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| Broadcast area | Scandinavia Balkans Central Europe Eastern Europe CIS |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | London, UK |
| Programming | |
| Languages | English Polish Czech Danish Hungarian Norwegian Russian Romanian Bulgarian Serbian Croatian Slovenian Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Estonian Latvian Lithuanian Kazakh |
| Picture format | 16:91080iHDTV(downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Paramount Networks EMEAA |
| Sister channels | Nickelodeon Nick Jr. MTV MTV Live MTV Hits |
| History | |
| Launched | January 2017; 8 years ago (2017-01) (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) February 2017; 8 years ago (2017-02) (Nordic and Türkiye) 15 February 2018; 7 years ago (2018-02-15) (Poland) 12 December 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12-12) (Russia) 1 April 2019; 6 years ago (2019-04-01) (Hungary and Romania) 5 June 2019; 6 years ago (2019-06-05) (Bulgaria) 30 October 2019; 6 years ago (2019-10-30) (Czech Republic) 1 December 2019; 5 years ago (2019-12-01) (Moldova) 22 January 2020; 5 years ago (2020-01-22) (Ukraine) 14 July 2020; 5 years ago (2020-07-14) (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania) |
| Replaced | Nickelodeon HD (in Poland) |
| Closed | 28 April 2022 (2022-04-28) (Russia) 14 December 2022 (2022-12-14) (Belarus) |
Nicktoons (sometimes calledNicktoons Global) is a European international children's television network operated byParamount Networks EMEAA. Launched on March 1, 2012, international version of the American television channelNicktoons, the network serves many of the countries in the European Union, and features several feeds differentiated by time zones and local languages being the primary audio feed offered, with other languages offered throughsecond audio program options. Other networks may display the domestic language as open-access subtitles.[citation needed]
On March 1, 2012, Nicktoons Global was created by merging Nicktoons Germany and Nicktoons Netherlands. The promo without text.[1][2]
In January 2017, a Russian audio track was added for the Baltics (the channel appeared in the CIS in 2018).[3][4] In February 2017, the channel was expanded by adding audio tracks in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Arabic, and Turkish for the respective countries.[5][6]
The channel launched in Poland on 15 February 2018 at 10 a.m. (Polish time), replacingNickelodeon HD.[7]
On 12 December 2018, Nicktoons launched in Russia,[8] then in Hungary and Romania on 1 April 2019,[9] in Bulgaria on 5 June 2019,[10] in Czech Republic on 30 October 2019,[11] in Ukraine on 22 January 2020, and in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Albania on 14 July 2020.[12]
The channel closed in Russia on 28 April 2022[13] and in Belarus on 14 December 2022.[14]
On 1 April 2023, Nicktoons launched three new feeds in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, a month before Latvia changed the law on language possibilities.[15][16]
