Nicktoons

Broadcast area	Balkans Baltic states Central Europe Ukraine
Headquarters	London
Programming
Language(s)	English, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Slovene, Albanian
Picture format	576i SDTV
Ownership
Owner	Paramount Global
Sister channels	Nickelodeon Nick Jr. MTV MTV Live MTV Hits
History
Launched	1 February 2017; 6 years ago (2017-02-01) 15 February 2017; 6 years ago (2017-02-15) (Middle East and North Africa) 20 February 2017; 6 years ago (2017-02-20) (Turkey) 15 February 2018; 5 years ago (2018-02-15) (Poland) 12 December 2018; 4 years ago (2018-12-12) (Russia) 1 April 2019; 4 years ago (2019-04-01) (Hungary and Romania) 5 June 2019; 4 years ago (2019-06-05) (Bulgaria) 30 October 2019; 3 years ago (2019-10-30) (Czech Republic) 22 January 2020; 3 years ago (2020-01-22) (Ukraine) 14 July 2020; 3 years ago (2020-07-14) (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania) April 1, 2023; 4 months ago (2023-04-01) (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
Replaced	Nickelodeon HD (on Poland)
Closed	April 28, 2022 (2022-04-28) (Russia), December 14, 2022 (2022-12-14) (Belarus)

Nicktoons (sometimes called Nicktoons Global) is a European international pay television network operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA. Launched on 1 February 2017, international version of the American TV channel Nicktoons, the network serves many of the countries in the European Union, and features several feeds differentiated by time zones and local languages being the primary audio feed offered, with other languages offered through second audio program options. Other networks may display the domestic language as open-access subtitles.

Programming

History

The channel launched on 1 February 2017. 15 days later, it launched in the Middle East and North Africa on 16 February 2017. 5 days later, the Turkish feed was launched on 15 February 2018 at 10:00 AM (at polish time). Nickelodeon HD got replaced by Nicktoons on 12 December 2018. Nicktoons launched in Russia on 1 April 2019. Nicktoons launched Hungarian and Romanian feeds on 5 June 2019, then in Bulgaria on 30 October 2019, then the Czech feed on 22 January 2020, then the Ukrainian feed on 14 July 2020. Nicktoons launched 4 feeds in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Albania on 28 April 2022. On 28 April 2022, the Russian feed closed due to the Ukraine war. The channel closed in Belarus on December 14 2022 because of the Ukraine war. On April 1 2023, Nicktoons launched 3 new feeds in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, a month before Latvia changed the law on language possibilities, unlike Estonian and Lithuanian, content in Latvian uses is also provided with translation with the help of artificial intelligence, mostly at night.^[1][2]