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Title Premiere date Note(s) The Backyardigans: November 2, 2009 January 2, 2023 August 26, 2024 (current run) [note 1]Bubble Guppies: June 1, 2011 January 2, 2023 (current run)
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]
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.
Nickelodeon initially ordered a twelve-episode first season, [4] later increased to twenty. In a 1984 interview with The New York Times , Warner-Amex president John A. Schneider stated that having Nimoy host the series was part of a strategy to "seduce kids into watching" using popular actors. [ 5 ]
Nickelodeon's first original animated program, Video Dream Theatre, was left unaired. [1] It was produced over a half-year period in 1979, when the network hired its future president Geraldine Laybourne to make two pilots for the show. Video Dream Theatre used animation to visualize children's dreams in different styles, such as color Xerox. [2]
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Nickelodeon Games (formerly Nick Games from 2002 to 2009, from 1997 to 2002, Nickelodeon Software, and from 1993 to 1997, Nickelodeon Interactive) is the video gaming division of Nickelodeon. It was originally a part of Viacom Consumer Products, with early games being published by Viacom New Media . [ 43 ]
Nickelodeon Global (formerly Nickelodeon Europe and Nickelodeon Commercial Light) is a specialized children's TV channel and the international version of the American Nickelodeon channel. It is operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and by Paramount Networks Americas in Latin America and Brazil.