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Nicktoons (American TV channel)

Nicktoons[b] is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global. The channel is geared towards children aged 7 to 11,[1] and broadcasts reruns of original animated series from sister network Nickelodeon (known as Nicktoons) along with some other animated shows and feature films.

This article is about the American television channel. For the animated series branding from Nickelodeon, see Nicktoons.

Country

United States

Nationwide

  • English
  • Spanish (via SAP audio track)

1080i HDTV
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)

May 1, 2002 (2002-05-01)

  • Nicktoons TV (2002–03)
  • Nicktoons Network (2005–09)

As of September 2018, approximately 56.9 million American households (51.3% of households with television) received Nicktoons.[2]

– launched on 22 July 2002

UK and Ireland

– launched in 2007

Netherlands

– launched in March 2010

Germany

– launched on September 30, 2014

Africa

Scandinavia – launched on February 1, 2017

– launched on February 15, 2017

Arabia

– launched on February 20, 2017

Turkey

– launched on 15 February 2018

Poland

– launched on 15 April 2019

Hungary and Romania

- launched on 14 July 2020

Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania

Australia - launched on 1 August 2023 ( on 10Play)

FAST channel

Canada - launched on December 22, 2023 (FAST channel on )

Pluto TV

Mascot[edit]

From 2006 until 2009, Nicktoons Network used a robot mascot in bumpers and advertisements for the channel.[7] The mascot, named "ACOW," which stands for Animation Capital of the World, was a complex robot character with a large singular eye, animated using "photo-puppetry."[8] ACOW was prominently featured on the NicktoonsNetwork.com website[9] and was used as part of the "Nicktoons Network: Animation Capital of the World" logo.[10] Several similar-looking eyeball-based characters were seen in promos for the network.

Noggin

N-Toons

Nicktoonsters

NickRewind

2016 Decider's Oral History of "Nicktoons" interviews with cast and crew