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Nickelodeon (Middle East & North Africa TV channel) facts for kids

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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon 2009 logo.svg
Nickelodeon MENA’s Logo (Since 5 January 2015)
Country United Arab Emirates
Broadcast area Middle East and North Africa
Network Orbit Showtime Network (OSN)
Headquarters Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Programming
Language(s) Arabic and English
Picture format 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA (ViacomCBS)
Sister channels NickToons Arabia
Nick Jr. Arabia
Teen Nick Arabia
MTV Live HD
VH1 Europe
Comedy Central Arabia
Paramount Channel
History
Launched 16 July 1996; 27 years ago (16 July 1996) (original)
5 January 2015; 9 years ago (2015-01-05) (relaunch)
Closed 8 September 2011; 12 years ago (2011-09-08) (original)
Availability
Satellite
OSN Channel 355 (HD)
Nilesat 11727 H - 27500 - 3/4 (HD)

Nickelodeon is an Arab pay television channel for kids that is exclusively available on Emirati satellite provider OSN. It is the official Arabic-localised variant of Nickelodeon and until 2011, it was the last remaining channel to retain the 'splat' logo that was used from 1984 to 2009 in the United States.

Related channels

Nick Jr.

Nick Jr. is a satellite channel for Arab kids that airs Nick Jr. pre-school shows dubbed in Arabic. The channel launched on January 5, 2015 at 10:00 am on OSN along with Nickelodeon Arabia.

NickToons

Nicktoons is a satellite channel for Arab kids that airs animated Nickelodeon shows dubbed in Arabic. It airs reruns of old Nickelodeon programming in Arabic. The channel launched on February 15, 2017 on OSN.

Nicktoons Arabia uses Nicktoons UK & Ireland's 2014 on-air broadcast design package produced by "Beautiful Creative".

TeenNick

TeenNick is a video on demand channel for Arab kids that airs Nickelodeon's live-action TV series. It airs reruns of old and new Nickelodeon programming in English with Arabic subtitles. The channel launched on April 15, 2017 on OSN PLAY.

Programming

The animated shows currently airing on Nickelodeon Arabia are in Arabic and English. The live-action TeenNick shows originally aired in English with Arabic subtitles. However, original social shows produced by Nickelodeon Arabia's own studio, such as Shoof Kids and Jamaatna, were also in Arabic.

Most of the network shows were outdated, older series at the time that have already been cancelled or have ended before their debut, with the exception of SpongeBob SquarePants, although they are considered fairly never-before-seen by most of the Arab audience at one time, in either their English or Arabic formats. There were even several series yet to debut on Nickelodeon Arabia, with exception of The Fairly OddParents, which apparently already settled on Disney Channel Arabia in 2006, and settled on Nicktoons Arabia years later in 2017. Although Fairly OddParents characters did appear in activity segments from Nickelodeon Magazine cutouts.

Like most Arab channels, Nickelodeon did feature censorship, but this is by far limited to simply scenes of French kissing, although any mention of said kisses are retained. This was similar to the censorship on MTV Arabia, but after the relaunch, there is no censorship.

It aired the Nickelodeon India original series Motu Patlu on Nickelodeon Arabia.

Original programming on Nickelodeon's older Channel

Catch Match

Catch Match (كاتش ماتش) was an original show for Nickelodeon Arabia that was renewed every holy month of Ramadan. It was a kids' game show that had two opposing teams compete in a variety of physical challenges to gain the most points. This show was hosted by the announcer Taj Aser, and was filmed on location in Jeddah.

Shoof Kids

Shoof Kids was an original show that featured home-made videos sent in by viewers.


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See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Nickelodeon Arabia para niños