Nickelodeon

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**Nickelodeon** (often shortened to **Nick**) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. 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, along with a broader family audience through its program blocks. The company's headquarters are located in New York City, New York and its animation studio is located in Burbank, California.

Since July 1985, it has shared its channel space with Nick at Nite, a nighttime service that airs during the interim hours, and is treated as a separate channel from Nickelodeon by Nielsen for ratings purposes; it features reruns of older primetime sitcoms, along with some original series and feature films. Both services are sometimes collectively referred to as "Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite", due to their common association as two individual channels sharing a single program space.

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

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.

In 1979, a show named "You Can't Do That on Television" gave birth to Nickelodeon's infamous slime gags.

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

*Tyler Perry's Young Dylan* premiered on Nickelodeon on February 29, 2020. Internationally, it airs on Nickelodeon's many foreign channels. Hit shows, including iCarly, Sam & Cat, and Victorious. The longest running shows on Nickelodeon are All That, iCarly, Henry Danger, The Fairly OddParents, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

## Sister channels

### Nicktoons

Main article: Nicktoons
**Nicktoons** is a channel that airs reruns of Nick's animated lineup. Tyler Perry's Young Dylan reruns are seen on here in addition to the main channel. As of 2021, the channel mostly airs episodes from seasons 1-2 and the first 8 episodes of season 2. In the past, the channel has had different subtitles; it was billed as **Nicktoons TV** from 2002-2003 and as **Nicktoons Network** from 2005-2009.

### TeenNick

Main article: TeenNick
**TeenNick** (originally announced under the spelling **TEENick**) is a channel that airs reruns of Nick's older live-action comedy lineup. It is named after **TEENick**, a former programming block on the main Nickelodeon channel. An overnight classic programming block, named NickRewind, formerly aired on this channel from 11:00 pm to 6:00 am. The block showed reruns of Nickelodeon programming from the 1990s to the mid 2000s. The programming block ran from July 25, 2011 to January 31, 2022. Sometimes, TeenNick airs reruns of Tyler Perry's Young Dylan and other currently airing Nickelodeon shows.

### Nick Jr. Channel

The **Nick Jr. Channel** is a channel named after Nickelodeon's long-running weekday morning block of the same name. Primarily aimed at preschoolers, it airs reruns of shows that originated on the Nick Jr. block. There are usually no commercials, except for promotions of which shows come up next. The channel replaced Noggin, a separate brand which was relaunched as a mobile app in 2015. From 2012 to 2015, the Nick Jr. Channel featured a nighttime block called NickMom, which was aimed at mothers of preschool children.

Paramount Global continues to host a morning preschool block (also called Nick Jr.) on the main Nickelodeon channel.

### NickMusic

**NickMusic**, known as MTV Hits from 2002-2016, is a channel that airs reruns of older music videos that are appropriate for kids. Despite the name change, Paramount Global continues to air older music videos that appeal to everyone on its main channel, MTV.

## Programming blocks

### Nick Jr.

**Nick Jr.**, known as **Nickelodeon's Play Date** from 2009-2012, **Nick: The Smart Place to Play** from 2012-2014 and **Nick Jr. on Nick** from 2014-2019, is a preschool block that airs younger-skewing shows every weekday morning.

### Nick at Nite

**Nick at Nite** (stylized as nick@nite) is a nighttime block on Nickelodeon that was established in 1985. It airs reruns of classic sitcoms from the 1980s-present as well as the occasional airing of Nickelodeon and Paramount movies. It is often a competitor to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, an adult-oriented block at night affiliated with another major children's cable network. Nick at Nite has occasionally broadcast *Tyler Perry's Young Dylan* episodes, usually in timeslots from 9:00pm to 9:30am.

### 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.

### TEENick

**TEENick**, known as **SNICK** from 1995-2004, was a programming block on Nickelodeon that aired episodes of Nick's older live-action comedy lineup.

## Other projects

### Nick.com

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**Nick.com** is Nickelodeon's official website. For most of its history, the site featured fan forums, over a thousand online games, episode clips (even a few full episodes), and original videos. Nick.com was once critically praised, receiving the Better Business Bureau's first-ever Internet privacy seal of approval in 1999, and winning a Webby Award in 2003.

As of December 2018, Nick.com has removed all of the games, show pages, videos and forums off of the website in order for it to resemble the Nick app. However, games are still playable on the Australian version of the website.

### Nickelodeon HD

    **Nickelodeon HD** (also known as **Nick HD**) is the high-definition simulcast feed of Nickelodeon that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format; the feed launched on November 14, 2007 and first began broadcasting content in high-definition on March 9, 2008. 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. The network's HD content airs with letterboxing on the standard definition channel, and since 2015, many subscription providers carry the high-definition feed and downscale it for the standard-definition feed, broadcasting in 16:9 letterboxed to fit the 4:3 ratio.

### Nick 2

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 compliment to the main Nickelodeon feed, repackaging Nickelodeon's Eastern and Pacific Time Zone feeds for the appropriate timezone – 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 11:00 p.m. Eastern on Nick 2 Pacific or 5:00 p.m. Pacific weeknights on Nick 2 Eastern). Nick 2 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 "Nickelodeon Pacific/NICKP" or "Nickelodeon Eastern/NICKE".

On another note, 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 timezone feeds continue to be offered on satellite providers, unbranded.

### Nick On Demand

Nick on Demand is **Nickelodeon's** video-on-demand service, 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. The service offers episodes of *Tyler Perry's Young Dylan* and many other Nickelodeon programs.

### 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.

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.

### Nick Pluto TV

**Nick Pluto TV** (also called **Nick on Pluto TV**) launched on 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

### Paramount+

Main article: 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.

References

1. ↑ Timetoast - "The History of Nickelodeon"
2. ↑ YouTube video of Nickelodeon's slime gag

## See also

* Nickipedia (a wiki about Nickelodeon)
* Nickstory Archives (wiki with info on Nickelodeon's broadcast history)
* Nicktoons: G.L.O.B.E. Archives (wiki with info on Nickelodeon's sister channel Nicktoons's broadcast history)
* TeenNickstory Archives (wiki with info on Nickelodeon's sister channel The N and TeenNick's broadcast history)
* Nickstory Jr. Archives (wiki with info on Nickelodeon's sister channel Noggin and Nick Jr. Channel's broadcast history)

External links
* Official website
* Nickelodeon on Instagram
* Nickelodeon on Twitter
* Nickelodeon on Facebook
* Nickelodeon on YouTube
* Nickelodeon at Nickipedia
* Nickelodeon at Logopedia