Nickelodeon (Pakistan)
| Nickelodeon Pakistan | |
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| Launched | 23 November 2006 |
| Closed | 31 October 2016 (channel license suspended by regulatory authority order) |
| Owned by | ARY Group |
| Picture format | 4:3 (576i, SDTV) |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Language | English Urdu |
| Broadcast area | Pakistan |
| Headquarters | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Sister channel(s) |
ARY News ARY Digital ARY Musik ARY Qtv ARY Zindagi HBO Pakistan |
| Website | Official Website |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| AsiaSat | suspended |
| Paksat | suspended |
| Cable | |
| DWN | suspended |
| IPTV | |
| PTCL Smart TV | suspended |
Nickelodeon Pakistan or Nick is the currently suspended Pakistani feed of Nickelodeon, which is operated by domestic media company ARY Group's Digital Network subsidiary under a brand licensing and programming agreement with Viacom International Media Networks. The network transmits over the Intelsat satellite to cable and satellite viewers in Pakistan, and features some portions of the schedule dubbed or subtitled in Urdu, along with some content directly imported from its Indian sister network (owned by Network 18). It also occasionally licenses Western market children's films.
In 2005, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority issued an order regarding the ban of several non-private channels because programming which should have been dubbed into Urdu or used Urdu subtitles instead used Hindi terms and references blended into the local scripts, or the networks carried all-Hindi versions imported from India outright. Later on, Cartoon Network Pakistan switched to using the original English audio with Urdu visual translation on PEMRA's orders, but the Urdu dubs with Hindi blended in returned months later.
In early 2010, PEMRA again issued a notice against children's networks, and suspended the licenses of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, disallowing them from broadcasting. In the meantime, the Pakistani government pushed unsuccessfully for PTV or another domestic broadcaster to launch a children's network to replace private broadcasters in order to assure PEMRA compliance with language standards.
On 1 August 2011, the Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, announced the restoration of the Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network licenses, allowing their return to the air, though she expressed disappointment that a domestic Pakistani broadcaster would not step up to broadcast children's programming, nor PTV would launch one, and that PEMRA would accommodate the launch any such network.
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