MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 Denmark or MTV Danmark is a television channel broadcasting to Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 and the Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

 market. It started in May 2005 as part of MTV's expansion into the Nordic region

Nordic countries

The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...

 which followed with launches of MTV Finland

MTV Finland

MTV Finland is a general entertainment channel broadcasting to the Finnish speaking market. The channel replaced MTV Nordic on September 18, 2005.-History:* MTV Finland launched in September 2005 along with MTV Sweden and MTV Norge...

, MTV Sweden

MTV Sweden

MTV Sweden is a general entertainment channel broadcasting to the Swedish market. The channel replaced MTV Nordic on September 18, 2005.-History:* MTV Sweden launched in September 2005 along with MTV Finland and MTV Norge...

 and MTV Norway

MTV Norge

MTV Norway is a general entertainment channel broadcasting in Norway. The channel replaced MTV Nordic on September 18, 2005.-History:*MTV Norway launched in September 2005 along with MTV Sweden and MTV Norge...

 in September 2005. Before the start of country-specific channels, Denmark, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 and Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 had been served by a common channel called MTV Nordic

MTV Nordic

MTV Nordic was a pan-European cable television network launched on June 5, 1998. A 24-hour English-language network aimed at viewers in the Nordic countries and other European territories. Between 1998 and 2006 MTV Nordic served the majority of European territories under the branding MTV Europe &...

, launched on June 5, 1998 to replace the MTV Europe

MTV Europe

MTV Europe is a pan-European 24-hour entertainment cable and digital television network launched on August 1, 1987. Initially, the channel served all regions within Europe being one of the very few channels that targeted the entire European continent...

 feed.

The channel is broadcast from the MTV Networks Europe

MTV Networks Europe

MTV Networks Europe is a division of Viacom International Media Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom.MTV Networks Europe includes the multimedia entertainment brands: MTV, VH1, TMF, VIVA, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Nick Jr...

 headquarters in London, along with other MTV channels i.e. MTV Sweden. As of 2011 MTV Denmark is broadcasted from its operations in Stockholm.

During the days of MTV Nordic, languages other than English were rarely spoken on MTV in Denmark. With the start of MTV Denmark, several Danish language

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

 programmes were produced. These include:

• MTV News
• Fusion Chart, a daily top 10 chart
• Spanking New
• Headbangers Ball
• Transistor (Daily Live Request Show)

Current Presenters (VJ'S)

• Anne Lindfjeld
  Anne Lindfjeld
  Anne Lindfjeld is a Danish Metal-Chick-Pin-up model and presenter on MTV Denmark host.She was born in 1981 and raised in Haderslev, Denmark and later moved to the capital Copenhagen which is her current place of residence...
  
  
• Christine Roloff
• Freya Christine Clausen

Availability

MTV Denmark is available from virtually all major television distributors in Denmark.
Most cable networks carry the channel in their basic packages.

External links

• Official site