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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Broadcast area |
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| Headquarters | Sky Campus,Isleworth (1993–1995) Nickelodeon UK,Rathbone Place,London (1995–2012) MTV Networks Europe,Camden, (2012–present) |
| Programming | |
| Languages | English Irish |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | Nickelodeon +1 |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Nickelodeon UK Ltd. (Paramount Networks UK & Australia)[1] |
| Sister channels | Nicktoons Nick Jr. Nick Jr. Too |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 September 1993; 32 years ago (1993-09-01) |
| Links | |
| Website | nick |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| See separate section | |
Nickelodeon (commonly shortened toNick) is a British/Irishpay television network.It launched on 1 September 1993, as a localised version of theAmerican channel of the same name in the United Kingdom and launched in Ireland in 2004. In the United Kingdom, the channel is available onSky,Virgin Media, andTalkTalk Plus TV. In Ireland, the channel is available onVirgin Media Ireland,Eir TV andSky Ireland. It is the first Nickelodeon feed launched overseas.
Nickelodeon was launched in the UK on 1 September 1993,[citation needed] exclusively onSky as part of theSky Multichannels package,[2] originally airing for 12 hours from 7am to 7pm. and showing both cartoons and live action series for children. The first cartoon to air on the channel wasJames the Cat.[3]Nick@Nite was also planned to launch in early 1994[4][5] but never implemented; off-air Nickelodeon would air static logos, schedule information andteletext. In November 1995, it started to timeshare withParamount Channel.
The British version ofNick Jr. also launched on the channel's first day, broadcasting during school hours. Live presentation followed in 1994, branded asNick Alive!, which was soon moved into its own studio in theLondon Trocadero, and relocated to the station's new headquarters on Rathbone Place in 1995. In 1996, Nickelodeon reached an agreement withCBBC to show a block of CBBC programmes for one hour before and one hour after Nick Jr., calledCBBC on Nickelodeon. This block lasted until 1999, when Nick Jr. was removed from the main channel in July 2000, after launching its own channel the year before, and the increase of subscribers to Sky Digital and cable.
In August 1997, Nickelodeon began broadcasting an hour earlier, signing on at 6am. When Sky Digital was launched in 1998, it was in the original channel line-up onAstra 2A. On 1 September 1999, two sister channels were launched, Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon Replay (a +1 hour timeshift). On the same day, Nickelodeon broadcasting from 6 am until 10 pm.[6] However, analogue satellite and analogue cable services continued to shutdown the channel at 7 pm each day until Nickelodeon closed on analogue satellite on 30 April 2001.[7]Nicktoons was launched in the UK and Ireland in July 2002.
In December 2004,Telewestfailed to reach an agreement to broadcast Nickelodeon, Nicktoons and Nick Jr. on their services after 2005 and the channels were removed from Telewest on 17 December, leading to many Telewest customers leaving for Sky and NTL, while Telewest offered either a free upgrade toDisney Channel or toSky Movies to prevent losing any customers. By the next year, however, Nickelodeon successfully reached an agreement with Telewest and the channels were restored.
In February 2010, Nickelodeon adopted the worldwide rebrand.[8][9] TheTeenNick block also adopted the identity of the channel programs. In April 2010, Nicktoons and Nick Jr. were rebranded as well.
Nickelodeon HD was launched in October 2010 on Sky.[10] Later, it became available onVirgin Media.[11]
On 1 January 2019, it started broadcasting 24 hours a day.
On 31 October 2022, Sky sold its stake in Nickelodeon UK, including Nickelodeon, to Paramount, in an attempt to launch Sky Kids, as owning Nickelodeon UK would have restricted Sky from launching the channel.[1]
On 24 July 2023, Nickelodeon UK rebranded to its 2023 splat logo, just four months and 21 days afterUnited States,Israel andItaly's rebrand.
Nickelodeon's UK operations was owned by Nickelodeon UK Ltd., which originally operated as a 50-50 joint venture betweenMTV Networks International and Kidsprog Ltd., a subsidiary ofBSkyB formed solely for the launch of the channel. By 2005–2006, the stake was altered so MNA owned 60% and Sky owned 40%.
On 31 October 2022, Sky sold its stake in Nickelodeon UK Ltd., to Paramount International Networks, which means they now own full control of the network.[12] The sale of the stake was so Sky could enter the children's market on their own with the launch of a stand-aloneSky Kids network, which they were not allowed to do due to the Nickelodeon joint-venture.[13]
Nick Jr. was launched as a block in the UK and Ireland on 1 September 1993, between 9 am to 12 pm on weekday school days on the main Nickelodeon UK channel. It was later expanded to 10 am to 2:30pm. In July 1999, it was announced Nick Jr would be given its own channel,[14] and was launched as a 14-hour (initially 13) standalone channel on analogue and digital television on 1 September 1999,[15] and subsequently the block was discontinued on Nickelodeon in July 2000 (but shortly reintroduced in 2005). Nick Jr. originally timeshared withMTV Dance when that channel launched in early 2001, but after several years, MTV Dance started broadcasting for 24 hours, with Nick Jr. itself broadcasting for 24 hours since 2010.
On 24 April 2006, Nick Jr. Too was launched under the name Nick Jr. 2. It broadcasts Nick Jr. shows on a different schedule from the main Nick Jr. channel. It began broadcasting for 24 hours in 2015.
Nick Jr. Too is occasionally used for temporary pop-up channels, includingNick Jr. Peppa andNick Jr. Paw Patrol.
On 22 July 2002,Nicktoons was launched, airingNicktoons, as well as other cartoons, throughout the day. It began broadcasting for 24 hours on 1 January 2019.
Similar to Nick Jr. Too, Nicktoons sometimes uses its channel as temporary pop-up channels. In September 2022, the channel was temporarily rebranded asNick SpongeBob, airingSpongeBob SquarePants andThe Patrick Star Show, then in October 2022, it becameNick Horrid Henry, only airingHorrid Henry, then changed back to Nicktoons in November 2022.
Nicktoons UK mainly airs imported programming from the US network.It's Pony (2020–2022) was created in the UK, but was produced for the American channel and premiered in the US market first.
On 1 September 1999, a one-hourtime shift of Nickelodeon was initially launched on Sky. It is available on Sky 620,Virgin Media Ireland 605 andVirgin Media 713. The channel originally launched as Nick Replay but was rebranded as Nick +1 on 2 October 2012.
A one-hour timeshift of Nicktoons, Nicktoons Replay, was also available on Sky channel 630. The timeshift channel replaced theNicktoons spin off sister channelNicktoonsters.
Nick Jr. +1 launched on 2 October 2012, replacing Nicktoons Replay, which closed the previous day. The timeshift channel is available on Nicktoons Replay's previous space.
In 2004, The channel launched an Irish advertising feed for Nickelodeon.
An Irish feed for Nick Jr. was launched in 2006. On 13 September 2012, it was announced that Sky would be launching an Irish feed of Nicktoons on 16 October 2012.[16] All Nickelodeon channels available in Ireland now broadcast Irish advertising and sponsorship.
On 18 August 2008, Nicktoonsters was launched. Its licence first appeared on the Ofcom website in September 2007 (initially named "Nicktoons 2", and changed to Nicktoonsters on 3 July 2008).[17] The channel closed on 31 July 2009 and the next day was replaced by Nicktoons Replay.[18][19]
Over the years the network has produced series includingGenie in the House (2006–2009),Summer in Transylvania (2010–2012),Goldie's Oldies (2021) andOverlord and the Underwoods (2021). Apart from local continuity programming includingNickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Awards,Camp Orange andNickelodeon Slimefest, Nickelodeon UK mainly airs imported programming from the US network.House of Anubis (2011–2013) were created in the UK, but were produced for the American channel and premiered in the US market first.
Traditionally, theKids' Choice Awards in the United Kingdom and Ireland before 2007 included only an airing of the original ceremony from the US. Nickelodeon UK from then on held a full ceremony for two years in 2007 and 2008 which included a fully local slate of categories and was held at theExCeL London. The UK-specific awards ceremony for 2009 was cancelled due to network budget cuts, and in the 2010s, several local categories were voted by children in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which were awarded each year by Nickelodeon presenters as continuity during the airing of the American ceremony on a one-day delay.
Nickelodeon Land is a section of theBlackpool Pleasure Beach resort inBlackpool which is a six-acre (2.4 ha) section of the park featuring themed Nickelodeon attractions and souvenirs. The Nickelodeon Land section of the park opened in April 2011.
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