Nick

Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick in the United States) is an American pay television network owned by ViacomCBS through its Domestic Media Networks division. The channel's programming is mainly aimed at children and adolescents aged 8 to 16, and primarily consists of original first-run television series along with occasional broadcasts of theatrical and original made-for-television films and other selected third-party programming.

Nickelodeon was first tested on December 1, 1977 as the C-3 channel of QUBE, an early local cable television system in Columbus, Ohio. The C-3 channel aired Pinwheel, an educational show developed by Dr. Vivian Horner, whose success allowed her to expand the program into a full channel on national television. The channel, now named Nickelodeon, launched to a new countrywide audience on April 1, 1979, with Pinwheel as its first program. The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984.

Today, Nickelodeon's programming runs from Sunday-Fridays from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific Time). Since 1985, it has shared its channel space with Nick at Nite, a nighttime service that airs during interim hours and is treated as a separate channel from Nickelodeon by Nielsen for ratings purposes.