As someone whose household didn’t have access to the Disney Channel until the age of twelve, at which point I had surpassed the right time to get overly obsessed with the likes of
Hannah Montana, I am a firm supporter of Team Nickelodeon, and I’ll jump right in with why I think it is objectively the superior channel.
Firstly, Nickelodeon demonstrated a range of characters from non-traditional families, for example in
Drake and Josh, whose entire premise relies on the fact that the titular characters belong to a newly-established blended family, and
iCarly, in which all three of the main characters have at least one parent completely excluded from the show, if not both. Rather than pushing the “American dream” family, Nickelodeon provided representation for kids watching who were living under circumstances different to the traditional family model.