Wonder what the angst over this week’s Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) price increase—60 percent for those who want both streaming and DVDS—would look like as a video? Dan Schneider, producer of iCarly, offers a glimpse in this brief encounter with Jerry Trainor, who plays Carly’s idiosyncratic brother Spencer on the popular…

While many major awards shows have seen ratings declines the last few years, Nickelodeon’s annual Kids Choice Awards seems to only get bigger. That, along with the fact its audience sees little distinction between their TV screens and their computers and mobile devices, has spurred the network to stream its…

Online games and payments platform PlaySpan has signed on another large partner: Nickelodeon Kids and Family Virtual Worlds Group. PlaySpan’s technology will power virtual transactions for Neopets, the beta Petpet Park, and the two worlds Nick currently has in development, World of Neopia and Monkey World. Kids (and their parents)…

MTV Networks’ Nickelodeon has acquired the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) franchise, for $60 million. The bulk of the payout goes to The Mirage Group—the company founded by the franchise’s creators, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird—but embattled media company 4Kids Entertainment will get roughly $11 million from the deal, in…

It’s not just indie companies like ngmoco or Zynga trying to grab a slice of the mobile gaming market—TV networks like *Disney*, *ESPN* and Nickelodeon have all recently made aggressive moves into the space. Nickelodeon just launched the AddictingGames iNetwork, a mobile offshoot of its AddictingGames.com casual games portal. The…

In the latest in the race between Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) to build a better digital library, Netflix has signed a deal with MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) to stream more than 400 episodes of Nickelodeon shows and South Park to subscribers of its service. The deal adds…

Michael Eisner is back in…TV! What a surprise. After investing in some digital media startups (Veoh, Vuguru) and buying some random companies (Topps), Eisner is back in TV. Through his private investment firm, Tornante, Eisner has sold his first animated series, “Glenn Martin DDS,” to the Viacom-owned kids channel Nickelodeon.…

MTV Networks’ (NYSE: VIA) Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group is continuing its emphasis on online gaming and virtual worlds by carving out two separate divisions around those efforts, the company told me earlier today. MTVN has upped two execs from each area to run the new units, each as SVP…

As Nickelodeon continues its gaming and virtual world expansion, we have some more details about the three virtual world sites now in development and plans to introduce a choice of paid subscriptions and advertising for its existing 2.5D online city Nicktropolis. Nick is creating a virtual world around its Neopets…

Earlier this week, Nickelodeon said that it was developing 600 new games. Now the MTVN (NYSE: VIA) unit is clarifying things a bit: it will host 1,600 new games across its collection of kid-focused websites, 600 of which will be original. Nickelodeon’s gaming library currently contains about 5,000 games, many…

MTV Networks’ (NYSE: VIA) Nickelodeon is readying the first of 600 casual games that will be introduced across its collection of websites, NYT reports. The games are part of the Nickelodeon Kids and Family group’s planned $100 million investment to create games through 2009. Separately, MTVN said last August, a…