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Nick Jr. (Australia)
Nick Jr. is a 24-hour children's pay television channel in Australia and New Zealand designed for pre-schoolers. Nick Jr. was a morning programming block on Nickelodeon until 2004, when Foxtel as a local feed of its American counterpart. launched it as a full 24-hour kids channel. The channel is owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia, and was also available on Optus Television. History Before Nick Jr. officially launched as a 24-hour TV channel, it was part of Nickelodeon's morning line-up which included such shows as ''Blue's Clues'', '' Dora the Explorer'' and ''LazyTown'', the block itself was also joined by a presenter known as "Face" which presented the Australian-input from 1998 until 2006, the Australian-input was also the last of the few international Nick Jr. block to have Face being replaced, as others stopped using him by 2004 and 2005, the actor who voiced the Australian dubbed Face is currently unknown. On 21 January 2004, Foxtel announced a brand new digita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
576i
576i is a standard-definition television, standard-definition digital video mode, originally used for Digitization, digitizing 625 lines, 625 line Analog television, analogue television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz. Because of its close association with the legacy colour encoding systems, it is often referred to as PAL#PAL region, PAL, PAL/SECAM or SECAM when compared to its 60 Hz (typically, see PAL-M) NTSC-colour-encoded counterpart, 480i. The ''576'' identifies a vertical resolution of 576 lines, and the ''i'' identifies it as an Interlaced video, interlaced resolution. The Refresh rate, field rate, which is 50 Hertz, Hz, is sometimes included when identifying the video mode, i.e. 576i50; another notation, endorsed by both the International Telecommunication Union in Rec. 601, BT.601 and SMPTE in SMPTE 259M, includes the frame rate, as in 576i/25. Operation In analogue television, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fetch TV
Fetch TV is an Australian IPTV provider that offers a subscription television service over a user's regular internet connection. It is majority owned by Telstra, who acquired a 51.4% stake in the company on the 2nd of August 2022. Fetch TV was initially launched in July 2010 by Malaysian Astro Malaysia Holdings. Fetch TV provides a set-top box with a digital TV tuner, a personal video recorder, and up to 45 subscription channels. It also offers video-on-demand, pay-per-view movies, web applications, and a mobile app. The service is delivered using HLS adaptive bitrate streaming. The minimum internet sync speed required varies depending on the ISP delivery method. Most of Fetch TV's content is unmetered when delivered over a broadband connection from a Fetch TV ISP partner. History * On 25 May 2010, Fetch TV announced that they would commence offering their first-generation set-top box PVRs through their partner, iiNet. These boxes featured three digital tuners to receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickelodeon (New Zealand)
Nickelodeon was a television channel in New Zealand that targeted audiences aged 3–14. The channel launched on 1 August 2006 and was available on Sky Television Channel 041. The channel closed on 30 November 2010, and New Zealand schedule is now managed by Nickelodeon Australia. The channel used to be headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, shared with fellow Viacom channel MTV New Zealand. History Background The Southeast Asian version of Nickelodeon (broadcast from Singapore) was made available to the viewers on Sky Digital and UHF in New Zealand in January 2000. Operation The channel broadcast for 24 hours a day. Nick Jr. was a block on the channel, broadcasting from 9:30am to 2pm from Monday to Wednesday, 9:30am to 2:30pm on Thursday and Friday and 6:30 to 8am on weekends. Closure According to the NZPA, MTV Networks New Zealand (which consists of Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central) announced in September 2010 that it would close its New Zealand offices from 1 Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardening For Kids With Madi
Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and appearances within a designated space. Gardens fulfill a wide assortment of purposes, notably the production of aesthetically pleasing areas, medicines, cosmetics, dyes, foods, poisons, wildlife habitats, and saleable goods (see market gardening). People often partake in gardening for its therapeutic, health, educational, cultural, philosophical, environmental, and religious benefits. Gardening varies in scale from the 800 hectare Versailles gardens down to container gardens grown inside. Gardens take many forms; some only contain one type of plant, while others involve a complex assortment of plants with no particular order. Gardening can be difficult to differentiate from farming. They are most easily differentiated based on their primary objectives. Farming prioritizes saleable goods and may include livestock production, whereas gardening often prioritizes aesthetics and leisure. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooking For Kids With Luis
''Cooking for Kids with Luis'' is an Australian short-form cooking show for preschoolers, co-produced by Total Perception Productions and Nickelodeon Australia. It premiered on Nick Jr. Australia in 2004. The show is hosted by 6-year-old Luis Tanner, a boy from Australia who became the Guinness World Record holder for the youngest TV host. Every short follows Luis as he prepares, cooks and shares some of his favourite dishes. He also shows where food comes from by gathering the ingredients. In the United States, the show aired on Noggin. It premiered with a half-hour special on 26 September 2005. The special was made up of shorts themed around Latino recipes (like tortillas, empanadas, and Guatemalan cheesecake) to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Afterward, all 20 of the 4-5 minute shorts aired in between shows on Noggin, as part of the Snack Time interstitial series. All of the recipes were posted on Noggin.com. In 2006, a follow-up from the same creators premiered, calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LazyTown
''LazyTown'' () is an Icelandic children's educational musical television series created by aerobics champion Magnús Scheving. Originally produced in English, it has been broadcast in dozens of languages globally. Designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, the series was based on Scheving's stage play '' Áfram Latibær!'', itself adapted from a book that Scheving wrote in 1995. The series was commissioned by Nickelodeon in early 2003, following the production of two stage plays and a test pilot. Originally performed in English, it was later dubbed into thirty languages and broadcast in over 180 countries. It combines live action, puppetry and computer animation, making it one of the most expensive children's shows, with the cost per episode being over five times that of the average children's show. The first two seasons, consisting of fifty-two episodes, were produced from 2004 to 2007. ''LazyTown'' originally aired on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the United States and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora The Explorer (TV Series)
''Dora the Explorer'' is an American Children's television series, children's animated television series in the ''Dora the Explorer'' franchise, created by Chris Gifford (writer), Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner that premiered on Nickelodeon on August 14, 2000, and ended on August 9, 2019. The series was produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. The series focuses on the adventures of a Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latina girl named Dora (Dora the Explorer), Dora and her monkey friend Boots (Dora the Explorer), Boots, with a particular emphasis on the Spanish language. The series is presented in the style of both an interactive CD-ROM game and a Adventure game#Point-and-click adventure games, point-and-click adventure game, with gimmicks such as Dora asking the viewer to help her by showing the current items in her inventory and asking the viewer which one is best for the current scenario. The series is currently scheduled to receive a live-action version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
