Why do people not watch Nickelodeon nowadays?
 

I saw numerous posts about Nickelodeon not being a good channel anymore. I would like to know why.

Maybe its those who grew up watching Nickelodeon, when they were kids, Its hard to look back at it, when your all grown up.

IMO, I don't watch a lot of Nickelodeon because I think they don't have as many good shows on their channel as they used to have. TMNT is pretty much the only Nick show I watch now that Korra's gone.

TMNT is the only show I watch on Nick, All the other shows just don't appeal to me.

It's pretty simple...people don't like their current programming,

I loved Nick growing up...Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko, Pete & Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare, Alex Mack were all great.

Now that Korra is done, TMNT is the only thing I watch on Nick.

yup watched all those as a kid... always got mad at contestants "Legends of the Hidden Temple" because i knew i could have run the temple better haha...

Back in the 80s and 90s, I used to watch Nickelodeon for shows like, Danger Mouse, You Can't Do that on Television, Nick Arcade, Ren & Stimpy.

You weren't the only one that got miffed whenever the contestants got nabbed by those Temple Guards.

Aside from Legends of the Hidden Temple, I really liked Global GUTS; it was neat see contestants from other countries compete in the games and climb up the Super Aggro Crag mountain.

I also watched a few of the shows that NingaPug mentioned.

As for me not watching Nickelodeon - lack of cable / lack of satellite service. I just watch Youtube for TMNT episodes.

There isn't too much I watch on it right now. TMNT of course. Spongebob sometimes if I don't mind a repeat and there's nothing better. Fairly Odd Parents once in a while. That's about it anymore.

I always liked Nick and I'm not beyond watching "kids shows" now and then that are decent, but I think the common current trend in type/style of shows that are out there right now just don't appeal to me much.

The last few newer cartoon series they've brought on board have been (imo) kind of stupid or otherwise annoying. I think supposedly they're also going to be showing Oggy & The Cockroaches? Which I saw a piece of online last year somewhere along the way and wasn't impressed.

Too many of the live action shows are annoying enough from the commercials alone. And tired of that ditzy, too excitable "yay me" sort of mentality/vibe that I blame the Disney Channel for starting.

Sure, Nick is a kid's channel, but there was a time - such as the old game shows being mentioned - when there were also things that appealed to families. Now an adult is libel to risk losing a few IQ points over some of it.

This about sums my opinion up too. Only thing was I stopped watching Korra after the first season. I just didn't like it as much as the original Avatar series. But yeah, Nick has a bunch of weird preteen shows on it that just don't appeal to us old-timers :P

Btw, Ren & Stimpy was my jam. If it wasn't for TMNT '12, that'd be my favorite cartoon ever. But, I will say that Ren is by far, my favorite cartoon character :D Love Ren! <3

I haven't watched the network regularly in years, so take what I think about this as you will.

I grew up with 80s Nickelodeon and 90s Nickelodeon, but I felt that by the mid-90s, the quality of it started to go downhill. To me, earlier Nickelodeon had more variety of programming. Sure early Nick showed Pinwheel like a million times a day, but it picked up steam.

Anyway, I liked the fact that Nickelodeon in the 80s had something that could maybe appeal to everyone. Parents and kids, like say Livewire. It was a talk show...for kids, but even my father watched this for musical guests. He actually still has an ep on Beta that had REM on it. There were shows imported from other countries, and Pinwheel did feature cartoons from different places as well.

We had Count Duckula (UK), Mysterious Cities of Gold (Japan), Danger Mouse (UK), etc. There was Turkey TV, Mr. Wizard's World! Seriously, the show was educational and fun and wasn't part of Nick Jr.'s block. It was part of Nickelodeon. I know it made me want to go through the house to try and find the materials needed to do the experiments featured on the show. They showed some old classics, like Dennis the Menace and Lassie, which seemed to resonate decently with kids as well.

I dunno, it just felt like the network, not counting the very beginning, had more of a balance of programming. Mornings for kids (like Pinwheel, Mapletown, Elephant Show, etc.), afternoons for older kids and teens (You Can't Do That on Television, Double Dare, Noozles, Livewire, etc.), nights for adults (with the addition of Nick@Nite).

The 90s was okay too, but it seemed to start tapering off, imo, by the mid-90s. The shows that the 80s Nick had were starting to stop being broadcast, Nick Jr. was taking up a larger block (early Nick. Jr., from what I recall seemed to air up until 12:00 and 12:00 - 8:00 was Nickelodeon [9:00 on Sundays in the early 90s because of Looney Tunes])... The teen shows maybe were cheesy in the 90s...but they weren't...annoying like they are now and I think the main prob Nick has is that it's "tween central" being run by a talking sponge. Seems the "teen" shows of the past had some realism to them, but now, it has me scratching my head thinking, "Do kids really relate to and act like this now-a-days?"

So...my scattered thoughts aside, I just feel earlier Nickelodeon and 90s Nickelodeon, to an extent had more variety and the live-action shows they did have (80s) could appeal to an adult audience and a child audience (Out of Control comes to mind). The comedy shows were more witty (Debatable...but maybe the 1981 eps of YCDTOTV would fall under this category, as the show got more...silly as it went on to cater to an American audience), and we had shows like Roundhouse that dealt with improv comedy, which was quite creative, and imo, All That dumbed the humor down for kids and the spinoffs after that seemed to fall victim to that as well.

Welcome Freshman was a silly show, but it was still relatable.

Sorry, I'm just rambling now...

Edit: Oh, forgot to add this in. Or...I'm just too darn old to like the station anymore and viewing 80s/90s Nickelodeon through rose-colored glasses. :-P lol Nah, partially....but still feel that it had more variety and balance back then where adults could enjoy the programs too.

I recall a couple of years ago, where my mother was trying to watch some children's programs that her grand-nieces/nephews were into. She said it was painful to watch. She said she actually could get into the stuff I watched when I was young (minus Ren & Stimpy and even I got sick of that after a while....she did love Count Duckula though) and just felt the shows were....stupid and dumbed down (in her opinion). I wonder if others feel this way as well...

the shows
 

even as an adult I enjoy cartoons, but their shows just aren't good anymore, same with cartoon network, and Disney channel. There's only been a handful of good shows the past decade which sucks. The golden age of cartoons is over. But there is still good stuff every now and then. I don't even remember the last time I watched nickelodeon though (cause of the sheer fact nothing on there interests me). I watch teen nick quite frequent though.

That was so long ago but still able to recite at least the first half of the opening theme song after all these years. :tlol:

I grew up with Nickelodeon in its early days, but now my only reasons for watching Nickelodeon are Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers. I'd have a look at iCarly up until it ended. I also watched Victorious, but only after it ended and was in reruns.

Pure and and simple zero variety if you dont like Spoungebob or whatever tween girl show there really isn't anything for anyone. Lets face it its a problem facing alot of major networks. You get one major success and they over saturate it. I think there doing this because of streaming sites like Hulu and netflix are taking over. Instead of trying to get all different types of demos watching there content with sticking to the majority they already have out of fear they loose them to one of those streaming sites.

Granted that was still no reason to treat Legend of Korra like crap.

YES! Ah, the golden years of Nick, back when it really was GOOD.



I will agree to all of this. You even mentioned some of my favorites, like Mr. Wizard's World, Danger Mouse, Mysterious Cities of Gold, World of David the Gnome (Okay, I know you didn't name that one, but I feel it SHOULD be mentioned....), Count Duckula, (Ha, I even ended up marrying a "duck"!) Double Dare, You Can't Do That, and others.

Well, I don't watch Nick because no cable. :V Not even sure what's on it any more. Back when I had cable, all I watched on it was Fairly Oddparents and Drake and Josh. I liked Invader Zim, too. But I've never been real huge on Nick, I've always preferred Cartoon Network and Toon Disney [is Toon Disney even a thing any more?]

Only time I'm exposed to cable is when I'm at my grandmother's house and over there all I watch is Cartoon Network, Animal Planet, and the Hub. I don't even glance at Nick.

I used to watch Nick Jr., when it was still Noggin. :x I refused to watch Nick Jr. after that.. even though I don't know why. I also owned a bunch of Blue's Clues VHS tapes, which I watched so much, they didn't work. :ohwell: You would be lucky if you saw a black screen, or static, because the audio and video channels would cut out at random.
Also Face! I used to LOVE Face. My mum would video tape just the Face parts of the shows. :lol:
FACE: Haunting Nightmares since a random year,

Spongebob started to become terrible. There's my answer.

Likewise on those two, they were kind of cute when they caught my attention now and then.

Shame they ended already. I guess to make room for whatever that other stuff is that they have now. Definitely seem to be pushing hard for an 8 to 14 demographic right now. Or something like that.