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MTV2's 2003 schedule included some changes from 2002. Jesse Snider, son of [[Twisted Sister]]'s Dee Snider, was selected as the host of MTV2 Rock, replacing Abby Gennet. In addition, MTV2 Rock was reduced to one hour per day, and Hip-Hop was expanded to 5 hours per day. Much of the daily schedule is occupied by other music-related specials and documentaries, with random-rotation "Music Videos" occupying only the late-night hours.
MTV2's 2003 schedule included some changes from 2002. Jesse Snider, son of [[Twisted Sister]]'s Dee Snider was selected as the host of MTV2 Rock, replacing Abby Gennet. In addition, MTV2 Rock was reduced to one hour per day, and Hip-Hop was expanded to 5 hours per day. Much of the daily schedule is occupied by other music-related specials and documentaries, with random-rotation "Music Videos" occupying only the late-night hours.
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In 2003, MTV2 had a "Madonna Weekend" in order to commemorate her new album, American Life. They showed old MTV specials and interviews featuring Madonna, as well as a four hour collection of Madonna videos, called "Madonna A-Z". The weekend ended on Sunday [[April 20]] with the premiere of the "Definitive: Madonna". It was the first episode of "Definitive" to be 2 hours, and completely determined by online viewer voting at MTV2.com. Madonna's controversial "Erotica" video was voted into the number one spot, and MTV2 played the video, which was originally banned on regular MTV, uncensored and in its entirety. Some viewers interpreted this decision to mean that MTV2 hadn't entirely lost its "alternative" and more risque edge.
In 2003, MTV2 had a "Madonna Weekend" in order to commemorate her new album, American Life. They showed old MTV specials and interviews featuring Madonna, as well as a four hour collection of Madonna videos, called "Madonna A-Z". The weekend ended on Sunday [[April 20]] with the premiere of the "Definitive: Madonna". It was the first episode of "Definitive" to be 2 hours, and completely determined by online viewer voting at MTV2.com. Madonna's controversial "Erotica" video was voted into the number one spot, and MTV2 played the video, which was originally banned on regular MTV, uncensored and in its entirety. Some viewers interpreted this decision to mean that MTV2 hadn't entirely lost its "alternative" and more risque edge.

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MTV2 (Music Television 2)
TypeCable network (Music)
Country
AvailabilityNational; affiliated services available internationally
OwnerMTV Networks (Viacom)
Key people
Tom Freston - President, MTV Networks
Launch date
August 1, 1996
Former names
M2
Official website
http://www.mtv2.com

MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to basic cable lineups across the nation. It is also broadcast over-the-air in some markets where the former all-request music channel known as The Box was broadcast.

Launched on August 1, 1996, the original purpose of the channel was to give music fans a place to see constant, commercial-free music videos, once the original MTV had started concentrating on reality television and soap operas. Today, MTV2 airs a selection of music videos, other music-related specials, and non-music shows focused on youth culture and pop culture.

A European counterpart broadcasts from London in the United Kingdom. The Canadian version of MTV2 was replaced by PunchMuch in June 2005, while the German version was replaced by Nickelodeon in September 2005.

The beginning of M2

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M2 original logo

MTV2 (originally known as just M2 until 2000) began broadcasting on August 1, 1996MTV's fifteenth anniversary — with Beck's Where It's At being the first video to air. M2 was created to show more alternative types of music and older music videos than regular MTV did in 1996. However, this did not mean that M2 never played anything current or mainstream. It prided itself on being a "diverse mix" of all types of music.

The only problem was that M2 had very limited availability for its first couple of years, during a time when digital and satellite television were not at all mainstream. M2's biggest group of subscribers for the first year or so were college campuses that provided their students with satellite television. M2 also broadcast live over the Internet during its early years, but was similarly ahead of its time, in a period when few people had broadband Internet connections.

Original VJs and shows

During the early years of the channel, the music videos ran on 8-hour rotations, so that the same block of videos repeated three times every day: from 6 AM to 2 PM, 2 PM to 10 PM, and finally from 10 PM to 6 AM. A new block would then start again at 6 AM. During these years, M2 only had two VJs, Jancee Dunn and Matt Pinfield. They were rarely seen on screen and they hand-picked all the music videos that were played for the eight hours every day. Pinfield eventually left to continue hosting shows on MTV, while Jancee remained at the channel through 2001.

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MTV2's logo used in 2000

M2 was almost always just a random blend of music, though occasional themed specials were aired. One of the first ones was the "Smashing Pumpkins Videography," where all of the band's videos were played in chronological order. M2 would often invite musicians to hand pick blocks of videos or air hour-long blocks (which would eventually be known as "Artist Collections") of videos by one band or musician.

A-Z video marathon

Starting on January 1, 2000, in honor of the millennium, the newly renamed MTV2 attempted to play every music video in the MTV library in alphabetical order. While a majority of videos were played, many were skipped over. The special ended in mid-April 2000. Partially through the special, MTV2 changed its scheduling from three 8-hour blocks a day to two 12-hour blocks a day, so that it would finish sooner and so the channel would be able to return to airing new videos again.

MTV2's first relaunch

In late 2000, Viacom, MTV and MTV2's parent company, bought out the independent, viewer-requested "jukebox" music video channel known as The Box. Starting on January 1, 2001, all households that had received The Box began to receive MTV2 in its place, putting the channel into millions of additional households.

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MTV2's boxes logo used from 2001 to 2005

As part of the January 1, 2001 relaunch of the channel, MTV2 started to show commercials and began to separate the types of videos it played by genre. Hip-hop and soul music (hosted by a new VJ, Steph Lova) was played for an hour every weekday at 10 AM and 10 PM. Rock music played every weekday at 9 AM and 9 PM (hosted by another new VJ and former K-ROQ radio DJ, Chris Booker).

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A new show hosted by Jancee Dunn called "MTV2 Request" aired every weekday between 11 AM and 12 PM, and again between 11 PM and midnight. All the videos played on "MTV2 Request" were selected by online viewer requests. Another new show called "Control Freak" began in 2001, airing weekdays from 8 to 9 PM. It used real-time viewer voting to select the next video to be played on the channel (out of three choices), while the current video was playing. The majority of the daytime schedule still featured a somewhat diverse mix of rap, rock, and pop, and new and old videos.

Next set of VJs and shows

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In late 2001, MTV2 held auditions for new VJs. Steph Lova, Jancee Dunn, and Chris Booker all disappeared, replaced with Jim Shearer, who would go on to become the "main" VJ in the heavily genre-segregated MTV2; Abby Gennet, who began to host "MTV2 Rock," which was now being played between 3 and 5 PM every weekday afternoon; Quddus, a regular MTV VJ, who would host "MTV2 Soul," which would air between 9 and 11 AM every weekday; and La La & DJ Clue (a well known hip-hop mix DJ), both of whom would host "MTV2 Hip-Hop," which would be played between 10 PM and midnight every weeknight.

During the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve of 2001, MTV2 claimed to play every video that had debuted on the channel during the entire year of 2001, Monday through Saturday between 10 AM and 8 PM each day, alphabetically by video title. As had happened with the marathon of all music videos in 2000, several videos were skipped over as a result of unfortunate scheduling and an overemphasis on fitting in commercials.

With the start of 2002, MTV2's block of techno and dance music, AMP, which had aired Sunday nights between 10 PM and midnight, was replaced by a show called MTV2 Dance. This became a three-hour block of dance and techno, which featured some more obscure music by little-known techno DJ's, but also incorporated the videos for mainstream, popular dance songs, by artists such as Amber and Kylie Minogue. The show also was known for playing dance remixes of pop videos, such as the Hex Hector Remix of Jennifer Lopez' "Waiting For Tonight," the Metro Remix of Enrique Iglesias' "Hero," and the Thunderpuss Remix of Whitney Houston's "It's Not Right, But It's OK." MTV2 Dance originally aired every Sunday morning between 1 and 4 AM. You must add a |reason= parameter to this Cleanup template – replace it with {{Cleanup|April 2006|reason=<Fill reason here>}}, or remove the Cleanup template.
Around this time, 120 Minutes, a long-running show which featured exclusively independent, new, and groundbreaking musicians who typically are not ever heard on mainstream radio in America, was moved from its weekly timeslot of Sunday nights between 8 and 10 PM to Sunday nights between 11 PM and 1 AM. Jim Shearer also took over hosting duty from Jancee Dunn.

In spring of 2002, MTV2 altered its format once again. New shows such as Chart2Chart (hosted by Jim Shearer), which aired the most popular videos from the pop, rap, rock, and dance, singles and albums charts, began. "Spankin' New" was a show that featured the newest videos of the week, and "Extreme Rock" began to air late nights on weekdays, showcasing hard rock and metal music, such as Godsmack, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Guns N' Roses. "Riffs & Rhymes," appeared on the daily weekday schedule between 5 and 6 PM, and featured videos and bands that combined the sounds of rock and rap music, such as The Roots, Linkin Park, P.O.D., and Limp Bizkit. Chris Booker, after only a brief absence from the channel, was brought back in order to host the show. "Riffs & Rhymes" only lasted until the summer of 2002, but "Extreme Rock," "Spankin' New," and "Chart2Chart" remained through the end of 2003.

Special programming

In March 2002, in order to complement the MTV News's version of the documentary on the 20 most controversial music videos ever made, which was rated TV-14, lasted two hours on MTV, and hosted and reported by MTV News reporters Iann Robinson and SuChin Pak. MTV2 then aired the full-length videos, many of which were previously banned from American cable television, in a three hour, late-night special, which was rated TV-MA and hosted by Andrew WK. In addition to playing the top 20 that were discussed on MTV's special, which included The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up," Pearl Jam's "Jeremy," Eminem's "Stan," and Madonna's "Justify My Love," MTV2 played Björk's "Pagan Poetry," Metallica's "Turn The Page," Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker," The Cardigans' "My Favorite Game," and U.N.K.L.E.'s "Rabbit In Your Headlight" as 'bonus' controversial videos.

During the Memorial Day weekend of 2002, MTV2 played a special called "Increase The Beat." Over 400 music videos, ranging from pop stars like Pink, Jennifer Lopez, Destiny's Child, and Brandy, hip-hoppers like P. Diddy, Ja Rule, Dr. Dre, Usher, Missy Elliott, and DMX, techno and dance acts, such as Cher, Whitney Houston, Chemical Brothers, and IIO, to punk bands, such as No Doubt, The Ramones, Blondie, and The Offspring, to classic videos by some of MTV's biggest stars, such as Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michael and Janet Jackson, Prince, and Madonna, to new videos by then-unknown musicians like Norah Jones and Nappy Roots, were represented. The videos were arranged in order from slowest to fastest, based on the number of beats per minute of the song. The slowest video played was Maxwell's "This Woman's Work," which was 55 BPM, while the fastest, Nine Inch Nails' "March Of The Pigs" was 255 BPM. "Increase The Beat" aired all day Saturday and Sunday. On Memorial Day itself, the MTV2 VJ's and employees broadcast live from a barbeque in New York City, and grouped videos into categories, one for each letter of the alphabet.

MTV2's next major special programming came during the Fourth of July weekend in 2002. For the entire four-day extended holiday weekend, MTV2 aired a special called "Box Set Weekend." The channel played an artist's "Artist Collection" (by this time there were around 100 episodes of Artist Collection), and then followed it by other MTV programming that featured the artist, such as Making The Video, Ultrasound, and/or a live performance, depending on what was available in the MTV archives. Although it was not the first time that MTV2 played programming other than music videos, "Box Set Weekend" had the highest concentration of non-video programming to date on the channel.

Prior to that weekend, non-video programming and specials were few and far between, and were never longer than a half hour at a time. "Box Set Weekend" began the trend for MTV2 to play fewer music videos and more archived MTV specials, which may have annoyed and alienated some of MTV2's original viewers who had initially tuned in just to see the videos, without having to sit through documentaries and interviews which could already be seen on MTV and VH1. However, it has been said that MTV2's ratings have increased as a result of their incorporation of documentaries, interviews, and behind-the-scenes specials along with music videos.

Experimental programming

Also in the summer of 2002, MTV2 experimented with MTV2 Dance's timeslot, airing the block twice a week: in its usual early Sunday morning slot between 1 and 4 AM, but also early Saturday morning between midnight and 3 AM. This only lasted for a couple of weeks, however, and by the fall of 2002 MTV2 Dance was cancelled entirely.

In the fall of 2002, amid complaints that the channel was slowly following the same path that regular MTV had taken, away from music videos—especially older and rarer ones—MTV2 debuted a new weekly show called The Definitive. Its purpose was to showcase videos, many of which might not have otherwise still been played on MTV2, in themed blocks. It began airing on Sunday nights between 10 and 11 PM, and showcased an hour of videos grouped by a different theme every week. Its first episode played all animated music videos such as "Californication" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and "Do The Evolution" by Pearl Jam. Since then, the show had nearly 50 episodes. Some of the last themes were videos featuring Snoop Dogg, videos featuring motorcycles, and videos by musicians who have famous fathers, in honor of Fathers' Day 2003. You must add a |reason= parameter to this Cleanup template – replace it with {{Cleanup|April 2006|reason=<Fill reason here>}}, or remove the Cleanup template.
Around the same time that The Definitive debuted in the fall of 2002, MTV2 aired "24 Hours of Love," a live special hosted by Courtney Love. In it, she took control of MTV2's airwaves for 24 hours, playing a selection of videos that she wanted to see, taking calls from viewers, and inviting special guests into the studio. The event was widely regarded as innovative, unusual, and indicative of MTV2's ability to go beyond normal expectations for its programming.

Near the end of the year, MTV2 also began to play "Retro Videos" weekdays between 7 and 8 AM. This evolved into a show that is currently called "Back In Play," which airs weekdays between 7 and 8 AM, and 2 and 3 PM, each of the two hours each day being a completely different block of only older videos that are not currently on MTV or MTV2's playlist. In December of 2002, MTV2 once again tried to air every video that debuted on the channel in 2002. As happened in the past, several videos were not actually played.

Major format evolution

Through the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003, MTV2 phased out the format of exclusively music videos, instead adopting a new slogan, "where the music's at," and featuring other music-related shows instead of 24/7 videos. Past "MTV Icon" specials, news documentaries, and countdowns were all as likely to be shown on MTV2 as videos. However, MTV2 still continued to show innovative and up-and-coming musicians and videos, as well as the mainstream ones.

New rock/hip-hop shows

MTV2's 2003 schedule included some changes from 2002. Jesse Snider, son of Twisted Sister's Dee Snider was selected as the host of MTV2 Rock, replacing Abby Gennet. In addition, MTV2 Rock was reduced to one hour per day, and Hip-Hop was expanded to 5 hours per day. Much of the daily schedule is occupied by other music-related specials and documentaries, with random-rotation "Music Videos" occupying only the late-night hours. You must add a |reason= parameter to this Cleanup template – replace it with {{Cleanup|April 2006|reason=<Fill reason here>}}, or remove the Cleanup template.
In 2003, MTV2 had a "Madonna Weekend" in order to commemorate her new album, American Life. They showed old MTV specials and interviews featuring Madonna, as well as a four hour collection of Madonna videos, called "Madonna A-Z". The weekend ended on Sunday April 20 with the premiere of the "Definitive: Madonna". It was the first episode of "Definitive" to be 2 hours, and completely determined by online viewer voting at MTV2.com. Madonna's controversial "Erotica" video was voted into the number one spot, and MTV2 played the video, which was originally banned on regular MTV, uncensored and in its entirety. Some viewers interpreted this decision to mean that MTV2 hadn't entirely lost its "alternative" and more risque edge. You must add a |reason= parameter to this Cleanup template – replace it with {{Cleanup|April 2006|reason=<Fill reason here>}}, or remove the Cleanup template.
The long-running alternative music show 120 Minutes, which started on MTV in 1986 and was transferred to MTV2 at the end of 2000, came to an end in May 2003 with a final show featuring current host Jim Shearer and former hosts Matt Pinfield and Dave Kendall. The show was renamed to Subterranean, in a shorter 60-minute format. The show also moved from Sunday to Friday nights.

Also in May 2003, MTV2 resurrected the old MTV show Headbangers Ball, which features a wide array of heavy metal and hard rock music videos. Metallica hosted the first episode, followed by Rob Zombie for the next few weeks. Jamey Jasta from the band Hatebreed was then selected as host of the show, though touring responsibilities have prevented Jasta from hosting on several occasions. The show was preceded on Saturdays by the MTV2 Rock Countdown with Jesse Snider and other rock-related music specials and documentaries.

In June 2003, MTV2 began an 8-hour block of hip-hop programming on Sundays called "Sucker Free Sunday." Each week, a different guest host serves up Artist Collections, countdowns, and other hip-hop music specials.

Show cancellations

During the fall of 2003 and the beginning of 2004, MTV2 once again updated its schedule to include more genre-separated blocks and less variety. The popular show Control Freak, which allowed viewers to vote for the next video they wanted to see, was cancelled from its daily 2-hour time slot from 7 PM to 9 PM, and moved to one half-hour seen only on Tuesday. Other daily shows like Back in Play and Latest & Greatest, which featured a mix of new and old videos, were also cancelled.

As part of this transition, MTV2 Rock was moved to a half-hour at 8 PM, followed by a daily half-hour version of the Headbangers Ball. MTV2's daily Hip-Hop Show was expanded further, airing the newest hip-hop hits every day from 5 PM to 7 PM, with the same videos played again from 10 PM to midnight. A new show called "Greatest Hits" replaced Artist Collections, so MTV2 could play only the particular artist's best videos, instead of every video they ever made. The arrival of the new Greatest Hits show meant MTV2's popular "The Definitive" was cancelled as well. Around this time, MTV2's daytime schedule halted regular music video rotation. As a result, music-related specials and documentaries were scheduled for daytime on MTV2.

In the spring of 2004, MTV2 ended its contract with Jesse Snider. Jim Shearer remained with the channel and also picked up hosting duties for all Rock shows previously hosted by Jesse. Jamey Jasta remained the host of Headbangers Ball. Around this time, MTV2 also welcomed Amanda Diva as its new Hip-Hop VJ.

End of freeform format

In the summer of 2004, MTV2's daily schedule became almost completely occupied by repeats of MTV's documentaries, reality shows, and even some classics such as Beavis and Butt-head. Only some music video programming remained, including a daily Hip-Hop hour at 6 PM and a Rock hour at 8 PM.

At this time, MTV2's "freeform" music video format, which featured a diverse mix of new and old videos from all genres since the channel's beginning, completely ended. Even during MTV2's late night "Music Videos" rotation (4 AM to 7 AM), a programmed playlist determined the videos that were to be played. As 2004 came to a close, MTV2 made very little changes to its programming, with non-music shows and documentaries continuing to occupy most of the daily schedule.

MTV2's second relaunch

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The two-headed dog

During the halftime of Super Bowl XXXIX on February 6, 2005, both MTV and MTV2 aired a 15-minute preview of MTV2's second relaunch, which took place at midnight on February 7, 2005. The purpose of this relaunch was to create a unique brand identity for MTV2, targeting 12-34 year old male viewers and separating the channel from being perceived as simply an MTV spin-off.

The two-headed dog

The relaunch of the channel also brought the introduction of a completely new logo: a two-headed dog. The previous "boxes" and MTV's famous block logo were eliminated from the new MTV2 logo, implying that the new channel is nothing like the current MTV. Billboard Radio Monitor reported that the two heads of the dog were made to represent Rock and Hip-Hop, the two sides of music on MTV2. [1]

Also as part of the relaunch, MTV2 added "sharts" (nonsensical video clips from old B-movies, as well as short clips collected from the Internet and others created in-house) in between normal video rotation, commercial breaks, and at the top of each hour. These clips began to serve as station IDs for the new MTV2 and were most likely intended to present a random and "anything goes" attitude for the channel. Although Viacom, MTV2's parent company, denied any influence from competing music video channel Fuse, the attitude and identity associated with Fuse most likely played a part in the decision to relaunch MTV2 and add these random clips.

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"Subterranean" opening sequence

All original shows that were made after the relaunch were given new opening themes with "sharts" as well. Throughout each opening sequence, pieces of broken bars appear all around the screen and eventually, at the end of the random video clip, form into a bar in the center that reads the name of the show.

The channel also introduced a new way to credit videos. At the beginning and end of each video, three colored bars appear in the middle of the screen which tell the video's information, rather than the traditional MTV style of white letters in the lower left corner. Also during each show, MTV2's two-headed dog logo starts to change colors and a bar appears in the middle of the screen to inform the viewer of what program is being shown. The new video credits and show information bars were met with mixed reviews from viewers.

Post-relaunch shows

MTV2's VJs remained the same after the relaunch, and there were only a few programming changes. Each day's schedule remained mostly full of music documentary shows and other non-music shows. The daily MTV2 Rock hour at 8 PM was eliminated, replaced with additional Hip-Hop shows. Each of MTV2's regular music shows received new opening themes and transitions. Some new non-music video shows were also added to the schedule. Another programming change was the return of MTV2 Premiere, which aired a brand new music video at the top of every hour on Thursdays in 2001 and 2002. The new MTV2 Premiere was named "Unleashed" and began taking place on Tuesdays.

Despite all of the hype surrounding the relaunch, not much else about MTV2 changed. The original purpose of the channel, which was to be a continuous mix of music videos, was already long gone. As a result of the programming changes that were building up since 2002 and the latest relaunch in February 2005, MTV2 became totally unrecognizable from its 1996 debut.

Special live broadcast

On June 11 and 12, 2005, MTV2 aired "24 Hours of Foo," a live special hosted by the rock band Foo Fighters, which was very similar in concept to "24 Hours of Love," a live special hosted by Courtney Love that the channel aired in 2002. Beginning at noon ET on Saturday, June 11, the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, and Chris Shiflett took over the MTV2 airwaves for an entire day to host a selection of music videos and live events.

The highlight of the broadcast was a one-hour, full-band live performance from the Foo Fighters, which took place at midnight. Earlier that evening, the Foo Fighters played a 30-minute acoustic Unplugged performance. A live episode of Headbangers Ball was also part of the broadcast that night, hosted by Dave Grohl as he interviewed special guests SuicideGirls.

The 24-hour live broadcast also included other special events, including a drum circle in Times Square, science experiments with Cockeyed.com's Rob Cockerham, an on-air wedding, a trivia game featuring comedian David Cross, and other appearances from MTV personalities and friends, including MTV News reporter Gideon Yago, comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo, Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and Fred Armisen, and comedian Robert Smigel as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

MTV2 VJ Jim Shearer was master of ceremonies for the event, launching the broadcast and staying with the Foo Fighters all 24 hours until the end of the show. To some viewers, "24 Hours of Foo" was a sign of life for MTV2, demonstrating that the network could still put together and air an unusually spectacular live special. Since "24 Hours of Foo," there have been no other large-scale live broadcasts on MTV2.

As 2006 began, most of MTV2's programming continued moving with the general trend that had already started years earlier. The channel's focus on non-music video programming continued, with most promotion centered around other shows, including a Sic 'Em Friday block of "outrageous" shows, such as:

Also, despite the removal of MTV's famous block logo from MTV2's logo in 2005, the channel increased its ties to MTV, airing a broader selection of repeats of other MTV shows that fit in with the "outrageous" theme, as well as some others with no certain theme.

While music is still played on MTV2, it takes an obvious backseat to all of the other programming. In order to find music video programming to watch, viewers must know the schedule and check weekly listings, because MTV2 does not promote most of its music video shows or directly inform viewers about the times in which music videos will be aired.

The music video programming that has managed to survive this long on MTV2 remained stagnant in 2006. Each weekday, hour-long countdowns of hits, hip-hop, and rock music air at various times. The "Unleashed" video premiere was moved to Mondays. At the end of each week, an hour-long rock countdown and two-hour hip-hop countdown are aired, along with Sucker Free Sunday, Headbangers Ball, and Subterranean, which have remained in the same time slots since their debuts in 2003.

Without a flagship show or any specific direction for MTV2, the channel is currently a mixture of music video programming and non-music programming aimed at the 12-34 year old male audience. From its current programming trends, it appears that MTV2 will remain with its current format for the foreseeable future.

See also

Further reading about MTV2:

Articles about MTV2 music shows:

Articles about MTV2 non-music shows:

Articles about MTV2 VJs:

Articles about related channels: