Doing so keeps these programs alive, but one service decided to purge a few. Initially known as Pinwheel, Nickelodeon hit small screens on December 1, 1977. It focused on providing worldwide ...

At the time it was called Pinwheel before officially launched as Nickelodeon on April 1, 1979. The idea for the channel was from Dr. Vivian Horner, an educator as well as the director of research ...

Nickelodeon was originally a type of theater in the early 1900s, named for its five-cent admission cost and Greek roots. The network started in 1977 as Pinwheel Network, later changing to ...