Nickelodeon often shortened to Nick is an American pay television network which was launched on December 1,as nic,elodeon first cable channel for children. Eastern and Pacific Time. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 2— The channel was originally first tested as Pinwheel on December 1, Pinwheel was at the time only available on QUBE[3] which was the first mame major market interactive cable television system, owned by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment. Pinwheel relaunched as «Nick» on April 1,and expanded to other cable providers nationwide. The channel’s name comes from the first five cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Eastern Time. A re-occurring program on the network were bi-monthly special editions of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee[11] a news magazine series aimed at children that debuted in as a weekly series and ended in Nicktoons is how much money did nickelodeon make branding for Nickelodeon’s original animated television series. Inthe channel struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation to develop the studio’s animated films into television series such as The Penguins of Madagascar.
