24 Facts About Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1,1979, as the first cable channel for children.

The channel, now named Nickelodeon, launched to a new countrywide audience on April 1,1979, with Pinwheel as its inaugural program.

In 1999, Nickelodeon partnered with Sesame Workshop to create Noggin, an educational brand consisting of a cable channel and an interactive website.

Programming seen on Nickelodeon includes animated series, live-action, scripted series, and original made-for-TV movies, while the network's daytime schedule is dedicated to shows targeting preschoolers.

In June 2020, Nickelodeon announced that they would bring back Nick News in a series of hour-long specials.

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Until 1991, the animated series that aired on Nickelodeon were largely imported from foreign countries, with some original animated specials that were featured on the channel up to that point.

Nickelodeon has produced a variety of original made-for-TV movies, which usually premiere in weekend evening timeslots or on school holidays.

Nickelodeon periodically acquires theatrically-released feature films for broadcast on the channel.

In 2002, Nickelodeon entered a long-standing broadcast partnership with Mattel to air films and specials based on the toy company's Barbie dolls.

DirecTV and Dish Network offer both Nickelodeon feeds, though they carry both time zone feeds of most of the children's networks that the providers offer by default.

Nickelodeon Animation Studio is a production firm with two main locations.

Nickelodeon Productions is a live-action production studio in New York, that provides original sitcoms and game-related programs for Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon on Sunset was a studio complex in Hollywood, California which served as the primary production facility for Nickelodeon's series from 1997 until 2017; the studio is designated by the National Register for Historic Places as a historical landmark as a result of its prior existence as the Earl Carroll Theater, a prominent dinner theater.

Nickelodeon worked, alongside THQ on an original game concept, Tak and the Power of Juju.

Nickelodeon used the website in conjunction with television programs which increased traffic.

In 2001, Nickelodeon partnered with Networks Inc to provide broadband video games for rent from Nick.

Nickelodeon released a free mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers operating on the Apple and Android platforms in February 2013.

Nickelodeon Movies is a motion picture production unit that was founded in 1995, as a family entertainment arm of Paramount Pictures.

Nickelodeon Movies has produced films based on Nickelodeon animated programs including The Rugrats Movie and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as well as other adaptations and original live-action and animated projects.

Nickelodeon Magazine was a print magazine that was launched in 1993; the channel had previously published a short-lived magazine effort in 1990.

Nickelodeon Magazine incorporated informative non-fiction pieces, humor, interviews, recipes, and a comic book section in the center of each issue featuring original comics by leading underground cartoonists as well as strips about popular Nicktoons.

On November 9,2009, Nickelodeon announced that it had ended the licensing agreement with Southern Star Amusements.

Nickelodeon Universe has a second location at the American Dream Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, that opened on October 25,2019.

Between 1993 and 1995, Nickelodeon opened international channels in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany; by the later year, the network had provided its programming to broadcasters in 70 countries.