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News Archive

Press releases and news articles that have been archived after this website was launched.

• Nickelodeon’s 1Q 2002 Ratings: “ChalkZone”, “SpongeBob” and “Fairly OddParents”
  April 2, 2002 | Scoring its highest total-day ratings with kids 2-11 and total viewers in four years, Nickelodeon has completed First Quarter 2002 as basic cable’s number-one network on a 24-hour basis--extending its household reign at the top spot to 26 consecutive quarters. For 1Q ’02 with kids 2-11 in total day, Nick averaged a 3.1/21 rating and share (986,000 average kid viewers)—increases of +3% in rating and +7% in delivery over last year’s like time period. The network’s 24-hour average of 1.8 million total viewers for 1Q ’02 marks an +11% lift over like time period last year.
• Kids’ WB Announces Year-Round Programming Strategy
  March 13, 2002 | Kids’ WB! will add five new animated series to its top-rated Saturday morning and weekday slates and introduce a “year-round” schedule that will offer fresh new programming, beginning this Summer and leading into the 2002-2003 television season.
• Kids’ WB Honored With Seven Daytime Emmy Nominations
  March 13, 2002 | Kids' WB! received seven Daytime Emmy nominations for the 29th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, it was announced today at a ceremony in New York City.
• Nickelodeon Upfront 2002
  March 12, 2002 | Two of the most widely anticipated events in kids television, the first Rugrats spin-off series and the TV series debut of the Oscar®-nominated theatrical hit Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, will headline five new animated series to launch on Nickelodeon during the 2002-2003 season, it was announced today by Cyma Zarghami, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Nickelodeon.
• “Nick on CBS” 2002-03 Season Schedule Announced
  March 12, 2002 | With changes afoot next season in the Saturday-morning TV landscape, Nickelodeon–the number-one entertainment brand for kids--will broaden its offerings and introduce a new programming block for The CBS Television Network’s Saturday-morning children’s schedule, it was announced today by Cyma Zarghami, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Nickelodeon. Beginning in September 2002, kids will get more of their favorite Nick shows on CBS on Saturday mornings --including The Wild Thornberrys and Hey Arnold!--as some of Nickelodeon’s most popular animated series with kids 2-11 make their broadcast television debut. The new series being added to the schedule will be combined with the established Nick Jr. preschool favorites to serve a wider kids 2-11 audience on CBS’s Saturday mornings.
• Nickelodeon’s “Kids’ Choice Awards 2002” Premieres April 20
  March 5, 2002 | Kid favorite Rosie O’Donnell will return for a sixth year to host Nickelodeon’s 15th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards, joined by an array of stars from the worlds of film, music, sports and television. The event, which celebrates the extreme power of kids, will air live from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA, on Saturday, April 20, from 8-9:30PM ET/PT (tape delayed for West Coast).
• Kids’ WB Schedules Two-Part “The Nightmare Room”
  February 28, 2002 | Native American spirits, a deserted haunted cabin and “ghost” campers…summer camp was never like this — a place where nightmares just might be real! Kids’ WB! takes viewers to the most haunted summer camp around in “The Nightmare Room’s” thrilling two-part episode, “Camp Nowhere.”
• Nickelodeon February 2002 Ratings Highlights
  February 26, 2002 | Propelled by drawing its biggest kids’ and total viewers’ audiences ever during its Kids’ Day* schedule, Nickelodeon finished February 2002 as the number-one basic-cable network on a 24-hour basis among overall households (1.5/1.2 million HH), up +5% in rating over last year and +15% ahead of the number-two-ranked Lifetime Television (1.3/1.1 million HH—up 5%), according to Nielsen Media Research for 1/28-2/24/02. Also, in prime time (8-11 p.m. ET/PT) among households, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite scored a 1.6/1.4 million HH, up 7% over last year.
• Kids’ WB Doubles Fun During “Super Stuffed Saturday Sweepstakes”
  February 21, 2002 | Kids' WB! doubles the comedy-adventure fun with back-to-back episodes of four favorite hit series and the chance to win hundreds of prizes during the “Super Stuffed Saturday Sweepstakes” line-up on Saturday, March 2.
• Kids’ WB Announces Early Season Pick-Ups for Fall 2002
  February 11, 2002 | Kids’ WB! has committed to new season pick-ups for the next installment of “POKÉMON: MASTER QUEST” and the hit series “JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES,” “X-MEN: EVOLUTION,” “THE MUMMY: SECRETS OF THE MEDJA” and “RESCUE HEROES: GLOBAL RESPONSE TEAM” for the 2002-2003 season.