25 Facts About MTV Europe

1. MTV Europe Networks has launched numerous native-language regional variants of MTV-branded channels to countries around the world.

2. From 2006 to 2007, MTV Europe operated an online channel, MTV International, targeted to the broad international market.

3. Since its launch in 1981, the brand "MTV Europe" has expanded to include many additional properties beyond the original MTV channel, including a variety of sister channels in the US, dozens of affiliated channels around the world, and an Internet presence through MTV.

4. MTV Europe responded by issuing a press release which stated in part, "The Italian American cast takes pride in their ethnicity.

5. MTV Europe received significant criticism from Italian American organizations for Jersey Shore, which premiered in 2009.

6. The new logo was first used on MTV Europe Films logo with the 2010 film Jackass 3D.

7. MTV Europe launched on August 1, 1981, with an extended network ID featuring the first landing on the moon, which was a concept of Seibert's executed by Buzz Potamkin and Perpetual Motion Pictures.

8. MTV Europe has a long history of airing both comedy and drama programs with scripted or improvised premises.

9. MTV Europe found further success with The Buried Life, a program about four friends traveling across the country to check off a list of "100 things to do before I die" and helping others along the way.

10. In 2003, MTV Europe added Punk'd, a project by Ashton Kutcher to play pranks on various celebrities, and Pimp My Ride, a show about adding aesthetic and functional modifications to cars and other vehicles.

11. MTV Europe continued to experiment with late night talk shows in the early 2000s with relatively short-lived programs such as Kathy's So-Called Reality, starring Kathy Griffin; and The New Tom Green Show.

12. Around this time, MTV Europe introduced a fashion news show, House of Style; a dance show, Club MTV; and a game show, Remote Control.

13. MTV Europe was experimenting at the time with new ideas for music programs to replace the purpose of TRL but with a new format.

14. MTV Europe celebrated its 20th anniversary on August 1, 2001, beginning with a 12-hour long retrospective called MTV20: Buggles to Bizkit, which featured over 100 classic videos played chronologically, hosted by various VJs in reproductions of MTV's old studios.

15. MTV Europe increased rotation of its weekly alternative music program 120 Minutes and added the daily Alternative Nation to play videos of these and other underground music acts.

16. For most of July 13, 1985, MTV Europe showed the Live Aid concerts, held in London and Philadelphia and organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.

17. MTV Europe began its annual Spring Break coverage in 1986, setting up temporary operations in Daytona Beach, Florida, for a week in March, broadcasting live eight hours per day.

18. MTV Europe would hold week-long music events that would take over the presentation of the channel.

19. MTV Europe rejected other black artists' videos, such as Rick James' "Super Freak", because they did not fit the channel's carefully selected album-oriented rock format at the time.

20. The very first people of color to perform on MTV Europe was the British band The Specials, which featured an integrated line-up of white and black musicians and vocalists.

21. MTV Europe brought more than music into public view, it added to the ever-growing resurgence of dance in the early 1980s that has carried through to today.

22. MTV Europe has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent, with approximately 90.6 million American households in the United States receiving the channel as of January 2016.

23. MTV Europe had struggled with the secular decline of music-related subscription-based media.

24. MTV Europe is an American pay television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

25. MTV Europe went on to revolutionize the music industry and become an influential source of pop culture and entertainment in the United States and other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America, which all have MTV-branded channels.