Nickelodeon Europe (Short: Nick) is a cable and satellite TV network. The Pan-European version, known as Nickelodeon, was launched on November 1998. The channel airs a selection of programming from Nickelodeon in the USA and local shows from Nickelodeon in the UK and Australia. Nickelodeon Europe is a 24 hour pan-regional feed reaching the CIS countries, Hungary, Malta, Serbia, Russian Federation, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Maldives.