Classic Nickelodeon Presentation

It was known as The Paramount Channel for the first year or two, as it had some drama as well as comedy. The programme menu used to open the station each night after Nickelodeon.

Paramount and Nick used to share the same building in Rathbone Place but I think Paramount comes from the MTV (TVAM) studios in Camden now.

BTW, thanks for posting those pictures, they bring back some great memories of Nickelodeon.

As others have said only Yiolanda is still about

This was the full line up back in 1995
http://www.hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk/nick18.jpg

I cant believe that rollerblade DOG was used in 1995 i thought that was introduced when i got the original Sky in 1998. Is there any chance of a .rm file of those studio images?

I remember all of that lot. As someone said though, although there is still presenting, it's gone very US.

Is that the titles? And what was the studio part called then?

And the reason why they played the menu at that time is so that for people like me who at the time had a cable company that didn't take Paramount could see what we were missing and phone up to ask them to get it.

As you could see from the menu they started off as a general entertainment channel, showing comedy and drama. Although they've bought some great shows recently (loving this new series of South Park!) the channel was at it's best around the time it changed it's name. It had some great Paramount Presents shorts including early work from Dom Joly, Simon Pegg, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. I think Dominik Diamond hosted a few links too, and I might be wrong but I think Sasha Baron-Cohen's Bruno character might have debuted there. Pity they don't repeat any of that stuff, particularly Lucas & Walliams stuff as "Mash & Peas", they did some fantastic TV spoofs, a bit like Rock Profile but doing Tony Hart, Why Don't You and a great Gary Bushell one where he kept going "Wake up ITV!!"

I remember all those Nick presenters too. You get the feeling multichannel TV has lost a little something these days, there seemed to be more quality back then... (God, I'm turning into John Humphrys, somebody do something!!)

No its a clip from a new season trailer, set to some typically 1995 music "things could be marvelous" or whatever it was called

No you're not getting any videos, just captures

I remember that promo as if it was yesterday, I loved it. I know I have some old tapes of NICK around somewhere with 'Pirate TV' where they stayed broadcasting an hour later in the summer holidays and they made out no-one knew about it. There was no shows on just an hour of the presenter prattin about. Classic TV.

Nick IVC might have gone downhill,even if they have got another half an hour,but there's still CBBC and Studio Disney.I haven't got sky digital but Studio Disney sounds better than The Crunch and i know more about Studio Disney.

Got no idea why it's called The Crunch because they've got another half an hour,it should be called The Expansion!

http://www.hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk/nick17.jpg

I used to, have a serious crush on Mounya and Yiolanda ten years ago . . . especially Yiolanda!

Indeed, that's the era this is from as Paramount started at 8pm rather than the more typical 7pm. I believe it was only on Sky as they still said goodbye and ran the woof woof dogs graphic at 7pm

When we got Cable for the first month and when it was still called Nynex, they never showed Paramount, we'd get a Preview then they would opt-out for Performance - The Arts Channel, but Multi-Channel TV had a big shake in September 1997 and Nynex saw sense and added Paramount onto Nickelodeon.