MTV Lithuania & Latvia was a twenty-four hour music and entertainment channel operated by 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...

. The channel was originally formed in September 2006 at Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

, at January 2009 it got re-formed to double channel including both Lithuania and Latvia and targeted audiences in Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

 and Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

.

History

• In 2006, MTV Networks Europe established MTV Networks Baltic a new broadcasting service which provided localized channels for Latvia
  Latvia
  Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
  
  , Lithuania
  Lithuania
  Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
  
   and Estonia
  Estonia
  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
  
  . MTV Networks Baltic launched three separate channels within the region in September, 2006. Initially, MTV Networks Baltic comprised MTV Latvia, MTV Lithuania and MTV Estonia. Due to financial difficulties with the region heightened by the global economic downturn. MTV Networks International merged MTV Latvia and MTV Lithuania to form MTV Lithuania and Latvia in January 2009.

MTV Estonia remained as stand alone channel.

• The first video to air on MTV in the Baltic region was Justice
  Justice (French band)
  Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay . The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter...
  
   vs. Simian
  Simian (band)
  Simian was an English electronic rock band, formed in Manchester in 2000.-Personnel:*Simon William Lord *James Ellis Ford *Alex MacNaghten *James Anthony Shaw -History:...
  
   – "We Are Your Friends".

• In 2008, MTV Networks International signed a new licensing agreement with Israeli Communications company Ananey Communications to continue to operate and manage the MTV brand within the Baltic Region.

• The channel ceased broadcasting on November 18, 2009.

• As of November 18, 2009 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...
  
   has replaced MTV Baltic channels.

Channel

The channel combined local and international music, as well as MTV's trademark shows such as Pimp My Ride

Pimp My Ride

Pimp My Ride is a TV show produced by MTV. Each episode consists of taking one car in poor condition and restoring it and customizing it.The original United States version was hosted by rapper Xzibit...

, Celebrity Deathmatch

Celebrity Deathmatch

Celebrity Deathmatch is a claymation television show that depicts celebrities against each other in a wrestling ring, almost always ending in the loser's gruesome death. It was known for its excessive amount of blood used in every match and exaggerated physical injuries...

and Wildboyz

Wildboyz

Wildboyz is a spin-off and follow-up to Jackass, which debuted in 2003 on MTV and moved to MTV2 in its third season. Steve-O and Chris Pontius are the stars of the show, who perform stunts and acts with animals, often putting themselves in situations for which they are not trained...

which were shown with subtitles in Lithuanian

Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...

. The network also aired local programmes as European Top 20, Baltic Top 20, Dance Floor Chart, MTV Oops and MTV Supermercado. Prior to closing, it had launched a reality show live from the MTV Lietuva headquarters, the humour show Baltish

Baltish

Baltish is the black humour TV show produced by MTV Lietuva. It was aired from November 2007 to January 2008 by the music channels: MTV Lietuva, MTV Latvija and MTV Eesti. It is created by the Lithuanian entrepreneurs Algis Ramanauskas and Rimas Šapauskas, best known for their performances in the...

and Pimp My Ride Baltic were created by MTV Lietuva. Lithuanian MTV VJs are VJ Ugnė, VJ Jonas and twins VJ Artūras and VJ Robertas.

Local shows

• MTV News
  MTV News
  MTV News is the news division of MTV, one of the first and most popular music television network in the U.S., as well as some of MTV's related channels around the world. MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program The Week In Rock, hosted by Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News correspondent...
  
  
• Baltic Top 20
• Dance Floor Chart
  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...
  
  
• MTV's Most Wanted
  MTV's Most Wanted
  MTV's Most Wanted was a 1990s MTV Europe television series broadcast from London, England, presented by Ray Cokes. It ran from 1992 until 1995....
  
  
• Sandra
  Sandra
  Sandra may refer to:*Sandra *Sandra , popular 1980s European singer–songwriter*Margaretha Sandra , Dutch woman soldier*Şandra, a commune in Timiş County, Romania*Şandra, a village in Beltiug Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania...
  
  
• Wishlist
• Show Wishlist
• Top 10 @ 10
• Making the Video
  Making the Video
  Making the Video is an MTV show, consisting of half-hour episodes, which chronicles the process of filming various music videos. Usually the director outlines the concept of the video and the show often includes light-hearted and humorous moments. It always concludes with a premiere of the...
  
  
• MTV Special
• This Is The New S***
• Baltic Top 100 (seasonal)
• World Chart Express
  World Chart Express
  The World Chart Express chart is a show played on MTV Europe every Saturday, repeating then on Sundays and Fridays. It's a top ten chart, consisting of popular songs across the world...
  
  
• UK Top 10
• Rock Chart
• Hitlist Base Chart

Former local shows

• Baltish
  Baltish
  Baltish is the black humour TV show produced by MTV Lietuva. It was aired from November 2007 to January 2008 by the music channels: MTV Lietuva, MTV Latvija and MTV Eesti. It is created by the Lithuanian entrepreneurs Algis Ramanauskas and Rimas Šapauskas, best known for their performances in the...
  
  
• Ežio stažas
• MTV Oops
• Pimp My Ride Baltic
• MTV Supermercado
• MTV Rainbow
• Celebrities chart
• MTV B-Day
• MTV News. 7 days
• Music Download Chart Top 10

Pan-European shows

• Euro Top 20
  Euro Top 20
  The MTV Euro Top 20 is a music chart countdown on MTV Europe, which plays the continent's most popular songs and artists. The countdown has been shown on the majority of the regional MTV channels in Europe since the late 1980´s up until its cancellation in April 2009...
  
  
• MTV Push
  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...
  
  
• MTV World Stage
  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...
  
  
• MTV At The Movies
  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...
  
  
• MTV Live Sessions
  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...
  
  
• MTV EMA (seasonal)
• EMA Spotlight (seasonal)

Shows imported from MTV Networks US

• The Real World
  The Real World
  The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...
  
  
• True Life
  True Life
  True Life is a documentary series running on MTV since 1998. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as heroin addiction as in the first episode, "Fatal Dose." The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives.-Topics covered:True...
  
  
• Made
  Made (TV series)
  MTV's MADE is a self-improvement reality television series broadcast on MTV. The series follows teens who have a goal and want to be "made" into things like singers, athletes, dancers, skateboarders, etc. The teens are joined by a "Made Coach", an expert in their chosen field, who tries to help...
  
  
• MTV Cribs
  MTV Cribs
  MTV Cribs and CMT Cribs, depending on which channel it airs, is a franchise reality television program that originated on the MTV Networks' MTV. It later aired on its CMT channel that features tours of the houses and mansions of celebrities. The first show aired September 2000...
  
  
• MTV Essentials
• Brooke Knows Best
  Brooke Knows Best
  Brooke Knows Best was a VH1 reality series spin off from the hit VH1 reality program, Hogan Knows Best. The series first aired July 13, 2008...
  
  
• MTV's Busted
  MTV's Busted
  MTV's Busted is a reality TV show that depicts young adults getting arrested and penalized by police. Most arrests are for alcohol-related crimes, such as drunk driving and underage drinking. Arrests for possession of marijuana are also common. Busted began airing in summer 2008...
  
  
• My Super Sweet 16
  My Super Sweet 16
  My Super Sweet 16 is an MTV reality series documenting the lives of teenagers, usually in the United States, Canada and UK, who usually have wealthy parents that throw huge coming of age celebrations. Parties include the quinceañera , the sweet 16, and other birthdays including a My Super Sweet 21 ...
  
  
• The City
  The City (MTV series)
  The City is an MTV reality television series. The first spin-off of MTV's, The Hills, it follows one of the show's former cast members, Whitney Port, as she moves to New York City to work for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg. The program premiered on December 29, 2008 and concluded its first...
  
  
• Boiling Points
  Boiling Points
  Boiling Points is a prank reality television show, much like the format used on Candid Camera. It is broadcast on MTV in the United States. In each half-hour episode, annoying situations are set up and deliberately inflicted on one or more young adults who are unaware that they are being tested...
  
  
• A Double Shot at Love
  A Double Shot at Love
  A Double Shot at Love is an American reality television dating game show which first aired weekly on MTV from December 9, 2008 to February 3, 2009. It is a spin-off of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila...
  
  
• Wildboyz
  Wildboyz
  Wildboyz is a spin-off and follow-up to Jackass, which debuted in 2003 on MTV and moved to MTV2 in its third season. Steve-O and Chris Pontius are the stars of the show, who perform stunts and acts with animals, often putting themselves in situations for which they are not trained...
  
  
• Dirty Sanchez
  Dirty Sanchez (TV series)
  Dirty Sanchez: The Movie, a reality film based upon the series, was released on 22 September 2006. It is in the format of a world tour and incorporates stunts related to the Seven Deadly Sins. Stunts are on a larger scale and more extreme than stunts shown in the TV show.The film also features the...
  
  
• Dismissed
  Dismissed (TV series)
  Dismissed is a reality television show on MTV that premiered in 2001. One person simultaneously takes two others on a date. Each of the daters chooses a place to go , and the person running the date dismisses the person he/she likes the least. Each of the competing daters also has a time-out card...
  
  
• Beavis & Butthead
• Room Raiders
  Room Raiders
  Room Raiders is a "dating/reality" series on MTV.-Premise:On the show, three men or women have their rooms inspected, or "raided" by another single man or woman...
  
  
• Parental Control
• Run's House
  Run's House
  Run's House was an MTV reality series. It showed the family life of rapper and hip-hop music pioneer Joseph Simmons, also known as Rev Run....
  
  
• Viva La Bam
  Viva La Bam
  Viva La Bam is an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared...
  
  
• MTV Movie Awards
  MTV Movie Awards
  The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV . It also contains movie parodies that used official movie footage with hosts and other celebrities and music performances. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV. Winners are decided online by the general...
  
   (seasonal)
• MTV VMA (seasonal)

Other shows

• Chillout Zone
• MTV Beat
• MTV Amour
• MTV Roulette
• MTV's Breakfast Club
• MTV Flasher
• MTV Fuzz
• Smells like 90s
• Alternative Nation
  Alternative Nation
  Alternative Nation was a television show in the U.S. dedicated to alternative music. It aired on MTV from 1992 to 1997, mostly on weeknights. It was hosted by Kennedy.- History :...
  
  
• MTV New Rave

Other former shows

• Rise and Shine
  Rise and Shine
  Rise and Shine is an album by popular children's entertainer Raffi Cavoukian, released in 1982 by his two labels, Shoreline Recordings and Troubadour Music, with distribution by A&M Records...
  
  
• Don't Stop The Music
  Don't Stop the Music
  Don't Stop the Music is the third and only studio album that was recorded with the second line-up of the Swedish girlband Play. It is the first and only album by the group to feature vocals from then new member Janet Leon, who replaced founding member and lead singer Faye Hamlin...
  
  
• Popular Music
  Popular music
  Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
  
  
• Superock
• The Block
  The Block
  -Places:231 North Vandeventer Saint Louis MO, 63108.Australia* The Block , the first Aboriginal land handbackUnited States* The Block at Orange, an open-air shopping and entertainment mall located in Southern California...
  
  
• Patyzone
• Superpop

Other projects

• Coca-Cola Soundwave (seasonal)
• Pradėk nuo savęs
• No Smoking Power
• MTV Exit
  MTV EXIT
  The ' campaign is a multimedia initiative produced by MTV EXIT Foundation to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking...
  
  
• MTV Fanwalk
• Ežio inkubatorius

Change in format

MTV Networks Europe originally launched separate MTV channels in Lithuania (MTV Lietuva) and Latvia (MTV Latvija) in September 2006. Both channels offered a mixture of local and international content. Due to the global recession and its impact on Latvia, MTV Networks Baltic merged both channels to form MTV Lietuva & Latvija this channel will operate for the foreseeable future until the economic crisis is rectified. MTV Lietuva & Latvija and MTV Estonia ceased operations on November 18, 2009 and have been replaced by the original 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...

channel.

Past VJs

• Ugnė Skonsmanaitė
• Artūras Mediuška
• Robertas Mediuška
• DJ Sezzy
• Orinta Servaitė
• Silvija Vilkaitė
• Tomas Sinickis
• Andrius Afanasjev
• Jurgis Didžiulis
• Artūras Burnickis

External links

• MTV Lithuania and Latvia homepage