Nick Jr. is a cable

Cable television

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 TV channel

Television channel

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 aimed for younger child

Child

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ren 2 - 6 years old. Operated by MTV Networks Asia Pacific

MTV Networks Asia Pacific

MTV Networks Asia Pacific comprises three distinctly branded television channels, MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1 in the Asia Pacific region reaching more than 300 million households. Since its inception in 1 January 1994, MTV Networks Asia Pacific has been providing localized channels for young audiences...

 and owned by Viacom International

Viacom International

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.

In May 16, 2011, Viacom launched two new channels, Nick Jr. and MTVNHD

MTVNHD

MTV Live HD is an international 24-hour HD music and entertainment television network that is operated by Viacom International Media Networks' subsidiary MTV Networks Poland...

, in Asia. These 24-hour channels will be available on StarHub TV in Singapore beginning May 18 and on Telekom Malaysia Berhad's Hypp.TV

Hypp.TV

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 in Malaysia on June 1 onwards. The channel will launch aggressively to the rest of Southeast Asia sooner this year. Nick Junior available as a block on Nickelodeon Philippines

Philippines

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History

Nick Jr. along with MTVNHD

MTVNHD

MTV Live HD is an international 24-hour HD music and entertainment television network that is operated by Viacom International Media Networks' subsidiary MTV Networks Poland...

 was first announced on May 16, 2011. It was promoted on Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon South East Asia

Nickelodeon Southeast Asia is a satellite and cable TV channel for children and teenagers. Operated by MTV Networks Asia Pacific and owned by Viacom International....

. The channel is available on StarHub TV in Singapore and Hypp.TV

Hypp.TV

Hypp.TV is a Malaysian subscription-based internet protocol television service owned by Telekom Malaysia Berhad. It provides IPTV channels over ADSL and video on demand programming delivered via broadband. Hypp.TV is an example of telecommunication convergence...

 in Malaysia and sooner to the rest of the region.

Programming

Nick Jr. in South East Asia is a 24 hour commercial free channel.

• Blue's Clues
  Blue's Clues
  Blue's Clues is an American children's television show airing on the Nickelodeon family of channels. The show premiered on September 8, 1996 and airs on Nick Jr. and other channels, although production of new episodes ceased by 2006. Versions of the show have been produced in other countries,...
  
  
• Bubble Guppies
  Bubble Guppies
  Bubble Guppies is an American preschool children's television series produced for Nickelodeon and created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull. The series revolves around the underwater adventures of a group of mermaid-like preschoolers...
  
  
• Dora The Explorer
  Dora the Explorer
  Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. It aired on CBS until...
  
  
• Fifi and the Flowertots
• Go Diego Go
• Little Bill
  Little Bill
  Little Bill is a television show for children on Nick Jr. The stories are based on Bill Cosby's Little Bill book series, set in Philadelphia and feature Bill Jr. learning a lesson or moral. It was developed through research and in consultation with a panel of educational consultants.The show also...
  
  
• Max and Ruby
  Max and Ruby
  Max and Ruby is a Canadian animated series that debuted in 2002 that is aimed at a preschool audience. Created by children's book author/illustrator Rosemary Wells and based on the world of her Max and Ruby books, the episodes present stories about Max, a rambunctious and determined three-year-old...
  
  
• Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
  Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
  Ni Hao, Kai-Lan is a Canadian/American children's television show, which premiered on Nickelodeon on February 7, 2008, and on Noggin on February 2, 2009. It also premiered on the Canadian Television Channel Treehouse TV Since November 2009 the show has also premiered on Nickelodeon in Israel....
  
  
• Team Umizoomi
  Team Umizoomi
  Team Umizoomi is a computer-animated series on Nick Jr. It is located in the center of Umi City, a colorful city where the streets are paved with origami...
  
  
• Wonder Pets
  Wonder Pets
  Wonder Pets is an American animated children's television series. It debuted on March 3, 2006, on the Nick Jr. block of the Nickelodeon cable television network and Noggin on the same day...
  
  
• Yo Gabba Gabba!
  Yo Gabba Gabba!
  Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American children's television show currently airing on the Nick Jr. cable network in the United States and the Nick Jr. networks in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Italy, France and Australia as well as Treehouse TV network in Canada and RTE2 on RTEjr see Raidió Teilifís...
  
  
• The Fresh Beat Band
  The Fresh Beat Band
  The Fresh Beat Band is a children TV show with original pop songs produced for Nick Jr.. The Fresh Beats are Shout, Twist, Marina, and Kiki, described as four best friends in a band who go to music school together and love to sing and dance...
  
  
• Hi-5
• Little Bear
  Little Bear
  Little Bear may refer to:* Little Bear , a children's book series written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak** Little Bear , a children's TV series based upon the books...
  
  
• The Upside Down Show
  The Upside Down Show
  The Upside Down Show AKA Down Upside is a Logie Award winning live-action daytime children's show featuring Shane Dundas and David Collins that airs on Noggin, Nick Jr. Australia and ABC Australia. The duo gained fame as physical comedians, The Umbilical Brothers, playing brothers who lived...
  
  
• Franklin
  Franklin (TV series)
  Franklin is a Canadian animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois. The television series was named after its main character, Franklin the Turtle...
  
  
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
  Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
  Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is an animated program based on the children's books by David Kirk, which airs on Nick Jr. in the United States, on Treehouse TV in Canada, and on Discovery Kids in Brazil...
  
  
• LazyTown
  LazyTown
  LazyTown is a children's television program that was produced in Iceland with a cast and crew from Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was created by Magnús Scheving, a gymnastics champion and CEO of LazyTown Entertainment, who also stars in the show...
  
  
• Olivia
  Olivia (TV series)
  Olivia is a British-American children's animated television series produced by media company Chorion and based on Ian Falconer's books. It is seen on Nick Jr. in the US, Milkshake!, Nick Jr. in the UK and Ireland, and Disney Junior in Latin America and Brazil, Treehouse TV in Canada...
  
  
• Oswald
  Oswald (TV series)
  Oswald is an American children's cartoon series on Nick Jr. about a blue octopus and his friends, that first aired August 20, 2001 and officially ended in early 2004. The show was created by Dan Yaccarino and was co-produced by HiT Entertainment. It was also shown on Noggin in reruns. The show...
  
  
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
  Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
  Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is an American animated television series created by Bob Boyle. The series is animated in Toon Boom and Adobe Flash software, produced by Bolder Media, and Starz Media...
  
  
• Blue's Room
  Blue's Room
  Blue's Room is a children's puppet show television series which is aimed at preschoolers, aged 2-6, and it is a spin-off series of the popular Blue's Clues series...
  
  
• Artzooka
• Max & Ruby

External links

• Nick Jr. on Nickelodeon SEA