Nicktoons Network
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| Nicktoons Network | |
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| Launched | May 1, 2002 |
| Sister channel(s) | Nickelodeon |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | Channel 302 |
| Dish Network | Channel 178 |
| Cable | |
| Cablevision | Channel 122 |
| Verizon FiOS | Channel 214 |
| Comcast | Channel 129 |
Nicktoons Network, once known as Nicktoons TV and simply Nicktoons, is a digital cable and satellite television network. It is a sister service of the Nickelodeon cable channel. Its original programming consists nearly all of animated television programs formerly or currently broadcasted on its parent network. It was launched on May 1, 2002, at first only available on digital cable until early 2004, when it began its broadcast on satellite television as well. This network is similar to Disney Channel's sister-related project Toon Disney and Cartoon Network's sister-related project Boomerang.
In February 2005, Nickelodeon announced that Nicktoons would become ad-supported (that is, it would begin airing commercials, which are kept to a minimum in the United States), in August 2005. The network has also premiered many original shows in recent years, causing many of the older Nickelodeon cartoons to be removed from the schedule.
Nicktoons TV re-launched itself on September 23, 2005, as Nicktoons Network, introducing a brand new logo of a globe with the familiar Nickelodeon "Splat" that had been a Nick trademark since that network re-launched in 1985, and adapted a Hollywood-esque theme and a new campaign slogan of "Animation Capital of the World."
Nicktoons was also launched in the United Kingdom in July of 2002, although, unlike the United States version, it has been ad-supported since it launched. Also unlike the US version, it does not broadcast 24/7.
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[edit] List of programs broadcast on Nicktoons Network
Nicktoons Network airs or had aired many Nickelodeon-produced animated series that premiered on Nickelodeon. Nicktoons has also shown some non-Nicktoons produced by Steven Spielberg for Warner Bros. Animation, which Nickelodeon had rights to at the time the network was launched, and international shows such as Corneil and Bernie, Martin Mystery, and various Nelvana, Teletoon, and CBBC fare.
Nicktoons Network also takes off a few "library" shows that are also in heavy rotation on other MTV Networks outlets or to rest them from viewer rot. The Ren and Stimpy Show was taken off the network after it had started airing on Spike TV, but returned around July 30, 2005. Nicktoons Network usually airs a Short Break or a Film Festival Short Break at the end of every half-hour.
[edit] Programs currently broadcast on the network
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
- As Told By Ginger
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- CatDog
- ChalkZone
- Corneil and Bernie
- El Tigre
- The Fairly OddParents
- Hey Arnold!
- Invader Zim
- Kappa Mikey
- Martin Mystery
- Mr. Meaty
- My Dad the Rock Star
- My Life as a Teenage Robot
- Oh Yeah! Cartoons
- The Ren and Stimpy Show
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Rocket Power
- Rugrats
- The Secret Show
- Shuriken School
- Skyland
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- The Wild Thornberrys
- The X's
[edit] Programs soon to be broadcast on the network
[edit] Programs formerly broadcast on the network
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
- Action League NOW!: The Series
- Animaniacs
- The Angry Beavers
- Doug
- KaBlam!
- Kaput and Zosky
- Pelswick
- Pinky and the Brain
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown
- Yakkity Yak
[edit] Nicktoons Shorts
[edit] Nicktoons Network Blocks
[edit] Former
[edit] See also
[edit] Logos
 Nicktoons TV (2002-2003); many versions of this logo, featuring other Nicktoon characters, had existed |
 Nicktoons (2003-2005). An alternate version was a silver logo. |
 Nicktoons Network (2005-present) |
