MTV Türkiye was a

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pay-television channel owned by

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. It launched on October 23, 2006.

History

Launch

MTV Türkiye's opening party was held on 17 November 2006 in

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, with a Pussycat Dolls performance. It was officially launched on October 23, 2006. The first broadcast of the channel was

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's music video ''Peri''.

Digiturk and MTVNI

MTV Turkey was removed from

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on May 22 to 23, 2010 with no reason given to the customers, which caused a small controversy amongst customers. On June 20, 2010, it was reported that

MTV Networks International Paramount International Networks (PIN) is the international division of Paramount Global. The division oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of key Paramount's brands outside of the United States. These brands include Paramount Net ...

cancelled Multichannel Developers's (the company that operated MTV Turkiye) 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 (e.g. on

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Ch. 63, see Digital television in Turkey) and free-to-air satellite. The channel ceased broadcasting on August 31, 2011. MTV Europe was aired instead of MTV Türkiye, on March 1, 2012 on channel 107 of the Digiturk platform.

Festivals/Special programming

* Sonisphere Festival
Istanbul,Turkey 2010
* Freshtival, 2009 * Olympos Music Fest, 2008
Electronica Festival, 2008

Radar live, 2007

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