Club MTV (formerly MTV Dance) is an Australian
pay television
Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...
channel that broadcasts
dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...
and
urban music
Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, Hip hop music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music ...
. It was launched on 3 December 2013.
History
On 29 October 2013, MTV announced they had been working with Foxtel since early 2013 to offer more diversity on the Foxtel platform, as their two current music dedicated channels -
MTV Classic and
MTV Hits - fought for the same audience as
Foxtel Networks channels
MAX and
Hits respectively.
As such, it was decided that MTV Classic and MTV Hits would cease broadcasting on the Foxtel platform to be replaced by two new MTV channels. The channel to replace MTV Classic was MTV Dance, a channel dedicated to
dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...
,
hip hop, and
R&B music from around the world - MTV's first channel to be dedicated to three different genres of music.
On 1 July 2020, the channel rebranded as Club MTV, inline with its
pan-European edition and
UK & Ireland edition. The brand will also be extended to an uninterrupted,
Stingray Music
Stingray Music is a Canada-based international multi-platform audio service that broadcasts continuous streaming music and other forms of audio on multiple channel feeds. The service is owned by Stingray Digital.
While a song is playing on the ...
-powered Foxtel Tunes channel.
Logo
File:MTV Dance 2013 logo.svg, Logo used 3 December 2013 – 4 April 2017
File:MTV Dance 2017 logo Australia.svg, Logo used 5 April 2017 - February 2018
File:MTV Dance AU 2018.svg, Logo used February 2018 - 30 June 2020
File:Club MTV logo 2018.png, Logo used 30 June 2020 - 14 September 2021
File:Club MTV 2021 logo.svg, Logo used since 14 September 2021
File:Aus MTV.svg, Aus MTV Pop-up channel (November 2021)
Programming
* Backyard Bangers
*Club Classics
*Fresh Drops
*Going Up on a Tuesday
*Hip Hop & R'n'B Chart Top 20
*Hip Hop Hooray
*Hot 'n' Fresh!
*Hot Right Now x15
*Late Night Urban
*Midnight Mix
*
Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound or Ministry of Sound Group is a multimedia entertainment business based in London with a nightclub, shared workspace and private members' club, worldwide events operation, music publishing business and fitness studio.
Jame ...
Official Top 20
* MTV Up Late
* Morning Rhythm
*Party Like It's...
*R&B Friday
*Retro Rage
*Rewind
*Saturday Warm Up!
*Sunday Sessions
*The After Party
*Throwback Thursday
* #waybackwednesday
* Weekend Wind Down x50
*Weekend Workout
* #UrbanTrending
See also
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Club MTV (British and Irish TV channel)
Club MTV was a 24-hour electronic dance music channel operated by ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia launched on 20 April 2001. Available in the United Kingdom and Ireland on subscription satellite and digital television services. The channel p ...
*
Club MTV (European TV channel)
Club MTV, formerly MTV Dance, is a European pay television music channel from Paramount Networks EMEAA that was separated from the UK channel on 27 May 2014. It broadcasts electronica, dance and r'n'b music programming. The channel is widely ava ...
*
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
*
MTV Classic
*
MTV Hits
*
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Group. It ...
*
Nick Jr.
Nick Jr. (known on-air as the Nick Jr. Channel) is an American pay television channel spun off from Nickelodeon's long-running programming block of the same name. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Gr ...
References
External links
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{{Subscription television channels in Australia
Dance music television channels
English-language television stations in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2013
MTV channels
Music video networks in Australia