Nick Jr Plus

Nick Jr Plus is a commercial-free datacast channel launching on September 2nd, 2003 and running until its temporary closure on October 27th, 2008, and re-launched with a whole new look on January 1st, 2009. It is owned by ViacomCBS thru its MTV Networks division and is operated under its SSA by the CER Two Television Networks division of Champion Digital Broadcasting, Nick Jr Plus shares its resources of Nickelodeon's Nick Jr channel and UPN/MyNetworkTV/independent/ABN affiliated station KCER-TV in Benton, Arkansas in providing the programming presented on the channel. The channel was offered Nickelodeon's Nick Jr block around the clock until February 2nd, 2009 (live from the East Coast feed beginning at 9:00AM Eastern including its 2-hour Nick Jr Playalong block from 12-2pm with replays throughout the late-afternoon and evening periods and also the next morning while those periods are programmed by Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite) along with the live West Coast broadcast of Nick Jr Playalong from 3-5pm (coming from Nickelodeon's west coast feed) aired alongside its datascreen ticker similar to Bloomberg Information TV's datascreen featuring news headlines direct from CBS News and ABN 42 News, weather forecasts, traffic information, stock markets, sports scores, and telling you what's on Nick Jr and KCER ABN 42 along with the channel itself. There are also short-form programming produced exclusively for Nick Jr Plus (along with interstitial content from Nick Jr) and aired in-between the shows on the channel including the Kaleid-o-Cam (a short feature with the second look at a featured Nick Jr show), On The Set (a behind-the-scenes feature with interviews of your favorite Nick Jr shows and interstitial series), Cooking with Chef Formage (a cooking feature hosted by Nick Jr's playalong host Zack offering recipes on your child's favorite foods), Nick Jr Plus Business Travelers Forecast (a travel weather feature with forecasts for major cities across the nation reported by KCER-TV weather meteorologists), 3 Minute Sports Drill (a sports segment featuring scores and highlights from the world of sports), and Nick Jr Plus on Money (a 2-minute rundown on the latest markets from the NYSE and Nasdaq).

In addition to the short-form features and previews of Nick Jr Plus programs (including those originally aired on Nick Jr) airing in-between shows, the channel also offers computerized weather, traffic, sports, stock market, and news information coming from the resources of KCER-TV's news department, AccuWeather, its AP and New York Times wires, and its Ag news services.