Nick Play Date
| Nickelodeon | |
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| Launched | December 1, 1977 |
| Owned by | Viacom |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Formerly called | Pinwheel (1977–79) |
| Sister channel(s) | |
| Timeshift service | Nick 2 East/West |
| Website | www |
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Availability (channel space shared with Nick at Nite)
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| Satellite | |
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| Dish Network |
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| C band | AMC 11 - Channel 64 (West) (4DTV Digital) |
| DStv | 305 (SD/HD) |
| Cable | |
| Available on most cable systems | Consult your local cable provider for channel availability |
| IPTV | |
| Verizon FiOS |
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| AT&T U-verse |
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| Google Fiber | Check local listings for channels |
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977, and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 6–11 while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at younger children ages 2–5.
As of July 2015[update], Nickelodeon is available to approximately 93.7 million pay television households (80.5% of households with at least one television set) in the US.
The name of the channel comes from the first five cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Nickelodeon's history dates back to December 1, 1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first two-way interactive cable system, QUBE, in Columbus, Ohio. Its C-3 cable channel carried Pinwheel daily from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Nickelodeon launched on April 1, 1979, initially distributed to Warner Cable systems via satellite on the RCA Satcom-1 transponder. Originally commercial-free, advertising was introduced in January 1984.
Nickelodeon's schedule currently consists largely of original series aimed at children, pre-teens and young teenagers, including animated series (such as SpongeBob SquarePants, ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,Regal Academy, The Loud House, and Bunsen Is a Beast), to live-action comedy and action series (such as Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, Power Rangers Ninja Steel, The Thundermans, Henry Danger, Game Shakers, School of Rock, along with the month-long running show Hunter Street), as well as series aimed at preschoolers (such as Team Umizoomi, PAW Patrol, Bubble Guppies, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Wallykazam!, and Dora and Friends: Into the City!). The channel also airs reruns of select original series that are no longer in production (such as iCarly and Bella and the Bulldogs), as well as occasional original made-for-TV movies. The channel also aired bi-monthly special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, a newsmagazine series aimed at children that debuted in 1992 as a weekly series which ended in 2015.
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