MTV Finland was a music and entertainment channel broadcasting to the Finnish market. The channel replaced

MTV Nordic MTV Nordic was a pan-European cable television network launched on 5 June 1998. A 24-hour English-language network aimed at viewers in the Nordic countries and other European territories. Between 1998 and 2006 MTV Nordic served the majority of Eur ...

on September 18, 2005, however on February 22, 2019, it was replaced by the return of

History

* MTV Finland launched in September 2005 along with

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and

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. Before the start of country-specific channels, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland had been served by a common channel called

, launched on June 5, 1998, which replaced the

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feed. * MTV Finland's offices are based at MTV Networks International's Nordic offices in

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with a local office in Helsinki. The channel is broadcast from the

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headquarters in London and Warsaw. *During the days of MTV Nordic, languages other than English were rarely spoken on MTV in Finland. With the start of MTV Finland, several

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programmes were produced for example ''MTV News'', ''Axl Meets'', ''MTV Festival Report'' and

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. All hosted by MTV VJ Axl Smith. *Since the mid-2000s MTV Finland shares a similar schedule to its other European counterparts featuring mainly reality based content from

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and very few music videos. *Since 2009, MTV Finland's localized content has been reduced this is seen both on-air and on-line. Its website musictelevision.fi is entirely in English where previously it was available in Finnish. All programming is in English with Finnish subtitles, with exception to local produced programming and local advertising. *On February 22, 2019, the local MTV channels for the Nordic region were replaced by the relaunch of

which features no advertising or sponsorships. Despite this, separate websites still exist for the local languages.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mtv Finland Television channels in Finland MTV channels Television channels and stations established in 2005 2005 establishments in Finland Finnish music websites