Nickelodeon Marks Winning Week With 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards And Strongest Gains Of The Year

Nickelodeon has announced in the following Press Release, from PRNewswire, that, fueled by a week of surging ratings and a winning performance from its "26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards", Nickelodeon USA has posted double-digit gains with its core demo and closed the week (3/18/13-3/24/13), its highest-rated of the year, as the top cable net with kids 2-11 (3.1/1.0 million; +24%) and total viewers (2.0 million; +27%). Quarter to date, the network has been posting steady gains and is up over last year with both kids 2-11 (2.9/971,000; +7%) and total viewers (1.9 million; +6%).

"Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards" was a slime-tastic extravaganza watched by more than 12 million total viewers in the USA over the weekend. Hosted by Josh Duhamel, Saturday night's live premiere (March 23, 8-9:30 p.m.; all times ET/PT) drew 5.8 million total viewers and ranks as the top telecast of the week (3/18-3/24) with kids and tweens across all TV, averaging an 8.0/2.7 million K2-11, 10.0/2.0 million K6-11 and 9.5/1.9 million T9-14. The show also aired on Sunday, March 24 at 12 p.m. and averaged a 3.5/1.1 million K2-11 and drew 2.5 million total viewers, followed by an evening airing (9 p.m.) that scored a 2.2/718,000 K2-11 and 1.5 million total viewers.

Kids tuned into Nickelodeon in droves overall on Saturday, March 23. The day delivered an extraordinary 4.6 rating with Kids 2-11, up +52% versus the same day last year. Among Kids 6-11, Nick averaged a 4.9 for the day this, up +40% versus last year. Ratings were powered by a combo of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "The Fairly OddParents" movies, including "The Fairly OddParents: Fairly OddPet" (7:30 p.m), which ranks as the number-two telecast for the week with kids and drew 3.9 million total viewers.

Nickelodeon has also announced in the same news release that, internationally, the 2013 KCAs has delivered strong preliminary results across the board. This year's show was the highest-rated ever among kids in many of the international markets Nickelodeon has analyzed to date, including the UK (+43%), Germany (+3%) and the Netherlands (+5%). The KCAs also was the number-one show in its time slot among kids' channels in Poland. This year, Nickelodeon extended voting for the KCAs to more countries and categories than ever before, drawing a record-breaking total votes from fans outside the U.S. (more than 148 million votes!) – an impressive +284% increase from last year's international total of 39 million.

Nickelodeon USA's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards ratings press release:

Nickelodeon Marks Winning Week With 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards And Strongest Gains Of The Year

Star-Studded Live Telecast is Week's Top Program with Kids and Tweens, Reaches More Than 12 Million Viewers, Sets New Voting Record with 392 Million Votes Cast Globally

NEW YORK, March 26, 2013 /Nickelodeon Press Release via PRNewswire/ -- Fueled by a week of surging ratings and a winning performance from its 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, Nickelodeon posted double-digit gains with its core demo and closed the week (3/18/13-3/24/13), its highest-rated of the year, as the top cable net with kids 2-11 (3.1/1.0 million; +24%) and total viewers (2.0 million; +27%). Quarter to date, the network has been posting steady gains and is up over last year with both kids 2-11 (2.9/971,000; +7%) and total viewers (1.9 million; +6%).

Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards was a slime-tastic extravaganza watched by more than 12 million total viewers over the weekend. Hosted by Josh Duhamel , Saturday night's live premiere (March 23, 8-9:30 p.m.; all times ET/PT) drew 5.8 million total viewers and ranks as the top telecast of the week (3/18-3/24) with kids and tweens across all TV, averaging an 8.0/2.7 million K2-11, 10.0/2.0 million K6-11 and 9.5/1.9 million T9-14. The show also aired on Sunday, March 24 at 12 p.m. and averaged a 3.5/1.1 million K2-11 and drew 2.5 million total viewers, followed by an evening airing (9 p.m.) that scored a 2.2/718,000 K2-11 and 1.5 million total viewers.

Kids tuned into Nickelodeon in droves overall on Saturday, March 23. The day delivered an extraordinary 4.6 rating with Kids 2-11, up +52% versus the same day last year. Among Kids 6-11, Nick averaged a 4.9 for the day this, up +40% versus last year. Ratings were powered by a combo of SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents movies, including The Fairly OddParents: Fairly OddPet (7:30 p.m), which ranks as the number-two telecast for the week with kids and drew 3.9 million total viewers.

Kids paid tribute to their favorites by casting a record-breaking 392 million votes globally Feb. 14 - March 23 (including live voting during the Orange Carpet Preshow). In addition to the Kids' Choice Awards website on Nick.com, families were able to vote via the Nick mobile website (m.nick.com) and through a KCA app for the iPad. Fans were also able to vote for their favorite stars using a Facebook application on the Nickelodeon Facebook page. Users voted from a tab on the page and, for the first time ever, the entire voting experience could be embedded directly into Facebook wall posts. Also new this year, fans were able to vote for their favorite nominees on Twitter through the use of custom hash tags and SMS subscribers could vote on a category per day for the three weeks leading up to the event.

Internationally, the 2013 KCAs has delivered strong preliminary results across the board. This year's show was the highest-rated ever among kids in many of the international markets Nickelodeon has analyzed to date, including the UK (+43%), Germany (+3%) and the Netherlands (+5%). The KCAs also was the number-one show in its time slot among kids' channels in Poland. This year, Nickelodeon extended voting for the KCAs to more countries and categories than ever before, drawing a record-breaking total votes from fans outside the U.S. (more than 148 million votes!) – an impressive +284% increase from last year's international total of 39 million.

Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards featured Johnny Depp who won this year's Favorite Movie Actor Award; slimings of Sandra Bullock and Neil Patrick Harris , Amanda Seyfried and Josh Hutcherson , Dwight Howard ; and a double sliming featuring Nick Cannon and host Duhamel. The show also featured Fergie, Katy Perry , Jessica Alba , Selena Gomez , Steve Carell , Kristen Wiig , Nick Cannon , Rico Rodriguez , Kaley Cuoco , LeBron James , Adam Sandler , Dwayne Johnson , Gabby Douglas, Logan Lerman , Sophia Grace and Rosie, Cory Monteith , Lucy Hale , Danica Patrick and Kevin Hart . Musical performances included Pitbull and Christina Aguilera performing a medley of "Don't Stop the Party" and their hit single "I just Want to Feel This Moment," Pop sensation Ke$ha, kept the festivities going with a medley of "We Are Who We Are" and "C'Mon".

Nickelodeon, now in its 33rd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 18 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).

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Nickelodeon UK Exceeds Ofcom's Access Services Requirements In 2012

BBC News' Entertainment and Arts column is reporting the Nick UK News that Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has announced in their report on television access services (subtitling, signing and audio description) for 2012, that, although Nickelodeon UK had a 1.7% shortfall in their subtitling targets, which was therefore added to the British and Irish version of the popular children's channels requirement under Ofcom's Code on Television Access Services to subtitling 70% in 2012, and also missed their audio description target in 2011, Nickelodeon UK exceeded their annual quota for subtitled programming and broadcast 72.7% of the channels programmes with subtitles in 2012. Nick UK also exceeded their requirement for the amount of programming broadcast with Audio Description and broadcast 11.7% of the channels output with Audio Description:

ESPN fails to meet subtitling and audio access targets

Sports channel ESPN failed to meet its targets to provide subtitling and audio descriptions on its programming last year, regulator Ofcom has said.

The channel had previously been found in breach of Ofcom's code for failing to provide audio descriptions in 2011 despite a target of 3% of programmes.

The shortfall was added to its quota for 2012, however ESPN failed to meet the target again.

Ofcom said it was "in discussions with ESPN about this matter".

The regulator published the findings in its report on television access services for 2012, which covers the provision of subtitling, signing and audio description by broadcasters under Ofcom's code.

ESPN's new target for providing audio description last year was 8% of programmes, however only 2.3% of its content met the requirement.

It also under-delivered on its subtitling target, broadcasting 15.7% against a quota of 22.5%.

ESPN has yet to comment on the report's findings.

Ofcom noted in its report that the two channels which missed their subtitling targets in 2011 - Livingit and Challenge - and subsequently had the shortfalls added to their 2012 targets, had managed to exceed them.

Children's channel Nickelodeon also missed its 2011 quota for both subtitling and audio description, but surpassed its new target last year.

Ofcom said it welcomed the fact the vast majority of channels continued to meet or exceed their television access service targets, with many channels subtitling more than 70% of their content.

Also, below is Ofcom's Television Access Services' Final report on 2012, from the official Ofcom Stakeholders website, stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk:

Television Access Services: Final report on 2012

Published 26|03|13

This is the final report for 2012 on the provision of television access services (subtitling, signing and audio description) by broadcasters under the Code on Television Access Services. As such, it shows the cumulative position from January to December 2012. An explanation of the obligations applying to broadcasters is given in the Code of Television Access Services and is available on the Ofcom website. http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/tv-access-services/

Ofcom welcomes the fact that the vast majority of channels continue to meet or exceed their television access service targets, many by significant margins (1). Many channels are now subtitling more than 70% of their content. A number of broadcasters have voluntarily committed to deliver 20% audio description on all or most of their channels. This includes ITV1 (in England & Wales), Channel 4, and Sky (with the exception of its sports channels) and the BBC who have committed to increase its audio description targets in 2% annual increments from 2011 onwards. Ofcom is also pleased to note that many other broadcasters have delivered significantly more audio description than they were required to do.

Two channels that missed their subtitling targets in 2011 (Livingit and Challenge) and one channel that missed both its subtitling and audio description targets (Nickelodeon) had the shortfalls added to their targets for 2012 and have managed to exceed them.

In June 2012, Ofcom found ESPN in breach of the Ofcom Code on Television Access Services for failure to provide any audio description in 2011, despite a target of 3% (2). The shortfall was added to ESPN's audio description quota for 2012. As this report shows, EPSN has again failed to meet its audio description target and also under-delivered against its subtitling target by 6.82%. We are currently in discussions with ESPN about this matter.

Channels with an audience share of between 0.05% and 1% have the option either to broadcast 30 minutes of sign-presented programming each month or to participate in Ofcom-approved alternative arrangements that contribute to the availability of sign-presented programming. Where 'Alt' is shown against a channel, this indicates that the broadcaster is contributing to the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT), which commissions sign-presented programming broadcast on the Community Channel and Film 4.

We expect to publish the next report at the beginning of September 2013, providing data for the first six months of 2013.

Television Access Services: Full Year Report 2012

Level 1

Service - Nickelodeon

Subtitling - Annual quota - 71.7%5

Subtitling - Achieved (Full 2012) - 72.7%

Audio Description - Annual quota - 10%

Audio Description - Annual quota - 11.7%

Signing - Annual quota - Alt

Signing - Achieved (Full 2012) - [N/A]

Service - MTV

Subtitling - Annual quota - 70%

Subtitling - Achieved (Full 2012) - 72.2%

Audio Description - Annual quota - 10%

Audio Description - Annual quota - 11.7%

Signing - Annual quota - Alt

Signing - Achieved (Full 2012) - [N/A]

Service - Comedy Central

Subtitling - Annual quota - 70%

Subtitling - Achieved (Full 2012) - 71.4%

Audio Description - Annual quota - 10%

Audio Description - Annual quota - 16.1%

Signing - Annual quota - Alt

Signing - Achieved (Full 2012) - [N/A]

Source: Ofcom data provided by broadcasters

1 The BBC has adopted a voluntary target of 100% subtitling in respect of its programmes. As occasional glitches are inevitable, this target is very difficult to meet in practice. The BBC reported that technical and operational outages meant that some subtitling was not successfully transmitted. Nonetheless, the BBC channels missed the 100% target by no more than 0.1%.

2 http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb207/obb207.pdf

3 Where 'Alt' is shown against a channel, this indicates that the broadcaster is contributing to the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT), which commissions sign-presented programming broadcast on the Community Channel and Film 4.

4 Sky Livingit had a 9.6% shortfall in subtitling provision in 2011 and this was therefore added to their requirement under the Code to subtitling 70% in 2012

5 Nickelodeon had a 1.7% shortfall in subtitling provision in 2011 and this was therefore added to their requirement under the Code to subtitling 70% in 2012

6 ESPN had a 3% shortfall in audio description provision in 2011 and this was therefore added to their requirement under the Code to Audio Describe 5% of content in 2012.

7 Challenge had a 9.2% shortfall in subtitling provision in 2011 and this was therefore added to their requirement under the Code to subtitling 46.2% in 2012

Classic Nickelodeon Show "Clarissa Explains It All" To Make A Comeback In New Book "Things I Can't Explain"

The entertainment news website Digital Spy is reporting in the following article the exciting Classic Nickelodeon News that Mitchell Kriegman, the creator of the Classic Nick series "Clarissa Explains It All", has announced he plans to pen a brand new novel called "Things I Can't Explain", which will pick up with the show's heroine, Clarissa Darling, played by Melissa Joan Hart in the retro Nickelodeon show, as an adult.

The book, scheduled for publication in late 2014, will follow a 23-year-old Clarissa Darling as she attempts to make her way as a journalist and deals with a series of romantic troubles.

The original "Clarissa Explains It All" TV show aired on Nickelodeon between 1991 and 1994. A pilot for a spin-off show called "Clarissa Now" was shot by CBS in 1995, but was not picked up to series. Melissa Joan Hart previously mentioned in an interview with Digital Spy that many fans still associate her with the role of Clarissa. "Now it's come back to Clarissa," she said in 2011. "It's a little cult hit." Reruns of CEIA have appeared intermittently on TeenNick's programming block "The '90s Are All That" since July 25, 2011, and is currently being repeated on Nickelodeon UK as part of a similar block:

'Clarissa Explains It All' to return for new book

Clarissa Explains It All is to be revived in book form.

Clarissa creator Mitchell Kriegman is to pen new novel Things I Can't Explain, which will pick up with the show's heroine as an adult.



Melissa Joan Hart in 'Clarissa Explains It All'
The book, scheduled for publication in late 2014, will follow a 23-year-old Clarissa Darling as she attempts to make her way as a journalist and deals with a series of romantic troubles.

The original Clarissa Explains It All starred Melissa Joan Hart as the title character and aired on Nickelodeon between 1991 and 1994.

A pilot for a follow-up show Clarissa Now was shot by CBS in 1995, but was not picked up to series.

Hart previously told Digital Spy that many fans still associate her with the role of Clarissa.

"Now it's come back to Clarissa," she said in 2011. "It's a little cult hit."

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Watch a '90s Nickelodeon promo for Clarissa Explains It All below: