Slogan Live it like Spike Broadcast area Netherlands
Flanders Motto Live it like Spike | Country Netherlands Founded 1 October 2015 | |
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Launched 1 October 2015 (2015-10-01) Owned by Viacom International Media Networks Northern Europe Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV)
1080i (HDTV) Owner Viacom International Media Networks Northern Europe Profiles | ||
Spike is a Dutch television channel in the Netherlands and Flanders, based on the American channel of the same name. It is the third Spike channel next to the US and UK version of the channel. The television channel aims at an audience of mainly men. In the Netherlands and Flanders, the channel started broadcasting on 1 October 2015. Initially it only broadcast daily between 21:00 and 2:30, time-sharing with Nickelodeon. As of 12 December 2016 the channel is broadcasting 24 hours a day in the Netherlands.
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On 18 August 2015, Viacom announced that Spike would launch in the Netherlands and Flanders on 1 October 2015. It started broadcasting at night and broadcasts from 21:00 to 2:30 on Nickelodeon, replacing TeenNick in its time slot. This brings the American Spike channel for the first time in the Netherlands and Belgium.
On 12 December 2016 Spike launched as a 24-hours channel on Ziggo in the Netherlands, followed by KPN, Telfort, XS4ALL, Caiway and T-Mobile Thuis 3 months later. Nickelodeon became a 24-hours channel again. On some platforms Spike keeps on time-sharing daily between 21:00 and 2:30 with Nickelodeon. It is not known whether this will happen in Flanders.