When it comes to children shows the most popular and beloved ones come from Disney channel or from Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon Original aired December of 1977. Where are Disney Channel original aired in April of 1983. Making Disney Channel, as of 2016, having 33 years on the air and Nickelodeon about to reach its 39 year on television. The companies both have different starts to them. Disney channel clearly having Disney behind it to start. Whereas Nickelodeon gained Warner Bros. behind them. Both of these networks are major player in children programing and both have branch out too wide their channels to younger children and teenagers. Over the years you can clearly see that although both big Disney channel is bigger than Nickelodeon. But, in my belief based on the starts of both channels Nickelodeon should be more successful then Disney channel. In this paper I will be talking about the different starts to both companies, the shows that made their channels a success and were Disney has taken steps that have allowed them to be more successful then Nickelodeon and how Nickelodeon can change that.…show more content… After the relaunch the did not have much success do the lacked popular programing. The chairman, at the time, Geraldine Laybourne said “Kids today feel insignificant. Our goal is no to educate them, but to entertain them, and make them feel good about being kids” (Lewin). In 1985 Nickelodeon began to run 24 hours. In June of 1990 nickelodeon opened nickelodeon studios. Nickelodeon studio start to create contain for the for the channel that can be consisted some of the major cartoons. Some of the cartoons that were created included shows like Doug (Figure 2: Doug TV Show), Rugrats and Ren & Stimpy. These shows brought success to the
