Nick Jr Plus

Nick Jr Plus is a commercial-free datascreen channel launching on September 2nd, 2003 and running until October 27th, 2008. It was owned by Viacom thru its MTV Networks division and was operated under its SSA by KCER Television Corporation, Nick Jr Plus shared its resources of Nickelodeon's Nick Jr block and UPN/MyNetworkTV 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 (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 UPN 42 News, weather forecasts, traffic information, stock markets, sports scores, and telling you what's on Nick Jr and UPN 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.