Two iterations of the network have been broadcast; the original lasted from 1988 to 2003, while a Nickelodeon-branded return that launched in 2011 and ended in 2013 for two years.

Kindernet started off as an idea by Dennis Livson, a Finnish producer and distributor of animated programmes in the 1970s.

He believed that, at the time, children's programmes made for television were too violent for young viewers.

The last new show to come to Kindernet before this rebrand happened was Thomas & Friends, which had moved from the closed Dutch feed of Cartoon Network.

[5] On 4 April 2011, Kindernet was relaunched as part of the Nickelodeon family of networks, replacing TMF.