Nickelodeon on CBS

On April 14, 2000, a few months after Viacom (in timeline, which CBS founded in 1952 as television syndication distributor CBS Television Film Sales, and later spun off in 1971) completed its $37 billion merger with CBS Corporation (the original Westinghouse Electric Corporation), CBS reached an agreement with new corporate cousin Nickelodeon to air programming from its Nick Jr. programming block beginning that September. The block was replaced by DIC's block, initially branded as the KOL Secret Slumber Party (hosted by a short-lived teen-pop female quintet known as the Slumber Party Girls), on September 16, 2006. In October, Nickelodeon-owned, timeshared digital network Noggin changed its weekend morning lineup to include more ongoing Nick Jr. series as a response to Nick Jr. on CBS's closure. == Rumored return ==

Following the announcement of the second merger between CBS Corporation and Viacom, then CBS Corporation CEO Joseph Ianniello was receptive to the possibility of the return of Nickelodeon children's programming to CBS. However, Ianniello left CBS in 2020, and CBS has continued to carry the CBS WKND E/I programming block since the merger. ==Programming==

All of the programs aired within the block featured content compliant with educational programming requirements as mandated by the Children's Television Act. Although the block was intended to air on Saturday mornings, some CBS affiliates deferred certain programs aired within the block to Sunday mornings, or (in the case of affiliates in the Western United States) Saturday afternoons due to breaking news or severe weather coverage, or regional or select national sports broadcasts (especially in the case of college football and basketball tournaments) scheduled in earlier Saturday timeslots as makegoods to comply with the E/I regulations. Some stations also tape delayed the entire block in order to accommodate local weekend morning newscasts, the Saturday edition of The Early Show, or other programs of local interest (such as real estate or lifestyle programs). Former programming ====Programming from Nickelodeon==== Preschool Acquired programming == See also ==