Nick And Nick Jr. Magazines Fold; Subscribers To Receive Refunds
Earlier this month, Nick and Nick Jr. magazines announced that they're shutting down. Reports vary—either they will continue publishing until the end of the year, or there will be one big final issue in August.
Either way, no need to worry that your kids will receive replacement subscriptions to Maxim. Nickelodeon promises that they will issue refunds to subscribers. As always, you know who to call if they don't.
Nickelodeon Magazine folds [Publishers Weekly]
Nickelodeon Magazine shutting down [Media Life]
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I only ever read these for the pictorials
why didn't they just change the subscription to Teen Beat or POP or whatever the hell magazine i saw the Jonas Brothers on this morning, staring at me with their dead eyes...
Highlights was better, though I do remember being jealous of kids that got Nick magazine. Also, this was 1993.
At least they're not having their subscriptions converted to Maxim magazine...
Do the kids get free issues of Maxim?
Bring back Highlights!!!
they can't switch them over to maxim?
I'd rather get a refund then have my subscription switched over any day.
Bring "BACK" Highlights? My kids were reading their new issues YESTERDAY! Yes, PLURAL. They also have High-5 for younger kids, and even a version for toddlers that's mostly all pictures. They're still out there and are as good as ever. 2 Seconds search will find you their website. Good stuff.
Nickelodeon is BAD for kids. They pit kids against parents with a written, stated policy of "Us vs. Them." They promote farts, boogers, nastiness, meanness and low-brow behavior. They are turning Dora the Explorer into a Bratz doll. Nick is the anti-Highlights, anti-Disney, anti-family brand. Kids, parents, families and the future will all benefit if you #boycottnick.
@Vanilla5: BuddyGuyMontag posts snarky comments in the Consumerist. Gallant reads the articles and comments when he has something to add in the Consumerist.
Man, the times they are a-changing. I actually subscribed with the first issue all those years ago. I remember all the good stuff like Scene But Not Heard and the stuff that went with the paper's finer days, before Nickelodeon lost touch with what it once was. Ah, memories.
@HRHKingFridayXX: I subscribed to Zillions (Consumer Reports' magazine for kids.) Come to think of it, that might explain a lot.
@Tyler Waldman: Yeah, Nickelodeon really stinks right now. My husband and I are in our early/mid twenties and this is not the Nickelodeon we grew up with. I remember when they showed good cartoons like Hey Arnold and Rocko's Modern Life, not Spongebob 24/7. Spongebob turns into the television equivalent of muzak after awhile.
There are lawns of way to show you really want Nickelodeon Magazine
Nickelodeon MagaZINE, please!
/memories
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Who lives in a discarded pile of unread magazines under a boarded up Circuit City?
@Laura Northrup: So did I! No idea it was related to CR, but seeing as my parents subsrcibe to CR that makes sense.
Dynamite was dynamite. I liked Bananas also. I had a box full of them but my mother THREW THEM AWAY. I still haven't forgiven her for that! >:(
Fairly Oddparents is pretty good. And so is The Mighty B, created and voiced by Amy Poehler.
@IphtashuFitz: @IphtashuFitz: @Megan Squier: heh heh heh...."back when I was a kid". It starts early, ya know.
@Laura Northrup: I actually had a magazine subscription switched to Maxim once, it was quite funny seeing that show up for a few months.
@Vanilla5:
My kids get highlights. My oldest get the original highlights, and my toddler gets one especially made for little kids.
@HogwartsAlum: Fairly Oddparents is awesome, along with Back to the Barnyard. Those make babysitting my niece all worthwhile.
oh wow i dodged a bullet on that one. i almost got a subscription for teh kid :P
@Megan Squier: Oh puhleez! I remember when it was really great with shows like You Can't Do That On Television!
At least they're sending out refunds.
I used to subscribe to my hometown weekly newspaper, which was mailed to me (I live about half a state away now). At some point last year, the publisher decided to stop mailing out copies to anyone who didn't live within the physical confines of the town, and to start distributing the paper free only to local town residents. Only problem was they neglected to have a plan in place to refund the balance on their subscription to readers who couldn't get it anymore for love or money. It just stopped one day without notice.
Took me four months to get them to cut me a check for the balance on my subscription. I still wonder how many other out of town people they screwed.
@Laura Northrup: I loved Zillions.. but I just got to read it at the school library.
I did subscribe to Nick too.. but that was when it was brand new.. I think my dad paid for it.. lol.
@Dilbitz: I never realized that people actually subscribed to that... I just thought it was for the kids at the doctor's office.
Geez, I remember nagging my parents to death when the very first issue was being advertised on Nickelodeon. now it's gone, oh well, nothing lasts forever.
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