The channel's series also have a smaller writing staff compared to other broadcast and cable network scripted television series ( usually around 6 and 8 credited staff writers, instead of the 8 to 11 writers standard with most scripted series ).

The apparent sole purpose of its establishment was to force rate renegotiations to help pay for TNT's new NBA and NASCAR contracts, well before the channel's rates were scheduled to come up for renewal with most cable and satellite providers.

Then in May 1999, the channel debuted the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, which quickly became one of the most popular and longest-running Nicktoons in the network's history, and has remained very popular to this day, consistently ranking as the channel's highest-rated series since 2000.

Nickelodeon does have broadcast access to most feature films based on or that served as the basis for original series produced by the channel ( such as Barnyard and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ); the majority of live-action feature films produced under the Nickelodeon Movies banner are licensed for broadcast by various television outlets, primarily cable networks ( however, Nickelodeon has aired a small number of live-action features from Nickelodeon Movies including Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Good Burger, which have aired on the channel's Nick at Nite nighttime block ).

For example, although raising V < sub > m </ sub > opens most gates in the voltage-sensitive sodium channel, it also closes the channel's " inactivation gate ", albeit more slowly.

During the mid-to-late 1980s, glam metal bands were in heavy rotation on the channel, often at the top of MTV's daily dial countdown, and some of the bands appeared on the channel's shows such as Headbanger's Ball, which became one of the most popular programs with over 1. 3 million views a week.

On 29 October 2005, Family Fortunes returned as the " grand final " of Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon, a series of revivals of former popular ITV game shows shown to mark the channel's 50th anniversary, and hosted by its most ubiquitous presenters of recent years.

The channel's original programming focused around the idea that a viewer could tune in at any time and, in just 30 minutes, receive the most popular national and international stories.

The British channel, which closed on January 1, 2011, focused on men's programming for most of its existence, and never carried an arts or pop-culture format, nor much, if any, of the U. S. channel's programming.

It continued to be the most-watched satellite channel in Britain and Ireland, a position it held for most of the 1990s, with many first-run US imports such as The Simpsons ( which traditionally has been the channel's main selling-point, remaining a satellite exclusive until it finally made its terrestrial television appearance on BBC2 in 1996 ), Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, ER and The X-Files, as well as some older programmes such as the various Star Trek series, Hill Street Blues, M * A * S * H *, and Lucille Ball's various comedy series.

The channel is a simulcast of Sky1 and screens high-definition versions of some of the channel's programming, which include Lost, Bones, 24, Fringe, Prison Break, House, and most recently new episodes of The Simpsons.

Unlike most international cable channels that have licensed an American cable channel's branding and programming, E!

For a number of years he covered most of the channel's live matches, sometimes as a studio guest, but more often as the " ex-football insider " member of a two-man commentary team.

While providing Vedic wisdom in 19 languages, most of the channel's programming was in Hindi and intended for the worldwide non-resident Indian population.

In the present day, most broadcasters use a set of multiple idents built around a certain theme or branding element, often based on the channel's current overall look.

Despite the channel's closure, the website continued to be available as late as 2005, however most of the features that were originally available when the channel still broadcast were removed.

Starting a month after Choice's launch, the BBC's children's programming took up most of the channel's daytime hours.

It was aired up to seventy times a week at its peak and became the most requested track in the channel's history.

Even so, most of the older series, which have been repeatedly broadcast between 1997 and 2004, are currently excluded from the channel's programme line up.

The series most recently aired on Toon Disney but was removed from schedules in November 2004, and has not appeared on the channel's line-up since.

Yost packaged the shows as Three Films in Search of God adding educational content in the form of interviews, introductions, and discussions thus creating the model for what became Saturday Night at the Movies, which became the channel's longest-running, and one of its most popular shows.

At the same time, Hugh Bladen and Naas Botha-two of the channel's most colourful rugby commentators — joined SuperSport.

In one of the most bizarre moves in the channel's history he also ended up hosting the online multiplayer themed game-show Over Dose ( endorsed by the Finnish Dose chain of gaming stores ).

Broadcast on Saturday nights between September and June on RTÉ One, the game show is among the channel's most popular programmes, often ranking among the top five in the ratings.

Aimed at providing ' more choice, more often ', the channel mainly provided repeats of popular ABC TV productions, such as Australian Story and Stateline, and was prohibited by law from carrying programmes from a number of genres, however, since the removal of these restrictions the channel's content has been broadened considerably.

While VH1 still occasionally plays music videos and the Top 20 Video Countdown, its more recent claim to fame has been in the area of music-related reality programming, such as Behind the Music, the I Love the ... series, the Celebreality block of programming, and the channel's overall focus on popular culture.

Due to the channel's tradition of rolling news coverage, HLN has become popular with people who may not have time to watch lengthy news reports, in addition to places where a high demand for " get to the point " news exists, such as airports, bars, and many other places.

The area is now popular with ghost hunters after Living channel's show Most Haunted visited the hill for a live investigation on Halloween 2004.

He previously had commentated on cable-TV for Fox Footy and was the host of the popular nostalgia show Grumpy Old Men on Fox Footy until the channel's closure at the end of the 2006 season.

In the channel's first years, shows that aired during its broadcast day included Welcome to Pooh Corner and You and Me Kid along with several foreign animated series and movies including Asterix, The Raccoons, Paddington Bear, and the Australian western Five Mile Creek ; the original late night schedule featured reruns of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

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 ).

In 2005, That's So Raven became the network's highest-rated series since the network's move to basic cable ; as well as being the first original series to beat the 65-episode limit ( the highly controversial programming rule implemented in 1998, had guaranteed any original series would end after 65 episodes to prevent production costs from increasing ; however this rule is no longer enforced ); the series eventually hit 100 episodes, becoming the channel's longest-running original series until October 2011 and became the first to spawn a spin-off, Cory in the House.

In January 2012, Wizards of Waverly Place ended its run on the channel, becoming Disney Channel's longest-running original series with 106 episodes ( the record for the channel's longest-running series was formerly held by That's So Raven, which ran for 100 episodes ).

Many of the channel's earliest original movies ( particularly those made from 1997 to 2002 ) have seldom been aired by Disney Channel in recent years, except for some holiday-themed movies ; in January 2009, the channel began airing these older original movies on Friday and Saturday nights at 3 am ET / PT ; since June 2010, movies also air on Sundays in late night and since July 2010, the movies start at 2: 30 am ET / PT and some of the late-night weekend movies are aired without promo breaks.

Saturday nights usually feature repeats of recent episodes of the channel's original series and occasional film telecasts, after an attempt in early 2009 to use the night to launch a beachhead against Nickelodeon's Saturday night block with the premiere of JONAS and the move of Wizards of Waverly Place from Fridays to Saturdays proved unsuccessful.

Most of the channel's original programming since 2009 is produced and shown in HD, along with feature films, Disney Channel original movies made after 2005 and select episodes, films and series produced before 2009.

* Disney Channel On Demand is the channel's video-on-demand service, offering select episodes of the channel's original series and Disney Junior programming, along with select original movies and behind-the-scenes features to digital cable and IPTV providers.

The campaign will continue to use the channel's tagline " We Know Drama " but with more of a focus on its original series and its plan to have three nights of original primetime programming starting in 2009.

The channel's original format was akin to that of a news and information cable network.

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 ).

iCarly currently ranks as of 2010 as the channel's highest-rated original series and the highest-rated cable program among children ages 2 and up, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series, such as iCarly, True Jackson, VP, Big Time Rush, Victorious and House of Anubis as movies ; though these technically do not qualify as such as the " TV movie " versions of Nickelodeon's original series are shorter than the standard length of a television movie ( approximately 45 minutes without commercials, compared to the typical 75 – 100 minutes for television movies ), the hour-long episodes of the channel's multi-camera comedies are shot using that camera setup ( whereas feature films and television movies are standardly shot in a single-camera setup ), laugh tracks are used and the programs are shot on videotape instead of film ( though the video frame rate of its multi-camera comedies are reduced to the 24p film frame rate, using the filmizing process ).