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      • Initially scheduled for a February 1979 launch, Nickelodeon was officially launched on April 1, 1979 (as the first-ever children's network) on Warner Cable franchises across the country.
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  2. 1977–1979: Pre-launch as C-3. Nickelodeon's concept was created by Dr. Vivian Horner, an educator and the director of research on the PBS series The Electric Company. She created the first Nickelodeon series, Pinwheel. The Pinwheel show premiered on December 1, 1977, as part of QUBE, [1] an early local cable television system that was ...

  3. This article is devoted to the history of the cable channel Nickelodeon. The original concept of Nickelodeon was conceived by Dr. Vivian Horner, an educator who worked as the director of research on The Electric Company. Horner also created Nickelodeon's first original series Pinwheel, which aired on the C-3 channel on Warner Cable's QUBE system in Columbus, Ohio, beginning on December 1, 1977 ...

  4. Oct 16, 2023 · 1977–1979: Pre-launch with Pinwheel. Nickelodeon's concept was created by Dr. Vivian Horner, an educator and the director of research on the PBS series The Electric Company. She created the first Nickelodeon series, Pinwheel. The Pinwheel show premiered on December 1, 1977 as part of QUBE, an early local cable television system that was ...

  5. Also known as storefront theaters, nickelodeons experienced their heyday from about 1903 to 1915. Named for "nickel," the price of admission, and "odeon," the Greek word for theater, nickelodeons offered the first affordable mass entertainment for lower-income urban people, and hence became wildly popular during the first decades of the ...

  6. By 1907, about 2 million Americans had watched a nickelodeon. A line of 450 gathered outside the world's first nickelodeon theater on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1905. Admission to the mix of live vaudeville entertainment and short films, each under a minute long, cost five cents.

  7. Mar 29, 2024 · Nickelodeon got its start in 1977 as part of Qube, the first two-way interactive cable system/remote control by Warner Cable. At the time, Qube's ability to be passed around the room and to be ...

  8. PART 5The Beginnings of the Nickelodeon Era: 1905–1907. 13 Nickels Count: Storefront Theaters, 1905–1907. 14 Production as the Nickelodeon Era Begins: 1905–1907. History of the American Cinema.

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