Nickelodeon

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Nickelodeon

Country United States

Broadcast area Nationwide

Headquarters One Astor Plaza, New York City

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

Parent Nickelodeon Networks

Sister channels show

List

History

Launched December 1, 1977; 44 years ago (as QUBE's C-3

channel)
 April 1, 1979; 43 years ago (as Nickelodeon)

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. Its
programming 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] QUBE's Channel C-
3 aired Pinwheel, an educational show developed by Vivian
Horner. Pinwheel performed well with QUBE subscribers, and Horner sought to expand
her program into a full channel on national television. 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] QUBE's owner, Warner-Amex Satellite
Entertainment, eventually sold Nickelodeon, along with its sister
networks MTV and VH1, to Viacom in 1986.[8]
Throughout its history, Nickelodeon has introduced sister channels and themed
programming blocks. On January 4, 1988, Nickelodeon launched Nick Jr., a weekday-
morning block aimed at preschool children. On August 11, 1991, it introduced another
flagship brand, the Nicktoons: original animated productions created specifically for the
network.[9] The Nicktoons brand introduced its own sister channel, launched in 2002. In
1999, Nickelodeon partnered with Sesame Workshop to create Noggin,[10] 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.[11]

Contents

 1History
 2Programming
o 2.1Nicktoons
o 2.2Movies
o 2.3Programming blocks
 2.3.1Current
 2.3.2Former
 2.3.3Special events
 2.3.4Nickelodeon-produced blocks on broadcast networks
 3Related networks and services
o 3.1Nick at Nite
 3.1.1TV Land
o 3.2Current sister channels
  3.2.1Nicktoons
 3.2.2Nick Jr.
 3.2.3TeenNick
 3.2.4NickMusic
o 3.3Former sister channels and blocks
 3.3.1Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids
 3.3.2NickMom
 3.3.3Nick 2
 3.3.4NickRewind (TeenNick block)
o 3.4Other services
o 3.5Production studios
 3.5.1Nickelodeon Animation Studio
 3.5.2Nickelodeon on Sunset
 4Media
o 4.1Nickelodeon Games
o 4.2Nick.com
o 4.3Mobile apps
o 4.4Nickelodeon Movies
o 4.5Nickelodeon Magazine
o 4.6Nick Radio
 5Experiences
o 5.1Nickelodeon Universe
o 5.2Theme park areas
 5.2.1Current attractions
 5.2.2Closed areas
o 5.3Hotel brands
o 5.4Cruises
 6International
 7See also
 8References
o 8.1Works cited
 9External link