MTV Idol was a French television channel launched on November 30, 2005 owned by

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specializing in music and reality-shows, plus covering of news of artists of this era that have influenced French and French-speaking generations. It stopped broadcasting on 17 November 2015. MTV Idol was founded in 2005 to serve French territories and was a retro channel and featured rerun of very popular cult broadcasting and programming of the MTV era including those of ''

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'' and reruns of popular series notably ''

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''. MTV Idol formed a package offering with other affiliated channels

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and MTV Pulse. It was also available since 20 October 2009 until its cancellation on

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format. MTV Idol ceased broadcasting in France on November 17, 2015, along with

and MTV Pulse, to be replaced by French version of

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and the new My MTV service.

External links

MTV Idol France - presentation, screenshots
{{French television stations MTV Television channels and stations established in 2005 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015 Defunct television channels in France 2005 establishments in France 2015 disestablishments in France Music organizations based in France