Nickelodeon (Pacifican TV channel)

Nickelodeon is a children's pay TV channel in Pacifica. It is considered a part of the international Nickelodeon brand and had launched in 1996.

Pre-2003
Nickelodeon launched on Satellicom on 20 December 1996, the same day as the Latin American feed. It launched one of the first channels on the satellite provider before expanding onto DirecTV, Sky, Eureka and Télécâble Ménard later in the year or in early 1997. Before that date, most programmes aired on Penta, with an agreement made in the 1990s to give Viacom the sole rights to air most Viacom-produced programmes there in English. Non-English airings of said shows aired on other stations or on Penta at a different time.

At launch, the channel used the slogan "Right Here, Right Now" after the American feed used it in 1993. It had several programming blocks including Nick at Nite as a block initially from 9:00pm (changed to 10 in 1999) to 6am PT, Nick Jr. as a morning block from 7:30am to 2:30pm and SNICK during primetime every Saturday.

The feed was once notorious for airing new programmes at a later time than most, often taking up to three years due to accomidating for every dub to broadcast in their respective languages at the same time. This practice was balanced out through other channels which provided their respective dubs, though the practice of airing programmes late ended in 2003.

2003-2010
In 2003, it rebranded with both the international idents shown around most parts of the world and the branding used in the US. The feed later changed their logo in February of 2010. The current branding was introduced from 2017 onwards.

In 2004, Nick at Nite became a channel indirectly under Penta, with the shows moving there. The replacement simply included random programmes to fit the time slot. It became a part of Nicksplat (headquarters in Bedford) that year.

The year 2008 was when an HD simulcast was launched. At that point, most shows which were filmed originally in 16:9 were shown there while 4:3 shows remained in that format. By 2016, it would have been the majority format and any special branding of the channel was removed by then.

2010-present
The channel changed its logo in February 2010 to fit the international rebrand introduced in the United States in late 2009. The channel would rebrand again in 2012, 2017 and 2023.

Programming
Most programmes aired on this feed come from the American one, though some programmes from Europe and Asia end up on this channel as well. Almost all programming is available in English, French, and Aurentian, though most are also in Ektæó and ___. Russian, though an optional audio track, does not generally have Pacifican-produced dubs. The consequence of this is that after mid-2022, Russian-language programming is not available for newer content due to the invasion of Ukraine that year. Certain shows are only availble in English and sometimes French (mostly consists of older shows) either due to Aurentia not dubbing said shows prior among others.

Current
New Friday Night: Primarily airs new or recently-new Nicktoons and other animated programmes from 7:30 to 9:30pm PT.

SNICK: Short for "Saturday Night Nickelodeon," it has remained as a Saturday primetime block since the channel's launch in 1996. This block primarily offers a mix of Nicktoons and Nickcoms targeted towards preteens and adolecents.

Nick 2: Launching in 1999, it initially served as a feed to receive content before it was demoted to a time-shift feed in 2002. It never had its own branding, though the way in which it could be received varied depending on where one lived (often, the Alaskan time zone did not have the feed available on most cable networks or it would use the western feed). All branding was removed by 2007, with most cable and satellite networks only offering one version or two on a subchannel.

Former
Nick at Nite: Formerly broadcasted as a nighttime block from 10:00pm to 6:00am PT. Most of its shows moved to Penta after 2004.

Nicktoons: Once aired new episodes of Nicktoons from the channel's launch to 2006.

Nick Jr: preschool-oriented block that previously aired from 7:15am to 2:30pm. During this time, most school-age kids are generally at school during this time period. A now-24 hour separate channel was launched in 2002 and once timeshared with TEENick until 2005. The block itself closed in 2017 due to a lack of a need for it.

Events
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Pacifica: A local version of the Kids' Choice Awards was hosted in various places in Bedford, Columbia and Marquette between 1998 and 2012 (note that it was only offered in English, though during some years a dubbed version would broadcast on non-English audiotracks). Pacifican voters have had the ability to vote in the American equivalent of the Kids' Choice Awards beginning with the 2013 hosting.