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The Nick Jr. Channel, sometimes shortened to Nick Jr., is an American pay television channel spun off from Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. programming block and owned and operated by the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
It was launched on January 4, 1988. Nick Jr. features a lineup of shows aimed at children aged 2 through 8. In 2009, Nickelodeon launched a separate channel named after the Nick Jr. block as a replacement for the original Noggin cable channel. The channel is known on air as the "Nick Jr. Channel" to differentiate the two services.
In 1980, Warner-Amex hired Cyril M. Schneider to be the president of the Nickelodeon network, which made its national debut less than a year earlier. Despite introducing popular programs such as You Can't Do That on Television to the lineup in 1981, Nickelodeon operated at a loss of $10 million dollars, and at one point had the lowest number of viewers compared to other cable channels by 1984.
The new logo debuted on September 28, 2009, across Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, and Nicktoons, along with the newly launched TeenNick (named after the TEENick block) and Nick Jr. Channel (named after the concurrently-running Nick Jr. block). [4]
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 ...
Nick at Nite is launched after A&E spins off into a 24-hour channel: 1986: Viacom gains full ownership of the network: 1987: The Big Ballot (later known as the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards) premieres: 1988: The programming block Nick Jr. is launched: 1991: Nickelodeon debuted their "Nicktoons" brand with Doug, Rugrats and Ren & Stimpy ...
7 Channel was originally launched under Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment and tested as Pinwheel until 1979, then was officially launched as Nickelodeon. 8 Channel space was previously held by Noggin (a joint venture with Sesame Workshop) before being replaced with the Nick Jr. Channel in 2009.
The channel features original series and reruns of programming from Nickelodeon's weekday morning lineup. A late-night programming block aimed at parents, NickMom, aired on Nick Jr. from October 1, 2012 to September 28, 2015. [1] [2] The channel replaced Noggin, which was relaunched as a streaming service in 2015 and acts as a separate sister ...