Aura (U.S. TV channel)

Aura is an American television channel owned by FlareNetworks; the channel launched on November 1st, 2017 and will be aimed at both males and females 6-48.
==History==
On September 15th, 2017, NF@Nite was relaunched as AuraNightfall to reduce the risk of complaints from several parental groups and to create an adult-oriented branding that's related to Nickelodeon Family yet distant from its branding. Subsequently, adult-oriented programming was almost-entirely phased out from Nicktoons Family (via discontinuation of AnimeNight) for this reason. Not long after, it was announced that Vortexx Network was to come under the editorial control of Nickelodeon Family Networks, USA and relaunch as Aura.
In preparation for the channel's launch, several divisions of Curiousgorge66 Studios were restructured under the "Aura" branding, such as Curiousgorge66 Networks (renamed "Aura International") and Curiousgorge66 XD Networks (renamed "Aura Xtreme Networks"). Nickelodeon Family Networks, USA also became a subsidiary of Aura International around this time.
The channel launched on November 1st, 2017, with the distinction of having more first-run shows at launch (due to acquiring the rights to most first-run programming from its sister network Cartoon Network XD) then any other channel owned by Curiousgorge66 Studios at launch.
Its sister channel AuraToons was launched on January 1st, 2018, offering animated series that Aura didn't have room for on its main channel.
In January 2018, it was announced that CBS Studios' license agreement with CBS was set to expire on January 31st, 2018; Curiousgorge66 Studios has since announced that it would make CBS Studios a subsidiary of NickFamily Studios, move the television studios of Aura into its facility and rename CBS Studios into Aura Television Productions, with its film division to be reorganized into Aura Films.
In March 2018, it was announced that Cartoon Network XD Retro, at the time a burn-off channel for series that formerly aired on Cartoon Network XD, would be relaunched as Aura Retro as soon as a possible sale or shutdown of the main Cartoon Network XD is considered.
On April 7th, 2018, Aura Xtreme Networks filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy. Under the conditions of the liquidation of Aura Xtreme Networks, Aura Television Productions will continue to provide programming for Vortexx Network until April 30th, 2018 under a temporary contract with Axiom Entertainment; Aura is also expected to receive the broadcast rights to Camp Orange: Canada upon the sale of NickSplat 24/7.
==Programming==
Main article: List of programs broadcast by Aura
==Programming blocks==
*Nickelodeon Family on Aura (2017 - present): A three-hour block consisting of repeats of Nickelodeon Family/Nicktoons Family original series.
*Aura Games (2017 - 2018): A three-hour block of game shows, usually acquired from Nickelodeon.
*AuraRetro (2017 - 2018): A two-hour block of retro animation from various sources, mainly Disney and Teletoon. The block ended after September 9th, 2018 due to its redundancy to the channel with almost the same name.
*Nickelodeon on Aura (2017 - 2019): A 90-minute (shortened to 60 minutes on weekdays since September 10th, 2018) block of programs acquired from Nickelodeon. The block was discontinued in May 2019; Nickelodeon content was phased out of the slots over the next two months after the block's discontinuation and replaced with Aura Television Productions content and Aura original series, starting with the removal of Edgar & Ellen and What Would You Do?, which were replaced with Baseball Team 106 and Cottonsweet respectively. In July 2019, all remaining Nickelodeon content in the timeslots were replaced with an extra hour for prime time featuring former TeleAmerica series.
*Aura Saturday Mornings (2017 - 2019): A five-hour Saturday morning block featuring shows formerly seen on Fox Box/4Kids TV and The CW4Kids/Toonzai. The block was discontinued in May 2019, leaving Ultimate Muscle, Mew Mew Power, and Magical DoReMi (mostly due to those series being license-rescued at least in part by AuraAnime Licensing) as the only former Fox Box/4Kids TV/The CW4Kids/Toonzai series left within the block's former timeslots; the rest were replaced with Aura Television Productions programming, mostly from NickFamily Studios.
*Disney XD on Aura (2017 - 2019): A three-hour Sunday morning block featuring animated series from Disney XD. The block was discontinued in December 2019, in favor of reruns of former TeleAmerica originals.
*Aura Prime Time (2017 - present): A two-hour block featuring Aura first-run series. In May 2019, Aura announced that it would tack on another hour for Aura's prime-time block by July 2019.
*Aura for Adults (2017 - 2019): An overnight block aimed at teens and adults 17 and older; content warnings are shown before and during the block. In December 2019, the block was discontinued in-name, and many of the shows on the block would be removed by January 2020, due to Aura's shift towards first-party programming and first-party-licensed anime series. Adult content on Aura (particularly first-party content rated TV-14 or higher) would remain exclusive to the overnight hours.
*Ranger Time (2017 - 2019): A half-hour block featuring series from both Power Rangers and Power Rangers: The Animated Series. In May 2019, Aura lost the broadcast rights to the live-action Power Rangers shows and replaced them with reruns of former Cartoon Network XD original series.
*CNN Crash Course (2017 - present): An hour-long block featuring TV premieres of CNN 10 and Crash Course.
*Ready, Set, Aura (2017 - 2018): A three-hour-long block of preschool/educational series, featuring Chloe, The Magic School Bus, and Gerald McBoing-Boing; in July 2018 it was announced that, in light of a bidding war between Aura and the upcoming AnimeNation CW block for the rights to Xelphos Chronicles, the block would be dissolved and replaced by a block of anime series. All shows on the block moved to the 11:00PM hour upon the shutdown of the block, and most were later dropped altogether. The anime block would later drop Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal altogether and replace it with Ultimate Muscle.
*Surge (2018 - 2019): The American counterpart to YTV Family's Surge block, which itself is the Canadian counterpart to the block shown on Aura's sister channel Nickelodeon Family, SurgeAnime on Nickelodeon Family. The block's replacements, AnimeNation, AnimeNation Action, and Girl Power, are instead aired on sister channel Nickelodeon Family due to the Aura network's increased reliance on first-party shows.
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==Schedule==
Time 	Monday 	Tuesday 	Wednesday 	Thursday 	Friday 	Saturday 	Sunday
6:00AM 	CNN 10 	Crash Course 	CNN 10 	Crash Course 	CNN 10 	Rock Dog 	Time Force
6:30AM 	Crash Course 	CNN 10 	Crash Course 	CNN 10 	Crash Course 	Rock Dog 	Time Force
7:00AM 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Baseball Team 106 	What's the Pitch?
7:30AM 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Time Force 	Fortnite: The Animated Series
8:00AM 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Cottonsweet 	Multidimensional Investigators
8:30AM 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Ultimate Muscle 	Double Dare 2K16 	The League of Infamy
9:00AM 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Adventures of a Gamer 	The League of Infamy
9:30AM 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Xelphos Chronicles 	Ultimate Muscle 	Reality Bytes
10:00AM	Coding 101 	The Big Duel Challenge 	Fortnite Animated: The Spin-Off	Reality Bytes 	Chloe 	Magical DoReMi 	Hard Rock 101
10:30AM	Coding 101 	Beaver's Log 	Cybersix (2017) 	Dream Chasers 	Mew Mew Power 	Parody Central 	Transformers: Animated (2017)
11:00AM	Technology Malfunction 	Coding 101 	Ready to Game Up! 	Wunschpunsch (2020) 	Technology Malfunction 	Magical DoReMi 	Ready to Game Up!
11:30AM	Technology Malfunction 	Coding 101 	Ready to Game Up! 	Wunschpunsch (2020) 	Technology Malfunction 	Instant Adventure: Just Add Water! 	Ready to Game Up!
12:00PM	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	DotA Underground 	Level Up
12:30PM	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	DotA Underground 	Dream Chasers
1:00PM 	Invader Zim (2016) 	Invader Zim (2016) 	Invader Zim (2016) 	Invader Zim (2016) 	Invader Zim (2016) 	DotA Underground 	Incredible Crew
1:30PM 	Double Dare 2K16 	Double Dare 2K16 	Double Dare 2K16 	Double Dare 2K16 	Double Dare 2K16 	DotA Underground 	Arcade Protectors
2:00PM 	Cartoon Madness 	Cartoon Madness 	Cartoon Madness 	Cartoon Madness 	Cartoon Madness 	DotA Underground 	Time Force
2:30PM 	Game Duel 	Game Duel 	Game Duel 	Game Duel 	Game Duel 	DotA Underground 	Cottonsweet
3:00PM 	Pretty Cure 	Yu-Gi-Oh! (1998) 	Crash B-Daman 	Super B-Daman 	Transformers: The Headmasters 	Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken (1991)	Mega Man Star Force
3:30PM 	Transformers: Animated (2017) 	Transformers: Animated (2017) 	Transformers: Animated (2017) 	Transformers: Animated (2017) 	Transformers: Animated (2017) 	Time Force 	Time Force
4:00PM 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Shugo Chara! 	Time Force
4:30PM 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Transformers: Victory 	Time Force
5:00PM 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Time Force 	Pizza Quest
5:30PM 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Baseball Team 106 	Pizza Quest 	Rock Dog
6:00PM 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Shugo Chara! 	Shugo Chara!
6:30PM 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Baseball Team 106 	Cottonsweet
7:00PM 	The Animator's Worst Nightmare 	The League of Infamy 	Music Planet 	Game Duel 	Reality Bytes 	Virtual Reality Challenge 	Multidimensional Investigators
7:30PM 	Fortnite: The Animated Series 	Multidimensional Investigators	What's the Pitch? 	Game Duel 	Reviewing Station 	Virtual Reality Challenge 	Multidimensional Investigators
8:00PM 	Twinkle Stars 	Ghoul Soul Detection Squad 	Cartoon Network Battle 	SnowFall 	Eagle Girl 	Wish Me Mell 	Fighting Underground Highlights
8:30PM 	B-Daman Unleashed 	Gamer's Luck 	Code D-2 	Midnight Story 	Noxmore 	Rock Starz Unite! 	Fighting Underground Highlights
9:00PM 	Circuit City: Gamezone 	WarioWare Popples 	Top Gear: Canada 	Frostland 	Dueling Underground 	Parody Central 	Fighting Underground Highlights
9:30PM 	The Kid Ranger 	Finding Nemo: The Series 	Mix Master (2017) 	Frostland 	Dueling Underground 	Cybersix (2017) 	Fighting Underground Highlights
10:00PM	Shuriken and Pleats 	Stitch! 	Stitch! 	Beaver's Log 	Parody Central 	FusionFall 	Ever Oasis
10:30PM	Power Rangers Ninja Battle 	Pizza Quest 	Parody Central 	Power Rangers Riderz 	Power Rangers Ultra Time Limit	Cozy-san 	Rock Dog
11:00PM	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Parody Central 	Parody Central 	Pizza Quest 	Pizza Quest
11:30PM	Parody Central 	Parody Central 	Parody Central 	Baseball Team 106 	Chloe 	Rock Dog 	Rock Dog
12:00AM	Fullmetal Alchemist: The Prequel	Time Force 	Princess of Halloween Night 	Kuroeusagi 	MegaMan NT Warrior Stream 	Time Force 	Baseball Team 106
12:30AM	Dragon Ball: Broly 	Dragon Ball: Broly 	Hundred Nights 	Low Budget 	Low Budget 	Time Force 	Parody Central
1:00AM 	Ace Attorney Investigations 	Deal or No Deal Wales 	The Eltingville Club 	Cards Against Humanity: The TV Series 	Beaver's Log 	Cottonsweet 	Time Force
1:30AM 	Time Force 	Baseball Team 106 	Cottonsweet 	Bottle Fairy 	Shuriken and Pleats 	Bottle Fairy 	Time Force
2:00AM 	Time Force 	Star Trek: The New Enterprise 	The Princess of Nana Moon 	Pokémon-chan XY 	Chloe 	Fighting Underground 	Time Force
2:30AM 	Time Force 	Star Trek: The New Enterprise 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Top Gear: Canada 	Time Force
3:00AM 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Pepper Ann (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Star Trek: Voyager 	Marvelous Melmo
3:30AM 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Time Force 	Corrector Yui (Viz dub) 	Parody Central 	Star Trek: Voyager 	Marvelous Melmo
4:00AM 	Ace Attorney Investigations 	Deal or No Deal Wales 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Time Force 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Time Force
4:30AM 	Time Force 	Time Force 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: The Animation	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Time Force
5:00AM 	Adventures of a Gamer 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Dragon Quest 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Dragon Ball: Broly 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017)
5:30AM 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	WKRP in Cincinnati (2017) 	Adventures of a Gamer 	Adventures of a Gamer 	Adventures of a Gamer 	Adventures of a Gamer
==International feeds==
*Aura Canada- Launched November 4th, 2017, replacing Nickelodeon Family Canada.
*Aura Japan- Launched November 5th, 2017, replacing Nickelodeon Family Japan.
*Aura Latin America- Launched November 12th, 2017, replacing Nickelodeon Family Latin America.
*Aura Oceania- Launched November 8th, 2017 as an overnight block on Nickelodeon Family Oceania; would eventually replace the channel as a whole in November 2018.
*Aura Southeast Asia- Launched November 15th, 2017 as an overnight block on Nickelodeon Family Southeast Asia; it eventually replaced the channel as a whole on July 1st, 2018.
*Aura Germany- Launched February 8th, 2018 replacing Cartoon Network XD Germany.
*Aura France- Launched March 13th, 2018 replacing TeenNick France.
==Trivia==
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