From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MTV Greece
MTV Greece
MTV Greece • Byzantine
• Greek musical instruments
• Néo kýma
• Polyphonic song
Genres
• Church music (Byzantine)
• Classical
Launched September 1, 2008 • Dimotika
• Laïko
Network MTV • Rock
• Hip hop
Owned by Restis Enterprises (75%) • Punk
Vardis Vardinogiannis (20%)
Piraeus Bank Group (5%) Specific forms
Picture format 16:9 (576i, SDTV), • Entehno
(1080i, HDTV) • Nisiotika
[1] • Rebetiko
• Skiladiko
Country Greece
Media and performance
Language Greek
English Music awards • Arion Awards
• MAD Video Music Awards
Broadcast area Greece • Pop Corn Music Awards
Cyprus
Music charts • Greek Albums Chart
Headquarters Athens, Greece • Foreign Albums Chart
• Singles Chart
Sister channel(s) MTV Music
Nickelodeon (Greece) Music festivals Thessaloniki Song Festival
Nickelodeon Plus
Music media • Difono
Website www.mtvgreece.gr • MAD TV (MAD World, Blue)
• MTV Greece
Availability
National "Hymn to Liberty"
Terrestrial
anthem
Hymettus 59 UHF
Regional music
Mount Parnitha 51 UHF
Related areas Cyprus, Pontus, Constantinople
Digea DVB-T, Aegina 63 UHF (Hasapiko)
Satellite Regional styles • Aegean Islands
• Crete
NOVA Greece Channel 603 • Epirus
• Ionian Islands
NOVA Cyprus Channel 605 • Macedonia
OTE TV Channel 601 (HD) • Peloponnese
• Thessaly
IPTV • Thrace
OTE TV
MTV Greece is the Greek version of MTV, launched on
September 1, 2008.
Music of Greece MTV Greece broadcasts mainly English, American
General topics and Greek music, MTV’s shows like Date My Mom, Made,
Nitro Circus, RoomRaiders, America’s Most Smartest Model,
• Ancient etc. subtitled in Greek, as well as three Greek shows
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MTV Greece
(Hitlist Hellas, MTV Pulse, MTV Take 20). Currently it broad- • If You Really Knew Me
casts terrestrially only in Athens and via satellite to the • Viva la Bam
rest of Greece and Cyprus.[2]. MTV Greece has also a local • 16 and Pregnant
version, which broadcasts in Thessaloniki, under the title • Teen Mom
MTV + [3] • Punk’d
MTV Greece’s launch party took place in Panathi- • Life of Ryan
naiko Stadium, Athens on October 5, 2008 with live per- • Jersey Shore
formances from R.E.M., Kaiser Chiefs, Gabriella Cilmi, and • Plain Jane
C:Real. The concert was also broadcast live in Italy • Disaster Date
through MTV Italy, and in France (MTV France), Portugal • Next
(MTV Portugal) and Spain (MTV Spain).[4] • Teen Cribs
MTV Greece is also available via NOVA Greece. On Oc-
tober 9, 2009, MTV organized the first MTV Day, a cele- Music Shows
bration for the 1 year of airing in Greece. MTV held a con- •
cert at the Olympic Indoor Hall, in Athens, with quests •
Myronas Stratis, Professional Sinnerz, Moral, Aloha From •
Hell and Tokio Hotel. The concert was successful and it •
was the first concert for Tokio Hotel after their album Hu- •
manoid was released. The concert was previously record- •
ed for the other MTV channels (except MTV USA) and it • - the UK weekly chart
was later shown on the MTV World Stage. •
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Local Shows
Screenshot of MTV Greece • - Music and entertainment news updates. Hosted by
Estel, airs throughout the day
• - Daily variety program with music, news, games and
Current Shows interviews. Hosted by Alex Kavdas, Nafsika Lalioti
The channel combines local and international music, and and Katerina Tsavalou, airs weekdays at 3pm
airs such trademark MTV shows like Jackass, Pimp My • - Weekly show focuses on movie news, trailers,
Ride, When I Was 17, If You Really Knew Me, My Super interviews and a look at the latest new releases.
Sweet 16, Viva la Bam, Room Raiders, Life of Ryan and 16 Hosted by Giorgo Satsidi, airs Wednesday at 9pm
and Pregnant with subtitles in Greek. • - Heavy metal music videos and news. Hosted by
Vanessa Xristodoulou and Orfeas Spiliotopoulos, airs
Shows-Realities Tuesday at 12pm
• - Weekly show focuses on video games. Hosted by
• Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Konstantino Koutsoumpa, airs Thursday at 9pm
• I Used To Be Fat
• - Weekly show focuses on girls, fashion, horoscopes,
• The Hills
entertainment and celebity news and interviews.
• The Price of Beauty
Hosted by Marianthi Mpairaktari and Myrtw Kazi,
• Paris Hilton’s Dubai BFF
airs Monday at 9pm
• My Super Sweet 16
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• Made
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• My Life as Liz
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• Parental Control
• ’Mission Lydia - Entertainment program hosted by
• Pimp My Ride
Lydia Papaioannou
• Room Raiders
• Audrina
• When I Was 17
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MTV Greece
Title Original Run
Greek Only seasons 1-2, 2008-2010
The Hard Times of RJ Berger Season 1 ongoing
Blue Mountain State Season 1 airs every tuesday night
Drama-Comedy Series Launched on October 7, 2009 - MTV Music is a 24 hour
music channel playing non-stop music videos, live per-
formances and artist interviews. It closed on 2011 and
Presenters and VJs was replaced by MTV Greece and from October 17, 2011,
• Nafsika Lalioti MTV HD
• Katerina Tsavalou
• Lydia Papaioannou MTV HD
• Konstantinos Koutsoumpas
• Vanessa Xristodoulou MTV HD was launched on October 17, 2011 on OTE TV.
• Orfeas Spiliotopoulos
• Vasiliki Arvanitaki See also
• Estel
• MTV Networks Europe
• Marianthi Mpairaktari
• Music of Greece
• Myrtw Kazi
• George Satsidis
References
Spinoff channels [1] SDTV.gr - MTV Greece will be broadcasting at 16:9
[2] Connection.gr - MTV Greece: Satellite broadcast in
MTV Plus Greece and Cyprus
Main article: MTV Plus [3] [1]
Launched on October 18, 2009 - MTV+ is a 24 hour and [4] R.E.M. TO HEADLINE MTV’S GR DAY CONCERT IN
is available in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. Its pro- ATHENS, GREECE
Greece.
gramming is similar to its sister channel MTV Greece
MTV+ utilizes MTV’s current global branding. External links
• Official site
MTV Music
Main article: MTV Music (Greece)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MTV_Greece&oldid=474907159"
Categories:
• Greek music
• MTV Networks
• Television channels in Greece
• Greek-language television stations
• Television channels and stations established in 2008
• Music video networks
• Greek television stubs
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