Nickelodeon Junior is a French 24-hour television channel broadcasting to France and Switzerland for a toddler audience. It is the French equivalent of

Nick Jr. Nick Jr. (known on-air as the Nick Jr. Channel) is an American pay television channel spun off from Nickelodeon's long-running programming block of the same name. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Gr ...

, though with its French branding meeting domestic language policies, along with "Nick" sounding similar to a French profanity. The French language Belgium version is called simply Nick Jr. The channel was first announced on 26 November 2009. At launch, it used an ident package similar to the one used on the American Nick Jr. channel (months before the other international Nick Jr. feeds did so), although

Moose and Zee Moose and Zee are a pair of fictional characters created for the Noggin brand. They debuted as the on-air hosts of the Noggin cable channel on April 7, 2003. The character of Moose was created to act like a teacher, providing information and edu ...

were not present on the French version of the network. On 24 May 2012, Nickelodeon Junior started broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen. On 22 September 2015, Nickelodeon Junior HD was launched. In 2019 and 2020, Nickelodeon channels were launched on French ISP bouquets, ending their exclusivity on

Canal+ Canal+ (Canal Plus, , meaning 'Channel Plus'; sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal) is a French premium television channel launched in 1984. It is 100% owned by the Groupe Canal+, which in turn is owned by Vivendi. The channel broadcasts several ki ...

. In January 2021, Nickelodeon Junior was added to the Canal+ systems in

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, the

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and the French-speaking territories in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

and the

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, and shortly after in

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