MTV (Turkey)


MTV Türkiye was a Turkish pay-television channel owned by Paramount. It launched on 23 October 2006.

History

Launch

MTV Türkiye's opening party was held on 17 November 2006 in Istanbul, with a Pussycat Dolls performance. It was officially launched on 23 October 2006. The first broadcast of the channel was Nil Karaibrahimgil's music video Peri.

Digiturk and MTVNI

MTV Turkey was removed from Digiturk on 22 to 23 May 2010 with no reason given to the customers, which caused a small controversy amongst customers. On 20 June 2010, it was reported that MTV Networks International cancelled Multichannel Developers's licence a month ago. On the same day, MTV Turkiye's website closed with a text saying that their new site will be available as soon as possible. As of October 2010, the channel operates on cable TV and free-to-air satellite.
The channel ceased broadcasting on 31 August 2011.
MTV Europe was aired instead of MTV Türkiye, on 1 March 2012 on channel 107 of the Digiturk platform.

Festivals/Special programming