MTV India

MTV India
Launched	28 October 1996
Owned by	Viacom 18
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Slogan	STAY RAW.
Country	India
Language	English & Hindi
Broadcast area	Across South Asia
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Sister channel(s)	VH1 India, Nickelodeon India, Sonic (launched Dec. 20, 2011), Colors
Website	Official website
Availability
Satellite
Airtel digital TV (India)	Channel 380
Big TV (India)	Channel 703
Dialog TV (Sri Lanka)	Channel 41
DirecTV (U.S.)	Channel 2006
Dish TV (India)	Channel 308
Tata Sky (India)	Channel 702
Cable
First Media (Indonesia)	Channel 176
UCS (Bangladesh)	Channel 9
IPTV
mio TV (Singapore)	Channel 31

MTV India is the Indian version of MTV (Music Television), a channel specialising in music and youth culture programming. It was launched in 1996 and is now part of the Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd based in Mumbai. (A 50/50 joint venture operation between Viacom Inc. and Network TV 18). "MTV India" is one of the oldest Music Television Networks in Asia. Music has always been distinctively recognized and acknowledged with respect to India and so thus the MTV India. MTV India happens to be one of the most popular music channels across the Indian subcontinent, having viewership shares in India and also countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

MTV India has its office in Parel in Mumbai. It is the most popular music channel in India.

Partnerships

The service is available on most Indian cable networks as a part of The One Alliance, a bouquet of many sought after channels, including Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Discovery Travel and Living, SET, MAX, SAB, Aaj Tak, NDTV India, NDTV Profit, Headlines Today, Vh1, AXN, Nick, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Science , NDTV 24x7 etc.

The channel is also available as a standalone on CAS networks.

Shows

Main article: List of programmes broadcast by MTV in Asia

For previous and present progams on MTV India please click the main article.

MTV India broadcasts many famous television programmes for people with varied interests. Its main emphasis is on music based entertainment but of-late the programming has included reality shows.

Music to Reality

Of late MTV has put a greater focus on reality shows, which makes one wonder of it being called as Music Television or Masala Television. The show MTV-Roadies seems to have eclipsed entire MTV india with series of reality shows. The quality and tone of VJ's has also changed significantly. Earlier the vj's were knowledgeable in music and had a good humor, but now the channel has spawned a host of amateur vj's from their reality shows who have nothing but a false ego without a substance.

The shows include

• MTV Roadies - an adventure reality series, with bikers traveling across the country.
• Mtv Rock On
• MTV Style Check
• MTV Fanta Fantastic Five
• MTV Kickass Mornings
• MTV Wassup - Voice Of Youngistaan
• MTV What the Hack! - co-hosted by VJ Jose & Ankit Fadia
• MTV Splitsvilla A dating reality show
• MTV Stuntmania - A biking stunt show hosted by famous stunts director Allan Amin
• MTV Nuon Making The Cut
• MTV Gone In 60 Seconds
• MTV Stripped
• MTV Why So Cyrus?
• MTV One Short Plot
• Idea! MTV VJ Hunt
• MTV Girls Night Out
• MTV Pyaar Vyaar and All That
• MTV Crunch
• MTV True life

VJs

VJs serve as hosts of MTV shows. A few of popular VJs are listed here -

• Nikhil Chinapa
• Cyrus Sahukar
• Cyrus Broacha
• Anusha Dandekar
• Rannvijay
• Ayushmann Khurrana
• Bani J
• Shraddha Haribhai
• Jose Covaco
• Rhea Chakraborty
• Siddharth Bhardwaj
• Deepti Gujral
• Gaelyn Mendonca
• Sunanda Wong
• Ankit Fadia
• Raghu Ram
• Rajiv laxman

Awards

MTV awards include -

• MTV Immies
• Lycra MTV Style Awards
• Fully Faltoo Film Awards

External links

• Official Site
• Rhea Chakraborty Rhea The VJ
• Viacom18
• MTV Orkut Community
• MTV YouTube Channel
• !dea MTV VJ Hunt
• Pulsar MTV Stunt mania
• Kurkure Desi Beats Rock On MTV