Club MTV (formerly MTV Dance) is an Australian

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channel that broadcasts

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

and

urban music Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contem ...

. It was launched on 3 December 2013.

History

On 29 October 2013, MTV announced they had been working with Foxtel since early 2013 to offer more diversity on the Foxtel platform, as their two current music dedicated channels -

MTV Classic MTV Classic may refer to: *MTV Classic (American TV channel), a television channel that replaced VH1 Classic on August 1, 2016 *MTV Classic (Australian TV channel), a television channel previously named VH1 Australia until May 2010, and shut down i ...

and

MTV Hits MTV Hits is a music video-only spin-off cable/satellite television channel of MTV in several international markets, originally based on the pop music format of a defunct programming block on the American MTV itself. It may refer to the following ch ...

- fought for the same audience as Foxtel Networks channels MAX and Hits respectively. As such, it was decided that MTV Classic and MTV Hits would cease broadcasting on the Foxtel platform to be replaced by two new MTV channels. The channel to replace MTV Classic was MTV Dance, a channel dedicated to

, hip hop, and R&B music from around the world - MTV's first channel to be dedicated to three different genres of music. On 1 July 2020, the channel rebranded as Club MTV, inline with its pan-European edition and UK & Ireland edition. The brand will also be extended to an uninterrupted,

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-powered Foxtel Tunes channel.

Logo

File:MTV Dance 2013 logo.svg, Logo used 3 December 2013 – 4 April 2017 File:MTV Dance 2017 logo Australia.svg, Logo used 5 April 2017 - February 2018 File:MTV Dance AU 2018.svg, Logo used February 2018 - 30 June 2020 File:Club MTV logo 2018.png, Logo used 30 June 2020 - 14 September 2021 File:Club MTV 2021 logo.svg, Logo used since 14 September 2021 File:Aus MTV.svg, Aus MTV Pop-up channel (November 2021) File:MTV Pride Logo.png, MTV Pride Pop-up Channel (2015)

Programming

* Backyard Bangers *Club Classics *Fresh Drops *Going Up on a Tuesday *Hip Hop & R'n'B Chart Top 20 *Hip Hop Hooray *Hot 'n' Fresh! *Hot Right Now x15 *Late Night Urban *Midnight Mix *

Ministry of Sound Ministry of Sound or Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members' club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio. James ...

Official Top 20 * MTV Up Late * Morning Rhythm *Party Like It's... *R&B Friday *Retro Rage *Rewind *Saturday Warm Up! *Sunday Sessions *The After Party *Throwback Thursday * #waybackwednesday * Weekend Wind Down x50 *Weekend Workout * #UrbanTrending

References

External links

* {{Subscription television channels in Australia Dance music television channels English-language television stations in Australia Television channels and stations established in 2013 MTV channels Music video networks in Australia

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