Noggin and Nick Jr. to Merge Creative and Management Teams

NEW YORK, December 5: The
creative and management teams of the preschool services Noggin and Nick Jr. are
being combined under the Nickelodeon Preschool umbrella, it was announced
today.

The new preschool team will be
led by Brown Johnson, who has been named executive VP and executive creative
director of Nickelodeon Preschool and GM of Noggin. In her new role, Johnson
will oversee development and production for all preschool programming across
Nickelodeon networks. "Brown has pioneered genuinely interactive TV and
created a place where parents and kids will find the most diverse, unique
programs and characters around," said Tom Ascheim, the executive VP and
general manager of Nickelodeon Television. "Under her leadership,
Nickelodeon Preschool will continue these traditions and invent new ways for
the audience to play along, new ways for parents to feel great about our
brands."

In line with the new structure,
Teri Weiss has been promoted to SVP of development and production of
Nickelodeon Preschool and Angela Leaney has been SVP and creative director of
Nickelodeon Preschool.