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Nickelodeon is an American children's channel owned by Viacom and operated under its Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group. It first lauched in 1977 under the name 'The Pinwheel Network' until 1979 when they changed the name to nickeloden. The channel is primarily aimed at children in grade school and early teens (ages 6–14) It is broadcast at many different locations around the world including America,Europe, Asia, Africa & Austrailla.

It currently broadcasts many different type of programmes all aimed at children varying from Animations, Sitcoms and Drama. Current programming on Nickelodeon includes SpongeBob SquarePants, iCarly, The Fairly Oddparents, Victorious, Big Time Rush and the House of Anubis with reruns of Rugrats, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, All Grown Up!, Zoey 101, Drake and Josh, Kenan and Kel and Saved By The Bell.

Nickeloden has many sister channels including nicktoons, nickjr and teennick. This is so the shows are avalible amongst many different channel and a wide range of audiences. From nickeloden many other platforms are avalible including Nickelodeon Universe (theme park) Nickelodeon Animation (anitmation studio) Nickelodeon On Sunset (studio of production for series) Nickelodeon Suites Resort (hotel) CruiseNickelodeon (cruise ship)
Nickelodeon Studios (attraction at universal studios orlando & part of production) Nick.com, Nickelodeon Movies (released by Paramount Pictures), Nick Magazine, Nick on demand (online platform to watch nick shows)

Viacom - short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests in cinema and cable television. As of 2010, it is the world's fourth-largest media conglomerate. Viacom connects with audiences through television, motion pictures, mobile platforms and online in more than 160 countries and territories. Viacom operates approximately 170 media networks reaching more than 600 million global subscribers and more than 500 branded digital media properties.

Disney Channel lanched in 1983 is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The channel specializes in television programming for children through original children's television series and movies, as well as third-party programming. It is marketed mostly toward young children, pre-teens and teenagers ages 9–14. Disney Channel, originally established as a cable channel in the United States, has expanded worldwide. Countries using English Language are South Africa, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Scandinavia, Baltic states, United Kingdom, Ireland and the Caribbean.

Disney Channel broadcasts original series all aimed at children varying from Animations, Sitcoms and Drama such as Phineas and Ferb, Fish Hooks, Good Luck Charlie, Shake It Up, The Suite Life on Deck and The Wizards of Waverly Place. It sometimes includes re-runs of old shows including Thats So Raven, Lizzie Mcguire, Cory In The House, The Suite Life Of Zac & Cody and Recess.

Sister Channels include Disney XD, Disney XD +1, Disney Channel +1 & Playhouse Disney. this broadcasts different programmes for different audiences and the use of '+1' Channels allows audience to catch up on programmes if they miss them an hour later.

Like Nickeloden, Disney is also avalible of many different platforms like Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (film studio) disneychannel.com, Disney World, (theme park, resorts in Florida & Paris) Disney Cruise Line (cruise line) Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Disney On Demand (online programme streaming) as well as many different merchandise branches.

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational media conglomerate, It is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media.

A small insitution is CITV (short for Children's ITV) is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It is broadcast just in Britian. The CITV channel is an extension of the original afternoon children's programming block shown on the ITV channel. "Children's ITV" began in January 1983 and originally featured pre-recorded in-vision continuity links fronted by various presenters and characters from Children's ITV programmes.

CITV shows programmes such as My Parents Are Aliens, Jungle Run, Art Attack, Horrid Henry, Bookaboo and The Cool Stuff Collective. This branch has a slot on channel ITV and also it's own TV channel on sky.

ITV plc - a British media company that operates 12 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom. ITV plc is divided into three divisions: Broadcasting, which operates the TV networks (including the ITV News Group, which runs the ITV regional franchises); ITV Studios, which comprises both UK and international production, ITV's facilities businesses and Global Entertainment which exploits programme rights, and Commercial & Online, which runs itv.com and the ITV Player, ITV's advertising sales arm and has responsibility for ITV plc's shareholdings in Freeview, Freesat, SDN and YouView.