Nickelodeon Scandinavia is a children's channel broadcasting in
Denmark,
Norway and
Finland. In June 2008, a separate channel for Sweden was launched.
Nickelodeon Sweden replaced the pan-Nordic channel in all of Sweden. It broadcasts programming from the similarly branded channels in the United Kingdom and the United States, such as
Hey Arnold!,
SpongeBob SquarePants,
Rocko's Modern Life,
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,
The Wild Thornberrys as well as a few locally produced programmes.
The channel started broadcasting in 1996 as a part of the analogue
Viasat package, only broadcasting in the morning, sharing one transponder on
Sirius 1 (previously
Marcopolo 1) with
ZTV and one on
TV Sat 2 shared with
3+ and other Danish channels. Initially it was only broadcasting for six hours between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. A few years later, it switched to another transponder, allowing it to broadcast between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
The channel is (as of 2006) broadcast on both of the satellite systems pointed at the Nordic region (From
Viasat at
Sirius 3 with
Videoguard encryption and from
Canal Digital at
Thor 3 with
Conax encryption), as well as on the
Swedish DTT network and most digital cable networks, and some analogue. Most cartoons are
dubbed into local languages, and separate audio tracks are available on satellite. Non-cartoon series aimed an older audience is broadcast in...
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