MTV Live, formerly Palladia, is an American

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channel owned by the

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division of

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. Broadcasting exclusively in

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high definition and 5.1 surround sound, the channel broadcasts music videos and music-related programming from Paramount-owned channels

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, MTV Classic,

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and CMT, along with other concert and live music programming from outside producers.

History

In the winter of 2005, director and producer F. Stone Roberts, editor and post supervisor Agent Ogden,director of photography Colin Oberschmidt, production assistant Sonia Taylor and VJ George Oliphant took residence in

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to launch the channel. The team produced live concerts and a one-hour weekly music show, called ''Uncompressed'', from a lookalike ski lodge built inside the Eagle's Nest at the top of Vail Mountain. The channel's original executive producer was Morgan Hertzan, who had worked with

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. Olympic bump skier, pro football player, George Oliphant and Jeremy Bloom were VJs during the original run in Vail. Original concerts produced at Vail Resorts included

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, Yellowcard,

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, P.O.D, Hoobastank,

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, Gary Allan,

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, and

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. The channel officially launched on January 16, 2006 as Music: High Definition (MHD). At its debut, the channel had limited distribution with Verizon FiOS being the only provider to carry MHD. Two months later,

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reached an agreement to carry the channel, which was subsequently added to Cox systems in

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, and Phoenix. Around the same time,

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started carrying the channel on its systems in

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and

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. Charter Communications began carrying the channel on its St. Louis system on July 18, 2006, adding the channel to its systems in the northern

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in early November of that year.

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began carrying the channel in some regions in late December 2006. In 2007, Service Electric Cable Television began to carry the channel on its systems in northeastern and central

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. On October 4, 2007,

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began carrying the network nationwide. The channel changed its name to Palladia on September 1, 2008. Initially, Mitsubishi Electric Digital Televisions was the exclusive sponsor. In January 2015, Viacom Media Networks gave notice to subscription providers that they would rename Palladia to MTV Live on February 1, 2016, making it the fifth all-music channel Viacom has rebranded in the last year. Currently no other details outside of the rename notice, along with the addition of "best of" episodes of the PBS/ KLRU music series ''

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'', have been revealed. Despite the rebranding, network officials made clear no change in focus towards any reality programming (as has been seen with MTV and VH1) is planned. MTV Live and

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are currently used for video premieres and spotlight of new videos.

Programming

Specials formerly broadcast on MTV Live included the HD

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s of the ''

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'', ''

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'', '' CMT Music Awards'' and '' VH1 Hip Hop Honors''. As carriage of the MTV, CMT and VH1 HD simulcast networks expanded, these programs became exclusive to their parent channel's HD broadcast streams. The majority of the network's content consists of music video programming, which airs in the overnight, early morning, and daytime hours each day. Additionally, MTV Live airs a music video block on weeknights from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. ET. Since May 11, 2019, MTV Live has expanded music video programming across each whole weekend. In addition to the programs listed below, MTV Live frequently broadcasts concert footage and music documentaries.

List of programs broadcast by MTV Live

Current programming

* ''Epic.Awesome.Videos'' (Music video programming) * ''

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'' * ''MTV World Stage'' (

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) * ''Push Showcase'' (October 31, 2017–present) * ''Rock Icons'' * ''The Ride'' (

) * ''

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'' (

)

Former programming

* ''Best of

'' ( PBS/ KLRU) * '' Classic Albums'' * ''

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'' ( CMT) * '' Front and Center'' * ''Life & Rhymes'' (

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) * '' Live from Daryl's House'' (September 6, 2012 – June 23, 2016) * '' Later... with Jools Holland'' * '' Live from the Artists Den'' * ''MTV Jams'' (Hip hop and urban contemporary music video block) * ''MTV Live Setlist'' (October 21, 2016 – June 17, 2017) * ''nugs.net Live Stash'' (October 2, 2016 – November 20, 2016) * ''Soulstage'' (

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) * '' Soundstage'' ( PBS) * '' That Metal Show'', originally a VH1 Classic program, reruns of the show aired on the network. * ''The Live Room'' * '' TRL'' (May 21, 2018 – 2019) * '' TRL Recap'' (October 31, 2017 – March 23, 2018)

References

External links

Vail Daily Article

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