MTV
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| MTV | |
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| Founded | August 1, 1981 |
| President | Philippe Dauman |
| Company | Viacom through MTV Networks |
| Current Popular Series | Awkward
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MTV is an American basic cable television network.
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History
MTV was founded on August 1, 1981, and soon became a part of MTV Networks. At its conception "MTV" stood for "Music Television" as the channel was designed to show music videos, but the content has shifted over time toward a youth lifestyle channel featuring numerous reality shows.
At its inception, MTV only had eighty-five music videos to show. Fifteen of them were by Rod Stewart.(source: VH1 Classic) The first music video shown on MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles.
In-Depth
- Program Listing: A complete listing of shows that aired new episodes on MTV.
Current Shows (2012)
- Scripted original series
- Awkward (Season 2) (summer 2012)
- Beavis and Butt-Head (Season 8) (currently in limbo)
- Death Valley (Season 1) (currently in limbo)
- I Just Want My Pants Back (Season 1) (spring 2012)
- Teen Wolf (Season 2) (summer 2012)
- Non-scripted original series
- 16 & Pregnant
- AMTV
- Caged
- Chelsea Settles
- Cuff'd
- The Electric Barbarellas
- I Used to Be Fat
- Jersey Shore
- Made
- MTV Unplugged
- My Life as Liz
- My Super Sweet 16
- The Pauly D Project (spring 2012)
- Punk'd (Season 9) (spring 2012)
- Randy Jackson Presents: America's Best Dance Crew
- The Real World
- Real World/Road Rules Challenge
- Rediculousness
- Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory
- Son of a Gun
- Teen Mom
- True Life
- The World of Jenkins
Upcoming Shows
- Scripted original series
- The Inbetweeners (Season 1) (2012)
- Underemployed (Season 1) (2012)
- Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (Season 1) (2012)
- Non-scripted original series
- Snooki & JWOWW (summer 2012)
