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| - Nick5 was launched on December 2, 2011 as a joint venture between Viacom's Nickelodeon and goanimate.com, but GoAnimate's interest was sold to Nickelodeon at some point in 2014.Nick5 is targeted at preteens. Nick5 was a 24-hour channel until April Fool's Day of 2014, when Viacom decided to launch ITV US which was formatted similarly to ITV and later featured some recent family-oriented series that aired on Nick at Nite.ITV US was aimed at adults and had thought-provoking programming considered by many as too complex for Nick5's pre-teen and elementary-school-age viewers.ITV US took up 12 hours of Nick5's programming space (operating in a similar manner as Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite) from 6 p.m.-6 a.m./ET seven nights a week. The fact that Nick5 shared channel space with ITV US made it very similar to parent network Nickelodeon as it has shared channel space with Nick at Nite during the nighttime hours for most of its existence starting with Black Entertainment Television for the first couple of years on the air, then ARTS (Alpha Repertory Television Service, now A&E) and currently with Nick at Nite since 1985, which is commonly considered a nighttime program block on Nickelodeon. Nick5's last "T-Rex and Cubo" era day signed off at 6:00PM on Sunday, January 18, 2015, with the last "T-Rex and Cubo" era program to air on Sunday, January 18, 2015, on the channel, Samurai Jack, right before the final "Cubo and T-Rex" footage. After that, they showed a sneak preview at "Lockjock", followed by the final goodbye everyone of Nick5 and the 2011-2015 mascots "Cubo and T-Rex", and the last Nick5 bumper, along with the schedule and clock to ITV US Sunday program lineup. At 6:00AM on Monday, January 19, 2015, Nick5 introduced their new mascot "Lockjock". However, later, in 2017, Viacom announced that the "Cubo and T-Rex" era will return in 2020. In addition to classic episodes of Nickelodeon favorites such as Spongebob Squarepants and T.U.F.F Puppy, and original shows such as SpongeBob Reborn and CatDog:The Unpaved Series TBA
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