Editing Nickelodeon (section)

==== Special events ====
* '''''[[Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards]]''''' – The ''Kids' Choice Awards'' are a 90-minute-long annual live [[awards show]] held on the fourth Saturday night in March (formerly the first Saturday in April until 2008, but returned in 2011). The award show (whose winners are selected by Nickelodeon viewers though voting on the channel's website and through [[text messaging]]) honors popular television series and movies, actors, athletes and music acts, with winners receiving a hollow orange blimp figurine (one of the logo outlines used for much of the network's "splat logo" era from 1984 to 2009).
* '''[[Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards#Kids' Choice Sports|Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports]]''' – A spin-off of the ''Kids' Choice Awards'', "Kids Choice Sports" is held in July with the same KCA voting procedures and differing categories for team sports and athlete achievements for the past year (featuring categories such as "Best Male Athlete", "Best Female Athlete", "King Of Swag", and "Queen Of Swag"), along with the award featuring a sports-specific purple [[Mohawk hairstyle|mohawk]]. Its inaugural ceremony aired on July 17, 2014.
* '''[[Nickelodeon HALO Awards]]'''  –  The HALO Awards features five ordinary teens who are Helping And Leading Others (HALO). Its inaugural ceremony aired on December 11, 2009. The awards show is hosted by [[Nick Cannon]] and airs on Nickelodeon and TeenNick every November/December until 2017.
* '''[[Worldwide Day of Play]]''' – The "Worldwide Day of Play" is an annual event held on a Saturday afternoon in late September that began on October 2, 2004, to mark the conclusion of the "[[Let's Just Play Go Healthy Challenge|Let's Just Play]]" campaign launched that year, which are both designed to influence kids to exercise and participate in outdoor activities; schools and educational organizations are also encouraged to host local events to promote activity among children during the event. Nickelodeon and its sister channels (except for the Pacific and Mountain Time Zone feeds and the Nick 2 Pacific feed that is distributed to the Eastern and Central Time Zones), some of the network's international channels and associated websites are suspended (with a message encouraging viewers to participate in outdoor activities during the period) from 12:00 to 3:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time on the day of the event.<ref>{{cite web|author=Joe Lepper|url=http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/217537/Nickelodeon-tells-kids-go-play-anniversary/|title=Nickelodeon tells kids to go out and play for anniversary|work=Media Week|date=July 26, 2004|access-date=November 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813183315/http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/217537/Nickelodeon-tells-kids-go-play-anniversary/|archive-date=August 13, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2010, the Worldwide Day of Play event became part of The Big Help program, as part of an added focus on healthy lifestyles in addition to the program's main focus on environmental issues.