History
Nick News was originally known as Nick News: W5 until the show's "who, what, when, where, and why" type format was dropped.
Nick News with Linda Ellerbee has been shown on Sunday nights at 8 p.m. and later 8:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon, and ran in reruns at various time slots. Nick News was #1 in the ratings on Nickelodeon in 1992-1993, and has never gone below #6 in the ratings, making it one of the most consistently highly-rated news shows on TV. The show was also shown in prime time on CBS on Saturdays from 1993 until 1996. From 1995 to 1999, the first-run syndicated version of the show—distributed by Paramount Domestic Television (now CBS Television Distribution)--aired on local stations—both independent and network-affiliated—all over the United States of America.
The show also previously appeared early weekday mornings fully commercial-free as a part of the television cable industry's Cable in the Classroom initiative, which urges teachers from schools around the globe to tape programs of Nick News and then later show them to their class during school hours.
Nick News is currently showing new episodes periodically on Sunday nights usually on a bi-monthly basis, with the 22-minute long episodes running commercial-free (commercial advertisements and promos for Nickelodeon programming fill the gap between the end of the program and the start of a Nick at Nite show); however since June 2010, when Nickelodeon ceded one hour of its broadcast day on Sundays to Nick at Nite, Nick News currently airs at 9 p.m. ET during what is technically part of Nick at Nite's broadcast slot (though promos for the show advertise it as airing on Nickelodeon, logo bugs for neither Nickelodeon or Nick at Nite are seen during the program). TeenNick aired two episodes of the show in reruns on both October 25, 2010 and February 15, 2011.
Nick News is well known for many trademarks during its run on Nickelodeon, such as Ellerbee's signature tagline, "If you want to know, ask!"
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