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MTV (Russian TV channel)
Russian music television network / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MTV Russia or MTV Россия (Russian: МТВ Россия) was a Russian music and entertainment TV channel, which carried out its broadcasting from 25 September 1998 to 31 May 2013. On 1 October 2013, MTV Russia was relaunched as a satellite pay TV channel.
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Country | Russia |
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Broadcast area | Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Tajikistan Uzbekistan |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Paramount Global |
Sister channels | Nickelodeon Russia Paramount Comedy Russia |
History | |
Launched | 25 September 1998, 0:30 (original) 1 October 2013 (relaunch) |
Closed | 31 May 2013 (original) 28 April 2022 (in Russia) 13 December 2022 (in Belarus)[1] 15 December 2022 (in Commonwealth of Independent States) |
Replaced by | MTV Europe |
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Website | mtv.ru |
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In March 2022, Paramount Global announced that it intends to pause operations in Russia. The company did not comment on their plans of returning in the future.[2]