Nicktoons (American TV channel)
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| Owner | MTV Networks (Viacom) |
NickToons Network, once known as NickToons TV and 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 cartoons 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 was 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), in August 2005. The network has also announced plans to premiere four original series on NickToons in early 2006.
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, boastful 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.
List of programs broadcast on Nicktoons Network
Nicktoons Network airs or had aired every 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 and Teletoon 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. The Angry Beavers was removed from Nicktoons in Spring 2005, returning later in June 2005. As of June 2006, original Nicktoons AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Doug, The Wild Thornberrys, Rocket Power, and ChalkZone are off the air on NickToons Network. Please, whoever is changing the page saying Catscratch and The Wild Thornberrys are currently airing on Nicktoons Network, please stop. They currently are not airing on Nicktoons Network, and unless you have some solid proof that they are going to air, don't change the Nicktoons Network page.
Programs currently broadcast on the network
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- The Angry Beavers
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- CatDog
- Corneil and Bernie
- The Fairly OddParents
- Hey Arnold!
- Invader Zim
- Kappa Mikey
- Kaput and Zösky
- Martin Mystery
- My Dad the Rock Star
- My Life as a Teenage Robot
- The Ren and Stimpy Show
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Rugrats
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- The X's
- Yakkity Yak
Programs soon to be broadcast on the network in the future
- 6teen
- All Grown Up!
- Catscratch
- Danny Phantom
- Leader Dog: The Series
- Random Cartoons
- Shuriken School
- Tortellini Western: The Series
Programs formerly broadcast on the network
- AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
- Action League NOW!: The Series
- Animaniacs
- As Told By Ginger
- ChalkZone
- Doug
- KaBlam!
- Oh Yeah! Cartoons
- Pelswick
- Pinky and the Brain
- Rocket Power
- Skyland
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- The Wild Thornberrys
- You're On Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown!
Nicktoons Shorts
Logos
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Nicktoons TV (2002-2003)
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Nicktoons (2003-2005)
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Nicktoons Network (2005-present)
