MTV Live (TV network)

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MTV Live
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MTV Live (formerly Palladia) is a 24-hour American pay television music video channel owned by Paramount Global. The channel, which broadcasts exclusively in 1080i high definition, broadcasts music videos and music-related programming from Paramount owned networks MTV, MTV Classic, VH1 and CMT, along with other concert and live music programming from outside producers.

History

In the winter of 2005, F. Stone Roberts (director and producer), Agent Ogden (editor and post supervisor), Colin Oberschmidt (director of photography), Sonia Taylor (production assistant), and George Oliphant (VJ) took residence in

Death Cab For Cutie, and Mat Kearney
.

The network officially launched on January 16, 2006 as Music: High Definition (MHD). At its debut, the channel had limited distribution with

Atlanta
.

Logo as Palladia, 2008-2016

St. Louis system on July 18, 2006, adding the channel to its systems in the northern Midwest in early November of that year. Time Warner Cable began carrying the channel in some regions in late December 2006. In 2007, Service Electric Cable Television began to carry the channel on its systems in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. On October 4, 2007, DirecTV began carrying the network nationwide. The channel changed its name to Palladia on September 1, 2008. Initially, Mitsubishi Electric Digital Televisions
was the exclusive sponsor.

In January 2015, Viacom Media Networks gave notice to subscription providers that they would rebrand Palladia as MTV Live on February 1, 2016, making it the fifth all-music channel Viacom has rebranded in the last year. Currently no other details outside of the rename notice, along with the addition of "best of" episodes of the

PBS/KLRU music series Austin City Limits, have been revealed.[1] Despite the rebranding, network officials made clear no change in focus towards any reality programming (as has been seen with MTV and VH1) is planned. MTV Live and MTVU are currently used for video premieres and spotlight of new videos.[2]

Programming

Specials formerly broadcast on MTV Live included the HD

VH1 Hip Hop Honors
. As carriage of the MTV, CMT and VH1 HD simulcast networks expanded, these programs became exclusive to their parent channel's HD broadcast streams.

The majority of the network's content consists of music video programming, which airs in the overnight, early morning, and daytime hours each day. Additionally, MTV Live airs a music video block on weeknights from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. ET. Since May 11, 2019, MTV Live has expanded music video programming across each whole weekend.

In addition to the programs listed below, MTV Live frequently broadcasts concert footage and music documentaries.

List of programs broadcast by MTV Live

Current programming

Former programming

[3]

  • Life & Rhymes (
    BET Jams
    )
  • Live from Daryl's House (September 6, 2012 – June 23, 2016)[3][4]
  • Later... With Jools Holland
  • Live from the Artists Den
  • MTV Jams (Hip hop and urban contemporary music video block)
  • MTV Live Setlist (October 21, 2016 – June 17, 2017)
  • nugs.net Live Stash (October 2, 2016 – November 20, 2016)[5][6]
  • Soulstage (BET Soul)
  • Soundstage (PBS)
  • VH1 Classic
    program, reruns of the show aired on the network.
  • The Live Room
  • TRL (May 21, 2018 – 2019)
  • TRL Recap (October 31, 2017 – March 23, 2018)

References

  1. Comcast Cable official forum posting. 20 January 2016. Archived from the original
    on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. ^ https://www.facebook.com/reel/266679145988997
  3. ^ a b "Palladia Acquires 'Later With Jools Holland' and 'Live From Daryl's House'". Billboard. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Live from Daryl's House". The Futon Critic. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  5. ^ "nugs.net | The nugs.net Live Stash on MTV Live". nugs.net. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  6. ^ "nugs.net Live Stash". The Futon Critic. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

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