Nick Party

Nick Party was a long-running Kuboian programming block that was broadcast on Nickelodeon Kuboia, Nick Go! and VideoNick from 1999 to 2010. The block was centred around playing songs of the dance music genre, as well as playing their respective music videos.

History
The block premiered on Nickelodeon Kuboia on 15th October 1999, airing on Tuesday and Friday evenings in an hour-long timeslot at 6:00p.m. Starting around 2004, each day of the week would feature some specific theme; Tuesday would be centred around older, mostly non-Kuboian, songs from around about the pre-2005 period. Fridays, meanwhile, would be centred around new music and songs that were generally less than two years old. It also aired on VideoNick after it launched in May 2002.

The block ran for the last time on Nickelodeon Kuboia on 31st December 2004 in order to make way for other types of programming. However, it continued to air on Nick Go! and VideoNick until each channel's respective closures in late 2010.

Nick Party Membership
A membership service was launched in June 2004. Members could request songs and music videos to be played, send messages that would air live on television and also vote on lists, with the song with the most votes being played on the following show. Membership came to K6.99 a month.

Compilation albums
Starting in 2000, a series of compilation albums also titled Nick Party were released every year, and featured the most popular songs played on the block. A total of ten volumes were released - all ten reached the top five of the Karuboia Collaborative Albums chart upon their release.

Criticism
Despite Nick Party having censorship that would remove inappropriate language from songs, as well as censor certain imagery deemed inappropriate in music videos, the channel frequently suffered from complaints that said the censorship was not enough for a children's music block.

Anither criticism of the channel was the membership that was introduced in 2004 - many said it was far too overpriced and its features were not worth paying for at all. An Open Eagle article published in 2006 commented that the membership "is basically TVVC tricking children into thinking they have control over something when they don't", and argued that the practice "should be illegal".