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MTV Greece is the Greek version of MTV, launched on September 1, 2008.
MTV Greece broadcasts mainly English, American and Greek music, MTV's shows like Date My Mom, Made, Nitro Circus, RoomRaiders, America's Most Smartest Model, etc. subtitled in Greek, as well as three Greek shows (Hitlist Hellas, MTV Pulse, MTV Take 20). Currently it broadcasts terrestrially only in Athens and via satellite to the rest of Greece and Cyprus.[2]. MTV Greece has also a local version, which broadcasts in Thessaloniki, under the title MTV + [3]
MTV Greece's launch party took place in Panathinaiko Stadium, Athens on October 5, 2008 with live performances from R.E.M., Kaiser Chiefs, Gabriella Cilmi, and C:Real. The concert was also broadcast live in Italy through MTV Italy, and in France (MTV France), Portugal (MTV Portugal) and Spain (MTV Spain).[4]
MTV Greece is also available via NOVA Greece. On October 9, 2009, MTV organized the first MTV Day, a celebration for the 1 year of airing in Greece. MTV held a concert at the Olympic Indoor Hall, in Athens, with quests Myronas Stratis, Professional Sinnerz, Moral, Aloha From Hell and Tokio Hotel. The concert was successful and it was the first concert for Tokio Hotel after their album Humanoid was released. The concert was previously recorded for the other MTV channels (except MTV USA) and it was later shown on the MTV World Stage.
Current Shows
The channel combines local and international music, and airs such trademark MTV shows like Jackass, Pimp My Ride, When I Was 17, If You Really Knew Me, My Super Sweet 16, Viva la Bam, Room Raiders, Life of Ryan and 16 and Pregnant with subtitles in Greek.
Shows-Realities
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
I Used To Be Fat
The Hills
The Price of Beauty
Paris Hilton’s Dubai BFF
My Super Sweet 16
Made
My Life as Liz
Parental Control
Pimp My Ride
Room Raiders
Audrina
When I Was 17
If You Really Knew Me
Viva la Bam
16 and Pregnant
Teen Mom
Punk'd
Life of Ryan
Jersey Shore
Plain Jane
Disaster Date
Next
Teen Cribs
Music Shows
Euro Top 20
Chill Out Zone
Party Zone
Dancefloor Chart
MTV World Stage
Hit List Hellas
UK Official Top 20 - the UK weekly chart
Your Noise
Into the Music
Pure Local - Only Greek music
Brand New
Absolutely 90's
MTV Insomnia
Nothing But Hits
Wake Up
MTV Push
Local Shows
MTV News - Music and entertainment news updates. Hosted by Estel, airs throughout the day
Your Noise Live - Daily variety program with music, news, games and interviews. Hosted by Alex Kavdas, Nafsika Lalioti and Katerina Tsavalou, airs weekdays at 3pm
MTV Take 20 - Weekly show focuses on movie news, trailers, interviews and a look at the latest new releases. Hosted by Giorgo Satsidi, airs Wednesday at 9pm
MTV Headbangers Ball - Heavy metal music videos and news. Hosted by Vanessa Xristodoulou and Orfeas Spiliotopoulos, airs Tuesday at 12pm
MTV Game On - Weekly show focuses on video games. Hosted by Konstantino Koutsoumpa, airs Thursday at 9pm
Every Day Girls! - Weekly show focuses on girls, fashion, horoscopes, entertainment and celebity news and interviews. Hosted by Marianthi Mpairaktari and Myrtw Kazi, airs Monday at 9pm
MTV New Generation
Yo! MTV Raps
myMTV
'Mission Lydia - Entertainment program hosted by Lydia Papaioannou
Drama-Comedy Series
Title Original Run
Greek Only seasons 1-2, 2008-2010
The Hard Times of RJ Berger Season 1 ongoing
Blue Mountain State Season 1 airs every tuesday night
Presenters and VJs
Nafsika Lalioti
Katerina Tsavalou
Lydia Papaioannou
Konstantinos Koutsoumpas
Vanessa Xristodoulou
Orfeas Spiliotopoulos
Vasiliki Arvanitaki
Estel
Marianthi Mpairaktari
Myrtw Kazi
George Satsidis
Spinoff channels
MTV Plus
Main article: MTV Plus
Launched on October 18, 2009 - MTV+ is a 24 hour and is available in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. Its programming is similar to its sister channel MTV Greece. MTV+ utilizes MTV's current global branding.
MTV Music
Main article: MTV Music (Greece)
Launched on October 7, 2009 - MTV Music is a 24 hour music channel playing non-stop music videos, live performances and artist interviews and it is available only on Conn-x TV.
MTV HD
MTV HD was launched on October 17, 2011 on OTE TV Sat.
See also
MTV Networks Europe
Music of Greece
References
^ SDTV.gr - MTV Greece will be broadcasting at 16:9
^ Connection.gr - MTV Greece: Satellite broadcast in Greece and Cyprus
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^ R.E.M. TO HEADLINE MTV'S GR DAY CONCERT IN ATHENS, GREECE
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