Nick Jr. (Indian TV channel)

Nick Jr.

Country	India
Broadcast area	India Bangladesh Bhutan [1] Nepal
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Programming
Language(s)	English Hindi Tamil Telugu Bengali Kannada Malayalam Marathi
Picture format	576i SDTV
Ownership
Owner	JioStar branding licensed from (Paramount Networks EMEAA)
Sister channels	Nickelodeon Nickelodeon HD+ Nickelodeon Sonic
History
Launched	21 November 2012;12 years ago (2012-11-21)
Links
Website	nickjrindia.com
Availability
Streaming media
Jio TV (India)	SD
Tata Play (India)	SD
Voot (India)	HD

Nick Jr. is an Indian children's pay television kids channel which is devoted to toddlers. The channel is the Indian equivalent to the American Nick Jr and a part of the Indian Nickelodeon.

History

The channel was a block on Nickelodeon before Viacom18 launched it as a separate channel in fall 2012. ^[2]

Viacom18 launched TeenNick and Nick Jr. as a single channel on 21 November 2012. At first, Nick Jr. aired in the daytime while TeenNick aired at night. However, TeenNick was discontinued on 1 February 2017, which made Nick Jr. a 24-hour channel.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. "BICMA approves 56 channels for uniformity". Kuensel Online. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
2. "Viacom18 launches Nick Jr. to enter preschool segment in India | TelevisionPost.com". www.televisionpost.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.