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for children, part of the
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Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television television channel, channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its List of assets owned by Param ...
brand. Originally launched in 1995, and relaunched in 2005, Nickelodeon is based in
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. The channel is available on subscription services and as an unscrambled, free-to-air (FTA) satellite signal. On 31 March 2010, the channel re-adopted the name ''Nickelodeon'' on air and online, in addition to the new Nickelodeon logo and graphical package being rolled out internationally at the time. Since then, the channel is also broadcast in English in addition to German on a secondary audio track. Unlike other Nickelodeon feeds and like the
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counterparts, the end credits on shows never appear. They were replaced by short credits including the show name, production year and production company.


Nicknight

Nicknight was a German, Austrian and Swiss programming block operating from 2014 to 2021. On 1 November 2018, Nicknight Germany rebranded into MTV+ ( Comedy Central +1 since 1 March 2021). Like it was done in Germany, Nicknight stopped broadcasting in Switzerland and Austria on 1 October 2021, instead they were both replaced by Comedy Central Austria and 7+ Family.


History


1995–1998

The original version of Nickelodeon was launched on 5 July 1995 on the
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satellite and a few cable providers in
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. Nickelodeon initially aired for six hours per day from 1.00pm to 7.00pm; during off-air hours, the channel looped a half-hour special featuring excerpts from its shows. Starting in October 1995, Nickelodeon aired from 6.00am until 8.00pm, and timeshared with
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starting in 1996. After state-run Der Kinderkanal launched, Nickelodeon lost its slot on many cable providers (now with arte signing on at 7.00pm after the conclusion of Der Kinderkanal's final program of the day, Unser Sandmännchen.) and started timesharing with
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on satellite. Nickelodeon was a failure and continually lost money due to weak advertising sales and its inability to compete against its more successful rival, Der Kinderkanal. As a result, Nickelodeon closed (with short notice) on 31 May 1998, ending with a short tribute video to the channel thanking its viewers for their support, and informing them Nickelodeon programmes would soon be available elsewhere. Nickelodeon's owner
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soon thereafter struck a deal with RTL owner
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(itself a merger of Luxembourg's CLT and German studio
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) to broadcast their programming on RTL's own children's channel,
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hich was originally at first a joint venture between CLT-UFA and The Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista International Television Investments (later Disney International Operations) division, the channel is now entirely owned by CLT-UFA's successor RTL Group]) in addition to a weekend morning Nicktoons block on the main RTL channel. After VH-1 Germany shut down in 2001 (and was replaced by a VH1 Europe, pan-European feed on a separate channel), it was replaced with
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.


Relaunch, 2005–2010

On 7 April 2005 it was announced that Nickelodeon Germany will be relaunched under the name ''Nick'' as a new channel on 12 September 2005. Nick started with a prime-time programming block called Nick Comedy that aired sitcoms and other comedy shows. Nickelodeon eventually replaced
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; since February 2006, in addition to international series, it started airing locally produced shows. In October 2007 a special German version of the
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was produced and broadcast on the channel. In the start of 2008, Nick launched a family-oriented programming block named (Nick after eight), which was the local adaptation of US overnight block ''Nick at Nite''. It aired documentaries, drama series, films and sitcoms. It used an adapted logo of its US counterpart. Most of the block's programming schedule consisted on repeats of ''
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'' and ''
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''. On 15 December 2008,
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replaced Nick nach acht on Nickelodeon, taking over its airing time as a timeshared channel starting 8.15pm.


2010s

On 31 March 2010, the channel adopted the new international branding. Nick was renamed ''Nickelodeon'', while Nick Premium was rebranded as ''Nicktoons''. Since 1 June 2011, Nickelodeon Germany started broadcasting in HD. A new logo was used from January 2012, as well as a new graphic package. From 1 October 2014, Nickelodeon Germany turned itself into a 24-hour channel, with Comedy Central leaving Nick's channel slot and moving to
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. Furthermore, Nickelodeon introduced a new overnight programming block called ''Nicknight'', replacing Comedy Central's airing time from 9.00pm to 5.45am. Since 28 June 2017 the channel returned to its previous name, Nick. On 1 November 2018 at 5am, Nicknight was discontinued. At 8.15pm on that day MTV+ launched airing from 8.15pm to 5am. Nicknight does not exist anymore in Germany, however, the Austrian and Swiss feeds still kept the Nicknight brand until 1 October 2021 with them being replaced by Comedy Central Austria and 7+ Family.


2020s

On 1 March 2021, MTV+ was replaced by Comedy Central +1.


Other feeds


Austrian channel

Since 1 June 2006, an Austrian subfeed of the channel is also being broadcast, initially timesharing with VIVA Austria from 6.00am to 7.00pm. On 1 January 2011, it starts timesharing with Comedy Central Austria. The channel is known on-air as ''Nickelodeon Austria''. From 1 October 2014, Nick Austria starts also to broadcast 24 hours per day with the launch of ''NickNight''. Since 1 October 2021, the channel started timesharing with Comedy Central Austria, along with a new licence from ''RRtv'', using the European graphics package, its schedule and its original name, ''Nickelodeon''.


Swiss channel

A Swiss subfeed for German-speaking viewers was launched on 1 April 2009, first timesharing with
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and then with Comedy Central starting in 16 May 2011. For many years, its programming schedule was identical with the main, German feed. Nevertheless, it got its own, separate schedule. The channel is known on-air as ''Nick Schweiz''. From 1 October 2014, Nick Switzerland starts also to broadcast 24 hours per day with the launch of ''NickNight''. Since 1 October 2021, the channel has been run by
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under license from
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Sister channels


Nicktoons

Nicktoons was launched in December 2007 as Nick Premium. In 2009, Nickelodeon announced that Nick Premium would be rebranded as Nicktoons. The channel airs animated programmes from Nickelodeon.


Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. is a channel that broadcasts to younger kids. The channel was launched on 12 September 2005 as a block and on 31 March 2009 as a channel. Before the channel launched, some programmes were broadcast on
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and
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.


References


External links


www.nick.de

www.nickelodeon.at

www.nick.ch
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