Nickelodeon Brazil

Nickelodeon
Launched	December 20, 1996
Closed	December 29, 2025 (Claro TV) • December 31, 2025
Owner	Paramount Networks Americas (Paramount Global)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i for the SD feed)
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese
Broadcast Area	Brazil
Headquarters	São Paulo, São Paulo
Sister channel(s)	Nick Jr.
Website	www.nickelodeon.com.br

Nickelodeon Brazil is a cable and satellite television channel, the Brazilian counterpart of the American network Nickelodeon.

History

Nickelodeon Brazil was launched on December 20, 1996 in Brazil as a children-oriented channel, being the main competitor of Cartoon Network, which was launched 3 years before.

In February 2005, the program Patrulha Nick premiered, a compilation of reruns,it featured the first production made in Brazil, Anabel. The program ended briefly in March 2005.

On February 13, 2006, Nick at Nite was launched in Brazil, and aired on weeknights from 10 pm to 6 am, and on May 15 of the same year, it debuted the first original sitcom, Skimo.

On June 9, 2008, the channel launched "Nickers", a live-action show with two hosts introducing shows and music. It followed the same line and was very similar to Disney Channel's Zapping Zone. The block was retired in all feeds in December 2008. In 2008, two new original productions premiered, both being telenovelas. The first one, Isa TKM premiered on September 29, 2008 and La Maga y el Camino Dorado premiered on October 13 of the same year.

In 2009, a new segment called Nick Hits, which aired classic Nicktoons, replaced Nick at Nite on weekends. On April 5, 2010, Nickelodeon Brazil started carrying the new logo already in use on many Nickelodeon networks around the world. Also, classic Nicktoons seen on Nick Hits became part of Nick at Nite. In June 2010, Viacom gave the rights for Mexico to release their own Kids Choice Awards. It premiered on September 4, 2010. On July 20, 2010, another original series called Sueña conmigo premiered.

Through August 2010, Nickelodeon started to rerun Avatar: The Last Airbender to promote the film The Last Airbender; with this, a new on-air logo showed when the series is airing, an arrow blurring takes on/off in the Nick logo. On May 2, 2011 premiered the fifth original production called Grachi. In late January 2012, MTV Networks Latin America announced another telenovela, Miss XV, that was premiered on April 16, 2012.

On September 20, 2012. The HD channel was released on the country initially with different programming from the SD signal, but in 2016 the two signals were unified during the broadcast of Sanjay and Craig.

On January 1, 2015, the block Nick at Nite went off the air and got replaced by the new block, Nick Clásicos.

On 17 October 2023, Nickelodeon Brazil delocalised and started to use some assets from EMEAA. Trailers are now textless and end credits are replaced with short credits along with dubbing credits. However, it is still retaining some localization, such as advertisements, localised text on selected trailers, and opt-outs for local programming, such as Marcelo, Marmelo, Martelo.

Closure

On October 7, 2025, Paramount announced that all of its networks, including Nickelodeon, will close in Brazil on December 31, 2025, due to high operational costs in the respective country, declining ratings for pay television in Brazil and the Brazilian pay TV crisis, however, the channel ended earlier in Claro TV operator on December 29, 2025, in this closure the last show aired was SpongeBob SquarePants, with the episode PL-1413. On the other cable operators, a warning was showed in the bottom corner of the screen, a warning appears with the following message: “A Nickelodeon encerrarão suas atividades quinta-feira. Obrigado por assistir”, (Nickelodeon will cease operations on Thursday. Thank you for watching) it's worth mention that, it had a grammal error in "Encerrarão" because the verb is conjugated in the plural when it should be in the singular.