Hasbro and Nickelodeon partnership.

[CastletonSnob 3,089]

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/12/nickelodeon-partners-with-hasbro-for.html#idc-cover

 

Do you think this could mean the show is going to Nickelodeon? 

I don't think that's the case, personally. I've seen commercials for the toys on Nickelodeon lots of times.

[Megas 28,147]

This is...interesting to say the least.

 

I hope this doesn't mean they're moving the show to Nick though

[Deae Rising Shine~ 57,498]

Here in germany is no hub or discovery channel. The show in german mostly was running on nickelodeon, but changed to Disney Channel when season 4 began in german

Edited December 13, 2015 by Rising Shine

[Guest]

Honestly it's very possible that this means the show will start to be syndicated on Nick. This isn't uncommon and honestly it's good for the show because more people have access to Nick than Discovery which is a premium channel. Nick comes with pretty much every basic cable package.

[DND 2,355]

I wouldn't mind if it did end up on Nick eventually. Discovery Family is considerably less viewed. Nick used to be my favorite cartoon channel and honestly it could use all the successful additions it can muster at this point. My Little Pony is traditionally very Nick-esque; shows featured on Nickolodeon often have an array of outrageous, comedic fantasy themes with anthropomorphic animals.

[cmarston1 5,964]

Well this is new.

I hope that this doesn't mean FIM moves from Discovery Family to Nick.

[Ponies4Bronies 396]

No Nickelodeon sucks. I like the new Pony Day Discovery is doing.

[Dark Qiviut 22,606]

As long as Nick stays the HELL away from the show and keep with stuff like promotional games, I'll be okay with this.

[Spikey-Wikey 378]

The show could be syndicated on Nick. But I wouldn't say its original channel would become Nick.

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

At most, they will probably syndicated on the channel but I barely see that as a probibility. But tbh, I hope stuff like this is all they do. While it would give the show more publicity, Nickelodeon has a reputation or butchering everything they touch.

[The Coffee Pony 1,390]

Well Nickelodeon has done an excellent job with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles so if My Little Pony and Transformers decide to make the move there I can't say I would complain. And yeah I am very bitter towards Cartoon Network for screwing over Transformers so, yeah, I'd say better Nickelodeon than Cartoon Network.

[Tonyan 122]

Oh god please no. Hasbro why u do this.

Nah I'm just joking with my previous post above me. Honestly I'm not really sure about it. I know that there is a lot of people that don't want it to happen.

[Guest]

As long as Nick stays the HELL away from the show and keep with stuff like promotional games, I'll be okay with this.

 

Any reason why you are against the show going on Nick? I mean more people have that channel available to them. It would make the show more accessible to many. It also would mean a lot of people could view the show the legal way instead of having to view it online.

[CastletonSnob 3,089]

Any reason why you are against the show going on Nick? I mean more people have that channel available to them. It would make the show more accessible to many. It also would mean a lot of people could view the show the legal way instead of having to view it online.

 

You'd think they'd WANT more people to view the show, especially considering the ratings for S5 were downright pitiful. 

[Guest]

You'd think they'd WANT more people to view the show, especially considering the ratings for S5 were downright pitiful. 

Television wise, yes. However I believe as DQ has pointed out before a lot of people no longer receive Discovery Kids due to the fact that a lot of people in the past year or so cut premium cable out of their budget due to increased prices and reduced need. The truth is we may never known the true rating for season 5 due to the fact that a majority of people watched it through other sources.

[Dark Qiviut 22,606]

Any reason why you are against the show going on Nick? I mean more people have that channel available to them. It would make the show more accessible to many. It also would mean a lot of people could view the show the legal way instead of having to view it online.

 

You'd think they'd WANT more people to view the show, especially considering the ratings for S5 were downright pitiful. 

The biggest reason is how badly Nickelodeon has handled all of their television work.

1. Nick has inflated hiatuses of several shows to make the show appear to last longer. Spongebob and Winx Club are their most obvious example. SB has been around since 1999; season nine has started and stopped for over three years now due to the movie and staff changes.
2. Their practice to hiring content creators stifled. Nick has researched online try to find new talent under the belief that just because they can produce and succeed on YouTube they can succeed on TV. They did that with Fred (the #1 channel on YT at the time and then milked him), and they did it with Breadwinners. They did it again with the Fine Bros. and their "React" series.

    

   In other words, rather than trying to find timeless content, they searched online because it's a very trendy thing to do. But what succeeds online doesn't mean it'll succeed on TV. Fred is one such example.

3. Until recently, Spongebob Squarepants went from a great show to terrible. In between seasons five and Spongebob You're Fired! from season nine, Nickelodeon helped milk the franchise into a boy-pandering mess. So many mean-spirited jokes, grossout jokes, and other content that would've been censored if Nickelodeon was competent enough to reject (One Coarse Meal, Gone, Choir Boys, Truth or Square, A Pal for Gary, Pet Sitter Pat, etc.). Their marketing for other franchises was so terrible, they relied on Spongebob to pick up the slack. Legend of Korra's a great show; they pulled it from the airwaves in favor of streams before the finale aired, because they did a sucky job at promoting it.
4. Sanjay & Craig and Breadwinners are blatant pander fests with blatant grossout jokes, toilet humor without any level of sense, and shock humor. Breadwinners is among the worst for a few reasons.

    

   a. The characters often twerked. Seriously, a blatant sexual dance in a TV-Y7 cartoon? And the joke ain't even that subtle. (One plot revolved around a baby character with three butt cheeks, and he twerked!)

    

   b. The characters are ripoffs of other shows and vice-versa. SwaySway and Behduce are the same character with a different voice. Sugar high, one-note characters were a common trend on Nick, including Sanjay & Craig and Fanboy & Chum Chum.

    

   c. Very offensive content, as far as season one is concerned. One episode used blatant African-American stereotypes. Another Love Loaf, uses child molestation as one long, drawn-out, offensive joke.

    

   Fanboy & Chum Chum had one-note random characters with no idea how to properly structure a good story. Of the big three here, that one's the least offensive, and they canceled it a few years ago.

5. Depending on your cable and satellite provider, Viacom-owned networks have dropped in various areas in the midwest and south. Suddenlink dropped all Viacom channels, including Nick, Comedy Central, and MTV, due to "deteriorating ratings" and a really steep asking price. If you have Suddenlink, you need to go online to watch Spongebob, TMNT, etc., and Viacom's way more diligent in their copyright protection than Hasbro/Disc. Fam.
6. Viacom, Nick's parent corporation, has left a significant impression that it doesn't give a damn about releasing quality content, and they don't bother to chuck it. Nickelodeon is one such network with how they handled Spongebob, Last Airbender (including giving Shyamalan all the movie rights to Last Airbender) Korra. Channels like MTV have also been hit hard by bad-quality content. If Viacom isn't going to stick to standards of quality, why should anyone believe they will if FIM ever became a part of the network?

This isn't praise for Cartoon Network and Disney. Those channels have many similar problems. We don't talk about them because Disney's animation studios and Pixar regularly release good content and successfully advertise themselves as a wholesome environment, and Cartoon Network has many great shows in their lineup (including Steven Universe, We Bear Bears, and The Amazing World of Gumball). Disney's approach to their Channel shows is the most offensive to me because they milk child stars, like Miley Cyrus and Lindsey Lohan when they used to be on the network. Cartoon Network is the lesser of the three evils, but the way they handled their good shows in favor of their crap like Teen Titans Go! makes me cringe.

Edited December 14, 2015 by Dark Qiviut

[-Nobody- 534]

MLP/Spongebob crossover when?

[Guest]

 

 

Nick has inflated hiatuses of several shows to make the show appear to last longer. Spongebob and Winx Club are their most obvious example. SB has been around since 1999; season nine has started and stopped for over three years now due to the movie and staff changes.

 

That's true, however the show would still be owned and operated through Hasbro I would imagine, so I doubt that would be the issue. If I recall though, SB was put on hiatus because it was considered being cancelled at one point.

 

 

 

Their practice to hiring content creators stifled. Nick has researched online try to find new talent under the belief that just because they can produce and succeed on YouTube they can succeed on TV. They did that with Fred (the #1 channel on YT at the time and then milked him), and they did it with Breadwinners. They did it again with the Fine Bros. and their "React" series. They searched for content on the Internet, and they didn't get it.

 

Oh my god, yes. They are idiots when it comes to realizing what will sell lately. They don't seem to get that what works online doesn't always work on TV, and their latest shows clearly show that they have little understanding of their audience. Hell their new show Game Shakers is like... Them attempting to act like they understand gamers and it's a trainwreck. Like their idea of a "gamer" is a 9 year old chubby kid with an iPad... And they seem to think that most gamers take the mobile market way more seriously than they do. They basically just don't understand how to make a show more relevant to today's youth.

 

 

 

Legend of Korra's a great show; they pulled it from the airwaves in favor of streams before the finale aired, because they did a sucky job at promoting it.

 

Sadly you can blame executives who are afraid of complaining parents for that. The second half of Korra started talking more about LGBT stuff and because of that, Nick was "afraid" that parents would complain. I have to give them some credit that they didn't just tell the show creators to censor it and air it with the LGBT stuff cut out. But they still pussied out by pushing it to the web instead of on TV. Also the online streams of Korra were always more successful than the actual show on TV probably because of the timeslot.

 

 

 

Depending on your cable and satellite provider, Viacom-owned networks have dropped in various areas in the midwest and south. Suddenlink dropped all Viacom channels, including Nick, Comedy Central, and MTV, due to "deteriorating ratings" and a really steep asking price. If you have Suddenlink, you need to go online to watch Spongebob, TMNT, etc., and Viacom's way more diligent in their copyright protection than Hasbro/Disc. Fam.

 

That might be a real problem. Nick definitely might start attacking fan projects if they get more rights to the series.

 

I suppose you make some good points, but the shining golden nugget out of all of this might be if Nick only gets syndication rights. That would make the show more available to people, without giving Nick the privilege to start acting like asshats. 

[The Coffee Pony 1,390]

Well people you don't have to worry about it going to Nick! It's not going to, Hasbro just bought advertising space on Nickelodeon, That's all. MLP's not leaving Discovery Family, no need to panic!