TurboNick

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The TurboNick logo.

TurboNick is a Nickelodeon broadband channel that launched in 2005.

Unlike the Nickelodeon cable network, viewers can watch TurboNick on their own time schedule.

TurboNick features up to 20 hours of new programming every week and includes advertising. In its soft launch phase that commenced July 1, 2005, TurboNick has garnering more than 1.25 million streams and officially launched with a full advertising and promotional campaign on July 17.

Later on, Nickelodeon restricted the service to viewers only inside the, "United States and its territories". Shortly after Nickelodeon implemented these restrictions, TurboNick UK was launched, but unlike the original, the UK edition only features short clips of programmes and is only available in the UK and Ireland.

TurboNick is the latest multiplatform experience created to allow kids to access Nickelodeon, which joins its existing Video on Demand offerings on cable, as well as ring tones and video clips that are available via wireless providers.

[edit] TurboNick 2.0

Recently, TurboNick has made several dramatic changes, such as a new look, new controls, customization and many new features.

Some new features include a search command, customization, a rating system, playing games while watching videos, creating and saving playlists, RSS feeds, and sending videos to friends. Also, it now is able to work on Macintosh systems. All items on a TurboNick playlist are known as "Snags" on the site.

Microsoft announced that this TurboNick will be compatible with Windows Vista Media Center; the user can upload videos using it.