And now here's the most recent full year in 2025 breakdown on how often each show aired. Half hours are the measurement for this and 0.5 being a 11-minute segment.
Nickstory wiki and Mr. Maketsu from Twitter are the sources.
2025:
Nicktoons:
- SpongeBob SquarePants: 1767.5
- The Patrick Star Show: 129
- The Loud House: 29
- Wylde Pak: 29
- Kamp Koral: 22
- Rock Paper Scissors: 18
- Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 12
- Transformers EarthSpark: 5
- Max and the Midknights: 3
Live action originals:
- The Thundermans Undercover: 39
- NFL Slimetime: 35
- Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan: 12
Nick Jr. shows:
- PAW Patrol: 2516.5
- Rubble & Crew: 786
- Peppa Pig: 60
- Super Duper Bunny League: 47
- DORA: 43
- Tim Rex in Space: 46
- Blaze and the Monster Machines: 26
Acquired animation:
- Sonic Prime: 209
- The Smurfs 2021: 145
- The Boss Baby Back in Business: 75
- Unicorn Academy: 10
- Zokie of Planet Ruby: 6
Acquired live action:
- Play It Forward Game On: 6
Top 5 most aired:
- PAW Patrol
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Rubble & Crew
- Sonic Prime
- The Smurfs 2021
2025 only worsened the autopilot era.
This year would mark significant structural changes to Nickelodeon. Paramount would merge with Skydance in the year, which would prove to have its problems later. Among the effects of the merger was Brian Robbins stepping down as president of the network this year, no new replacement announced yet. September 29 would mark a big change, being when they officially lost the 7 PM hour to Nick at Nite for the first time, pulling the same move Cartoon Network did in 2023 when they started to lose the primetime hours. In an attempt to get shows on Paramount Plus faster, Nick started to split seasons of all their shows into smaller ones in order to get them on Paramount Plus faster (they have to wait to air an entire season before going to streaming), which only caused confusion regarding how many seasons each show truly has.
Blocks are the same as before with the live action originals (the little that are left) are still on Wednesday nights. Nicktoons were back on Friday nights.
Among the Nicktoons, SpongeBob is still supreme, though it oddly dipped further down to below 2000 half hours for the first time since 2006 and also wasn’t the number 1 most aired. If I had to guess why, it’s the movies eating up slots that would’ve otherwise gone to the sponge and the loss of the 7 PM hour didn’t help either. The Patrick Star Show is still the number 2 Nicktoon, but even that’s fallen in airtime with little reruns and was completely gone during the entire summer. The Loud House has fallen so far in airtime, with reruns down to less than 30 half hours (mostly from weekday reruns from February to March and one off Saturday morning reruns from July 26 and December 6) and only 7 half hours premiering this year, with the Naughty or Nice film (which I didn’t count in the final total due to it technically not being part of the show in production order) having very little fan fare when it premiered, a far cry from the show’s heyday just three years ago. Max and the Midknights went on a long hiatus after “season 1” (or technically the first half of season 1 in production) finished in January and would air zero reruns with the “season 2” (or second half of season 1 in production) premiere being on Nicktoons first (possibly as a programming error but we never know). The last episodes of Kamp Koral (after already being on Paramount Plus last year) would make their TV premieres this year and never come back after that, surprising for a SpongeBob show. Rock Paper Scissors was gone for most of the year with season 1 finished last year and having no reruns, until it returned in November for its second season (which was split up into seasons 2 and 3) and reruns returned on weekends for one month, not a good sign. Transformers EarthSpark would get canned this year and the last episodes were dumped on Paramount Plus in December. The show would air the last episodes of “season 2” (or the first third of a production season 2 before it got split up) as TV premieres on the main channel, but never returned to air the remaining 10 episodes. TMNT would have a third Nicktoon in Tales of the TMNT, which already got released on Paramount Plus in the previous year but still had new to TV premieres for season 1 (or the first half of a production season 1) with no reruns. However, the show ultimately got canned due to the Skydance merger this year with “season 2” (or the second half of production season 1) releasing in December on Paramount Plus, with no sign on if it’ll ever air on TV, let alone the main channel. One new Nicktoon did premiere on TV this year with Wylde Pak, which also got its reruns gone after one month.
Live action originals are on life support by this point (combined total doesn't even each 100 anymore). Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan (one of the only two live action originals not canned last year) wrapped up this year. The Thundermans Undercover premiered (being the first live action original to premiere after Quiet On Set), but hardly aired reruns and it’s likely canned with the lack of indication on going beyond the 26 episode order. NFL Slimetime continues the seasonal run and currently is the last live action original on Nickelodeon (unless The Thundermans Undercover has a surprise renewal and/or if Hollywood Arts does second run premieres on Nick after releasing on Netflix first).
PAW Patrol is still Nick Jr’s top dog, but Rubble & Crew is also doing great as far as Nick Jr shows go.
For acquired shows, Sonic Prime strangely is doing okay, with regular weekday afternoon reruns starting in March, despite only having 16 out of the 24 episodes aired by the end of the year. Guessing the star power with the recent Sonic films is what helped the show, even getting more reruns than any Nickelodeon original series that isn’t either SpongeBob, PAW Patrol, or Rubble & Crew. The Smurfs 2021 is also strangely persistent in reruns, albeit only at 2 PM on weekdays, maybe to tie in with the 2025 Smurfs film. With Nickelodeon already airing The Boss Baby films frequently, it was only a matter of time until they aired the Back in Business series that was already on Netflix years ago starting in fall and strangely aired more than the non-SpongeBob Nicktoons. Unicorn Academy and Zokie of Planet Ruby aired very briefly before leaving with no fanfare. Play it Forward premiered in November on Wednesday nights, almost feeling like it’s mostly there to fill the gap left with how Nick’s live action originals are near-extinct.
On the Nicktoons Network burn off side, Transformers EarthSpark’s “season 3” (or the second third of production season 2) made the TV premiere there instead of the main channel.
2025 shows just how much worse the channel’s becoming, if that was even possible. Even SpongeBob slimming down to less than 2000 half hours for the first time since 2006 isn’t really a sign of improvement, only that the third party movies air so much that their own original content is getting neglected. Losing 7 PM only seals the deal that Nickelodeon is about to go down a path similar to Cartoon Network, with declining relevance and a decline in original content. The Skydance merger is already showing some bad signs, considering stuff like Dora, Tales of the TMNT, The Tiny Chef Show, and a Garfield Nicktoon (okay, that cancellation was announced in 2026 but I felt it was better to say it here) got scrapped and even a Ned’s Declassified sequel got passed over due to the merger despite Ned’s Declassified not even having any child actor issues or scumbag creators (and yet Victorious still got a sequel show despite Dirty Dan).
This might genuinely be Nick’s worst year by far and if this keeps up, it’s gonna be hard to see the channel survive another decade.