MTV Classic (United States)

MTV Classic (formerly VH1 Smooth, VH1 Classic Rock, and VH1 Classic) is an American pay televisionnetwork owned by Paramount Media Networks (part of Paramount Skydance). It was originally launched in 1998 as "VH1 Smooth", an adult contemporary and smooth jazz channel. It was relaunched as "VH1 Classic Rock" in 1999 (later renamed "VH1 Classic" in 2000), with an emphasis on classic rock. On August 1, 2016, in honor of MTV's 35th anniversary, the channel was rebranded as "MTV Classic". The channel currently exclusively airs music videos from all genres from the late 1970s to the early/mid-2010s.

As of December 2019, MTV Classic is available to approximately 39,000,000 pay-TV households in the United States.