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On April 1, 1979, the channel expanded into a national network named Nickelodeon. The first program broadcast on Nickelodeon was Pinwheel, a preschool series created by Dr. Vivian Horner, who also conceived the idea for the channel itself. [1] At its launch, Nickelodeon was commercial-free and mainly featured educational shows.
On August 27, 1985, Warner sold 31% of MTV Networks to Viacom, with Warner also selling 19% of its Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. joint to Viacom as well. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In November 1985, Viacom announced that it had plans to buy the remaining 69% of MTV Networks from Warner for $326 million, [ 7 ] and the acquisition was completed on May 20, 1986.
In 2008, Nickelodeon became a 24-hour channel. Since then the Network as expanded. Most of its channels are available exclusively on DStv. BET Africa (Exclusive to DStv) BET 2 (Replaced BET International on DStv in April 2015 but closed before the end of the year) BET International (Available to all Digital TV services except DStv)
The channel was available to all digital cable providers and satellite provider Dish Network. With its focus on classic Nickelodeon game shows (most of which had been removed from the parent network between 1999 and 2002), Nick GAS was essentially a children's version of (and Viacom's answer to) Game Show Network and ESPN.
The following is a list of programming carried by the defunct American digital cable network Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids (shortened to Nick GaS), which aired from 1999 until the end of 2007, when it was replaced on most systems by a 24-hour version of The N.
The channel was a broadcast of VIVA Germany as VIVA Media AG in 1993 later in 1995 of Viva Zwei launch, and has been owned by their former competitor Viacom, the parent company of MTV, since 2004. Viva channels exist in some European countries; the first spin-offs were launched in Poland and Switzerland in 2000.
Launched in 1981 as the Electronic Program Guide, then became the Prevue Guide, then modified slightly into Prevue Channel. Purchased by TV Guide in 1999 and renamed TV Guide Channel and then became the TV Guide Network in 2007, and then shortened to TVGN in 2013, as of January 14, 2015, it is now Pop. Sci-Fi Channel NBCUniversal
The channel was launched as Nickelodeon on November 2, 2009, at 6 a.m. using the "YTV OneWorld" license. [2] Jacob Two-Two was the first show to broadcast. On the day of the channel's launch, Discovery Kids (which Corus also owned) was shut down and replaced by Nickelodeon on most pay-TV providers after the last episode of Aquateam ended. [3]