Nickelodeon Global (formerly Nickelodeon Europe and Nickelodeon Export) is a specialized children's television channel and the international version of the American

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 ...

channel. It is operated by

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in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and by

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in Latin America and Brazil.

History

Nickelodeon Export

Since the late 1980s, many European countries, including the

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in 1988, have hosted the American version of the channel, where Nickelodeon became available without translation. This expansion followed the strategy used in 1987 for launching

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(now

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) decided against establishing an independent Nickelodeon channel in Europe to minimize risks. On 1 September 1993,

Nickelodeon UK Nickelodeon (commonly shortened to Nick) is a British pay television network. It launched on 1 September 1993, as a localised version of the Nickelodeon, American channel of the same name in the United Kingdom and launched in Ireland in 2004. I ...

was launched in partnership with BSkyB, (now

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), and this version was subsequently distributed throughout the rest of Europe.

Nickelodeon Global

The pan-European channel was officially launched on 15 November 1998, under the name Nickelodeon Europe, broadcasting around the clock. Between 1998 and 2000, Nickelodeon Europe expanded to Malta, Romania, and Hungary. In the early 2000s, the channel introduced four programming blocks, ''Nick Movies'', ''Toons on Toast'', ''Nick Zone'', and ''Nick Double''. In 2004, Nickelodeon Europe expanded to the rest of Eastern Europe, including broadcasting in Russian. From May 2004 to 2 October 2012, Nickelodeon Europe served as the main channel in the CIS and

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. From 2008 to 2012, the channel experienced periodic technical issues, including audio track problems, which led to certain animated series in English to be broadcast on the channel for some time. During this period, promotional texts were also removed. On 10 February 2010, a new

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was introduced, aligning with other Nickelodeon channels worldwide featuring the then-new design. That same year, although the broadcasting center remained in London, the channel began broadcasting under a Czech license due to the country's minimum broadcasting regulations. Between 2010 and 2013, Nickelodeon Europe expanded to the

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, and

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. On 17 September 2011, the channel switched to 16:9 widescreen broadcasting, and on 4 October 2011, it switched to HD format. In some countries, including the CIS, it is referred to as Nickelodeon HD. In 2013, programming of the channel was taken over by

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. In October 2017, audio tracks in Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian were added for the Baltic States. On 31 August 2021, Nickelodeon Europe was renamed Nickelodeon Global, the channel now serves 85 countries. Nickelodeon Global retains the Czech license (RRTV) to ensure the continuation of legal broadcasting in the European Union in accordance with the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and the Single Market Law after the UK left the European Union. On 5 April 2022, a Kazakh-language audio track was added for Kazakhstan. Since December 2022, Nickelodeon Global has once again been the main channel in the CIS countries (except for Russia and Belarus), replacing the local version, Nickelodeon Russia. On 1 June 2023, a Ukrainian-language audio track was added, replacing the Nickelodeon Ukraine

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channel. On 1 August 2023, the channel underwent rebranding, which included an updated logo and new design. On 25 November 2024, an Arabic-language audio track was added, replacing the

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feed.

Nickelodeon CEE

Nickelodeon CEE was launched in early December 2004.on the official website Nick.com . mention the nick cee channel since December 2004

Programming blocks

Weekend Awesomeness

This

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starts on

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s at 16:45 and features special episodes.

Saturday Marathons

This programming block starts on

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s at 12:00 and features marathons episodes of popular shows.

Notes

References

External links

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