!).

A re-occurring program was bi-monthly special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee,^[13] a news magazine series aimed at children that debuted in 1992 as a weekly series and ended in 2015.^[14] In June 2020, Nickelodeon announced that they would bring back Nick News in a series of hour-long specials. The first installment, Kids, Race and Unity: A Nick News Special premiered on June 29, 2020, and was hosted by R&B musician Alicia Keys.^[15]

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is the branding for Nickelodeon’s original animated television series.^[16][17] Until 1991, the animated series that aired on Nickelodeon were largely imported from foreign countries, with some original animated specials that were also featured on the channel up to that point.^[18][19] Though the Nicktoons branding has infrequently been used by the network itself since the 2002 launch of the channel of the same name, original animated series continue to make up a substantial portion of Nickelodeon’s lineup.^[17] Roughly, six to seven hours of these programs are seen on the weekday schedule, and around nine hours on weekends, including a dedicated weekend morning animation block.^[18]

In 2006, the channel struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation to develop the studio’s animated films into television series (such as The Penguins of Madagascar).^[20] Since the early 2010s, Nickelodeon Animation Studio has also produced series based on preexisting IP purchased by Paramount, such as Winx Club and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Movies

Nickelodeon has produced a variety of original made-for-TV movies, which usually premiere in weekend evening timeslots or on school holidays. Nickelodeon also periodically acquires theatrically-released feature films for broadcast on the channel.

The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the network’s Nickelodeon Movies film production division (whose films are distributed by sister company Paramount Pictures). Although the film division bears the Nickelodeon brand name, the channel does not have access to most of the movies produced by its film unit. The majority of the live-action feature films produced under the Nickelodeon Movies banner are licensed for broadcast by various free-to-air and pay television outlets within the United States other than Nickelodeon (although the network has aired a few live-action Nickelodeon Movies releases such as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Good Burger).

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series as movies;^{[citation needed]} though the «TV movie» versions of Nickelodeon’s original series differ from traditional television films in that they have shorter running times (approximately 45 minutes, as opposed to 75–100 minute run times that most television movies have), and use a traditional multi-camera setup for regular episodes (unless the program is originally shot in the single-camera setup common of films) with some on-location filming.

In 2002, Nickelodeon entered a long-standing broadcast partnership with Mattel to air films and specials based on the toy company’s Barbie (and later Monster High) dolls. The first Barbie movie to air on Nickelodeon was Barbie as Rapunzel on November 24, 2002.^[21] The Barbie and Monster High films are usually aired under a brokered format in which Mattel purchases the time in order to promote the release of their films on DVD within a few days of the Nickelodeon premiere, an arrangement possible as Nickelodeon does not have to meet the Federal Communications Commission rules which disallow that arrangement for broadcast channels due to regulations banning paid programming to children.

Programming blocks

The network’s main programming is usually broadcast from 6:30 a.m. — 9 p.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. — 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 6 a.m. — 8 p.m on Sundays (Eastern and Pacific Time) (the sign-off time varies with holidays and special programming).

Current

• Nick Jr. – Nickelodeon currently broadcasts shows targeted at preschool-aged children on Monday through Fridays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (7:00 to 10:00 a.m. during the summer months, other designated school break periods, and on national holidays). The block primarily targets audiences of preschool age as Nickelodeon’s usual audience of school-aged children are in school during the block’s designated time period. Programs currently seen in this block include PAW Patrol, Peppa Pig (from the UK), Blaze and the Monster Machines, Ryan’s Mystery Playdate, Blue’s Clues & You!, Santiago of the Seas, and Baby Shark’s Big Show!.
• Nick at Nite – Nickelodeon’s nighttime programming service,^[22] which premiered on July 1, 1985, and broadcasts Mondays to Thursday nights from 9 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT, Friday and Saturday nights from 9 p.m. — 6 a.m. ET/PT, and Sunday nights from 8 p.m. — 6:30 a.m. ET/PT. Originally featured classic sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s such as The Donna Reed Show,^[22] Mr. Ed and Lassie, programming eventually shifted towards repeats of popular sitcoms from the 1980s to the 2000s such as Home Improvement, The Cosby Show and Roseanne.^[23] In 1996, a pay television channel, TV Land (formerly Nick at Nite’s TV Land, until 1997) based on the block, launched with a similar format of programs.^[24] Nick at Nite has also occasionally incorporated original scripted and competition series, with some in recent years produced through its parent network’s Nickelodeon Productions unit. As of 2021, programming on Nick at Nite consists entirely of acquired shows such as Full House, Friends, Mom and Young Sheldon. Since 2004, Nielsen has broken out the television ratings of Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon as two separate networks.^[23]
• That New Thursday Night – a live-action comedy block airing from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The schedule features Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, That Girl Lay Lay, and Warped! (all first-run episodes are cycled on the schedule, giving it a variable schedule).
• New Friday Night – an animation block airing from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, featuring new episodes of a rotating selection of Nickelodeon animated series. The series featured are SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and The Casagrandes.

Former

• SNICK – «SNICK» (short for «Saturday Night Nickelodeon») was the network’s first dedicated Saturday primetime block that aired from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. Geared toward preteens and teenagers, it debuted on August 15, 1992 (with the initial lineup featuring two established series that originally aired on Sundays, Clarissa Explains It All and The Ren & Stimpy Show, and two new series, Roundhouse and Are You Afraid of the Dark?). The block mainly featured live-action series (primarily comedies), although it periodically featured animated series. SNICK was discontinued on January 29, 2005, and was replaced the following week (February 5, 2005) by a Saturday night edition of the TEENick block.
• Nick in the Afternoon – «Nick in the Afternoon» was a daytime block that ran on weekday afternoons during the summer months from 1995 to 1997, and aired in an extended format until December for its final year in 1998. It was hosted by Stick Stickly, a Mr. Bill-like popsicle stick character (puppeteered by Rick Lyon and voiced by actor Paul Christie, who would later voice the Noggin mascot Moose A. Moose). The block was replaced for Summer 1999 by «Henry and June’s Summer» (hosted by the animated hosts of the anthology series KaBlam!). From 2011 to 2012, Stick Stickly returns to television for TeenNick’s «The ’90s Are All That» to host «U-Pick with Stick» on Friday nights as a concept of user-chosen programming.
• U-Pick Live – «U-Pick Live» (originally branded as «U-Pick Friday» from 1999 to late 2000, and originally hosted by the Henry and June characters from KaBlam!) was a block that aired weekday afternoons from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time from October 14, 2002, to May 27, 2005, which was broadcast from studios in New York City’s Times Square district, where Nickelodeon is headquartered. Using a similar concept that originated in 1994 with the Nick in the Afternoon block, «U-Pick Live» allowed viewer interaction in selecting the programs (usually cartoons) that would air on the block via voting on the network’s website.
• TEENick – «TEENick» was a teenage-oriented block that ran from March 4, 2001, to February 1, 2009, which ran on Sundays from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time; a secondary block on Saturdays launched in 2005, taking over the 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific timeslot long held by SNICK. It was originally hosted by Nick Cannon, and then by Jason Everhart (aka «J. Boogie»). Beginning in January 2007, Noggin’s own teenage-targeted block The N ran a spin-off block called «TEENick on The N.» The TEENick name, which was removed on February 1, 2009, later became the name of the channel TeenNick on September 28, 2009.
• ME:TV – «ME:TV» was a short-lived live hosted afternoon block that ran during summer 2007, which ran on weekday afternoons from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Time.
• Nick Saturday Nights – a primetime live-action block airing from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. It was introduced on September 22, 2012, as Gotta See Saturday Nights. Recent episodes of certain original series may air when no new episodes are scheduled to air that week. Premieres of the network’s original made-for-TV movies also occasionally aired during the primetime block, usually in the form of premiere showings. Saturday premieres were discontinued for the time being on December 11, 2021.
• Nick Studio 10 – «Nick Studio 10» was a short-lived late afternoon programming block that ran from February 18 to June 17, 2013, which ran weekdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. The block featured wraparound segments based on episodes of the network’s animated series, which were shown in an off-the-clock schedule due to the segments that aired following each program’s individual acts.

Special events

• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards – The Kids’ Choice Awards are a 90-minute-long annual live awards show held on the fourth Saturday night in March (formerly the first Saturday in April until 2008, but returned in 2011). The award show (whose winners are selected by Nickelodeon viewers though voting on the channel’s website and through text messaging) honors popular television series and movies, actors, athletes and music acts, with winners receiving a hollow orange blimp figurine (one of the logo outlines used for much of the network’s «splat logo» era from 1984 to 2009).
• Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports – A spin-off of the Kids’ Choice Awards, «Kids Choice Sports» is held in July with the same KCA voting procedures and differing categories for team sports and athlete achievements for the past year (featuring categories such as «Best Male Athlete», «Best Female Athlete», «King Of Swag», and «Queen Of Swag»), along with the award featuring a sports-specific purple mohawk. Its inaugural ceremony aired on July 17, 2014.
• Nickelodeon HALO Awards – The HALO Awards features five ordinary teens who are Helping And Leading Others (HALO). Its inaugural ceremony aired on December 11, 2009. The awards show is hosted by Nick Cannon and airs on Nickelodeon and TeenNick every November/December until 2017.
• Worldwide Day of Play – The «Worldwide Day of Play» is an annual event held on a Saturday afternoon in late September that began on October 2, 2004, to mark the conclusion of the «Let’s Just Play» campaign launched that year, which are both designed to influence kids to exercise and participate in outdoor activities; schools and educational organizations are also encouraged to host local events to promote activity among children during the event. Nickelodeon and its sister channels (except for the Pacific and Mountain Time Zone feeds and the Nick 2 Pacific feed that is distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones), some of the network’s international channels and associated websites are suspended (with a message encouraging viewers to participate in outdoor activities during the period) from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time on the day of the event.^[25] Since 2010, the Worldwide Day of Play event became part of The Big Help program, as part of an added focus on healthy lifestyles in addition to the program’s main focus on environmental issues.

Blocks on broadcast networks

• Untitled UPN block – In 1998, Viacom’s UPN then entered into discussions with the network to produce a new block.^[26]
• Nickelodeon en Telemundo – On November 9, 1998, Telemundo introduced a daily block of Spanish dubs of Nickelodeon’s series (such as Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold!, Rocko’s Modern Life, and Blue’s Clues); the weekday edition of the block ran until September 5, 2000, when it was relegated to weekends in order to make room for the morning news program Hoy En El Mundo; Nickelodeon’s contract with Telemundo ended in November 2001, after the network was acquired by NBC.

• Nick on CBS/Nick Jr. on CBS – On September 14, 2002, Nickelodeon began producing a two-hour Saturday morning block for CBS (which was co-owned with Nickelodeon at the time as a result of then-network parent Viacom’s 1999 acquisition of CBS) to comply with the Children’s Television Act. The block featured episodes of series such as As Told by Ginger, The Wild Thornberrys, Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, and Pelswick which premiered on most CBS stations. The block was retooled in 2004 as a preschool-oriented block featuring Nick Jr. shows (such as Blue’s Clues, Dora the Explorer, and Little Bill); «Nick Jr. on CBS» was replaced in September 2006 by the KOL Secret Slumber Party block (produced by DIC Entertainment, which was subsequently acquired by Canada-based Cookie Jar (now WildBrain), as a result of CBS and Viacom’s split into separate companies earlier that year, but re-merged in late 2019.

Related networks and services

Current sister channels

Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. (Nick Jr. Channel on-air to differentiate itself from the block) is a pay television network aimed mainly at children between 2 and 7 years of age. It features a mix of current and former preschool-oriented programs from Nickelodeon, as well as some shows that are exclusive to the channel. The Nick Jr. Channel launched on September 28, 2009, as a spin-off of Nickelodeon’s long-running preschool programming block of the same name, which had aired since January 4, 1988.^[27] The channel replaced Noggin, which was relaunched as a streaming service in 2015 and acts as a separate sister brand. Noggin’s programming is distinct from the Nick Jr. channel’s; it mainly carried preteen-oriented programs at its launch,^[28] and its 2015 streaming service features a variety of exclusive series. On October 1, 2012, the Nick Jr. Channel introduced NickMom, a four-hour nighttime block aimed at parents,^[29] which ran until September 28, 2015.^[30][31] While traditional advertising appeared on the channel during the NickMom block, the network otherwise only runs programming promotions and underwriter-style sponsorships in lieu of regular commercials.

Nicktoons

Nicktoons is a pay television network that launched on May 1, 2002,^[27] as Nicktoons TV; it was renamed Nicktoons in May 2003 and rebranded as Nicktoons Network in 2005 before reverting to its previous name in September 2009. The network airs a mix of newer live-action and animated shows from Nickelodeon such as Henry Danger, The Fairly OddParents, The Loud House, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles alongside original series airing exclusively on Nicktoons.

TeenNick

TeenNick is a pay television network that is aimed at adolescents and young adults, named after the TEENick block that aired on Nickelodeon from March 2001^[32] to February 2009. The channel merged programming from the TEENick block with The N, a former block on Noggin. Although TeenNick has more relaxed program standards than the other Nickelodeon channels (save for Nick at Nite and the NickMom block on Nick Jr.) – allowing for moderate profanity, suggestive dialogue and some violent content – the network has shifted its lineup almost exclusively towards current and former Nickelodeon series (including some that are burned off due to low ratings on the flagship channel) that have stricter content standards. It also airs some acquired sitcoms and drama series.

NickMusic

NickMusic is a pay television network in the United States mainly featuring music video and music-related programming from younger pop artists that appeal to Nickelodeon’s target audience. It launched on the channel space formerly held by MTV Hits on September 9, 2016.

Former sister channels

• Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids (commonly branded as Nickelodeon GAS or Nick GAS), was a pay television network that launched on March 1, 1999, as part of the suite of high-tier channels launched by MTV Networks. It ran a mix of game shows and other competition programs from Nickelodeon (essentially formatted as a children’s version of—and Viacom’s answer to—the Game Show Network). The channel formally ceased operations on December 31, 2007, and it was replaced by a short-lived 24-hour version of Noggin’s teen-oriented block The N. However, an automated loop of Nick GAS continued to be carried on Dish Network due to unknown factors until April 23, 2009.
• NickMom (stylized as nickmom) was a programming block launched on October 1, 2012, airing in the late night hours on the Nick Jr. Channel. The block aired its own original programming aimed at parents until 2014, then began to carry acquired films and sitcoms. Due to Viacom’s 2015 cutbacks involving acquired programming and low ratings, the NickMom block and associated website were discontinued in the early morning hours of September 28, 2015.^[33]

• Nick 2 was the off-air brand for a secondary timeshift channel of Nickelodeon formerly available on the high-tier packages exclusively on cable providers as a complement to the main Nickelodeon feed, repackaging Nickelodeon’s Eastern and Pacific Time Zone feeds for the appropriate time zone – the Pacific feed was distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones, and the Eastern feed was distributed to the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones – resulting in the difference in local airtimes for a particular program between two geographic locations being three hours at most, allowing viewers a second chance to watch a program after its initial airing on the Eastern Time Zone feed or to watch the show ahead of its airing on the Pacific Time Zone feed of the main channel (for example, the Nick at Nite block would respectively start at 9:00 p.m (Sundays-Fridays) & At 10:30 p.m (Saturdays) Eastern on Nick 2 Pacific or 12:00 p.m. (weekdays) 10:00 a.m (weekends) Pacific weeknights on Nick 2 Eastern). Nick 2 would never broadcast in high definition. The service existed from around 2000 until November 2018, launching as Nick TOO. The timeshift channel was originally offered as part of the MTV Networks Digital Suite, a slate of channels exclusive to high-tier cable packages (many of the networks also earned satellite carriage over time), and was the only American example of two feeds of a non-premium service being provided to cable and IPTV providers. A Nick TOO logo was used on the channel until 2004, when MTV Networks decided to stop using customized branding on the feed (a logo for Nick 2 was only used for identification purposes on electronic program guides as a placeholder image); most television listings thus showed the additional channel under the brandings «Nick Pacific (NICKP)/Nick West (NICKW),» or «Nick East (NICKE).» DirecTV and Dish Network also offer both Nickelodeon feeds, though they carry both time zone feeds of most of the children’s networks that the providers offer by default. Viacom Media Networks discontinued the Nick 2 digital cable service on November 22, 2018, likely due to video on demand options making timeshift channels for the most part superfluous. Both time zone feeds continue to be offered on Xfinity, unbranded.^[34]
• NickRewind (TeenNick block) On July 25, 2011, TeenNick began airing The ’90s Are All That, renamed The Splat in October 2015, a block of Nickelodeon’s most popular 1990s programming, targeting the network’s target demographic from that era.^[35] After several name changes, the block was finally called «NickRewind» and focused on programming from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (mainly the latter two), and aired nightly. On January 31, 2022, the block was discontinued, with TeenNick’s overnight programming mainly consisting of regular reruns.

Other services

Service	Description
Nickelodeon HD	Nickelodeon HD is the high-definition simulcast feed of Nickelodeon that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format; the feed first began broadcasting in 2008.[36] Most of the network’s original series since 2008 – mainly its live-action series and some animated content – as well as episodes of programs carried by Nick at Nite (that were either natively produced in HD after 2000 or were remastered in high definition) are broadcast in HD, along with feature films, Nickelodeon original movies made after 2005 and select episodes, films and series produced before 2008. Other programs unavailable in HD broadcast in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. As of 2018, many subscription providers carry the high-definition feed and downscale it for the standard-definition feed. Nickelodeon’s standard-definition feed uses a downscaled version of the high-definition feed, which is broadcast in 16:9 letterboxed to fit the 4:3 ratio.
Nick on Demand	Nick on Demand is the network’s video-on-demand service, which is available on most subscription providers. It carries Nickelodeon’s live-action, animated and preschool programming. Nick at Nite has no on-demand service due to daypart-defined contractual limits for its programming, as its programs are exclusive to an evening timeslot.
Noggin	Noggin launched as a TV channel in a partnership with Sesame Workshop on February 2, 1999. It has transformed into an educational mobile app aimed at preschoolers. The app launched on March 5, 2015.[37]
Nick Pluto TV	Launched May 1, 2019, Nick Pluto is one of several free versions of ViacomCBS channels that were introduced on Pluto TV shortly after Viacom acquired the advertiser-supported service in January 2019. It carries mostly archival programs from Nickelodeon’s library. Nick Jr. programming is its separate channel, while Nick at Nite programming is instead put under the TV Land branding, and only includes syndicated programming Paramount Global has full day rights to. Pluto TV used to carry additional Nickelodeon-branded networks, among them NickGames (containing the network’s game show and reality competition library), and NickMovies (featuring movies produced by Nickelodeon), along with single full-time channels carrying one series and limited-run channels timed to an event or holiday.[38]
Paramount+	The streaming service of Paramount Global, Paramount+ houses much of Nickelodeon’s library, adding productions from the «classic» era such as You Can’t Do That on Television and Double Dare following its rebrand from CBS All Access in 2021.[39]

Production studios

Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Nickelodeon Animation Studio (formerly Games Productions, Inc.) is a production firm with two main locations (one in Burbank, California, and the other in New York City).^[40] They serve as the animation facilities for many of the network’s Nicktoons and Nick Jr. series.

Nickelodeon Productions

Nickelodeon Productions is a production studio in New York, that provides original sitcoms, animated shows and game-related programs for Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon on Sunset

Nickelodeon on Sunset was a studio complex in Hollywood, California which served as the primary production facility for Nickelodeon’s series from 1997 until 2017; the studio is designated by the National Register for Historic Places as a historical landmark as a result of its prior existence as the Earl Carroll Theater, a prominent dinner theater. It served as the production facilities for several Nickelodeon series.

Media

Nickelodeon Games

Nickelodeon Games (formerly Nick Games from 2002 to 2009, from 1997 to 2002, Nickelodeon Software, and from 1993 to 1997, Nickelodeon Interactive) is the video gaming division of Nickelodeon. It was originally a part of Viacom Consumer Products, with early games being published by Viacom New Media.^[41] They started a long-standing relationship with game publisher THQ. THQ’s relationship with the network started off when THQ published their Ren & Stimpy game for Nintendo consoles in 1992,^[42] followed by a full-fledged console deal in 1998 with several Rugrats titles,^[43] and expanded in 2001, when THQ acquired some of the assets from Mattel Interactive, namely the computer publishing rights, and all video game rights to The Wild Thornberrys.^[44] Nickelodeon also worked, alongside THQ on an original game concept, Tak and the Power of Juju.^[45]

Nick.com

Nick.com is Nickelodeon’s main website, which launched in October 1995 as a component of America Online’s Kids Only channel before eventually moving to the full World Wide Web.^[46] It provides content, as well as video clips and full episodes of Nickelodeon series available for streaming. The website’s popularity grew to the point where in March 1999, Nick.com became the highest rated website among children aged 6–14 years old. Nickelodeon used the website in conjunction with television programs which increased traffic.^[47] In 2001, Nickelodeon partnered with Networks Inc. to provide broadband video games for rent from Nick.com; the move was a further step in the multimedia direction that the developers wanted to take the website. Skagerlind indicated that over 50% of Nick.com’s audience were using a high speed connection, which allowed them to expand the gaming and video streaming options on the website.^[48]

Mobile apps

Nickelodeon released a free mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers operating on the Apple and Android platforms in February 2013.^[49] Like Nick.com, a TV Everywhere login code provided by participating subscription providers is required to view individual episodes of the network’s series.

Nickelodeon Movies

Nickelodeon Movies is a motion picture production unit that was founded in 1995, as a family entertainment arm of Paramount Pictures (owned by Nickelodeon’s corporate parent, Viacom).^[50] The first film released from the studio was the 1996 mystery/comedy Harriet the Spy.^[51] Nickelodeon Movies has produced films based on Nickelodeon animated programs including The Rugrats Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as well as other adaptations and original live-action and animated projects.

Nickelodeon Magazine

Nickelodeon Magazine was a print magazine that was launched in 1993; the channel had previously published a short-lived magazine effort in 1990. Nickelodeon Magazine incorporated informative non-fiction pieces, humor (including pranks and parodical pieces), interviews, recipes (such as green slime cake), and a comic book section in the center of each issue featuring original comics by leading underground cartoonists as well as strips about popular Nicktoons.^[52] It ceased publication after 16 years in December 2009, citing a sluggish magazine industry.^[53] A new version of the magazine was published by Papercutz from June 2015^[54] to mid-2016.

Nick Radio

Nick Radio was a radio network that launched on September 30, 2013, in a partnership between both the network and iHeartMedia (then called Clear Channel Communications), which distributed the network mainly via its iHeartRadio web platform and mobile app. Its programming was also streamed via the Nick.com website and on New York City radio station WHTZ as a secondary HD channel. Nick Radio focused on Top 40 and pop music (geared towards the network’s target audience of children, with radio edits of some songs incorporated due to inappropriate content), along with celebrity interview features. In addition to regular on-air DJs, Nick Radio also occasionally featured guest DJ stints by popular artists as well as stars from Nickelodeon’s original series.^[55][56][57]

Nick Radio shut down without warning on July 31, 2019, and was replaced by Hit Nation Junior, likely due to the network’s general failure to establish any sustained «triple threat» artists/actors throughout the 2010s, along with the general failure of the children’s-only radio format in the streaming age. It was also a non-prime asset in Viacom’s current ‘six prime networks’ strategy, leaving it vulnerable to being terminated.

Themed experiences and hotels

Nickelodeon Universe

Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America is the second indoor theme park in the United States. On August 18, 2009, Nickelodeon and Southern Star Amusements announced that it would build a second Nickelodeon Universe in New Orleans, Louisiana on the site of the former Six Flags New Orleans by the end of 2010,^[58] which was set to be the first outdoor Nickelodeon Universe theme park. On November 9, 2009, Nickelodeon announced that it had ended the licensing agreement with Southern Star Amusements.^[59][60]

Nickelodeon Universe has a second location at the American Dream Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, that opened on October 25, 2019.^[61] Upon opening the New Jersey Nickelodeon Universe became the largest indoor theme park in the western hemisphere, unseating the Minnesota Nickelodeon Universe who had the title from 2008 to 2019.^[62]

Theme park areas

Current attractions

• Nickland is an area inside of Movie Park Germany featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides, including a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed «Splash Battle» ride, and a Jimmy Neutron-themed roller coaster.
• Nickelodeon Land opened on May 4, 2011, at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, featuring several rides based on Nickelodeon series including SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dora the Explorer, and The Fairly OddParents.
• Nickelodeon Land opened in September 2015 at Sea World, featuring multiple rides based on Nickelodeon programs including a SpongeBob junior roller coaster, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed flyer.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Land is also an area within Parque de Atracciones de Madrid. Opened in 2014, this area contains rides and attractions based on Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and other Nickelodeon franchises.^[63]
• Nickelodeon Playtime/Nickelodeon Adventure are two themed children’s entertainment centers in Essex, England and Shenzen, China. Play areas and attractions in these centers are immersively themed to SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and additional Nickelodeon shows.^[63]

Closed areas

• Nickelodeon Universe was also an area inside of Paramount’s Kings Island featuring Nickelodeon-themed rides and attractions. It was one of the largest sections in the park and was voted «Best Kid’s Area» by Amusement Today magazine from 2001 until its closure in 2009 after the park’s sale to Cedar Fair (the Paramount Parks ended up with CBS Corporation in the 2006 CBS/Viacom split, which CBS immediately sold off as soon as possible as non-critical surplus assets for that company).
• Nickelodeon Studios was an attraction at the Universal Orlando Resort that opened on June 7, 1990, and housed production for many Nickelodeon programs (including Clarissa Explains It All, What Would You Do? and All That). It closed on April 30, 2005, after Nickelodeon’s production facilities were moved to New York City and Burbank, California. The building that formerly housed it was recently occupied by the Blue Man Group Sharp Aquos Theatre, closed in February 2021. Another Nickelodeon-themed attraction at the park, Jimmy Neutron’s Nicktoon Blast, opened in 2003 but closed in 2011 to make way for the new ride Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem. In 2012, a store based on SpongeBob SquarePants opened in Woody Woodpecker’s Kidzone, replacing Universal’s Cartoon Store.
• Nickelodeon Central was an area inside of the Paramount Parks properties, including California’s Great America, Carowinds, Kings Dominion, Canada’s Wonderland, and Dreamworld that featured shows, attractions and themes featuring Nickelodeon characters, all of which were wound down when CBS Corporation was given ownership of the theme parks in the Viacom/CBS split and eventually sold most of the properties to Cedar Fair without renewal of the Nickelodeon licensing agreements. The only Nickelodeon Central remaining in existence was at Dreamworld in Australia, which is not under Cedar Fair ownership. The license was revoked in 2011 and became «Kid’s World» and later DreamWorks Experience.
• Nickelodeon Blast Zone was an area in Universal Studios Hollywood that featured several attractions inspired by Nickelodeon shows. The four attractions that were present in the area were «Nickelodeon Splash», a waterpark-style area, «The Wild Thornberrys Adventure Temple», a jungle-themed foam ball play area, and «Nick Jr. Backyard», a medium-sized toddler playground. It ran from 2001 to 2007 and was rethemed as «The Adventures of Curious George» which closed in 2008 to make way for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Studios Hollywood). Adjacent to Nickelodeon Blast Zone was the «Panasonic Theatre» which housed Totally Nickelodeon, an audience-participated game show which ran from 1997 to 2000. «Rugrats Magic Adventure» replaced the game show in 2001, but closed in 2002 to make way for Shrek 4-D which ran from May 2003 to August 2017. It closed to make way for DreamWorks Theatre Featuring Kung Fu Panda which opened on June 15, 2018.
• Nickelodeon Splat City was an area inside California’s Great America (from 1995 to 2002), Kings Island (from 1995 to 2000) and Kings Dominion (from 1995 to 1999), that featured messy- and water-themed attractions. The slime refinery theme was carried out in the attractions such as the «Green Slime Zone Refinery», the «Crystal Slime Mining Maze», and the «Green Slime Transfer Truck». All of these areas were later transformed into either Nickelodeon Central or Nickelodeon Universe before being discontinued as mentioned above when sold off by CBS Corporation.

Hotel brands

• Nickelodeon Suites Resort was a Nickelodeon-themed hotel in Orlando, Florida, located near the Universal Orlando Resort and 1-mile (1.6 km) from Walt Disney World. The hotel originally opened in 1999, and re-opened under its Nickelodeon re-theming in 2005. It included one-to-three bedroom themed kid suites, a water park area, arcade, and various forms of entertainment themed after Nickelodeon shows. It also contained a Nick at Nite-themed lounge area for adults. The property was re-themed to «Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites» on June 1, 2016.
• Nickelodeon Resorts by Marriott was a proposed hotel chain similar to the Nickelodeon Suites Resort, featuring a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) waterpark area and 650 hotel rooms. Announced in 2007,^[64] the first location was scheduled to open in San Diego in 2010, however, the plans were canceled in 2009.^[65] Plans for the remaining 19 hotels originally slated to open remain unclear.
• Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts is a hotel chain that opened its first location in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in 2016, in association with Karisma Hotels and Resorts.^[66] The second location opened in Riviera Maya, Mexico in 2021,^[67] and a third location is currently in development for a 2027 opening in Garden Grove, California.^[68]

Cruises

• Nickelodeon at Sea is a series of Nickelodeon-themed cruise packages in partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line. They feature special amenities and entertainment themed to various Nickelodeon properties.^[69] This was later removed in 2015.^[70]
• Norwegian Cruise Line also hosted some Nickelodeon Cruises on the Norwegian Jewel and Norwegian Epic liners, as part of Nickelodeon at Sea.^[71]

International

Between 1993 and 1995, Nickelodeon opened international channels in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany; by the later year, the network had provided its programming to broadcasters in 70 countries. Since the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon as a brand has expanded into include language- or culture-specific channels for various other territories in different parts of the world including Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Canada, and has licensed some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to free-to-air networks and subscription channels such as KI.KA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two (English language) and TG4 (Irish language) in Ireland, YTV (in English) and Vrak.TV (in French) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece, CNBC-e in Turkey and 10 Shake in Australia (which is a sister network to Nickelodeon).

See also

• List of Nickelodeon novelizations
• Nicktoons
• Boomerang
• Cartoon Network
• Disney XD
• Disney Channel

References

Bibliography

• Hendershot, Heather, ed. (2004). Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-3652-1.
• Klickstein, Mathew (2013). SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age. New York: Plume. ISBN 978-0-1421-9685-4.

External links

• Official website

Nickelodeon
телеканал «Nickelodeon»
Логотип Nickelodeon с 28 сентября 2009 года
Страна	США
Зона вещания	Земля
Язык вещания	вещает на 22 языках
Центр управления	США
Формат изображения	4:3 или 16:9
Дата начала вещания	1979-01-04
Заменил	Pinwheel(1977—1979 годы)
Владелец	MTV Networks (Viacom)
Сайт	nick.com

«Nickelodeon» (рус. Никелодеон) — телевизионный канал. Создан в 1977 году в США. С 1 апреля 1979 года начал вещание на всей территории США. В настоящее время осуществляет трансляции почти на всех основных языках мира и почти по всему миру.

История канала

Ранние годы (1977–1979)

Предыстория канала начинается 1 декабря 1977 года когда ведущим кабельным оператором страны QUBE было запущено 2 развлекательных канала. Одним из них был канал для детей, названный «вертушка».^[1]

Перезапуск как Nickelodeon и развитие в (1979–1990)

Pinwheel(вертушка) был переименован в Nickelodeon 1 апреля 1979 года что и явилось официальным запуском канала. Начав вещания на каналах Worner, Nickelodeon быстро расширил свою аудиторию и на другие кабельные сети. Изначально без рекламы,канал запускался в эфир с 10 утра до 10 вечера,по выходным-с 9 утра до 8 вечера. Показывали видеокомиксы(видеоряд отсканированного журнала)и шоу Pinwhell-неформатное интерактивное шоу для детей(live-action) продолжавшееся по 3-5 часов. Были также и привычные нам сериалы по 20 минут, такие как America Goes Bananaz, Nickel Flicks and By the Way. В 1980 в сетку эфира было добавлено немало новых шоу.

Первый логотип канала изображал человека в котелке,смотрящего в игровую машину(nickelodeon). Нарисовал его дизайнер из Нью-Йорка, Joseph Iozzi. Он же придумал соответствующее название и нарисовал рекламу. Позднее его сын, Joseph Iozzi II немного перерисовал лого и передал дизайн рекламы под более современный. Дизайн прижился и менеджеры канала долгое время не разрешали менять его.

Некоторое время канал делил сетку вещания с другими каналами Worner,но в 1981 переехал на свою частоту и расширил время вещания с 8 утра до 9 вечера.В 1985 канал включили в крупнейшую кабельную сеть США ARTS.

В 1983 году Warner отделил от себя развлекательные каналы,такие как Nickelodeon и Mtv чтобы создать дочерней концерн для увеличения доходности.В это время на канале был принят PBL-style и запущено несколько новых собственных шоу.

До 1984 канал держался на плаву,но потом начался полный спад.Канал потерял $10 миллионов меньше чем за год во многом из-за не слишком удачных новых шоу.Занимая последние места по рейтингам канал мог вылететь из сетки вещания.Глава Nickelodeon(по совместительству глава MTv) Боб Питтман обратился за помощью к людям несколько лет назад проведшим ребрендинг для Mtv. Это были Fred Seibert и Alan Goodman. Компания этих двух дизайнеров, Fred/Alan (сейчас Frederator Studios) предложили заменить морально устаревшее лого на модную «кляксу» создав каналу задел решений на ближайшие 25 лет.Также Fred/Alan помогли аниматорам, дизайнерам и продюсерам канала, «осовременили» их. Через 6 месяцев после ребрендинга канал занимал первые места в развлекательной сетке для детей,создав задел на будущее и обеспечив себе здоровую конкуренцию с акулами,типа Disney Channel. Также в 1984 году на канале был запущена традиционная реклама.

В январе 1985 года когда дизайнеры A&E прекратили работу с каналом и начали работу на собственным (круглосуточным)каналом, Николодеону потребовалось забить чем-то эфир ночью.В июле он добавил в ночной блок программу,названную позже блоком Nick at Nite,таким образом перейдя на 24/7 сетку вещания. В том-же году American Express продал свою долю акции Warner-Amex руководству Worner, которое переименовала себя в Warner Cable;позже в 1986 году Worner cable перерегистрировали MTv, Nickelodeon, RTC и новый канал VH1 чтобы продать их,что и было сделано.За 685 миллионов каналы были проданы корпорации Viacom. Также в 1988 году Николодеон открыл свою церемонию награждения лучших детских передач и программ,названных Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (ранее известную The Big Ballot)и создала подразделение Nick Jr., образовательный канал для дошкольников,заменив им классический блок Pinwheel.

Успешные 1990 и 2000 (1990—2009)

В 1990 Nickelodeon открыл Nickelodeon Studios во Флориде, где будут сняты многие из их ситкомов и юмористических шоу. Также студия подписала многомилионный контракт с Pizza Hut. Также ресторан согласился распростронять ежемесячный журнал канала. В 1991 году студия отсняла свои первые собственный мультики. В этом же году вышли первые мультики Nickelodeon-Дуг,Ох уж эти детки и Рен и Стимпи. До этого считалось что снимать еженедельные сериалы слишком дорого.

Новые мультики были успешными, поэтому канал принял решение аннонсировать еще сериалы. Они выпустили мультфильм Новая жизнь Рокко, который заслужил хорошие оценки критиков. В марте 1993 года Nikelodeon показал также свое новое лого и презентовал его 4 июля 1993 года так же и в 3D.Канал заключил соглашение с Sony Wonder о издании лучших сериалов на VHS до 1997 года. В 1997 году было прекращено производство Шоу Рена и Стимпи, однако в эфире оно было до 2001 года. Также сериал Doug после завершения показа в том же году был перекуплен Disney Channel. Был запущен новый ивено под названием Nick New Year’s. Сериал «Ох уж эти Детки» продолжили показывать после перерыва в 1997 году. Он стал одним из самых долгоиграющих сериалов Nickelodeon поэтому его продолжали показывать до 2004 года. Также в 1998 году был выпущен полнометражный фильм по франшизе, собравшей более $100 миллионов в кинотеатрах США.Это был первый НЕдиснеевский мультфильм, собравший столько. В мае 1999 канал презентовал свой новый мультик-Губка Боб квадратные штаны, быстро ставшей на первые места в топе. Сохраняет он свою популярность и по сей день (9 сезонов на 2012 год) став самым длинным шоу Никелодеона.

Программы канала Nickelodeon

Мультсериалы (Nicktoons)

1990-e

• Даг (1991—1994)
• Ох, уж эти детки! (1991—2004)
• Шоу Рена и Стимпи
• Новая жизнь Рокко
• ААА! Настоящие монстры
• КаБлам!
• Эй, Арнольд!
• Крутые бобры
• Котопес
• Оу Йе, мультики!
• Дикая семейка Торнберри
• Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны (1999-2012)
• Ракетная мощь
• Пелсвик

2000-е

• Как говорит Джинджер (2000—2003)
• Волшебные родители (2001-настоящее время)
• Захватчик Зим (2001-2006)
• Зона Мела
• Приключения Джимми Нейтрона (2002—2006)
• Детки подросли (2003—2008)
• Жизнь и приключения робота-подростка (2003—2007)
• Дэнни-призрак (2004—2007)
• Мой папа — рок-звезда
• Аватар: Легенда об Аанге (2004—2008)
• Цап-царап (2005)
• Каппа Майки (2006—2008)
• Мистер Мясный
• Спиди-гонщик: Новое поколение
• Glenn Martin, DDS
• Making Fiends
• Darwin monkey (2007—2008)
• ChalkZone
• Эль Тигре: Приключения Мэнни Риверы (2007—2008)
• Wayside (2007)
• Так и волшебная сила Жужу (2007)
• Рога и копыта. Возвращение (2007—2011) (16:9)
• Рикки Спрокет — звезда шоу-биза (2008—2009)
• Могучая Би (2008—2011)
• Angelica and Susie’s School Days (2008)
• Пингвины из Мадагаскара (2008-настоящее время) (16:9)
• Фэнбой и Чам-Чам (2009-настоящее время) (16:9)

2010-е

• Турбопёс (2010-настоящее время)
• Dragon Ball Z Kai (2010)
• Сила Вольтрона (2010)
• Winx (2011-настоящее время)
• Кунг-фу панда: Удивительные легенды (2012-настоящее время) (16:9)
• Dragon Ball G
• Аватар: Легенда о Корре (2012-настоящее время)
• Robot & Monster (2012-настоящее время
• Черепашки-ниндзя (2012-настоящее время)

Ожидаемые Nicktoons

• Монстры против пришельцев (2012)
• Raving Rabbids (2013)

Короткометражные мультфильмы

• Angry Birds (TV series)

Мультсериалы для детей дошкольного возраста (Nick Jr.)

1980-e

• Приключения малышки Одри
• Замок Эврики

1990-e

• Окно Аллегры
• Остров Гулла Гулла
• Медвежонок (мультсериал)
• Подсказки Бульки
• Франклин (мультсериал)
• Малыш Билл

2000-e

• Даша-следопыт
• Мэгги и свирепый зверь
• Освальд
• 64 Zoo Lane
• Макс и Руби
• Мышка Мэйзи
• Уби
• Фантазёры
• Лентяево
• Свинка Пеппа (Совместно с Five)
• Друзья мисс Паучихи
• Комната Бульки
• Вперёд, Диего, вперёд!
• Большое музыкальное шоу Джека
• Шоу вверх тормашками
• Чудо-зверята
• Тук и Плюх
• Вау! Вау! Уабзи!
• Йоу Габба Габба!
• Королевство лилипутов (Совместно с Five)
• Ни Хао, Кай-Лан!
• Оливия
• Свежий Ритм

2010-е

• Команда Умизуми
• Дино-Дэн
• Весёлые рыбки
• Франклин и друзья

Молодёжные сериалы (Teen Nick)

1990-е

• Кенан и Кел
• Кларисса
• Кузен Скитер
• Приключения Пита и Пита
• Путешествие Эллана Стрэйнжа
• Всякая всячина
• Шоу Аманды
• Глобал Гатс
• Легенды затерянного храма
• Мои родители инопланетяне
• Ной знает всё
• Боишься ли ты темноты? (1991-2000)
• Тайный мир Алекс Мак (1994—1998)

2000-е

• Братья Гарсиа (2000-2004)
• Блобы (2003–2005)
• Ромео! (2003-2006)
• Дрейк и Джош (2004-2007)
• Нетакая (2004—2007)
• Зоуи 101 (2005-2008)
• H2O: Просто добавь воды (Австралия/США) (2006-2010)
• Джинн в доме (2006-2009)
• Джинн в доме (2006-2009)
• iCarly (2007-настоящее время)
• Тру Джексон (2008-2011)
• Принцесса и слон (2008-2011)
• Охотники за монстрами (2009-2011)
• Вперёд — к успеху (2009-Настоящее время)

2010-е

• Виктория Победительница (2010-настоящее время)
• Саммэр в Трансильвании (2010-2011)
• Обитель Анубиса(2011-настоящее время)
• Супер-ниндзя (2011-настоящее время)
• Могучие Рейнджеры Самураи (2011-настоящее время)
• Эпические приключения Баккета и Скиннера (2011-2012)
• Шоу Фреда (2011-настоящее время)
• Жизнь с мальчишками(YTV)(2011-настоящее время)
• Как играть рок(2011-настоящее время)

Ожидаемые телесериалы

• Gibby (в разработке)
• Sam and Cat (в разработке)
• Marvin Marvin (2013)
• The Thundermans

Игровые шоу

• Brainsurge (2009- 17 ноября 2011)
• Family Brainsurge (с 17 ноября 2011-настоящее время)
• Figure it out (1997–2000(оригинал),2012–настоящее время (восстановленный))

Другие программы

• The Big Help (1994 (оригинальный), 2010 (восстановленный) – 2001 (оригинальный))
• The Big Green Help (2008–2009)

Полнометражные фильмы студии Nickelodeon Movies

• Шпионка Хэрриет (1996)
• Отличный гамбургер (1997)
• Карапузы (1998)
• Снежный день (2000)
• Карапузы в Париже (2000)
• Джимми Нейтрон, вундеркинд (2001) — номинировался на Оскар
• Останавливающие время (2002)
• Арнольд! (2002)
• Дикая семейка Торнберри (фильм) (2002)
• Карапузы встречаются с Торнберри (2003)
• Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны (2004)
• Лемони Сникет: 33 несчастья (2004)
• Сумасшедшие бальные танцы (2005)
• Твои, мои и наши (2005)
• Суперначо (2006)
• Рога и копыта (2006)
• Паутина Шарлотты (2006)
• Спайдервик: Хроники (2008)
• Ангус, стринги и поцелуи взасос (2008)
• Отель для собак (2009)
• Захватывающий! (2009)
• Представь себе (2009)
• Повелитель стихий (по мотивам «Аватар: Легенда об Аанге») (2010)
• Фред: Кино (2010)
• Мальчик, который рассказывал об оборотне (2010)
• Лучший игрок (2011)
• Вечеринка Айкарли и Виктории-победительницы (2011)
• Волшебные родители ТВ (2011)
• Ранго (2011)
• Фред 2: Ночь Живых (2011)
• Приключения Тинтина: Тайна «Единорога» (2011)
• Воспевая мечты (2012)

Интернет-канал ZTV Network

• АйКарли
• Обитель Анубиса
• Рога и копыта: Возвращение
• Эпические приключения Баккета и Скиннера
• Как играть рок?
• Nick Jr.
• Nick At Nite
• Шоу Фреда
• Nicktoons
• Teen Nick

Многопользовательские онлайн-игры

• Neopets (1999)
• Nicktropolis (2007)
• Petpet Park (2008)
• Monkey Quest (2011)

См. также

• Nickelodeon (СНГ)
• Nick at Nite
• Nick Jr. (СНГ)
• Nick Jr.
• NickToons
• TeenNick
• The Walt Disney Company
• Jetix
• Jetix Play
• Cartoon Network
• MTV
• VH1
• VIACOM
• SKY

Примечания

Ссылки

• Официальный сайт  (англ.)
• Официальный сайт телеканала «Nickelodeon-СНГ»  (рус.)

Детские телеканалы России
Общедоступные	Канал Disney • Карусель
Анимация	Boomerang • Cartoon Network • Мультимания
Для подростков	Gulli • Teen TV
Развлекательные	FOX TV • Nickelodeon • Детский • Детский мир
Для дошкольников	BabyTV • JimJam • Nick Jr. • Disney Junior • TiJi
Православные	Радость моя • Улыбка ребёнка
Ведут вещание за границей	4Multimania • Карусель International
HD-каналы	Nickelodeon HD FOX TV
Блоки	Дисней-клуб • Детский телевизионный сериал •
Бывшие телеканалы	Fox Kids • Fox Kids Play • Jetix Russia • Jetix Play Russia • Бибигон • Теленяня • Узнавайка Disney

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Nickelodeon Россия
ООО «МТВ Нетворкс Ник Восток»
Страна	Россия Украина
Зона вещания	Россия СНГ Беларусь страны Балтии Украина
Время вещания	круглосуточно
Язык вещания	Русский Украинский
Формат изображения	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Тематика канала	Анимационно-развлекательная
Дата начала вещания	15 ноября 1998 года
Дата конца вещания	28 апреля 2022 года (на территории России) 14 декабря 2022 года (на территории Белоруссии)
Свидетельство о регистрации СМИ	ЭЛ № ФС 77 — 54812 от 26 июля 2013 года
Аудитория	0-21 лет
Основатель	Viacom
Владелец	Paramount International Networks
Руководители	Марина Мелисина — генеральный директор ООО «МТВ Нетворкс Ник Восток» Мария Косарева — руководитель детского и семейного вещания Viacom Russia
Родственные каналы	MTV Nick Jr.
Голос канала	Всеволод Кузнецов (1998—2001) Олег Мирошников (2001—2007, 2011)[1] Никита Прозоровский (2003—2004, 2007—2010) Лариса Некипелова Александр Гаврилин (2010—2011) Антон Савенков (2012—2013) Андрей Карнов (2013-2022 года)
Сайт	nickelodeon.ru (архив)

«Nickelodeon» — один из самых распространенных и всемирно известных мультимедийных развлекательных брендов для детей и семей. Свою диверсифицированную бизнес-империю Nickelodeon построил согласно девизу «Дети — на первом месте!». Портфолио компании включает в себя телевизионные программы и продукты, распространяемые по всему миру, а также специальные мероприятия, потребительские товары, веб-порталы, развлекательные центры, книги, художественные фильмы и общественные инициативы. Nickelodeon предоставляет зрителям широкий ассортимент телепрограмм, от ситкомов до всемирно известных мультсериалов и сериалы, таких, как «Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны», «Чудище Бансен», «ЭлвиННН!!! И бурундуки», «Опасный Генри», «Грозная семейка» и многое другое. а также образовательные передачи для дошкольников — «Даша-путешественница», «Команда Умизуми» и другие. Программы Nickelodeon смотрят более 500 миллионов домохозяйств в 112 странах, в том числе и по 47 локальных телеканалам, транслирующим оригинальный контент бренда. С 2015 года, в связи с принятием закона «О рекламе», вещает без рекламы, межпрограммное время заполнено только анонсами и короткометражными мультфильмами.

Программы

Текущие

Мультсериалы

• Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны (2000 ― н.в.)
• Приключения Джимми Нейтрона, мальчика-гения (2003 ― 2020, 2022 ― н.в.)
• Жизнь и приключения робота-подростка (2004 ― 2016, 2022 ― н.в.)
• Дэнни-призрак (2006 ― 2020, 2022 ― н.в.)
• Аватар: Легенда об Аанге (2006 ― н.в.)
• Волшебные покровители (2007 ― 08, 2010 ― 2020, 2022 ― н.в.)
• ТУРБО-агент Дадли (2011 ― н.в.)
• Санджей и Крейг (2013 ― н.в.)
• Хлебоутки (2014 ― н.в.)
• Мой шумный дом (2016 ― н.в.)
• Свин, Коза, Банан и Сверчок (2016 ― н.в.)
• Эволюция Черепашек-ниндзя (2018 ― 2020, 2022 ― н.в.)
• Лего Сити: Приключения (2019 ― 20, 2022 ― н.в.)
• Касагранде (2020 ― н.в.)
• Это Пони (2020 ― н.в.)
• Лагерь «Коралл»: Детство Губки Боба (2021 ― н.в.)
• Смурфики (2021 ― н.в.)
• Почта Мидлмост (2021 ― н.в.)
• Ох уж эти детки! (2021 ― н.в.)
• Шоу Патрика Стара (2022 ― н.в.)

Телесериалы

• АйКарли (2009 ― н.в.)
• Биг Тайм Раш (2010 ― н.в.)
• Виктория-победительница (2010 ― н.в.)
• Сэм и Кэт (2013 ― н.в.)
• Грозная семейка (2014 ― н.в.)
• Никки, Рикки, Дикки и Дон (2014 ― н.в.)
• Опасный Генри (2015 ― н.в.)
• Игроделы (2015 ― н.в.)
• Школа рока (2016 ― н.в.)
• Хантер Стрит (2017 ― н.в.)
• Опасный отряд (2020 ― н.в.)
• Янг Дилан Тайлера Перри (2021 ― н.в.)
• Подработка (2021 ― н.в.)
• Драмкружок (2021 ― н.в.)
• Оверлорд и Андервуды (2022 ― н.в.)

Для дошкольников

• Щенячий патруль (2013 ― н.в.)
• Вспыш и чудо-машинки (2015 ― н.в.)
• Эбби Хэтчер (2019 ― н.в.)
• Подсказки Бульки для всех (2020 ― н.в.)
• Приключения Паддингтона (2020 ― н.в.)
• Сантьяго и его моря (2021 ― н.в.)
• Большое шоу Акулёнка (2021 ― н.в.)

Архивные

Мультсериалы

• Ох уж эти детки! (1998 ― 2018)
• Эй, Арнольд (1998 ― 2018)
• Крутые бобры (1998 ― 2009, 2013 ― 14)
• Шоу Рена и Стимпи (1998 ― 2009, 2013 ― 14)
• Новая жизнь Рокко (1998 ― 2008, 2013 ― 14)
• ААА! Настоящие монстры (1998 ― 2008, 2013 ― 14)
• Дикая семейка Торнберри (1999 ― 2009)
• Котопёс (1999 ― 2018)
• КаБлам! (1999 ― 2007)
• Ракетная мощь (2001 ― 2010)
• Ох, мультики! (2001 ― 2006)
• Как говорит Джинджер (2001 ― 2007)
• Детки подросли (2006 ― 2010)
• Цап-царап (2007 ― 2010)
• Каппа Майки (2007 ― 2010)
• Рикки Спрокет (2007 ― 2009)
• Вэйсайд Хай (2008 ― 2010)
• Эль Тигре: Приключения Мэнни Риверы (2008 ― 2010)
• Могучая Би (2009 ― 2016)
• Так и Волшебная сила Жужу (2009 ― 10)
• Рога и копыта: Возвращение (2010 ― 2016)
• Пингвины из Мадагаскара (2010 ― 2018)
• Фанбой и Чам-чам (2010 ― 2020)
• Планета Шина (2011 ― 2015)
• Клуб Винкс (2011 ― 2016)
• Кунг-фу Панда: Захватывающие легенды (2011 ― 2018)
• Аватар: Легенда о Корре (2012 ― 2020)
• Черепашки-ниндзя (2012 ― 2022)
• Монсуно (2013 ― 14)
• Робот и Монстр (2013 ― 2018)
• Монстры против пришельцев (2013 ― 2017)
• Легенды Чимы (2013 ― 2015)
• Огги и тараканы (2014 ― 2016)
• Харви Бикс (2015 ― 2019)
• Миссия «Блэйк!» (2015 ― 2021)
• Королевская академия (2016 ― 2019)
• Мультяшка Марти (2017 ― 2020)
• Чудище Бансен (2017 ― 18)
• Добро пожаловать в Вэйн (2017 ― 2019)
• Дикие скричеры (2018)
• Радужно-бабочково-единорожная кошка (2019 ― 20)
• Апчхи! (2019 ― 20)
• Чоп-чоп ниндзя (2019 ― 20)
• Инфинити Надо (2019)
• Лего Мир Юрского периода: Легенды острова Нублар (2020)
• Рюкзак Олли (2020 ― 2022)
• Дорг Ван Данго (2021 ― 2022)

Телесериалы

• Всякая всячина (1998 ― 2005, 2020 ― 21)
• Кенан и Кел (1998 ― 2004)
• Кларриса знает всё (1998 ― 2004)
• Братья Гарсиа (2004, 2008 ― 2010)
• Мистер Мясный (2008)
• Нетакая (2008 ― 2014)
• Дрейк и Джош (2008 ― 2014)
• Ромео! (2008 ― 2010)
• Принцесса слонов (2009 ― 2011)
• Тру Джексон (2010 ― 2013)
• Обитель Анубиса (2011 ― 2020)
• Как давать жару (2012 ― 2016)
• Шоу Фреда (2012 ― 2014)
• Марвин Марвин (2012 ― 2017)
• Призраки дома Хатэвэй (2013 ― 2019)
• Макс и Шред (2014 ― 2018)
• Академия уитс (2015 ― 2018)
• Колдовская история (2015 ― 2019)
• Я Фрэнки (2017 ― 2020)
• Команда рыцарей (2018 ― 2020)
• Под одной крышей (2019 ― 20)
• Нубы (2019 ― 2021)
• Просто добавь магии (2020 ― 21)
• Шпионаж (2021)

Для дошкольников

• Замок Эврики (1998 ― 2004)
• Окно Аллегры (1998 ― 2004)
• Остров гулла-гулла (1998 ― 2004)
• Малыш Билл (2000 ― 2006)
• Даша-путешественница (2003 ― 2018)
• Свинка Пеппа (2004 ― 2009)
• Макс и Руби (2005 ― 2020)
• Гоу, Диего, Гоу! (2006 ― 2016)
• Чудо-зверята (2007 ― 2016)
• Маленькое королевство Бена и Холли (2009 ― 2016)
• Подсказки Бульки (2010 ― 2014)
• Команда «Умизуми» (2010 ― 2016)
• Гуппи и пузырики (2011 ― 2021)
• Смешарики (2011 ― 2016)
• Волшебные Поппикси (2011 ― 2015)
• Тик-так (2012 ― 2015)
• Страусёнок Оливия (2014 ― 15)
• Фиксики (2015 ― 2017)
• Шиммер и Шайн (2016 ― 2020)
• Смешарики: Пин-код (2016)
• Расти-механик (2016 ― 2020)
• Нелла, отважная принцесса (2017 ― 2020)
• Санни Дэй (2018 ― 2020)
• Отважные птенцы (2018 ― 2021)
• 44 котёнка (2019 ― 21)
• Кафе Баттербин (2019 ― 2021)
• Рог и Пегги (2020 ― 21)
• Три кота (отменён)

Критика

Канал не раз подвергался критике из-за редкого обновления программ. В период с 2004 по 2008 год появилось только 3 новых шоу, а все игровые программы и программы в жанре live-action были сняты с эфира. В начале 2008 года появились два новых мультфильма — «Мистер Мясный» (который позже был снят с эфира из-за «недетского» юмора) и «Цап-царап», которые послужили началом нового сезона канала.

См. также

• Nick Jr. (Россия)

Вещание

Спутниковое

• Триколор
• НТВ-Плюс
• МТС ТВ
• Телекарта

Кабельное

• АКАДО (Москва и МО)
• Ростелеком-OnLime (Москва)
• Дом.ru
• МТС
• П.А.К.Т. (Санкт-Петербург)
• Уфанет
• Метросеть (ХМАО-Югра)
• П.А.К.Т. (Санкт-Петербург)
• Альянс Телеком (Приморский край)

IPTV/OTT

• Ростелеком
• Wifire
• МТС ТВ
• Билайн
• МГТС (Москва и МО)
• Теле-Плюс (ХМАО-Югра)
• ivi
• VOKA (Беларусь)
• ZALA (Беларусь)

Оформление

Логотипы

Канал Nickelodeon сменил два логотипа, второй используется и по сей день. Первый логотип интересен тем, что имеет много разновидностей и форм (даже в галерее до сих пор не размещены все варианты).

Первый логотип Nickelodeon (до 2010 года)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, второй вариант (в овале)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, третий вариант (в виде флага)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, четвёртый вариант (в виде цветка)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, пятый вариант (в виде телевизора)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, шестой вариант (в виде следа ноги)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, седьмой вариант (в виде ракеты)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, восьмой вариант (в виде дирижабля)

Первый логотип Nickelideon, девятый вариант

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, десятый вариант (2003-2010 гг.)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, десятый вариант на более светлом фоне (использовался в эфире)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, одиннадцатый вариант (в виде стрелки)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, двенадцатый вариант (в виде банта)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon на более светлом фоне (использовался в эфире)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon без фона

Первый логотип Nickelodeon, чёрно-белый вариант

Первый логотип Nickelodeon с надписью Nick

Объёмный первый логотип Nickelodeon (использовался в заставках)

Первый логотип Nickelodeon (надпись кириллицей)

Второй логотип Nickelodeon (с 2010 года по настоящее время)

Объёмный второй логотип Nickelodeon (используется в заставках)

Второй логотип Nickelodeon с надписью Nick

Чёрно-белый второй логотип Nickelodeon

Новогодний второй логотип Nickelodeon (2015-2016 гг.)

Новогодний второй логотип Nickelodeon (2011-2012 гг.)

Новогодний второй логотип Nickelodeon (2021-2022 гг.)

Пропорции логотипа

Пропорция первого логотипа Nickelodeon Россия (2008-2010 гг.)

Знаки возрастных ограничений

Баннер

Скриншоты заставок

Анонсы

Настрочная таблица

Скриншоты

Ссылки

Телеканалы, вещающие в России

Прекратили вещание
Не вещающие в России (с 1 июля 2021 года)
«MTV Россия» и «VH1 Россия» были в составе холдинга «ПрофМедиа» с 2007 до 2013 гг. «CBS Reality» и «CBS Drama» находятся в составе компании «Universal Distribution» с 2016 года

Список прекративших вещание телеканалов Украины (временно)
Dонбасс Online	Ирта	Юг
ЯТВ	KRATU	ТВ-Бердянск
En TV

Анимационно-развлекательные телеканалы Вещают в России Вещают только в СНГ (СНГ) (СНГ) (СНГ) (СНГ) (СНГ) (СНГ) (СНГ) (СНГ) Вещают в других странах Шаблон:Таб-лого/Discovery Familia Шаблон:Таб-лого/MBC 3 Шаблон:Таб-лого/IRIB Pooya Шаблон:Таб-лого/IRIB Nahal Шаблон:Таб-лого/JeemTV Шаблон:Таб-лого/Pogo Закрытые телеканалы (Россия) (Россия) (Россия) (Россия) (Россия) (Россия) (Россия) (Россия) (Россия) (Россия)

1. ↑ VOICE-OVER(Voice Reel: Russian). olegmirochnikov.

Nickelodeon TV
телеканал Nickelodeon
Логотип Nickelodeon с 28 сентября 2009 года
Страна	США
Зона вещания	Земля
Язык вещания	вещает на 22 языках
Центр управления	США
Формат изображения	16:9 SDTV+Стерео, 16:9 HDTV+Dolby Digital 5.1
Дата начала вещания	1977
Заменил	Pinwheel (1977—1979 годы)
Владелец	MTV Networks (Viacom); Corus; Sky (раннее Warner Bros.)
Ранние названия	Nick
Родственные каналы	Nick at Nite, NickHits, NickToons, TeenNick, Nick Jr., Nickelodeon Games and Sports, VIVA, BET, MTV, VH1, SKY
Сайт	nick.com

«Nickelodeon» (рус. Никелодеон) — детский телевизионный канал. Создан в 1977 году в США. С 1 апреля 1979 года начал вещание по всей территории США. В настоящее время осуществляет трансляции на 22 языках почти по всему миру.

Логотип[править | править викитекст]

Логотип в виде кляксы: http://czasdzieci.pl/pliki/wydarzenia/f_w_11414_50673.jpg

Логотип с 2009 года: http://www.nickutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Nickelodeon-Logo2.png

История канала[править | править викитекст]

Ранние годы (1977—1979)[править | править викитекст]

Предыстория канала начинается 1 декабря 1977 года, когда ведущим кабельным оператором страны QUBE было запущено 2 развлекательных канала. В 1977 году одним из них был канал для детей, названный «Pinwheel», предложивший создать собственный канал Nickelodeon до 1979 года, после смерти Джека Уорнера.^[1]

Перезапуск как Nickelodeon и развитие[править | править викитекст]

Pinwheel (вертушка) был переименован в Nickelodeon в 1979 году, что и явилось официальным запуском телеканала. Начав вещания на каналах Warner, Nickelodeon быстро расширил свою аудиторию и на другие кабельные сети. Изначально, без рекламы, канал запускался в эфир с 10 часов утра до 10 часов вечера, по выходным − с 9 часов утра до 8 часов вечера. Показывали видеокомиксы (видеоряд отсканированного журнала) и шоу Pinwheel − неформатное интерактивное шоу для детей (live-action), продолжавшееся по 3-5 часов. Были также и привычные нам сериалы продолжительностью до 20 минут, такие как America Goes Bananaz, Nickel Flicks and By the Way году в сетку эфира было добавлено немало новых шоу.

Первый логотип канала изображал человека в котелке, смотрящего в игровую машину (Nickelodeon). Нарисовал его дизайнер из Нью-Йорка, Джозеф Йоззи (Joseph Iozzi). Он же и придумал соответствующее название для него и нарисовал соответствующую рекламу. Позднее, его сын, Джозеф Йоззи Второй (Joseph Iozzi II) немного перерисовал логотип и передал дизайн рекламы под более современный. Дизайн прижился и менеджеры канала долгое время не разрешали менять его.

Некоторое время канал делил сетку вещания с другими каналами Warner Brothers, но в 1981 году телеканал переехал на свою частоту и расширил время вещания с 8 утра до 9 вечера. В 1985 канал включили в крупнейшую кабельную сеть США ARTS.

В 1983 году Warner Brothers отделил от себя развлекательные каналы, такие как Nickelodeon и MTV, чтобы создать дочерний концерн для увеличения доходности. В это время на канале был принят PBL-style и запущено несколько новых собственных шоу.

До 1984 канал держался на плаву, но потом начался полный спад. Канал потерял $10 миллионов меньше чем за год во многом из-за не слишком удачных новых шоу. Занимая последние места по рейтингам канал мог вылететь из сетки вещания. Глава Nickelodeon(по совместительству глава MTV) Боб Питтман обратился за помощью к людям несколько лет назад проведшим ребрендинг для MTV. Это были Фред Сеиберт и Алан Гудман. Компания Warner Bros. этим двум дизайнерам, Fred/Alan (сейчас Frederator Studios) предложили заменить морально устаревший логотип на модную «кляксу» создав каналу имидж на ближайшие 25 лет. Также Fred/Alan помогли аниматорам, дизайнерам и продюсерам канала, «осовременили» их. Через 6 месяцев после ребрендинга канал занимал первые места в развлекательной сетке для детей, создав задел на будущее и обеспечив себе здоровую конкуренцию с гигантами, наподобии Disney. Также в 1984 году на канале был запущена традиционная реклама.

В январе 1985 года когда дизайнеры A&E прекратили работу с каналом и начали работу над собственным (круглосуточным) каналом, Никелодеону потребовалось забить чем-то эфир ночью. В июле он добавил в ночной блок программу, названную позже блоком Nick at Nite (Ник в Ночи), таким образом перейдя на 24/7 сетку вещания. В том-же году American Express продал свою долю акции Warner-Amex руководству Warner Bros., которое переименовала себя в Warner Communaction Company, позже в 1986 году Warner Communaction перерегистрировали MTV, Nickelodeon, RTC и новый канал VH1 чтобы продать их, что и было сделано. За 685 миллионов каналы были проданы корпорации Viacom. Также в 1988 году Никелодеон открыл свою церемонию награждения лучших детских передач и программ, названных Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (ранее известную The Big Ballot)и создала подразделение Nick Jr., образовательный канал для дошкольников, заменив им классический блок Pinwheel.

Новые мультики были успешными, поэтому канал принял решение аннонсировать еще сериалы. Они выпустили мультфильм Новая жизнь Рокко, который заслужил хорошие оценки критиков. В марте 1993 года Nickelodeon показал также свое новое лого и презентовал его 4 июля 1993 года так же и в 3D.Канал заключил соглашение с Sony Wonder о издании лучших сериалов на VHS до 1997 года. В 1997 году было прекращено производство Шоу Рена и Стимпи, однако в эфире оно было до 2001 года. Также сериал Doug после завершения показа в том же году был перекуплен Disney Channel. Был запущен новый ивено под названием Nick New Year’s. Сериал «Ох уж эти Детки» продолжили показывать после перерыва в 1997 году. Он стал одним из самых долгоиграющих сериалов Nickelodeon поэтому его продолжали показывать до 2004 года. Также в 1998 году был выпущен полнометражный фильм по франшизе, собравшей более $100 миллионов в кинотеатрах США. Это был первый НЕдиснеевский мультфильм, собравший столько. В мае 1999 канал презентовал свой новый мультфильм — Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны, быстро ставшей на первые места в топе. Сохраняет он свою популярность и по сей день (9 сезонов на 2014 год), став самым длинным шоу Никелодеона.

Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite и TV Land[править | править викитекст]

Nickelodeon, Nick на Nite и TV Land получили многолетний контракт с Уорнер Бразерс, касательно внутреннего Pay-TV, кабельного и онлайн вещания, в которых все три сети будут иметь доступ к нескольким Уорнер Бразерс программам из последних 40 лет телевещания . Соглашение, которое началось в апреле 2000 года, позволило всем трем популярным каналам телевещания демонстрировать многочисленные хитовые комедии и драмы в различных частях суток.

Сделка дает Nickelodeon, и Nick at Nite эксклюзивный доступ к кабелю: чрезвычайно популярной звездой Уиллом Смитом транспортного средства, Принц из Бель-Эйр и хит комедия, Full House, которая внесла имена Мэри Кейт и Эшли Олсен в быт — как показывает рулон в Состав, начиная с осени 2003 года. Эта сделка также дает всем трём Никелодеон брендам эксклюзивы на всём телевидении: популярное в 1970-х комедия, Чико и Человек, комедия Марка Кирри, Hangin ‘с господином Купером и рыбы-из-вод комедии с 1960-х годов, мой любимый Марса. Соглашение дальнейшем позволяет Никелодеону участвовать в: премии Эмми, драмы Китайский пляж, прочный классический западный, Maverick, очень популярная серия, приключения Супермена; тенденция установления детективной драме, Сансет Стрит 77 и десятки других программ.

«Эти новые приобретения, включая Уилла Смита — Принца из Бель-Эйр, и популярную комедию Full House помогают отнести Nickelodeon и Nick at Nite к настоящим хитам, и показывают, что дети и их родители могут наслаждаться телевидением вместе», объясняет Сьюма Заргами, исполнительный вице-президент и ген-Менеджер Nickelodeon. «Warner Bros. стала одним из самых значительных авторов оригинальных программ с начала истории телевидения и мы с нетерпением ожидаем того, чтобы некоторые из этих великих шоу, видели наши зрители».

«Программы, к которым TV Land может получить доступ в подавляюще большой бибилиотеке Уорнер Бразерс, такие как Китай Бич и Мой любимый Марсианин, позволяют нам продолжать нашу приверженность, тому, что все самое лучшее телевидение для любителей больших телевизоров», объясняет Larry W. Jones, генеральный Менеджер TV Land. «Эта сделка гарантирует, что телезрители земли будет продолжать смотреть и дальше, чтобы увидеть некоторые из лучших телешоу, когда-либо сделанных, в ближайшем веке».

Уорнер Бразерс Внутренние характеристики Pay-TV, кабельное и сеть является одним из ведущих поставщиков программ для кабельного и спутникового рынках. Он отвечает за продажи, маркетинг и распределение Уорнер Бразерс уже производятся художественных фильмов, телесериалов, сериал, телевизионные фильмы, классика анимации, а также, музыкально-ориентированный серии и скидки на плату за просмотр, платное телевидение и основные рынки кабеля. Он также является основным лицензиаром художественных фильмов и классической анимации в широковещательных сетях.

Nickelodeon, который отмечает свое 20-летие в 1999 году, создал разнообразный, глобальный бизнес, поставив дети первыми во всем, она делает. В состав компании входят телевизионных программ и производства в США и во всем мире, а также потребительских товаров, интернет, отдых, журналов, книг и художественных фильмов. Американское телевидение Nickelodeon в сети видел в более чем 75 миллионов домашних хозяйств, и была номер один номинальный кабельной сети в течение трех лет подряд.

Поклонники могут получить доступ к теле-и поп-информационной культуры, мелочи и игры, зайдя на www.tvland.com или TV Land онлайн на America Online (ключевое слово: ТВЛ).

TV Land является 24-часовой сетью ТВ избранное вдохновлен Ник на Nite которой запущен 29 апреля 1996 года. Он предлагает лучшие телевидения драмы, вестерны, сериалы и различные шоу с 1950-ых по 1990-е годы. Канал также отмечает поп-культуры, как видно по телевизору с классической старинных рекламных роликов под названием «retromercials (г)» и краткосрочный язык-в-щеку ТВ земли внедрения программ созданы производители Ник на Nite.

Nickelodeon, Nick на Nite и TV Land и все связанные названия, символы и логотипы являются торговыми марками Viacom International, Inc

Программы канала Nickelodeon[править | править викитекст]

Текущие программы[править | править викитекст]

Мультсериалы[править | править викитекст]

• Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны (1999-настоящее время)
• Волшебные покровители (2001-настоящее время)
• Турбо-агент Датли (2010-настоящее время)
• Кунг-фу панда: Удивительные легенды (2011-настоящее время)
• Аватар: Легенда о Корре (2012-настоящее время)
• Черепашки-ниндзя (2012-настоящее время)
• Монстры против пришельцев (2013-настоящее время)
• Санджей и Крейг (2013-настоящее время)
• Бешеные кролики: вторжение (2013-настоящее время)

Молодёжные сериалы[править | править викитекст]

• Сэм и Кэт (2013-настоящее время)
• Призраки дома Хатэвэй (2013-настоящее время)
• Грозная семейка (2013-настоящее время)
• Колдовская история (2014-настоящее время)

Мультсериалы для детей дошкольного возраста[править | править викитекст]

• Даша-путешественница (2000-настоящее время)
• Макс и Руби (2002-настоящее время)
• Команда Умизуми (2010-настоящее время)
• Гуппи и пузырики (2011-настоящее время)
• Щенячий патруль (2013-настоящее время)

Повторный показ, закончившихся сериалов и мультсериалов[править | править викитекст]

• iCarly (2007—2012, первый показ; 2012 — настоящее время, повторы)
• Биг Тайм Раш (2009—2013, первый показ; 2013 — настоящее время, повторы)
• Виктория-победительница (2009—2013, первый показ; 2013 — настоящее время, повторы)
• Пингвины из Мадагаскара (2009-2013, первый показ; 2013 — настоящее время, повторы) (16:9)

Ожидаемые[править | править викитекст]

• Могучие Рейнджеры: Супер мегафорс
• Легенда о Корре (3 сезон)
• Щенячий патруль (2 сезон)
• Зак и Кряк (Новые серии)
• Бешеные кролики: Вторжение (Новые серии)
• Сэм и Кэт (Новые серии)
• Марафон «Заметь и отметь»
• Колдовская история (Новые серии)

Бывшие программы[править | править викитекст]

Мультсериалы[править | править викитекст]

• Дуг (1991—1994)
• Ох, уж эти детки! (1991-настоящее время (идёт по олд-скул блоку)
• Шоу Рена и Стимпи (1991—май 2014)
• Новая жизнь Рокко (1993—настоящее время (идёт по олд-скул блоку)
• ААА! Настоящие монстры (1994—1999)
• КаБлам! (1996—2000)
• Эй, Арнольд! (1996—настоящее время (идёт по олд-скул блоку)
• Крутые бобры (1997—настоящее время (идёт по олд-скул блоку)
• Оу Йе, мультики! (1998—2001)
• Котопес (1998—настоящее время (идёт по олд-скул блоку)
• Дикая семейка Торнберри (1998—2004)
• Ракетная мощь (1999—2004)
• Ракетная мощь (1999—2004)
• Pelswick (2000—2002)
• Как говорит Джинджер (2000—2003)
• Захватчик Зим (2001—2006)
• Зона Мела
• Детки подросли (2003—2008)
• Жизнь и приключения робота-подростка (2003—настоящее время (идёт поздно ночью)
• Дэнни-призрак (2004—настоящее время (идёт поздно ночью)
• Мой папа — рок-звезда
• Цап-царап (2005)
• Каппа Майки (2006—2008)
• Мистер Мясный
• Спиди-гонщик: Новое поколение
• Glenn Martin, DDS
• Making Fiends
• Darwin monkey (2007—2008)
• ChalkZone
• Эль Тигре: Приключения Мэнни Риверы (2007—2008)
• Школа Вэйсайд (2007)
• Так и волшебная сила Жужу (2007)
• Рога и копыта. Возвращение (2007—настоящее время (идёт поздно ночью) (16:9)
• Рикки Спрокет — звезда шоу-биза (2008—2009)
• Могучая Би (2008—настоящее время (идёт поздно ночью)
• Angelica and Susie’s School Days (2008)
• Планета Шина (2010-настоящее время (идёт поздно ночью)
• Dragon Ball Z Kai (2010)
• Сила Вольтрона (2010)
• АйКарли (2006-2012)

Молодёжные сериалы[править | править викитекст]

• Приключения Пита и Пита
• Эй, чувак
• Welcome Freshmen
• Кларисса
• Salute Your Shorts
• Тайный мир Алекс Мак
• Я и мой брат
• Космические приключения
• Кенан и Кел
• Кузен Скитер
• 100 подвигов Эдди Макдауда
• Братья Гарсиа
• Ной знает всё
• Таина
• Ромео
• Дрейк и Джош (идёт поздно ночью)
• Рассекреченное руководство Неда по выживанию в школе
• Нетакая
• Удар, еще удар
• Просто Джордан
• Голые братья
• Тру Джексон (2008—2011)
• Эпические приключения Бакета и Скинера
• Шоу Фреда (идёт поздно ночью)
• Как давать жару (идёт днём по выходным)
• Марвин Марвин
• История Венделла и Винни (идёт вечером по выходным)
• Кладбищенские истории

Драма[править | править викитекст]

• Третий глаз
• Hillside
• Боишься ли ты темноты?
• Тайные файлы Шелби Ву
• Путешествие Эллана Стрэйнжа
• Аниморфы
• Кейтлин – просто ребёнок

Боевик[править | править викитекст]

• Охотники за монстрами
• Сверхвоины (идёт поздно ночью)
• Могучие рейнджеры: Самураи (идёт вечером)

Образовательные[править | править викитекст]

• Let’s Just Play Go Healthy Challenge
• The Big Green Help
• Nickelodeon Launch Box

Игровые шоу[править | править викитекст]

• Brainsurge
• Family Brainsurge
• Figure it out

Мультсериалы и сериалы для детей дошкольного возраста[править | править викитекст]

• Окно Аллегры
• Комната Бульки
• Фантазёры
• Замок Эврики
• Остров Гулла-Гулла
• Большое музыкальное шоу Джека
• Лентяево
• Медвежонок
• Little Bill
• Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends
• Ни Хао, Кай-Лан!
• Оливия
• Вау! Вау! Уабзи!
• Чудо-зверята
• Йоу Габба Габба!

Другие программы[править | править викитекст]

• Вертушка
• Nickel Flicks
• America Goes Bananaz
• By the Way
• Фокус-покус
• Children’s Classics
• PopClips
• Livewire
• Studio See
• Reggie Jackson’s World of Sports
• Against the Odds
• Standby: Lights, Camera, Action
• Kids Writes
• Going Great
• Mr. Wizard’s World
• Nick Rocks
• Out of Control
• National Geographic Explorer
• Turkey Television
• Rated K: For Kids, By Kids
• Sixteen Cinema
• Don’t Just Sit There
• Kids Court
• Total Panic
• SK8-TV
• Outta Here
• The Nick Hit List
• The Wild Side Show
• Roundhouse
• Weinerville
• All That
• U to U
• And Now This
• The Amanda Show
• The Nick Cannon Show
• Let’s Just Play Go Healthy Challenge
• Dance on Sunset
• You Gotta See This

Полнометражные фильмы студии Nickelodeon Movies[править | править викитекст]

• Шпионка Хэрриет (1996)
• Отличный гамбургер (1997)
• Карапузы (1998)
• Снежный день (2000)
• Карапузы в Париже (2000)
• Джимми Нейтрон, вундеркинд (2001) — номинировался на Оскар
• Останавливающие время (2002)
• Арнольд! (2002)
• Дикая семейка Торнберри (фильм) (2002)
• Карапузы встречаются с Торнберри (2003)
• Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны (2004)
• Лемони Сникет: 33 несчастья (2004)
• Сумасшедшие бальные танцы (2005)
• Твои, мои и наши (2005)
• Суперначо (2006)
• Рога и копыта (2006)
• Паутина Шарлотты (2006)
• Спайдервик: Хроники (2008)
• Ангус, стринги и поцелуи взасос (2008)
• Отель для собак (2009)
• Захватывающий! (2009)
• Представь себе (2009)
• Повелитель стихий (по мотивам «Аватар: Легенда об Аанге») (2010)
• Фред: Кино (2010)
• Мальчик, который рассказывал об оборотне (2010)
• Лучший игрок (2011)
• Вечеринка Айкарли и Виктории-победительницы (2011)
• Волшебные родители ТВ (2011)
• Ранго (2011)

• Фред 2: Ночь Живых (2011)
• Приключения Тинтина: Тайна «Единорога» (2011)
• Воспевая мечты (2012)
• Биг Тайм Раш: кино (2012)
• Коротышка (2012)
• Никки Туз (2013)
• Мошенничество (фильм, 2013) (2013)
• Черепашки-ниндзя (фильм, 2014)

Интернет-канал ZTV Network[править | править викитекст]

• АйКарли
• Обитель Анубиса
• Рога и копыта: Возвращение
• Эпические приключения Баккета и Скиннера
• Как играть рок?
• Nick Jr.
• Nick At Nite
• Шоу Фреда
• Nicktoons
• Teen Nick

Многопользовательские онлайн-игры[править | править викитекст]

• Neopets (1999)
• Nicktropolis (2007)
• Petpet Park (2008)
• Monkey Quest (2011)

См. также[править | править викитекст]

• Nickelodeon (СНГ)
• Nick at Nite
• Nick Jr. (СНГ)
• Nick Jr.
• NickToons
• TeenNick
• The Walt Disney Company
• Jetix
• Jetix Play
• Cartoon Network
• MTV
• VH1
• VIACOM
• SKY
• Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Примечания[править | править викитекст]

Ссылки[править | править викитекст]

• Официальный сайт  (англ.)
• Официальный сайт телеканала «Nickelodeon-СНГ»  (рус.)

Детские телеканалы России
Общедоступные	Карусель • Канал Disney
Анимация	Boomerang • Cartoon Network • Мультимания
Для подростков	Gulli • Teen TV
Развлекательные	FOX TV • Nickelodeon • Детский • Детский мир
Для дошкольников	BabyTV • JimJam • Nick Jr. • Disney Junior • TiJi
Православные	Радость моя • Улыбка ребёнка
Ведут вещание за границей	4Multimania • Carousel International
HD-каналы	Nickelodeon HD • FOX TV
Блоки	Дисней-клуб • Детский телевизионный сериал
Бывшие телеканалы	Fox Kids • Fox Kids Play • Jetix Russia • Jetix Play Russia • Бибигон • Теленяня • KidsCo • Узнавайка Disney

Мультсериалы телеканала Nickelodeon
1991—2000	Doug • Ох уж эти детки! • Шоу Рена и Стимпи • Новая жизнь Рокко • ААА! Настоящие монстры • КаБлам! • Эй, Арнольд! • Крутые бобры • Котопёс • Oh Yeah! Cartoons • Дикая семейка Торнберри • Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны • Ракетная мощь • Pelswick • Как говорит Джинджер
2001—2005	Захватчик Зим • ChalkZone • Приключения Джимми Нейтрона, мальчика-гения • Детки подросли • Жизнь и приключения робота-подростка • Дэнни-призрак • Цап-царап • The X’s
2006—2012	Мистер Мясный • Аватар: Легенда об Аанге • Эль Тигре: Приключения Мэнни Риверы • Wayside • Так и волшебная сила Жужу • Angelica and Susie’s Pre-School Daze • Рога и копыта. Возвращение • Могучая Би • Планета Шина
Текущие	Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны • Волшебные родители • Пингвины из Мадагаскара • Турбо-Агент Дадли • Фанбой и Чам-Чам • Кунг-фу панда: Удивительные легенды • Аватар: Легенда о Корре • Робот и Монстр • Черепашки Мутанты Ниндзя