MTV on TDT in Spain - for free

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The music channel MTV will join the TDT in Spain from September and will do free to air with no subscription it has announced. Viacom, owner of MTV, and NET TV has announced having signed an agreement for MTV to be available for free on terrestrial digital television. Until now the Spanish version of MTV could only see through pay TV. The network's programming will be the usual music, comedy shows, news and events.

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MTV continues to test on TDT in Spain.

MTV on TDT is expected to launch in September.

In some areas, an MTV test cards has been transmitted.



You will have to perform a channel rescan in order to view new channels on TDT.

In many cases these new TDT channels in Spain are beng transmitted on old analogue frequencies, so no change is required in Community TV equipment.

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MTV on TDT has started some test transmission.

Cideos of Lady Gaga and Beyonce "Telephone" and Shakira "Waka Waka" are available. Between each song there is a promotion that indicates that the channel is a "good idea" and would soon be available on TDT in Spain.

The voice indicates that MTV will begin in September.

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MTV on TDT in Spain has a new revised start date.

This free version of MTV on Spanish digital television is now du to launch on the 16th September 201.

The on screen graphic on its test broadcasts has been amnded to reflect this.

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MTV will launch for free on TDT in Spain on September 16

It will start by broadcasting the most spectacular music awards and shocking the world: the MTV Video Music Awards.
At 21:00 Johann Wald will welcome all viewiers with a special program from Los Angeles, on the red carpet at the MTV VMAs. Then the 2010 MTV VMAs will be shown, on MTV Spain, whch will be available for free and with no subscription on TDT.

After the half-hour special, the MTV Video Music Awards 2010 will be broadcast in full and dubbed into Castilian.

The MTV VMAs ceremony brings together the biggest stars in show business and entertainment, and every year it amazes with the exceptional quality of their live performances and surprises that can only happen on MTV.

This year live performances at the MTV VMAs include Linkin Park, Usher, Paramore, Eminem, Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Drake, BoB, Florence & The Machine, and Travi McCoy, Jason and Robyn Derulo.

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Today, Thursday, September 17, MTV will make its debut on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Spain as a free to air channel.
Since its launch 10 years ago, MTV Espana was only available on cable, satellite and IPTV. As a multi-platform brand, it has been involved in pay-TV, online content on mtv.es, mobile wap portal, credit card with added value services and live music events such as MTV Winter and MTV Galicia.

MTV will launch with a live countdown to the first broadcast of the channel. VJ Johann Wald will welcome the audience from the White Carpet at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in LA. The world’s brightest stars, from Lady Gaga to Eminem, will join MTV Spain in celebrating the channel’s launch on to DTT.

Prime time programming will include MTV series such as Hard Times of RJ Berger. 10 Things I Hate About You, Cougar Town with Courteney Cox, and cult series like Southpark as well as reality shows such as 16&Pregnant and Teen Mom.

The terrestrial distribution is a result of a distribution agreement between Viacom and Vocento. MTV will replace the Spanish language music channel 40 Latino.

sourcre: broadbandtvnews

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Although some observers have recently criticized the low quality of Spain's DTT channels, there are some exceptions. Pay-DTT services from AXN and Gol TV or free-to-air services Disney Channel, Antena 3's Neox, Televisión Española's TeleDeporte have now been joined by the MTV music channel.


MTV's free-to-air transmissions on DTT start today in a historic move for the Viacom media group which has mainly been offering its channels via pay-TV for years (although MTV was one of Europe's first unencrypted satellite TV channels in the mid 90s).

MTV Spain was born some ten years ago and the channel has followed youth trends by launching multi-media, multitasking and multi-platform content.

The in-the-clear transmissions of MTV will be mainly based on programming including TV series, docu-realities, self productions and, of course, music.

"In MTV we are optimistic, compromised, unique and fun. The youngsters identify themselves with the channel's values as their own. Our brand generates passion in all it makes: music and also in life," said Antonio Campo Dall'Orto, executive vice president of Music Brands and Managing Director of South Europe for MTV Networks.

source: rapidtvnews