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| Country | Denmark Sweden Norway Finland |
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| Broadcast area | Denmark Norway Finland Sweden |
| Programming | |
| Languages | English Danish Swedish Norwegian Finnish |
| Picture format | SDTV576i |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Paramount Networks EMEAA |
| Sister channels | Nickelodeon Denmark Nick Jr. Nicktoons |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 February 1997[1] |
| Links | |
| Website | nickelodeon.no (closed) |
Nickelodeon is a children's channel broadcasting inDenmark,Norway,Sweden andFinland. It broadcasts programming from the similarly branded channels in the United Kingdom and the United States as well as a few locally produced programmes.
The channel started broadcasting in 1996 as a part of the analogueViasat package, only broadcasting in the morning, sharing one transponder onSirius 1 (previouslyMarcopolo 1) withZTV and one on TV Sat 2 shared with 3+ and other Danish channels.[2] The official launch was on 1 February 1997.[3] Initially it was only broadcasting for six hours between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. A few years later, it switched to another transponder, allowing it to broadcast between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Nickelodeon was launched as a free-to-air television channel in Sweden in 2001 and inFinland on 1 September 2007.
On 18 June 2008, a separate channel for Sweden was launched.Nickelodeon Sweden replaced the pan-Nordic channel in all of the country. The pan-Nordic does however continue to be available in Denmark, Finland and Norway.
A Danish version,Nickelodeon Denmark, was launched in March 2008.[4][5] It was launched withVH1 Denmark, which aired Nickelodeon for six hours in the morning. The Pan-Nordic version is still available to Danish satellite viewers.
In 2011, the channel started broadcasting commercials in Norwegian, despite also being available in Denmark and Finland at the time.[6]
On 7 January 2013, Viacom launched a Finnish version of Nick Jr. which replaced Nickelodeon Scandinavia on cable and in the terrestrial network.[7][8] Nickelodeon Scandinavia continues to be available on satellite in Finland. Also, Nickelodeon continued to be available with a Finnish audio track on the pan-AmericanPluto TV channel ofNickelodeon Totally Teen.
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| Country | Denmark Finland Norway Netherlands |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Denmark Greenland |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen,Denmark Amsterdam,Netherlands |
| Programming | |
| Languages | Danish Finnish Norwegian |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV16:9 (downscaled to576i for the SD feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Paramount Networks EMEAA |
| History | |
| Launched | 1996(as part of Nickelodeon Scandinavia) 15 March 2008(as a separate feed) |
| Links | |
| Website | nickelodeon.dk |
The channel was launched on 15 March 2008 with the launch ofVH1 Denmark, where it was broadcast between 6:00 am and 12:00 pm. From 1996 to 2008, Denmark had been served by the pan-NordicNickelodeon Scandinavia. The Pan-Nordic channel continues to be available on satellite. VH1 stopped simulcasting Nickelodeon around New Year's Eve 2008/2009, which meant that the two channels had their own frequencies in analogue cable networks such asYouSee andTelia Stofa, where Nickelodeon would now be available between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm.[9][10][11]
On 1 September 2009 the channel started broadcasting between 5:00 am and 7:00 pm[12][13] The channel has been available on the digital terrestrialBoxer TV platform since November 2009.[14] Nickelodeon was one of the least watched children's channels in Denmark in 2008, with a viewing share of 0.3 percent among 3-11 year olds. It was surpassed byDisney Channel (15.7 percent share),Cartoon Network (12.0),Toon Disney (2.2),Jetix (2.1) andPlayhouse Disney (2.1), with onlyBoomerang and Nickelodeon's satellite version having a smaller share of the children channels in Denmark.[15]
Most cartoons aredubbed into local languages, and separate audio tracks are available on satellite. Non-cartoon series aimed an older audience is broadcast in English with local subtitles.
The limited broadcasting hours meant that the channel usually shared bandwidth with other channels who would broadcast in the evening and the night. OnViasat, it used to broadcast on the same channel asViasat Nature,Viasat Crime andPlayboy TV, but this was changed in 2007 when Viasat Nature started broadcasting in the day and Nickelodeon would timeshare with VH1 instead. Many cable systems took the Viasat feed.
On Canal Digital, theEuropean version ofVH1 Classic is broadcast in the downtime, and on Swedish DTT (Boxer).Star! was once shown during the same time.
The channel was previously broadcast from the United Kingdom, but in 2008 it handed back its UK license and started broadcasting from the Netherlands instead.[16][17]
Nordic - Launched 1 February 1997, Nickelodeon Nordic is a 12-hour channel seen in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and available in three local languages: Swedish, Norwegian and Danish
