CMT Europe was a European television channel. It was a European version of

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. The channel started in 1992 and in September 1993 it launched on transponder 41 on

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as part of the

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package, where it was broadcasting on

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's daytime space and was on air from midnight until 4pm. The channel switched satellite position several times and was for a long time only available as a daytime service. It moved to transponder 24 on

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in September 1994, which allowed it to extend its broadcast hours until 7 p.m. It finally ended up on transponder 51 in 1996 and was then able to go 24 hours on Astra. For cable networks, a 24-hour feed of CMT Europe was maintained on

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27.5 degrees west. It was available in several European countries, for example in Sweden. It was carried as part of the Scandinavian channel

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when it launched in September 1997. In the UK, it was available 24 hours a day on cable. However, a number of cable companies dropped CMT in autumn 1996, thereby massively reducing the potential audience for the channel. For example, Bell Cablemedia (later Cable & Wireless and then

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) replaced CMT with The Box at the start of September 1996. The channel closed down on March 31, 1998 due to substantial losses.

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