28 Facts About MTV Music Awards

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

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

3. In 2005 and 2006, MTV Music Awards launched a series of channels for Asian Americans.

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

5. In 1992, MTV Music Awards 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.

6. MTV Music Awards received significant criticism from Italian American organizations for Jersey Shore, which premiered in 2009.

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

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

9. In 2011, MTV Music Awards premiered an amateur video clip show Ridiculousness, in the vein of Tosh.

10. MTV Music Awards 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.

11. In late 2009, MTV Music Awards 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.

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

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

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

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

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

17. MTV Music Awards 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.

18. For most of July 13, 1985, MTV Music Awards 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.

19. MTV Music Awards 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 Music Awards 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.

21. MTV Music Awards had struggled with the secular decline of music-related subscription-based media.

22. MTV Music Awards's became the most awarded artist in VMA history with 24 moonmen, surpassing Madonna's previous record of 20.

23. MTV Music Awards's presented the Video Vanguard Award to Kanye West, who ended his acceptance speech by claiming that he will run for president in 2020.

24. MTV Music Awards moved up the telecast to 8pm instead of 9pm, to avoid competing with President Barack Obama's speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and this was early for MTV's targeted young audience.

25. MTV Music Awards's was part of an awkward moment at the awards when presenting the Best Male Video Award to Eminem, who had insulted her in 2000.

26. MTV Music Awards's became the first South American act to perform at the ceremony, ending with a stand ovation.

27. MTV Music Awards's came out, arm-in-arm with an unannounced David Letterman, to a wild ovation.

28. MTV Music Awards's gave one of the most memorable performances of her hit "Express Yourself", as a preview of what would become her Blond Ambition World Tour.