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Tim Lagasse and Cathy McCullough on the set of Oobi in 2004 Oobi is an American children's television series produced by Little Airplane Productions. The show's concept is based on a technique used by puppeteers in training, in which they use their hands and a pair of ping pong balls instead of a full puppet. The main characters are bare hand puppets with eyes and accessories, played by Muppet ...
The premiere of the "Uma Preschool!" episode on September 6, 2004, posted a 2.35 Nielsen rating among the preschool age group, becoming the highest-rated premiere of a Noggin show to that date. [15] [80] In December 2004, Noggin published a press release with the subtitle: "Noggin's Oobi Delivers Highest Rated Original Premiere In Network's ...
The Noggin channel launched on February 2, 1999 and closed on September 28, 2009. It started out mainly aimed at tweens and teenagers, with a few of its morning programs aimed at younger children. From April 1, 2002 to December 30, 2007, the channel devoted half of its schedule (from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.) to preschoolers and the other half ...
On August 13, 2007, Viacom announced that Nick GAS would shut down at the end of the year. It was replaced by a 24-hour version of Noggin's teen-oriented block The N, which started airing on Noggin in April 2002. [6] On December 31, 2007, Nick GAS officially closed at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time, after an episode of Figure It Out.
In October 2003, the magazine Broadcasting & Cable reported that Noggin had received a Nielsen rating of 0.3 during The N. [58] More than half of the viewers were in The N's target audience. [58] In 2004, the acquired series Degrassi was the highest-rated show on the block; an episode that aired July 2, 2004, was watched by a record 300,000 ...
In the infomercial, Play with Me Sesame is highlighted as the main attraction of Noggin's lineup, and Grover sings about the different Nickelodeon characters seen on Noggin. The infomercial was aired across all of Nickelodeon's networks throughout spring 2002. In July 2003, the "Grover Song" infomercial won a Mark Award for brand image and ...
She played tapes of current animated shows, which her colleagues viewed as merchandise-driven and overly commercial. The group decided that Nickelodeon should aim for the opposite of their contemporaries, producing cartoons that would keep their creators in a key creative role rather than prioritizing an efficient "assembly line" process.
Rather than cut the season in half, The N gave South of Nowhere a four-week break. The show returned to Noggin's nighttime lineup in January 2006 with the remaining episodes from the original order to air. During the breaks between episodes, interviews were shown with two of the stars, Gabrielle Christian and Matt Cohen, during commercial breaks.