Nickelodeon, formerly known as Nick, is an American children's cable television channel on which The Loud House, The Casagrandes, The Really Loud House, A Loud House Christmas, A Really Haunted Loud House and No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie air. Owned by Paramount Global, and operated under its Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group, it originally began broadcasting as C-3 or also known as The Pinwheel Network in 1977 before relaunching with its current name in 1979. Nick 2Nick 2 was the off-air brand for a secondary timeshift channel of Nickelodeon, formerly available on the high-tier packages exclusively on cable providers as a compliment to the main Nickelodeon feed. It repackaged Nickelodeon's Eastern and Pacific Time Zone feeds for the appropriate timezone. The Pacific feed was distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones, and the Eastern feed was distributed to the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones. This resulted in the difference in local airtime for a particular program between two geographic locations being three hours at most. This, in turn, allows viewers a second chance to watch a program after its initial airing on the Eastern Time Zone feed if they missed a program's new episode airing. It also allows viewers to watch the show ahead of its airing on the Pacific Time Zone feed of the main channel (for example, the Nick at Nite block would respectively start at 11:00PM Eastern on Nick 2 Pacific or 5:00PM Pacific weeknights on Nick 2 Eastern). Nick 2 never broadcasted in high definition. The service existed from around 2000 until November 2018, launching as Nick TOO. The timeshift channel was originally offered as part of the MTV Networks Digital Suite, a slate of channels exclusive to high-tier cable packages. It was the only American example of two feeds of a non-premium service being provided to cable and IPTV providers. The timeshift channel was originally offered as part of the MTV Networks Digital Suite, a slate of channels exclusive to high-tier cable packages. It was the only American example of two feeds of a non-premium service being provided to cable and IPTV providers. A Nick TOO logo was used on the channel until 2004, when MTV Networks decided to stop using customized branding on the feed (a logo for Nick 2 was only used for identification purposes on electronic program guides as a placeholder image); most television listings thus showed the additional channel under the brandings "Nickelodeon Pacific/NICKP" or "Nickelodeon Eastern/NICKE". On another note, DirecTV and Dish Network also offer both Nickelodeon feeds, though they carry both time zone feeds of most of the children's networks that the providers offer by default. Viacom Media Networks discontinued the Nick 2 digital cable service on November 22, 2018, likely due to video on demand options making timeshift channels for the most part superfluous. Both timezone feeds continue to be offered on satellite providers, albeit unbranded. Nickelodeon On DemandNickelodeon On Demand is Nickelodeon's video-on-demand service, which is available on most cable and satellite providers. The service offers episodes of The Loud House and many other Nickelodeon programs.
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