Nickelodeon is a Brazilian

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channel focused on kids programming. It was launched in 1996 as an autonomous feed of

Nickelodeon Latin America Nickelodeon is a Latin American pay television channel, counterpart of the American network of the same name. It is owned by Paramount Networks Americas and was launched on 20 November 1995. Aside from airing Nick and Nick Jr. content, it ha ...

in Portuguese with different programming and series.

History

Nickelodeon Brazil was launched on 20 December 1996 in Brazil as a children-oriented channel, being the main competitor of

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, which was launched 3 years earlier. On 13 February 2006,

Nick at Nite Nick at Nite (stylized as nick@nite) is an American nighttime basic cable television channel that broadcasts over the channel space of Nickelodeon. It typically broadcasts Mondays to Thursday nights from 9 p.m. - 6:30 a.m. ET/ PT, Friday nights fr ...

was launched in Brazil, and aired on weeknights from 10 pm to 6 am. On 4 June 2007, the channel launched "Nickers", a live-action show with two hosts introducing shows and music. It followed the same line and was very similar to Disney Channel's '' Zapping Zone''. The block was retired in all feeds in December 2008. Also in 2008, a

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 ...

channel had launched, previously a programming block on Nickelodeon. In 2009, a new segment called Nick Hits, which airs classic Nick Toons, replaced Nick at Nite on weekends. On 5 April 2010, Nickelodeon Brazil started carrying the new logo already in use on many Nickelodeon networks around the world. Also, classic Nicktoons seen on Nick Hits became part of Nick at Nite. Through August 2010, Nickelodeon started to rerun the animated series ''

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'' to promote the film '' The Last Airbender'', with this, a new on-air logo showed when the series is airing, an arrow blurring takes on/off in the Nick logo. On 1 January 2015, the block

went off the air and got replaced by the new block, Nick Clássicos.

Programming

Ratings

In 2011,

IBOPE The Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics (IBOPE based on the Portuguese language name, Instituto Brasileiro de Opinião Pública e Estatística) does market research to provide information regarding Brazilian and Latin American mark ...

pointed that Nickelodeon Brasil ranked seventh among cable channels in total daily viewership, with an average audience of 71,000 viewers in Brazil. In March 2013, IBOPE released a new list of the most watched channels of cable TV, which recorded an increases of position for the channel, but a significant increase in viewers, 950,000.No cabo, Rede TV! e Cultura têm menos audiência que canal infantil
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References

External links

Official website

Nick Jr. Brazil
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Television channels and stations established in 1996 Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil 1996 establishments in Brazil Television stations in Brazil Portuguese-language television stations

History

Programming

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