Nickelodeon Japan - SKY PerfecTV shutdown - 30.09.2009 (READ DESCRIPTION)

Описание: Nickelodeon Japan was launched in November 1998, and later closed down on the 30th of September 2009, due to declining viewership. There has been a lot of debate over how it shut down.

Videos online differ from each other and it's caused a bit of a debacle over which one is real, and which one is fabricated.

This video is recorded from SKY PerfecTV. The Spongebob video is recorded from Hikari-one, which cut the channel off a day early. So both of those could very well be real.

This video started circulating around July of 2016, ‪@Tirgo69‬ is believed to be the original uploader. Statements from him claim that a user commented on their original upload - saying that they faked this video as a joke, and that it wasn't meant to be seen in public. This user was named Tatu according to the LMW article.

However, Tirgo has said he remembers more being to this upload. Revision histories of the Lost Media Wiki article say that on this upload was the tail end of MLAATR, then the Nickelodeon 'Dinosaur' ident in full, then to a short called 'Those Scurvy Rascals', then to a Nickelodeon 'Song' ident, then to another animated short called 'Biggy', then a bumper into 'Bull and Red' (which is the short a fragment is shown in this upload).

This starts to match where this upload continues off, the short ends and the Dinosaur ident is played, cuts off midway through because the channel is unavailable.

Something to note is that the same user who commented on the video saying this was a fake, also uploaded this video in response:    • Nickelodeon Japan shut down  

I've still to get in contact with Tirgo in regards to this video's origins, but I got in contact with Tatu about this and they have cleared some things up.

This recording is real. It wasn't supposed to be put online. Tatu has mentioned they have shared a piece of work to someone before (I'm going to guess it was the closedown), they told them not to upload it online, but this person ignored them. This could be something completely unrelated, but I feel it's useful information to bring into light.

This recording was streamed once by Tatu, on a Japanese live streaming service called 'Nico Nico Live Broadcast'. Tatu believes this recording surfaced online because it was a recording of that live broadcast.

Tatu has made a fake shutdown video before (with footage of this recording) and had posted it on Twitter, where now the account and data is unrecoverable. Whether that video was the same as the Nickelodeon Arabia 'Color Bars' video linked above, I'm not sure. But Nickelodeon Japan has definitely used their set of idents in the past.

Tatu doesn't recall sending a comment in the original video asking for it to be removed because this was fake. They think it might be an impersonation account, or an account coincidentally with the same name.

Something that is also worth nothing is that Viacom Networks Japan KK manually took down the original July 2016 upload, and this is proven here (an image of Tirgo's Youtube Studio): https://i.imgur.com/6GLxvc6.png

But if you go onto the original link of the video now, you'll see that it's private.
   • Видео   (this video wasn't archived)

It's possible they could have retracted the claim, or this was another upload of the shutdown that was unlisted. This is how I remember finding this video and downloading it. An upload of this titled 'Nickelodeon Japan Shutdown [HOAX]', unlisted, on a YouTube playlist with Nickelodeon Japan videos. If this was unlisted, it could very well be one of the victims of the July 2021 purge of unlisted videos from before 2017, set to private.

This recording is part of a set of Nick Japan recordings that according to Tatu, cannot be shared. I'm not going to remove my upload of this as it has already spread around online for it to be easily wiped, but in respect of Tatu's wishes, I will not be delving into this further.

Sources:
https://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/stimpy/di...
http://ppgcom.blog12.fc2.com/blog-dat...
http://blog.livedoor.jp/domo44/archiv...

Bull and Red:    • Nickelodeon International - Bull and Red (...  
'Spongebob' video: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8368985
'Color Bars' video:    • Nickelodeon Japan shut down  

Images that may be from the original upload:
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Alex (‪@SakuraStardust‬) has also made a wonderful video explaining the debacle, so do check it out:    • Japan's Lost Analog TV Shutdown and it’s 1...