Country | Greece Cyprus |
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Broadcast area | Attica, Argosaronikos, central and southern Evia |
Headquarters | Irakleio, Attica, Greece |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Greek |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Tilekinisi Radiotelevision S.M.S.A. |
Sister channels | Nick Jr. Nickelodeon Plus Patra TV |
History | |
Launched | 19 July 1995 (Local TV) 3 September 2010 (Nickelodeon) |
Closed | 3 September 2010 (Local TV) |
Links | |
Website | www.nickelodeon.gr |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digea | Channel 34 (Ymittos, Parnitha, Aegina, Oktonia, Prasino, Chalcis, Avlonas, Vari, Nea Stira, Laurium, Anavyssos, Sounion, Nea Makri, Darditsa) |
Nickelodeon is a Greek free-to-air television channel that was launched on 3 September 2010. It was available free-to-air in the Athens area on 35 analog UHF signal broadcast from Hymettus, before the analog switch off on 20 July 2012, but it is available through the Digea DVB-T digital consortium, on 54 UHF signal broadcast from Aegina, Hymettus and Parnitha. It also broadcasts in Thessaloniki and its surrounding areas through Nickelodeon Plus, a version of the channel for the Northern Greece area.[1] Nickelodeon HD started officially broadcasting on 17 October 2011 via Cosmote TV. As with MTV, Restis Enterprises was involved in launching Nickelodeon in Greece. Nickelodeon was originally a block on Channel 9 from 2003 to 2008.