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The Nick Jr. Channel, sometimes shortened to Nick Jr., is an American pay television channel owned by the
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, a sub-division of the
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division of
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. An offshoot of
Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first ca ...
's
Nick Jr. Nick Jr. (sometimes disambiguated as Nick Jr. on Nickelodeon or Nick Jr. on Nick, and sometimes referred to as Nick, Jr.) is an American morning programming block that airs on Nickelodeon every weekday. It was launched on January 4, 1988. Nick ...
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, the channel launched on September 28, 2009, in the space previously held by Noggin, and primarily targets children ages 2 to 6 years old. Its lineup features a mix of original programming, along with series from the Nick Jr. block; to avoid confusion between the two different entities, the channel has been identified on-air as the "Nick Jr. Channel" since March 2018 and on-screen until September 2023. The Noggin brand was relaunched in 2015 as a
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service and acts as a separate sister brand. Programming from Noggin is distinct from those of Nick Jr.'s: it mainly carried pre-teen programs at its launch, and the revived streaming service features a variety of exclusive series. From May 2021 to March 2022, the Nick Jr. channel aired an hour-long block of programming from the Noggin app every Friday. The block, titled "Noggin Hour", featured shows such as '' Noggin Knows'' and '' Kinderwood''. Both the Nick Jr. channel and the Nick Jr. block are currently running, with the latter airing weekdays on Nickelodeon from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET (those hours vary during the summer months, other school break periods and on major national holidays), having traditional commercial breaks for certain programs. , Nick Jr. is available to approximately 54,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2013 peak of 77,000,000 households.


History


Nick Jr. block (1988–present)

Since its inception in 1977, Nickelodeon's channel space had aired preschool-oriented programs, including '' Pinwheel'', which was their first original series. These were usually played on weekday mornings when older children were in school and younger children were not. This block ran from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. On January 4, 1988, Nickelodeon debuted a name for its preschool block: ''Nick Junior''. Between September 1988 and mid-1989, the name was shortened to ''Nick Jr.'' on-air. At launch, the block mostly showed imported series purchased from other companies. ''
Eureeka's Castle ''Eureeka's Castle'' is an American children's puppet television series created by Debby Beece and Judy Katschke. R. L. Stine developed the characters and was the head writer of the show. It originally aired on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block fro ...
'' was the first original series that Nickelodeon made for the block. Brown Johnson, the former vice president of Nick Jr., stated in a 2000 interview that after ''Eureeka'' ended production, Nick Jr. became "a neglected daypart" compared to the main Nickelodeon. "Without the investment of energy or money, the block floundered until 1994 when the network poured $30 million into a full-scale relaunch," said Johnson. On September 5, 1994, the Nick Jr. block began its relaunch and introduced Face, its first host and no longer ran commercial breaks as intermissions during shows. ''
Gullah Gullah Island ''Gullah Gullah Island'' is an American musical children's television series aired on the Nick Jr. block from October 24, 1994, to March 7, 2000. The show was hosted by Ron Daise, the former vice president for Creative Education at Brookgreen G ...
'' and ''
Allegra's Window ''Allegra's Window'' is an American musical children's television series that aired on Nickelodeon during its Nick Jr. block from October 24, 1994, to December 8, 1996, with reruns being shown until February 5, 1999; it was later shown on Nogg ...
'', the second and third original series made for Nick Jr., premiered. They resulted in 50% rating gains for the block. From then onward, Nickelodeon continued to create its own productions for Nick Jr. and foreign-made imports were phased out. ''
Blue's Clues ''Blue's Clues'' is an American interactive educational television, educational children's television series created by Traci Paige Johnson, Todd Kessler, and Angela Santomero, Angela C. Santomero. It premiered on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block ...
'' and ''
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'' became ratings draws for both the block and Nickelodeon as a whole. Before gaining its own spin-off network, the Nick Jr. block extended to several other networks:
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from 2000 to 2006, and Nick Jr. on Noggin from 2003 to 2009. The
Nick Jr. on CBS Nick may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nick (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Désirée Nick, German actress and writer Places * Nick, Hungary, a village * Nick, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, a vi ...
block ended on September 9, 2006, when CBS replaced its Nick Jr. programming with '' KOL Secret Slumber Party''. Nick Jr. series continued to appear on Noggin until its closure in 2009, when the Nick Jr. channel replaced it.


Nick Jr. channel (2009–present)

On February 23, 2009, Nickelodeon announced that Noggin would be replaced by a channel named after the Nick Jr. block. The intention was to bring the channel in line with the Nickelodeon brand identity. In July of that year, Nickelodeon unveiled new standardized logos for its five channels, intending to create a unified look that could better be conveyed across the services. When the Nick Jr. channel debuted on September 28, 2009, at 6:00 a.m. ET, a new logo was debuted and designed by New York-based creative director/designer Eric Zim. Although the use of an orange "adult" and blue "child" figure was discontinued in the new
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logo, the tradition of the "Nick" text being orange (representing the adult) and the "Jr." text remaining in blue (as the child) was retained. Until 2012, the Nick Jr. channel retained Noggin's on-air branding style and played several of its programs, most notably the mascots
Moose and Zee Moose and Zee were a pair of cartoon characters created for the Noggin brand. They debuted as the on-air hosts of the Noggin cable channel on April 7, 2003. In 2015, Noggin was relaunched as a mobile streaming service, and Moose and Zee were rei ...
. It also continued not to accept traditional advertising or
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closing credits for promotion of other shows on the channel. On March 1, 2012, the Nick Jr. channel received a new rebrand produced by Gretel Inc.
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became the network's announcer, and the Moose and Zee mascots were completely dropped after nine years, removing one of the last vestiges of Noggin; as a result, some of the interstitial learning activities that originally featured Moose's narration (like the ''Puzzle Time'' segments) were recycled and replaced by her narration. The channel's slogan changed from "It's Like Preschool On TV" to "The Smart Place To Play" (which was also used as the branding for the Nick Jr. block), while several shows — ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Toot & Puddle'' and ''
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'' — were pulled from the lineup; most of them would return later that year, while the former could still be seen on the channel's website at the time. At this point, programming began to be hosted by characters from Nick Jr. shows. The Nick Jr. channel also began incorporating programming promotions and short features on that date; seven months later, on October 1, 2012, it started airing limited traditional advertising (for companies such as ABCMouse,
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) in the form of underwriter sponsorships airing in-between shows, whereas its parent network airs longer traditional advertising. On May 21, 2018, the channel refreshed their imaging with new interstitial pieces and updated curriculum notices, and began to promote themselves as the "Nick Jr. Channel" audibly and visually to avoid confusion with the Nickelodeon block. On September 4, 2023, the channel rebranded to use the refreshed splat logo, as well as new bumpers and curriculum boards (to keep in line with the Nickelodeon block, which began using the new branding on July 5, 2023). On the same day, the "Nick Jr. Channel" logo was changed to one reading simply "Nick Jr." for the first time since 2009. However, new promos continue to refer to the channel as the "Nick Jr. Channel".


NickMom block (2012–2015)

From October 1, 2012, to September 28, 2015, a four-hour block of parent-targeted shows called
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aired from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. ET. The NickMom name started out with a humor website in 2011 and the four-hour time slot aired comedies like ''
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'' and ''NickMom Night Out''. On September 9, 2015, the social media channels of
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announced that the four-hour weeknight block on the Nick Jr. channel, along with the NickMom website, would end operations by the end of September 28, 2015, due to Viacom's 2015 cutbacks involving acquired programming and also due to NickMom's low ratings with the time vacated by NickMom returned to traditional Nick Jr. programming like ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
Team Umizoomi ''Team Umizoomi'' is an American live-action animated musical preschool children's television series created by Soo Kim, Michael T. Smith, and Jennifer Twomey, and developed by Teri Weiss for Nickelodeon and the Nick Jr. Channel. Twomey and ...
'', and ''
Bubble Guppies ''Bubble Guppies'' is an animated children's fantasy television series created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull and developed by Belt, Scull, and Janice Burgess for Nickelodeon. The series is a combination of the sketch comedy, edutainment, an ...
''. In the early morning of September 28, 2015, NickMom ended its 3-year run at 2:00 a.m. ET, with an airing of the film ''
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''. No sign off message was shown; after the film ''Guarding Tess'', it faded straight into an episode of ''
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'' at its end. NickMom's former website address is now used as a
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to Nickelodeon's site for parental resources. Following NickMom's closure, the Nick Jr. channel increased the amount of traditional advertising it aired, but also began scheduling programs in an inversion of the "off-the-clock" format where the network shortened some of its commercial breaks, allowing the network to air more programming. The "off-the-clock" format was previously adopted by various Viacom networks, such as
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and
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(though in a reversed form, the scheduling format for those channels was designed to ''add'' extra advertising loads).


''Noggin Hour'' block (2021–2022)

On May 28, 2021, the Nick Jr. channel introduced an hour-long block of programming from the Noggin app every Friday. The block was usually titled "Noggin Hour" and was retitled "Noggin Presents" on days when it ran longer than an hour. Series featured in the timeslot included the Noggin originals '' Kinderwood'' and '' Noggin Knows'', as well as the acquired shows ''
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'' and ''
JoJo & Gran Gran ''JoJo & Gran Gran'' is a British children's animated television series based on the semi-autobiographical picture book ''Jo-Jo and Gran-Gran, All in a Week'' by Laura Henry-Allain MBE. It is the first animated series to focus on a Black British ...
''. Noggin interstitials played during commercial breaks, and a purple screen bug reading "On Noggin" was shown toward the beginning of each show.


Programming

The Nick Jr. channel schedule mainly features reruns from Nickelodeon's library of preschool programming, along with a few original series exclusive to the channel. As of 2022, the channel's lineup includes '' The Adventures of Paddington'', '' Baby Shark's Big Show!'', ''
Blaze and the Monster Machines ''Blaze and the Monster Machines'' is an animated children's television series. It premiered on Nickelodeon on October 13, 2014. The show revolves around Blaze, a monster truck, and his human driver, AJ, as they have adventures in Axle City and ...
'', ''
Blue's Clues & You! ''Blue's Clues & You!'' is an interactive educational children's television series developed by Traci Paige Johnson and Angela C. Santomero for Nickelodeon. Combining live-action and animation, it is a revival of the 1996–2006 ''Blue's Clu ...
'', ''
Bubble Guppies ''Bubble Guppies'' is an animated children's fantasy television series created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull and developed by Belt, Scull, and Janice Burgess for Nickelodeon. The series is a combination of the sketch comedy, edutainment, an ...
'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''Kiri & Lou'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
Ryan's Mystery Playdate ''Ryan's Mystery Playdate'' is an American children's television series created by Albie Hecht and produced by the company PocketWatch that aired on Nickelodeon from April 19, 2019 to April 16, 2023. The series is based on the Ryan's World You ...
'', '' Santiago of the Seas'', and ''
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''.


Related services


International

On May 16, 2011,
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launched two new channels,
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and MTVNHD, in Asia. These 24-hour channels began to be available on
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on May 18, 2011, and on Telekom Malaysia Berhad's
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on June 1, 2011. The channel launched aggressively to the rest of
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later. An African version of Nick Jr. was launched on September 30, 2014, along with
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. In
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, Nick Jr. is available on
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since March 2013. In Romania, Nick Jr. is available on
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since October 24, 2014. In
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, Nick Jr. was launched as a programming block on the local version of Nickelodeon. Versions of Nick Jr. also exist in the United Kingdom and Ireland,
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, and
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. On November 3, 2017, Nick Jr. launched in
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"Nick Jr debuts in Portugal"
Broadband TV News.
In 2023, the European Nick Jr. channels started to merge together, sharing more and more the same schedule between some versions. Nick Jr. is also available in
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in the form of a programming block on the Japanese version of Nickelodeon. International versions of the TV channel include: *
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– Introduced in 1993 ** Nick Jr. Too/Nick Jr. 2 * Nick Jr. (Germany) – Introduced in 1995 *
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– Introduced in 1997 * Nick Jr. (Australia and New Zealand) – Introduced in 1998 * Nick Jr. (Turkey) – Introduced in 1998 * Nick Jr. (Israel) – Introduced in 2003 * Nick Jr. (The Netherlands) – Introduced in 2003 * Nick Jr. (Wallonia) – Introduced in 2009 * Nickelodeon Junior (France) – Introduced in 2010 * Nick Jr. (Middle East and North Africa) – Introduced in 2008 *
Nick Jr. (Italy) Nick Jr. is an Italian television channel, aimed at a pre-school children audience. It launched on 1 August 2009 on Sky Italia on channel 602 to replace RaiSat YOYO, which then became free and is now named Rai Yoyo. From November 10, 2009, Nic ...
– Introduced in 2009 * Nick Jr. (Canada) – Introduced in 2009 (as a programming block) * Nick Jr. (Scandinavia) – Introduced in 2010 * Nick Jr. (Greece) – Introduced in 2010 * Nick Jr. (Southeast Asia) – Introduced in 2010 * Nick Jr. (Russia and CIS) – Introduced in 2011 * Nick Jr. (India) – Introduced in 2012 * Nick Jr. (Sub-Saharan Africa) – Introduced in 2014 * Nick Jr. (Spain) – Introduced in 2010 *
Nick Jr. (Portugal) Television stations in Portugal Television channels and stations established in 2017 2017 establishments in Portugal Portuguese-language television stations Children's television networks Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Re ...
– Introduced in 2017


See also

* Nick Jr. (TV programming block)


Notes


References


External links

* (United States) * (United Kingdom) * (Canada) * (Australia) International websites * (Latin America) (in Spanish) * (Brazil) (in Portuguese) * (Spain) (in Spanish) * (France) (in French) * (Germany) (in German) * (Italy) (in Italian) * (Poland) (in Polish) * (Netherlands) (in Dutch) {{Educational Nickelodeon Preschool education television networks Television networks in the United States Television channels and stations established in 2009 Nickelodeon English-language television stations in the United States Children's television networks in the United States 2009 establishments in the United States