- Nick’s Summer 2002 Programming Highlights
June 3, 2002 | Nickelodeon serves up a sizzling summer blend of new series, specials, sneak peeks and programming blocks to flavor kids’ viewing throughout their favorite season, including The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius’ "When Pants Attack." The hotly anticipated special zips onto airwaves Saturday, July 20, paving the way for the Oscar-nominated title hero’s series in September.
- First Nick GAS Original “Splash TV” Premieres June 2
May 28, 2002 | Nickelodeon GAS: Games and Sports for Kids and USA Swimming have joined together to produce Splash TV, the first Nick GAS original series. The show, a series about swimming and water sports, will premiere on the Nick GAS block on Nickelodeon on Sunday, June 2, at 3:30p.m. (ET/PT). The show will re-air on Nick GAS at 8pm & 11pm (ET).
- Nick Wins 2001-02 Kids’ Saturday-Morning Broadcast Season
May 23, 2002 | Broadcast television’s traditional Saturday-morning and weekday-afternoon kid dayparts belong this season to basic cable’s Nickelodeon, which took the Saturday-morning top spot on a national ratings basis and scored seven of broadcast and basic-cable television’s top 10 kids’ programs. Powered by television’s number-one kids’ show, SpongeBob SquarePants, Nick’s Saturday-morning performance this season beat the closest competitor, Kids’ WB, by +53%. Nickelodeon’s first-place domination of weekday afternoons also continued this season, beating number-two Kids’ WB in this daypart by +61% for the season.
- “SpongeBob’s House Party” Scores 6.7 Million Total Viewers
May 21, 2002 | Nickelodeon swept basic cable the week of May 13-19 with a two-front ratings win across prime time and total day, powered by Friday night’s SpongeBob House Party special—basic cable’s top-rated program for the week with households, total viewers and kids 2-11—and the continued success of Nick at Nite’s The Cosby Show.
- Nickelodeon to Premiere “Sunday Movie Toons” Block in October 2002
May 9, 2002 | Nickelodeon will introduce to its schedule a brand-new Sunday afternoon movie block featuring original, full-length animated films, to be produced by DIC Entertainment.
- Mother’s Day 2002 on Nickelodeon
May 9, 2002 | Nickelodeon turns the spotlight on moms with a six-hour Nicktoons Mother’s Day marathon.
- Nickelodeon’s Mother’s Day 2002 Programming
May 9, 2002 | Nickelodeon turns the spotlight on moms with a six-hour Nicktoons Mother’s Day marathon, Sunday, May 12 (noon-6pm ET/PT) of poignant and funny holiday themed episodes of hit series. Shows on tap include SpongeBob Squarepants, Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys, The Fairly OddParents, As Told by Ginger, Doug, Pelswick and Hey, Arnold!
- 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.
- 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.
