[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 11:31 PM\'][quote name=\'Pyramid80\' date=\'Mar 29 2004, 10:11 PM\'] I just noticed that Noggin has gone through a change too. There was a promo for it and it was called "The N". They are also airing episodes of The Brady Bunch. What happened to The Electric Company and other classics? [/quote]
It has been both for a while... it was Noggin in the morning/afternoon, "The N" in the evening. I used to love watching the channel since they reran old episodes of Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, Square One, and a jewel I got to know called Electric Company. Now all it is is Blue's Clues and crappy Degrassi, weirdly enough one of Canada's highest rated programs.[/quote]
To be a little more exact, for the last couple of years the former "kids' thinking network" has been the pre-school oriented Noggin during the day, airing Nick Jr. shows, 90s "Sesame Street," the original repackage "Play With Me Sesame" and some exclusive acquisitions. At night, it's The N, aimed at the so-called "tween" audience with "DeGrassi," repeats of "Clarissa" and "Pete and Pete" from Nick (and "Daria" from MTV), some other foreign acquisitions and "Clueless" repeats (and they're adding the much-beloved "My So-Called Life" next week). This went along with Sesame Workshop selling back to Viacom its half of the channel and perhaps ending access to its library.
Also, as of May, the channel will cease being commercial-free during its N hours, it being, AFAIK, the first MTV Networks digital channel to add advertising on a regular basis (although something tells me that VH1 Classic does air advertising, I don't get the channel--damn you, Comcast!--so I can't verify that).