Nickelodeon (Centralia)

Nickelodeon is an Centraliese kids TV channel owned by.

History
In attempt to compete with, Nickelodeon Centralia was launched in 1986, being the very first Nickelodeon TV channel to launch worldwide. While the channel ran independently under licence from, its sister channel being launched in a year after the launch of Nickelodeon Centralia, resulting in MTV Networks Europe's launch, which in turn led to Nickelodeon Centralia being acquired to the new company.

In 1988, the channel was rebranded by Hatmaker Studios.

In June 2009, Nickelodeon Centralia aruptly changed the logo to the USA version which would be used later that year. However, the Nickelodeon UK's branding from the same year continued to be used before most programmes and advertisement breaks until September 2010.

Programmes
Entirely, Nickelodeon Centralia offered programming from. Like Disney Channel during its launch, it also retransmitted the American feed when there are limited programmes.

Notable acquired programmes aired during the early-2000's was ', ', ' and '. The latter two was moved to Cartoon Network.

In 2007, the channel started to focus on girls (with boy-orinated programming still maintaining its focus), which led to programming being added to the schedule, competing with Disney Channel. During that time, fans started to call this version of Nickelodeon as a "Centraliese answer to ".

In 2012, the Nick Jr. block was discontinued in favor of the channel of the same name, which has been launched 13 years ago.

Original programmes

 * (2000-present)

Original programmes

 * (1986-1990)

Censorship
When Nickelodeon Centralia started to air general entertainment programmes that were aimed at adults in 1998, the channel thought that several adolescence people also started to watch while being a 14-year old. In attempt to appeal to the aged people, Nickelodeon Centralia applied censorship to any of its general programmes, so that it would be rated PG.

TV Listings

 * /TV Listings/February 1st 2008