???? – 2025retired
Dell Latitude
“It survived every drop, spill, and quarterly review. In the end, only a rebrand could stop it.”
“It taught us, it gave teens The N, and it never once talked down to us.”
Noggin launched on February 2, 1999, co-founded by Paramount and Sesame Workshop as a cable channel with a daytime block for preschoolers and an overnight block for teenagers called The N. It earned a Peabody Award in 2003 for A Walk in Your Shoes, three Webby Awards for its website, and a Writers' Guild of America Award, with critics praising especially its series for older kids. The trick was simple: it respected c
The cable channel faded in 2009, and Noggin carried on as a streaming service from 2015 until Paramount sold the brand in 2024 to former CEO Kristen Kane. A new app relaunched in 2025 with an entirely original library, leaving the classic shows behind. The name survives, but the version you grew up with is at rest — Sesame left in 2002, Paramount moved on, and the legacy catalog went with them.
Spotted something wrong? Every fact on this page traces to a dated source. Fixes make the graveyard better for everyone.
“It survived every drop, spill, and quarterly review. In the end, only a rebrand could stop it.”
“It saw everything, including why we weren't ready.”
“The last iPhone to speak Lightning, gone to a better port.”