MTV Norway was a music and entertainment channel broadcasting to the Norwegian market. The channel replaced

MTV Nordic MTV Nordic was a pan-European cable television network launched on 5 June 1998. A 24-hour English-language network aimed at viewers in the Nordic countries and other European territories. Between 1998 and 2006 MTV Nordic served the majority of Eu ...

on September 18, 2005, however on February 22, 2019 it was replaced by the return of

History

*MTV Norway launched in September 2005 along with

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and

MTV Finland MTV Finland was a music and entertainment channel broadcasting to the Finnish market. The channel replaced MTV Nordic on September 18, 2005, however on February 22, 2019, it was replaced by the return of MTV Nordic. History * MTV Finland laun ...

. Before the start country-specific channels, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland had been served by a common channel called

, launched on June 5, 1998 which replaced the

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feed. *MTV Norway's offices are based at

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's Nordic offices in Stockholm with a local office in Oslo. The channel is broadcast from the

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headquarters in London and Warsaw. *During the days of MTV Nordic, languages other than English were rarely spoken on MTV in Norway. With the start of MTV Norway, several Norwegian speaking programmes were produced for example ''MTV News''. *Since the mid-2000s MTV Norway shares a similar schedule to its other European counterparts featuring mainly reality based content from

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and very few music videos. *Since 2009, MTV Norway's localized content has been reduced this is seen both on-air and on-line. Its website mtv.no is entirely in English where previously it was available in Norwegian. All programming is in English with Norwegian subtitles, with exception to local produced programming and local advertising. *On February 22, 2019, the local MTV channels for the Nordic region were replaced by the relaunch of

which features no advertising or sponsorships. Despite this, separate websites still exist for the local languages.

References

Music organisations based in Norway Television channels in Norway Television channels and stations established in 2005 2005 establishments in Norway MTV channels {{Norway-tv-stub