Nick Toons, formerly Nick Toons TV, is a British digital television channel launched on 22 July 2002. It is a cartoon based sister channel to Nickelodeon. The channel airs cartoons, these are commonly known as Nicktoons. Unlike the United States version, it has been ad-supported since it launched and also it does not broadcast 24/7. When the channel dropped all of the old Nicktoons programmes, some of them were moved to Nicktoonsters when it launched on 18 August 2008.