Nickelodeon

The topic of this page has a Wiki of its own: Nickelodeon Wiki! Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick and formerly known as Pinwheel from December 1, 1977 until it eventually launched on April 1, 1979) is an American basic cable and satellite television network that is owned by the ViacomCBS Kids & Family Group, a unit of the ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks division of ViacomCBS. most of its programming is aimed at children and teenagers ages 6-17 while its weekday morning edutainment programming is aimed at younger children ages 2-5. the channel's programming consists of original first-run television series alongside occasional broadcasts of theatrically released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming its broadcast runs from Sundays and Wednesdays from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM and Thursdays and Fridays from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM and Saturdays from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM ET/PT.



Since July 1985, it has shared its channel space with Nick at Nite, a nighttime service that airs during the interim hours and is treated as a separate channel from Nickelodeon by Nielsen for ratings purposes. it features reruns of older primetime sitcoms alongside some original series and feature films both services are sometimes collectively referred to as Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite due to their common association as two individual channels sharing a single channel space.

Programming seen on Nickelodeon includes animated series (such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, The Casagrandes, and It's Pony), live-action, scripted series (such as Danger Force, Tyler Perry's Young Dylan and All That), and original made-for-TV movies, while the network's daytime schedule is dedicated to shows targeting preschoolers (such as Bubble Guppies, PAW Patrol, and Blue's Clues & You!).

A re-occurring program was bi-monthly special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, a news magazine series aimed at children that debuted in 1992 as a weekly series and ended in 2015.