Noggin soon after became a timeshare service ( in the same vein as Nickelodeon is by carrying Nick at Nite over the same channel space ) starting the teen-oriented The N that fall, which became a separate channel from Noggin on December 31, 2007 with Noggin becoming a 24-hour channel for preschoolers ; the Noggin channel was rebranded Nick Jr. on September 28, 2009.

In 2007, digital studio Worldwide Biggies, founded by Nickelodeon and Spike TV executive Albie Hecht, acquired film rights to Tom Swift.

Over the next few years, the ratings gradually declined in Canada ( by 1985, it was seen only once a week in a Saturday-morning time slot on CTV ), but YCDTOTV continued to go strong in the U. S. on Nickelodeon, where it aired first five times a week and, eventually, every day.

Viewers in the U. S. made slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their own entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be slimed ( which was later replicated by Canada's YTV, with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes ).

Saved by the Bell also aired in Australia on Channel Seven and from 1990 until 2004 on Nickelodeon.

When CBS was purchased by Viacom, which also owned Nickelodeon, Viacom simply repurposed much of the Nick Jr. lineup — in addition to adding a Saturday edition of the CBS morning-news program The Early Show.

The three contenders for first honoree in this award were both CGI feature films: Shrek, by Dreamworks, Monsters, Inc., by Disney and Pixar, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, by Nickelodeon and Paramount.

It was produced by Dualstar Interactive, designed by Nickelodeon, developed by n-Space and distributed by Club Acclaim for the PlayStation system in 2000 and it forms part of a varied line of things that have been produced with The Olsen twins's names on them.

Originally piloted for Nickelodeon, it was eventually picked up by the Disney Channel and started airing in September 2001.

" Nickelodeon " was concocted from nickel, the name of the U. S. five-cent coin, and the ancient Greek word odeion, a roofed-over theater, the latter indirectly by way of the famous Odéon in Paris, emblematic of a very large and luxurious theater much as Ritz was of a grand hotel.

The name " Nickelodeon " was first used in 1888 by Austin's Nickelodeon, a dime museum located in Boston, Massachusetts.

They called it the Nickelodeon, joining " nickel " with the Greek word for an enclosed theater adopted by the famous 18th century Odéon in Paris.

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally called The Pinwheel Network, is an American children's channel owned by Viacom and operated under its Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group.

Since 2004, Nickelodeon has been run by Cyma Zarghami.

It is treated as a separate channel from Nickelodeon by A. C. Nielsen Co. for ratings purposes.

That same year, American Express sold their stake in Warner-Amex to Warner Communications and was renamed Warner Cable ; by 1986, Warner Cable turned MTV Networks into a private company, and sold MTV, RTS, Nickelodeon and the new VH1 network to Viacom for $ 685 million.

The three Nicktoons found success by 1993, so Nickelodeon developed its fourth Nicktoon, Rocko's Modern Life, which was also a critical success.

In 1996, he was a writer and co-creator of the show Space Cases, a Nickelodeon television show with themes similar to Lost in Space.

The first successful permanent theatre showing nothing but films was " The Nickelodeon ", which was opened in Pittsburgh in 1905.

The series was later shown in reruns on Nickelodeon in the 1980s and on the Sci Fi Channel in the 1990s as part of Sci Fi Cartoon Quest.

* An alternate ending of an episode of the show Invader Zim was taken off since it featured a scene where all of New York is destroyed, Nickelodeon acted quickly and changed the ending.

On October 21, 2009 it was announced that cable channel Nickelodeon ( a subsidiary of Viacom ) had purchased all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property.

To date, Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon is the longest-airing animated series on the network that was not a Nicktoon.

After production ended in 1990, the show continued in reruns on Nickelodeon through 1994 when it was replaced with the similarly-themed All That.

Another Price production using YCDTOTV cast members, UFO Kidnapped, had been made in 1983 but failed to sell to Nickelodeon and was never aired.

Reportedly, this was because Nickelodeon's six-year contract to air the 1981 season expired in 1987, and since Nickelodeon was beginning to aim for a younger demographic and many of the 1981 episodes dealt with topics more relevant to adolescents ( such as smoking, drugs, sexual equality, and peer pressure ); the network opted not to renew the contract.

Allegedly, Nickelodeon removed the " Cosmetics " episode from rotation for the latter reason as well ( although the " Addictions " episode from that same season was not dropped ).

Though ratings declined, Nickelodeon continued to air reruns until January 1994, at which point it was only being aired on weekends.

"), which was a frequent parting gift for contestants on Nick's popular game show Double Dare, where slime was heavily used along with several variations such as ' gak ' or ' gooze ', and Mattel even sold Nickelodeon slime and gak in the 1990s.

It was made into a 1996 film of the same name for Nickelodeon starring Michelle Trachtenberg.

In the animated Nickelodeon movie, TV show and TV spin-off of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, there was a character named Sheen Estevez, which is Sheen's original last name – Estévez – and working last name, Sheen.

* The book was featured in the last episode of season 4 " Dino checks out " in the Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold !.

In America, The series was called The Magic Carousel and it aired in the 1980s on Pinwheel, a children's programme on the kids ' channel Nickelodeon.

On September 16, 2002, the Vault Disney block was discontinued in favor of same-day repeats of the channel's original and off-network series, primarily to contribute to the network's then-upcoming " hip " image ; the removal of the block resulted in Disney Channel not featuring any programming targeted at adult audiences for the first time in the channel's history – with the only programming that intentionally targets the entire family being the channel's primetime feature films ; as of June 2011, Disney Channel is the only one of the largest American children's cable networks that does not target both kids during the daytime, and a family / adult audience at night ( Nickelodeon, The Hub and Cartoon Network each feature program blocks that target such a dual audience ).

" Nickelodeon was initially willing to greenlight 39 episodes of Junktown.

It was the first original animated special created for Nickelodeon.

* Nickelodeon Suites Resort is a Nickelodeon-themed hotel in Orlando, Florida, located near Universal Studios Resort and one mile ( 1. 6 km ) from Walt Disney World Resort.

Nickelodeon Suites Resort ( a. k. a. Nick Hotel ), formerly known as Nickelodeon Family Suites, is a kid-centered hotel in Orlando, Florida, near the Universal Orlando Resort and one mile from Walt Disney World Resort.

In 2004, Holiday Inn and Nickelodeon announced a partnership and renovation of the hotel, which would transform it into the Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn.

After the closing of Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios Florida, the Nickelodeon Time Capsule was moved to the hotel and reburied there on April 30, 2005, 1 month and 21 days after opening, as many speculated that it was dug up and destroyed.

In 1990, Nickelodeon opened Nickelodeon Studios, a television studio / attraction at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando which many of its sitcoms and game shows were filmed and entered into a multimillion-dollar joint marketing agreement with international restaurant chain Pizza Hut, which provided Nickelodeon Magazine for free at participating Pizza Hut restaurants ( which was put on hiatus for three years ).