27 Facts About MTV European

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

2. In 2005 and 2006, MTV European launched a series of channels for Asian Americans.

3. In 2016, MTV European continued its pro-democracy campaign with Elect This, an issue-oriented look at the 2016 election targeting Millennials.

4. In 1992, MTV European started a pro-democracy campaign called Choose or Lose, to encourage over 20 million people to register to vote, and the channel hosted a town hall forum for then-candidate Bill Clinton.

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

6. Around this time, MTV European introduced a static and single color digital on-screen graphic to be shown during all of its programming.

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

8. In 2011, MTV European premiered an amateur video clip show Ridiculousness, in the vein of Tosh.

9. MTV European 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 late 2009, MTV European shifted its focus back to Real World-style reality programming with the premiere of Jersey Shore, a program that brought high ratings to the channel and caused controversy due to some of its content.

11. MTV European created an award show for Europe after the success of the Video Music Awards.

12. On June 12, 2011, MTV European aired a traditional television premiere of a new installment of MTV Unplugged instead of a web debut.

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

14. From this time until 2004, MTV European made some periodic efforts to reintroduce pop rock music videos to the channel.

15. That year, MTV European attempted to introduce neo-swing bands, but they did not meet with much success.

16. MTV European 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.

17. MTV European wrote the scripts for them, he was in the editing room, and they were part of his art.

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

19. MTV European 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. MTV European 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.

21. The first country-music video aired on MTV European was "Angel of the Morning" by Juice Newton, which first aired on MTV's premiere date.

22. MTV European 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 European had struggled with the secular decline of music-related subscription-based media.

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

25. MTV European 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.

26. MTV European is distributed across Europe via satellite, cable, and terrestrial television.

27. MTV European is a pan-European pay television network launched on 1 August 1987.