I want my MTV. How quaint that slogan sounds today, almost 30 years after it became the calling cry of the fledgling innovative music video channel…
Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, Rick Velleu and Eric Weiner. A pilot episode for the series aired in 1999, and Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. It aired on CBS until September 2006. A Spanish-dubbed version first aired as part of a Nick en español block on NBC Universal-owned Telemundo through September 2006; since April of 2008, this version of the program has been carried on Univision as part of the Planeta U block. Dora the Explorer has been extremely successful financially, including $1 billion in sales in 2004 alone.






















