Nick Jr. Channel

The Nick Jr. Channel (commonly known as simply Nick Jr.) is an American pay television channel owned by the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Skydance Corporation. An offshoot of Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. programming block, the channel launched on September 28, 2009, in the space previously held by Noggin, and primarily targets children ages 2 to 6 years old. Its lineup features a mix of original programming along with series from the Nick Jr. block. To avoid confusion between the two entities, the channel has been identified on-air as the "Nick Jr. Channel" since March 2018 and on-screen until September 2023.

Noggin was originally relaunched in 2015 as a streaming media service and operated as a separate sister brand until its shutdown in 2024. Noggin's programming is distinct from Nick Jr.'s, carrying pre-teen programs both in its early years as a channel and also on the independent 2025 streaming service, while the original 2015 streaming service featured a variety of exclusive series. From May 2021 to March 2022, the Nick Jr. Channel aired a "Noggin Hour" block of programming every Friday, featuring series such as Noggin Knows and Kinderwood.

Both the Nick Jr. block and channel are currently running, with the former airing weekdays on Nickelodeon from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET (hours vary during summer months, other school breaks, and major national holidays), featuring traditional commercial breaks for certain programs. As of November 2023, the Nick Jr. Channel is available to approximately 54 million pay television households in the United States — down from its peak of 77 million households in 2013. Until August 2025, the channel's content was sent to Canada to air on a children's channel called Treehouse which lost the rights to air its content on September 1, 2025 along with the channel's Canadian counterpart to shutdown completely.