** The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.

In addition, Nickelodeon had removed the half-hour edits of the 1981 episodes of You Can't Do That on Television from its daily time slot rotation, along with the 1982 " Cosmetics " episode.

Around that time as Disney Channel's intended target audience became preschoolers, pre-teens and young adolescents, the channel began to quickly gain in popularity, even outside its main target audience, created increased competition with Viacom-owned Nickelodeon and made teen idols out of some of its stars.

Though Disney Channel has increased its viewership to rival that of Nickelodeon, Disney Channel has yet to officially unseat Nickelodeon in the Nielsen ratings as the highest-rated basic cable channel among total viewers ( ages 2 +) and all kid demos in its annual ratings.

Not to be outdone, rival Nickelodeon has developed its own slate of stars for its television shows, including Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice, Jennette McCurdy, Ariana Grande and the group Big Time Rush, all of whom have not only starred in TV shows, but recorded albums as well.

In the mid-1990s, Nickelodeon signed a contract with Art Clokey to air every episode of Gumby for its anchor spots at 8 a. m. and 2 p. m.

Nickelodeon issued a statement shortly after the announcement stating that the network respected Spears's decision to take responsibility and noting that its primary concern was for her well-being.

A combination of factors led to the collapse of Saturday morning cartoons ; some include the near concurrent entries of Cartoon Network, Fox Kids and Nickelodeon ( with its Nicktoons ) into the animated market in 1992 with cartoons in non-traditional time slots, the implementation of the Children's Television Act educational television mandate in 1996, and a general erosion of sponsorship base and viewership for broadcast programs.

By the end of the 1990s, both syndicated and national TV ended up losing most of its children's market to the rise of cable TV channels like Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network which provided appealing children's entertainment throughout the week at nearly all hours.

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.

Pinwheel was re-launched as Nickelodeon on April 1, 1979, and despite its prior history on the QUBE system under the Pinwheel name, Nickelodeon has declared that 1979 is the network's official launch year.

In 1983, Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment began divesting its assets and spun off Nickelodeon and two other channels, MTV and the now-defunct Radio Television Station ( RTS ) into the newly formed subsidiary ; in order to increase revenue, Nickelodeon began to accept PBS-style corporate underwriting for its programming.

In January 1985, after A & E dropped its partnership with Nickelodeon and became its own 24-hour channel, Nickelodeon simply went to a test screen after sign-off.

The younger sister of pop star Britney Spears, she is best known for her portrayal of Zoey Brooks in the Nickelodeon television series Zoey 101.

ET with the launch of a primetime block called SNICK, which was home to shows such as Are You Afraid of the Dark ?, Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, All That, The Amanda Show and Kenan & Kel ; in 2004, the block was reformatted as the Saturday edition of TEENick ( which originally debuted on Sunday evenings in 2000 ), and the Saturday night block continues today without an official block name ( though A Night of Premieres is occasionally used when two or more programs feature new episodes on that night ); the TEENick branding, with its spelling altered to TeenNick, has since been used on the Nickelodeon sister channel previously known as The N. In June 1993, Nickelodeon resumed its magazine brand, Nickelodeon Magazine.

The channel occasionally airs feature films produced by the network's Nickelodeon Movies film production division ( whose films are distributed by sister company Paramount Pictures ); however, despite the fact that the film division bears the Nickelodeon name, the Nickelodeon cable channel does not have access to most Nickelodeon Movies-produced films released through Paramount.

The series aired on Nick at Nite from 2004 to 2009, as well as sister network ( through Nickelodeon ) The N ( now TeenNick ) with portions of scenes that were removed from other syndicated airings, with parts of scenes kept in other syndicated airings removed due to time constraints ; the series was dropped from its schedule in September 2009 after Disney / ABC purchased the rights to the show.

After the success of Squee !, the children's cable network Nickelodeon approached Vasquez about producing an animated television series, Invader Zim which airs on Nicktoons currently, focused on the daily life of Zim, a naïve alien from the planet Irk who tries to conquer Earth, before his attempts are constantly thwarted in a humorous manner by Dib, a young paranormal investigator and the only one ( along with his sister Gaz ) who knows with certainty Zim is an alien ( although no one believes him ), or by his own naïveté.

The newest series, Power Rangers: Samurai, airs on Nickelodeon Canada ( a sister station of YTV ) and on May 7, 2011, it began airing on YTV, effectively bringing back the franchise to the network that had barred it.

For a brief time in summer 2010, Tr3s ( a sister network to Nickelodeon ) aired a daily block of Spanish-dubbed Nick Jr. programs under the name Tr3s Jr .. Pistas de Blue ( episodes from the Steve Burns era of Blue's Clues ) and Wonder Pets were featured in the block.

After having not aired on Nickelodeon since 2004, it began airing on its sister network The N on October 13, 2007.

It is a sister service of the Nickelodeon cable channel.

Though the majority of Family's international programming comes from Disney Channel, some Nickelodeon live-action series ran on the channel in the past, this was even as YTV strengthened its programming ties with Nickelodeon during the 2000s ; Nickelodeon's programming has now largely migrated to YTV ( and its sister channel Nickelodeon ).

It premiered on Nickelodeon on September 29, 2007, and finished airing its second season on September 18, 2010. with 6 unaired episodes airing on Nickelodeon's sister channel Nicktoons on September 12, 2011, and ended on November 12, 2011.

** Nickelodeon ( around the world ), for other versions of Nickelodeon and their sister channels around the globe.

Nickelodeon ( UK & Ireland ) ( and sister channels Nick Jr. ( UK & Ireland ) and Nicktoons ( UK & Ireland )) are the only kids channel that are not shown in 16: 9 but will be later in 2012.

During the 2000s MTV Animation productions have decreased as MTV began importing more cartoons from their sister networks Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.

There are 7 local television channels, apart from all kinds of international channels ranging from kids channels such as Nickelodeon or Disney Channel to channels such as E !, HBO, etc.

Starting in 1992, TV channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network aired re-runs of Gumby episodes.

Television animation for children flourished on Saturday morning, on cable channels like Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, and in syndicated afternoon timeslots.

** Nickelodeon operates three digital channels separate from the main feed: Nick Jr., a channel devoted to preschool programming ; TeenNick, aimed at teenagers with mostly live-action programs ( which includes a two hour 1990s block in late night ); and Nicktoons, which primarily ( although not exclusively ) runs animated programming.

Within six months of the rebranding, Nickelodeon would become the dominant channel in children programming and has remained so for more than 25 years, even in the midst of increasing competition in recent years from other kids-oriented cable channels such as Disney Channel and Cartoon Network.

Nickelodeon announced in February 2009 that Noggin and The N were to be rebranded as Nick Jr. and TeenNick to bring both channels in line with the Nickelodeon brand identity.

In July 2009, Nickelodeon unveiled a new logo for the first time in 25 years on the packaging of Nickelodeon DVDs coming out beginning that month, the Australian service's " Nick Shack " website, and that year's Nickelodeon Animation Festival, intending to create a unified look that can better be conveyed across all of MTV Networks's children's channels.

On September 28, 2009, the new logo is used across Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, along with the rebranded TeenNick, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons ( formerly The N, Noggin and Nicktoons Network, respectively ) channels in varying versions customized for brand unification and refreshment purposes ; a new logo for Nickelodeon Productions also began being used in end credit tags on all Nickelodeon shows, even on episodes aired before the new logo took effect ( end credit tags of programs airing on TeenNick, Nick Jr. and some shows on Nicktoons only use the current Nickelodeon Productions logo and variants for their respective channel's original programming on episodes of series made after the rebrand ).

On July 11, 2012, Nickelodeon, along with many other Viacom channels, were temporarily dropped from DirecTV's line up due to ongoing contract negotiations between DirecTV and Viacom.

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.

* Nickelodeon / Nick at Nite ( 1988 – 1999 )

In the UK there is CBBC, CBeebies, CITV, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Nick Jr., POP, Tiny Pop, Cartoonito, Disney Cinemagic, Pop Girl and Kix !.

In Australia there is ABC3, KidsCo, Disney Channel, Cbeebies, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., and Cartoon Network.

In Japan there is NHK Educational TV, Kids Station, Disney XD, Nickelodeon ( Now under a block on Animax known as " Nick Time ") and Cartoon Network.

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.

That July, Nickelodeon added a new nighttime block called Nick at Nite, and became a 24 / 7 service.

In 1988, Nick aired the first annual Nickelodeon Kids ' Choice Awards ( previously known as The Big Ballot ) and introduced Nick Jr., an educational television block for younger children around preschool age.

In October 1995, Nickelodeon ventured in the World Wide Web and launched Nick. com.

In 2001, Nickelodeon partnered with Networks Inc. to provide broadband video games for rent from Nick. com.

In March 2004, Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite were split up in the Nielsen primetime and total day ratings, due to the different programming, advertisers and target audiences between the two services ; this caused controversy by cable executives believing this manipulated the ratings, given that Nick at Nite's broadcast day takes up only a fraction of Nickelodeon's programming schedule.

Nickelodeon's and Nick at Nite's respective ratings periods encompasses only the hours they each operate under the total day rankings, though Nickelodeon only is rated for the daytime ratings ; this is due to a ruling by Nielsen in July 2004, that networks have program for 51 % or more of a daypart to qualify for ratings for a particular daypart.

Nickelodeon later announced in May 2009 that Nick Magazine would be discontinued by the end of the year.