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MTV

American cable television channel

Entitycable channel specialty channelQ43359

Also known as MTV HD · Music Television

Instance of: cable channel
, specialty channel
Country: United States
Founded: August 1, 1981
Website: mtv.com

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MTV is an American cable television channel and the flagship namesake property of the MTV Entertainment Group, a sub-division of the Skydance TV General Entertainment Group, division of Skydance Corporation. Launched on August 1, 1981, the channel originally aired music videos and related music entertainment programming guided by television personalities known as video jockeys (VJs). MTV soon began establishing its presence overseas, eventually gaining an unprecedented cult following and becoming one of the major factors in the rise of cable programming, leading American corporations to dominate the television economy in the 1990s.

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Parent: Skydance TV
Headquarters: New York City postal code: 10036 · country: United States · located on street: Broadway
Language used: English
Spanish published in: second audio program
Child organization or unit: MTV Films
Owner of: GameTrailers
Owned by: Skydance Media
Has list: list of music videos aired by MTV on its first day of broadcast
Different from: MeTV
Mie Television Broadcasting
Social media followers: 11.4M(May 11, 2025) youtube channel id: UCxAICW_LdkfFYwTqTHHE0vg
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1.Stated in YouTube APIRetrieved 2025-05-11
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17.8M(February 7, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2367911
11M(May 11, 2024) youtube channel id: UCxAICW_LdkfFYwTqTHHE0vg
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1.Stated in YouTube APIRetrieved 2024-05-11
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10.6M(March 22, 2023) youtube channel id: UCxAICW_LdkfFYwTqTHHE0vg
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1.Stated in YouTube APIRetrieved 2023-03-22
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10M(March 17, 2022) youtube channel id: UCxAICW_LdkfFYwTqTHHE0vg
17.1M(January 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2367911
9,710,000(July 3, 2021) youtube channel id: UCxAICW_LdkfFYwTqTHHE0vg
16.3M(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2367911
Founded by: Tom Freston
Judy McGrath
Robert Pittman
Fred Seibert
John Sykes
Official name: MTV: Music Television(1981–2010)
Genre: music television

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