MTV Türkiye was a Turkish pay-television channel owned by

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. It launched on October 23, 2006.

History

Launch

MTV Türkiye's opening party was held on 17 November 2006 in

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, with a

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performance. It was officially launched on October 23, 2006. The first broadcast of the channel was

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's music video ''Peri''.

Digiturk and MTVNI

MTV Turkey was removed from

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on May 22 to 23, 2010 with no reason given to the customers, which caused a small controversy amongst customers. On June 20, 2010, it was reported that

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cancelled Multichannel Developers's (the company that operated MTV Turkiye) licence a month ago. On the same day, MTV Turkiye's website closed with a text saying that their new site will be available as soon as possible. As of October 2010, the channel operates on cable TV (e.g. on

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Ch. 63, see Digital television in Turkey) and free-to-air satellite. The channel ceased broadcasting on August 31, 2011. MTV Europe was aired instead of MTV Türkiye, on March 1, 2012 on channel 107 of the Digiturk platform.

Festivals/Special programming

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Istanbul, Turkey 2010
* Freshtival, 2009 * Olympos Music Fest, 2008
Electronica Festival, 2008

Radar live, 2007

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