#Spike tv name change movie#
On 18 January 2018, the American channel Spike was rebranded as Paramount Network by Viacom Media Networks to closely associate with the Paramount Pictures movie studio.
On some platforms in the Netherlands, and in Flanders Spike keeps on time-sharing daily between 21:05 and 5:00 with Nickelodeon, which is 2.5 hours longer than before 12 December 2016.
Nickelodeon became a 24-hours channel again. On 12 December 2016 Spike launched as a 24-hours channel on Ziggo in the Netherlands, followed by KPN, Telfort, XS4ALL, Caiway and T-Mobile Thuis 3 months later. This brings the American Spike channel for the first time in the Netherlands and Belgium. It started broadcasting at night and broadcasts from 21:00 to 2:30 on Nickelodeon, replacing TeenNick in its time slot. On 18 August 2015, Viacom announced that Spike would launch in the Netherlands and Flanders on 1 October 2015. On, the channel was renamed by Paramount Network. Until 6 January 2021, the channel was also available in Flanders. As of 12 December 2016 the channel is broadcasting 24 hours a day in the Netherlands. Initially it only broadcast daily between 21:00 and 2:30, time-sharing with Nickelodeon. The television channel aimed at an audience of mainly men. It was the third Spike channel next to the US and UK version of the channel. The television channels launched as Spike on 1 October 2015. Paramount Network is a Dutch free-to-cable television channel in the Netherlands, based on the American rebranded Paramount Network.
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