MTV was a pan-Asian music pay-television channel which launched on 3 May 1995 as a standalone pay television channel. It was owned by

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MTV Asia was officially launched on 3 May 1995 as a 24-hour English-language channel broadcast from

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

seen throughout

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in territories including

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely sur ...

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

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Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

, the

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Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

and

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. MTV Asia along with its sister channel MTV Indonesia was launched on the Palapa C2 digital satellite. MTV has partnered with domestic media companies to produce local-language content for its channels in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. MTV Asia On Demand is an all-time music and entertainment channel with up to 100 hours/year of on-demand MTV Asia content. The OTT service is currently available in Singapore only. From 1 May 2021 until 1 September 2022, MTV Asia shortened its broadcast of programs to 8 hours (4:00pm to 12:00mn ( SGT) to simulcast programs from sister channel MTV Live from 12:00mn to 4:00pm ( SGT) daily as MTV Asia focused on music content with less entertainment programming on its schedule. Following StarHub's review of its content offerings, and the recent launch of MTV Asia On Demand, MTV Asia ceased on

StarHub TV StarHub TV is a pay television service provided by StarHub in Singapore. It has been a subsidiary of StarHub Limited since StarHub acquired Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) in 2001, and was the sole pay-TV operator in the country until 2007 when ...

on 29 April 2022. As part of a restructuring at Paramount Networks EMEAA and as preparation of the launch of

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in Southeast Asia in 2023, MTV ceased broadcasting at around 12mn and was replaced by MTV Live in Malaysia on 1hr delay and

MTV 90s MTV 90s is an international music television channel from Paramount International Networks that plays music videos from 1990 until 1999. The channel is available in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Southeast Asia (excluding ...

in other countries.

VJs

Final programs

Music Video

*MTV Rewind *Hot Right Now! *High Definition Hits *Rock Solid Playlist *Global Beats!

Concert/Acoustic

*MTV World Stage

Past programs

* List of programmes broadcast by MTV in Asia

References

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