The great debate

The great debate

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Overall?
What Era's?

90s and early 2000s

Nick had a few extremely good shows, but they were spread out over the course of about a decade and a half and not really broadcast next to each other. CN at its height was a channel that you could watch all day just from the sheer variety of programming.

Truth is that Nick was never good, the only really good shows they made were early Rugrats Ren & Stimpy, Rocko, Hey Arnold, early Spongebob, Invader Zim and Avatar. Rest of their lineups are either above average or awful.

CN Long term, but if you wanna say more recently, anything is better than CN now.

Depends. You'd have to compare by era's.
>1991-1995
Nick had shows like Doug, R&S, Rugrats, Rocko and Ahh! Real Monsters that were pretty great (or at least decent) shows. CN only had the Moxy Show, SGC2C, Cartoon Planet, World Premiere Toons/What a Cartoon and old HB and WB content at the time.
>1995-2000
Nick had Rugrats, Rocko and Ahh! Real Monsters still running, and also got shows like Hey Arnold, KaBlam, Angry Beavers, CatDog, OYC!, Thornberrys, SpongeBob, Rocket Power and ATBG as new shows. Besides Space Ghost and Moxy running, the new generation of Dexter, Johnny Bravo, C&C, IAW, PPG, EEnE, Courage and ML&O started to come in.
I think this was still pretty strong period for Nick, but compared to what CN was bringing out then, it was much weaker than in 1991-1996.
>2000-2005
Nick came back with some strong new shows like Invader Zim, Fairly Odd Parents, ChalkZone, Jimmy Neutron, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Danny Phantom and Avatar. They also had SpongeBob carrying the Network to new heights during Rugrats' lackluster 2000s run. CN still had PPG, EEnE and Courage going through their strong runs, while also getting some strong shows like KND, Grim & Evil, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Megas and Fosters.
I'd say they were pretty even during this period, even when I'm more biased to CN.
>2005-2010
Now we go through the weakest periods of both networks. Nick still had SpongeBob, Avatar, FOP, MLAATR, Danny Phantom and ChalkZone at the start, but all besides SB and Avatar got mismanaged by Nick in autistic fashion and the network started going through their quicker cancellation period - Catscratch!, El Tigre, The X's, Tak: All axed after just one season. Barnyard, Mighty B and Fanboy lasted just one season more.
CN was doing slightly better, with EEnE, KND, Billy & Mandy and Fosters' still running, while getting new shows like Juniper Lee, Camp Lazlo, MGPIAM, Class of 3000 and the Ben 10 series. Obviously weaker than their 2000-2005 line-up.

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>2005-2010
Sadly for CN, the bad times started coming around. Between Nov '06 and April '08, only two shows debuted - Chowder and Transformers: Animated. Mid 2008 to early 2010 were dark, as more cartoons ended than they debuted in that period - EEnE, KND, B&M, Fosters', Lazlo, MGPIAM, Class of 3000, OG Ben 10 and Transformers all ended in that period and we only got Ben 10: AF, Flapjack and Secret Saturdays for it, with Chowder still running. Chowder and Flapjack really carried the network towards that period and saved the network from being dead.
It may have been CN's darkest period towards the end, but Nick's line-up was extremely weak compared to CN's that time, that CN has the slight edge.
>2010-2015
With only SB, FOP and POM as the strongest shows at the start, the network really was in need of some new shit. But with shows like Planet Sheen, TUFF Puppy and Korra during 2010-2012 pretty much isn't that great. Kung Fu Panda and TMNT came in and were pretty great shows. Sanjay and Craig and Breadwinners also came in, but didn't excite the fans much. CN on the other hand, started to get revived. Chowder and Flapjack did their jobs of carrying the company and ended in mid 2010. In return, we got shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball, Sym-Bionic Titan, Uncle Grandpa, Clarence and Steven Universe. Without much saying, but CN was the better network during that time.
>2015-2020/present
During this period, something weird happened at Nick and CN. FOP finally ended after being a dead horse, while SpongeBob got a renaissance after Hillenburg returned. They got new shows like Harvey Beaks, Loud House and Rise of TMNT, but also stinkers like Kid Danger. CN started going through a sort decline in their shows as AT and RS, while Gumball and SU started taking the foreground more. TTG became the dominant show on the network. Shows like OKKO, SCI and COTC came and they were mixed bags. Mao Mao and DCSHG came in and brought some more action in.

To conlude this shitpost, I'd rank it more as this
>1991-1995: Nickelodeon
>1995-2000: Cartoon Network
>2000-2005: Tie
>2005-2010: Cartoon Network
>2010-2015: Cartoon Network
>2015-2020: Nickelodeon

There's no debate. CN shows are much more creative and have substance. Every Nick show is boring with nothing going on.