Before I start sharing the caps I have of the other Foxtel channels, I may as well finish off the Nick ones so that they are easier to find for future reference. I wish I could create a separate Nickelodeon topic for all of these caps, but anyway, i’ll try and make the best out of what I can work with.
Nickelodeon Australia - 26th December 2006
“Nicktoons” Production endtag & Christmas Watermark:
“Non-stop Spongebob!” Breakbumper:
“Summer of Slime” Promo:
“Patrick The Snowman” Segment:
These are awesome! Do you have a list of what other channels you will be sharing caps of?
Glad you like them!
I plan on eventually uploading caps of FOX8, Fox Sports, Cartoon Network and MTV; I think I’ve got a few of TV1 as well, but I will have to double check that.
I probably won’t bother uploading the caps I have of the FTA channels, as they are well documented on here already.
Thanks for sharing that mate! I hope to look forward to more of your FOXTEL collection soon
No worries, thank you!
Anytime.
Re, the Late 2000s (2006-07?) Nickelodeon Australia On-Air Presentation Package that SouthCoastTV dropped some VHS caps of in Post 96, as it turns out this one was produced by Ink Project:
It’s interesting to note that although those graphics were produced in widescreen and therefore presented that way in the demo reel, Nickelodeon Australia remained a 4.3 channel (probably because most if not all the shows weren’t in 16.9!) until about Early 2009…which was perhaps a year or so after this package was dropped in favour of that “3D orange slime” look which I think was used in some form or another until the 2010 logo change.
That’s a great find!
What’s especially interesting about it is that there are several significant differences between the overall look/layout in the demo loop, and what was actually shown on-the-air.
The promo endtags are completely different. The “Camp Orange” one doesn’t look too dissimilar to the promos I remember seeing on Nick at the time, but the “Zoey 101” and “Spongebob” promo endtags are in a totally different style. Also, none of the promo endtags in that demo reel have a black background, which is interesting, because the majority of the ones which aired on Nick between 2006-2008 were in black.
That soccer ball ident at the end is interesting too; i’m not sure if it was ever actually broadcast. I don’t recall seeing it anyway.
The 2006-2008 package was actually phased out around (or at) the same time that the channel switched to 16:9 widescreen, if i’m not mistaken. Knowing now that the package was produced in widescreen and that the logo was changed only a year later, it seems strange that Nick couldn’t have just continued using the existing '06-'08 package until the logo change the following year? Then again, the decision most likely hadn’t been made yet back in early 2009 to eventually drop the “splat” logo.
These are the last of the VHS caps I have of Nickelodeon. I recorded a couple of videos of Nick back in 2016 and 2019, which I could share if people are interested.
Nickelodeon Australia - July 2009
Closed captioning graphic:
“Clickhead” idents:
Watermark (by 2009, the watermark was abbreviated to just “Nick”:
iCarly promo endtag:
10-second ident (version 1):
Ident:
10-second ident (version 2):
To my knowledge, no recordings exist online of Nickelodeon from 2004 and 2005. I was a regular viewer of the channel during those years, however I can’t remember what exactly their on-air presentation was like back then. I know it was different from the 2006-2008 package. Hopefully more mid '00s recordings of Nickelodeon will be uploaded in the future.
Who remembers Nick At Night? I remember as a kid we watched it as a family in the evenings. I remember the singing cows ident that was played when Nickelodeon was closing for the night and Nick At Night took over.
I certainly do, it was one of my favourite Foxtel channels of the 1990s. They had the Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Fireball XL5, the Adventures of Robin Hood (1950s), Sherlock Holmes movies from the 40s, Flash Gordon, Space 1999, Department S, The Saint, Nanny and the Professor, The Ghost and Mrs Muir and heaps of other classic and cult TV series of the 1950s to 70s. They had cool station idents too! I was sad when Foxtel took it off in 2000. Fox Classics sort of fills the void today.
Here are some classic Nick at Nite idents from the 90s, many of them aired on the Australian version:
Wow! this is so rare, got a link to the videos?
And also, got any ones from Arena around 1995-1996?
@VintageSydTV And any of the ones from Channel [V] around 2013-2015?
Was that kind of menu style common back then? Cause it looks exactly like the old Sky NZ one but orange.
That is still in use today for subscribers who still have an IQ2. Selectable between orange and blue.
