Nick 2

Nick 2, also known as Nick Too, was a delay feed/time shift channel of the main Nickelodeon feed, and was 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, but the exception is through Xfinity’s IPTV services. The service existed from around 2000 until November 2018, launching as Nick TOO. 
The network was launched in 1999. Its main purpose was to provide viewers a chance to watch Nickelodeon programs at an earlier or later time. The programs were shifted over in most areas at a three hour delay. It was nationally closed in 2018. 
==History ==
Nick 2 was first launched in 1999. 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.
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.
On November 22, 2018, Viacom Media Networks discontinued the Nick 2 digital cable service, likely due to V.O.D. (Video On Demand) options making timeshift channels for the most part superfluous. Both time zone feeds continue to be offered on Xfinity as well as satellite providers, unbranded.
Some providers such as DIRECTV (channel: 300), and Dish Network (channel: 171) still carry the channel as a three hour delay feed of the main Nickelodeon network, although Dish and DIRECTV have always carried second feeds of Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel by default.
==On-screen "bug"==
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From the channel's launch, a "Nick 2" watermark was used until 2004 . The watermark was removed from programs in 2004 because Viacom no longer wanted to brand the network, thus making the channel unbranded. From 2004 to 2018, the channel repeated the exact same feed as Nickelodeon, with the only difference, is of it being on a time delay. The network's logo then became a placeholder image on program guides, with the channel most commonly shown as "Nick Pacific (NICKP)/Nick West (NICKW)", or "Nick East (NICKE)." More recently, a smaller version of the Nickelodeon logo is used on some providers, (such as Dish Network.)
==Program placement==
Because of geographic reasons, programs would air in different time slots, air earlier, or later. For example, the Nick Jr. block on Nick 2 East would start at 5 AM Pacific Time, and on Nick 2 West, start at 11 AM Eastern Time. Because of this difference, programs aired at different time slots then on that time zone's main Nickelodeon channel.
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