MTV Southeast Asia is a 24-hour music/entertainment television network, owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific

MTV Networks Asia Pacific

MTV Networks Asia Pacific comprises three distinctly branded television channels, MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1 in the Asia Pacific region reaching more than 300 million households. Since its inception in 1 January 1994, MTV Networks Asia Pacific has been providing localized channels for young audiences...

, a division of Viacom

Viacom

Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...

. The channel is shown in the Southeast Asia region including Singapore (StarHub TV), Malaysia (Astro

Astro (Malaysian satellite television)

Astro is the brand name of the Malaysian direct broadcast satellite pay television service. It transmits digital satellite television and radio to households in Malaysia & Brunei...

), Hong Kong (NOW TV

Now TV

Now TV is a 24-hour pay-TV service provider in Hong Kong.It is transmitted through the company's Netvigator broadband network via an IPTV service...

), Indonesia (Indovision

Indovision

Indovision is a subscription-based direct broadcast satellite or direct-to-home satellite television and radio service initially in Indonesia. Indovision is currently owned by PT MNC Skyvision.-History:Indovision began operations in 1994....

, TelkomVision

TelkomVision

TelkomVision is a subscription-based direct broadcast satellite and cable television provider service for Indonesia. It is a part of the Telkom Group...

, First Media

First Media

First Media is a triple play Cable Television network in Indonesia.The products are Fastnet, HomeCable, and DataComm. Because First Media is a relatively new company the coverage area is limited.-FastNet:...

), Thailand (TrueVisions

TrueVisions

TrueVisions is Thailand's leading cable satellite television operator, broadcasting largely in English. Now owned by the True Corporation, the company was formerly known as the United Broadcasting Corporation , but it was rebranded in February 2007....

), Vietnam (K+ and VTC), Philippines (Dream Satellite TV

Dream Satellite TV

Dream Satellite TV is the first all-digital Direct-To-Home television broadcasting service via satellite in the Philippines.Broadcasting from the Dream Broadcast Center located at the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga...

, Global Destiny Cable

Global Destiny Cable

Global Destiny Cable is a direct-to-home cable TV subscription service. Global Destiny Cable is the 2nd largest cable TV company in the Philippines.- History :...

, Cablelink

Cablelink

Cablelink is a subscription-based cable antenna television system operator and broadband Internet service provider in the Philippines, commenced its CATV operation in 1995. It is owned and operated by Cable Link and Holdings Corporation...

, SkyCable

SkyCable

SkyCable is a direct-to-home cable TV subscription service and the largest cable company in the Philippines. It is established by the Lopez and Central CATV group of companies, and one of ABS-CBN Corporation subsidiaries. In January 1990, SkyCable was founded and started its CATV operation on...

). Apart from these countries, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam also have their own domestic versions of MTV.

History

MTV Asia was launched in 1 January 1992, a joint venture between Star TV and Viacom, but later STAR TV

STAR TV

Satellite Television Asia Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan....

's contract with MTV expired in 1 May 1994. This led to birth of Channel [V] International

Channel V

Channel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:...

. MTV Asia was relaunch in 3 May 1995. Broadcast in a new unit based in Singapore. Initial 3 MTV channels are MTV Mandarin

MTV Mandarin

MTV Mandarin is a 24 hour music channel combined mandarin and international music programs owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific. One of the first three MTV Asia channels along with MTV Southeast Asia and MTV India. MTV Mandarin has two different feed...

 (Now MTV China and MTV Taiwan. Both music channels are now separate in different Chinese countries) followed by MTV Asia (Now MTV Southeast Asia) and then MTV India

MTV India

MTV India is the Indian version of MTV , 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. . "MTV India" is one of the oldest Music Television Networks in Asia...

. Today MTV Asia operate 11 channels in different broadcast across Asia including, MTV Japan

MTV Japan

MTV Japan is the Japanese version of the cable television network based in Japan. It is a subsidiary of MTV Networks, and was launched on December 24, 1992. It can be viewed on cable television, SKY PerfecTV!, SKY PerfecTV! e2 and IPTV.-History:MTV originally was a music block on JORX-TV from 1989...

, MTV Korea

MTV Korea

SBS MTV is a South Korean music channel. Being a South Korean version of American MTV, it features Korean Pop artist, International Music, news and few of reality programs. It also program brought also from MTV program in the US and few of Asian programs....

, MTV Thailand

MTV Thailand

MTV Thailand is a 24-hour music and entertainment channel owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific, a division of Viacom. This channel broadcasts both Thai and International music programs as well as a youth lifestyle T.V...

, MTV Pakistan

MTV Pakistan

Music Television Pakistan is the Pakistani subsidiary of MTV, a cable television network owned by Viacom Inc. headquartered in New York. The Pakistan franchise has been set up in collaboration with Pakistan's first satellite channel media group known as Indus Media Group . Indus TV is Pakistan's...

, MTV Indonesia

MTV Indonesia

MTV Indonesia is the Indonesian branch of a music television station MTV, parts of MTV Asia. It was first shown in ANTeve in the since was launched together with Nickelodeon Indonesia on 1 January 1993 on ANTeve, MTV Indonesia aired MTV Shows from USA such as TRL, Fanatic, Diary; Europe, Asia such...

 and latest are MTV Arabia

MTV Arabia

MTV Middle East, formerly MTV Arabia, is a free-to-air music television channel, and the Middle Eastern incarnation of MTV. As an addition to the MTV network, it is a joint venture between MTV Networks International and Arabian Television Network, a subsidiary of Arabian Broadcasting Network, and...

 exclusive for Middle Eastern viewers. On 16 February 2010, MTV Philippines

MTV Philippines

MTV Philippines was a 24-hour music/entertainment television network owned by All Youth Channels, Inc., with a partnership with MTV Networks Asia Pacific...

 ceased to air. MTV Vietnam

MTV Vietnam

MTV Vietnam is a 24 hour music channel owned by MTV Networks Asia, a division of Viacom and UTV Corporation, a division of BHD Group and is under management of Vietnam Television...

 was successfully launched on July 1, 2011

Current Shows on MTV Southeast Asia

• MTV Hits (United from MTV Breakfast Club, MTV Lunch Quickies, MTV Hits,...)
• VH1 Hits
• 5 Things You Need to Know About...
• MTV Club
• MTV Classic
• MTV Picks
• Asian Takeaway: JK (change from JK Hits)
• Asian Takeaway: Mandarin
• Asian Takeaway: Nusantara (Change from MTV Gerek Seh!)
• Asian Takeaway Artist Of The Month
• Paris Hilton's My New BFF
  Paris Hilton's My New BFF
  Paris Hilton's My New BFF, also known simply as My New BFF and other alternate titles, is a competitive reality television show in which Paris Hilton searches for her new BFF . Following the success of the original US version, another US season and two international spin-offs followed...
  
  
• MTV Rock
• MTV Fresh
• MTV World Stage
• MTV Spankin' New (changed to Fresh: Video Of The Week)
• MTV I Love Live
• MTV Hip Hop
• MTV Chart Attack
• My Super Sweet 16
• My Super Sweet 16 UK
• I Love The Weekend
• Life of Ryan
• 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...
  
  
• Jersey Shore
  Jersey Shore
  The Jersey Shore is a term used to refer to both the Atlantic coast of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the adjacent resort and residential communities. . The New Jersey State Department of Tourism considers the Shore Region, Greater Atlantic City, and the Southern Shore to be distinct, each having...
  
  
• Pranked
• Moving In
• Blue Mountain State
  Blue Mountain State
  Blue Mountain State is an American comedy series that premiered on Spike on January 11, 2010. The series producers include Chris Romano and Eric Falconer and is produced by Lionsgate Television...
  
  
• Teen Mom
  Teen Mom
  Teen Mom is an American reality television series that premiered on MTV on December 8, 2009. A spin-off of 16 and Pregnant, the series chronicles the lives of four of the teenagers from the original series as they navigate their first few years of motherhood...
  
  
• 16 and Pregnant
• Disaster Date
  Disaster Date
  Disaster Date is a hidden camera TV-show on MTV in which actors go on a blind date with a person. The series premiered on September 28, 2009, and is primarily filmed in the Los Angeles, California area.-Premise:Each episode usually has 3 separate dates...
  
  
• Teen Cribs
• Plain Jane
  Plain Jane
  A Plain Jane is a woman who has an average appearance. It can also mean an object that is unadorned or unembellished.Plain Jane may also refer to:*Plain Jane , a U.S...
  
  
• Skins US
• Awkward
• Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
  
  
• MTV Featured Artist
• My MTV
• MTV OK Karaoke

Former MTV Southeast Asia shows

• Advance Warning
• After Skool Rock
• Barrio 19
• Boiling Points (Malaysian Edition)
• Classic MTV
• Double Trouble
• D-Tour
• Favorite Top 10
• MTV MotoAlert
• MTV Alternative Nation
• MTV Ampuh
• MTV Asia Hitlist
  MTV Asia Hitlist
  MTV Asia Hitlist is an Asian chart show or countdown on MTV Asia, produced by MTV Asia and hosted by MTV VJs, which first aired in 1996. It resembles the MTV US show TRL, which also featured music videos in a countdown. From 1996-1999, the show presented the Top 20 videos in Asia, lasting for two...
  
  
• MTV Bangkok Jam
• MTV Boom Top 10
• MTV Brand New
• MTV Breakfast Club
• MTV Connect
• MTV Cool Crap
• MTV Chillout Lounge
• MTV Diyes
• MTV Game Pad
• MTV Hanging Out
• MTV Music Remedy
• MTV Hoopla
• MTV Jams
• MTV Jumpstart
• MTV Loveline
• MTV Mobbed
• MTV Most Wanted
• MTV Mush
• MTV Nights
• MTV Partyzone
• MTV Presents
• MTV Pop Inc
• MTV Rock It
• MTV Screen
• MTV Sessions
• MTV Start
• MTV Triple Play
• MTV Twisted
• MTV Urban Beats
• MTV Videosomnia
• MTV Whatever Things
• MTV Wow
• MTV Y2K Hits & Beyond
• MTV Non Stop Hits
• VH1 Music Collection
• MTV Flipside
• MTV Para Boss
• MTV Lunch Quickies
• MTV Six Packs
• Primetime Hits
• I Love The 80s & 90s
• Hip-Hop Countdown
• MTV Amplified

Former MTV Southeast Asia shows from the 1990s

Arguably MTV was at the height of its popularity in the 1990s & many are saying that the format used by MTV Asia back then since 1991 for their shows made them next to HBO Asia as the most watched cable channel in the whole of Asia, but it was in the mid 1990s that MTV Asia reached the peak of its popularity. 45 million homes across Asia views MTV, here are the list of the shows back in the 1990s. Other MTV program are included during the partnership with STAR TV

STAR TV

Satellite Television Asia Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan....

 until 1993.

• MTV Asia Hitlist (Formerly Asian Top 20 Countdown which was later used by Channel V)
• MTV US Top 20 Countdown
• MTV European Top 20 Countdown
• MTV Awake of the Wild Side
• MTV Land
• MTV In Control
• MTV Breakout
• MTV Heart & Soul
• MTV Unplugged
• MTV Super Rock (Formerly MTV Headbangers Ball)
• MTV Stopest Hits
• MTV Alternative Nation
• MTV Non-Stop Hits
• MTV Master Mix
• MTV Most Wanted
• TV MTV
• MTV Live & loud
• MTV Party Zone
• MTV Prime
• MTV Grind
• MTV Fresh
• Classic MTV
• MTV 3 in 1
• MTV Hitz
• Dial MTV
• MTV Presents
• MTV Flipside
• MTV Para'bos
• MTV Diyes
• MTV Ampuh
• MTV Morning Mania
• MTV Music Update Tokyo (later used by Channel V)
• MTV Kamal Sutra
• MTV Getar Cinta
• MTV Hitlist
• MTV Daily Dose
• MTV Gone Taiwan (later used by Channel V)
• MTV Fantastic Females

Themes, Logos, Lower Thirds and ID stations

• MTV Southeast Asia channel logo in blue cubic theme, during in year 2000 – August 2003. A screenshot from Sheila On 7
  Sheila on 7
  Sheila on 7 is the name of a popular rock Indonesian music band from Yogyakarta.They had changed their formation several times since their formation on the 6th May 1996....
  
   music video from the show MTV Boom Top 10 or known as MTV Jus today.
• MTV Southeast Asia channel logo in pink groory theme, used during August 2003 – July 2005. A screenshot from The Killers performance on the show MTV Presents: 2$ Bill.
• MTV Southeast Asia channel logo in comic theme, used during July 2005 – April 2007. A screenshot from The Killers music video on MTV Hits
  MTV Hits
  MTV Hits is an American music video channel that debuted on May 1, 2002. The format of the network resembles that of the classic MTV before the additional of other programming to that network in the 1990s and their slow decline of music video programming...
  
  .
• MTV Southeast Asia channel logo in simply white theme, from April 2007 – April 2008. A screenshot from Stephen Fretwell
  Stephen Fretwell
  Stephen Fretwell is an English singer-songwriter.-Biography:Fretwell attended St. Augustine Webster Primary School in Scunthorpe and St. Bede's Catholic School in Ashby before furthering his study at John Leggott College...
  
   music video on MTV Hits
  MTV Hits
  MTV Hits is an American music video channel that debuted on May 1, 2002. The format of the network resembles that of the classic MTV before the additional of other programming to that network in the 1990s and their slow decline of music video programming...
  
  : Indie
• MTV Southeast Asia later uses a goldish-yellow rectangle, with the MTV logo being enlarged and added the URL, MTVASIA.COM, and the theme was used from April 2008 – mid-2009.
• MTV Southeast Asia afterwards uses an early version of the present logo, but the background is pink, and MTV logo is white. Also the URL still intact. It was used from 2009–2010. The URL was removed beginning with the present logo theme.
• The past logo is now a tiny white square with an black MTV logo from April 2010 to June 2011. This logo is also applicable in MTV China, Taiwan and Korea only.
• The new logo as of July 1, 2011 is the current US version which drops "Music Television" under the letter M.

Former VJs

• Colby Miller
  Colby Miller
  Colby Miller Colby Miller Colby Miller (born February 19, 1980 is an MTV VJ for MTV Asia. He began his career as an MTV VJ after winning the Philippine MTV VJ Hunt 2005.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jamie Aditya
• Sonia Couling
  Sonia Couling
  Sonia Couling is well known in Asia as a fashion model, TV personality and Cover girl. She has acted in many Thai TV shows, been a VJ for MTV Asia, and has produced and hosted 'Thailand's Next Top Model" in 2005. She is Eurasian or Luk kreung, with an English father and a Thai mother...
  
  
• Jeff Enos
• Nadya Hutagalung
  Nadya Hutagalung
  Nadya Yuti Hutagalung , has been a model, film actress, was one of the first VJs on MTV Asia , TV host, MediaWorks artiste, painter and jewellery designer. Her father, Ricky , is Indonesian , and her mother, Dianne , is Australian.She married Desmond Koh at the Uma Ubud in Bali on 16 December 2006...
  
  
• Kerry Kasem
• Mike Kasem
• Rahul Khanna
  Rahul Khanna
  - Early life and background :Khanna was born and raised in Mumbai. His father is Bollywood matinee idol & politician, Vinod Khanna, and his younger brother is Bollywood actor, Akshaye Khanna....
  
  
• Max Loong
  Max Loong
  Max Loong is an actor, host and producer of Swiss and Chinese descent.Swiss entertainment magazine Schweizer Illustrierte ranked him as one of the top 100 most important and influential Swiss personalities in 2007.In the same year, Elle Magazine Singapore awarded him the ‘Breakout Star of the...
  
  
• Anne Hendricks
• K. C. Montero
• Sarah Meier
• Fazura
• Belinda Panelo
  Belinda Panelo
  Belinda Jay Panelo is a Filipino American actress and former commercial model who became an MTV VJ after winning the MTV VJ Hunt in 1999, along with K. C. Montero. She is the daughter of US vet, Salvador Sauza Panelo...
  
  
• Joe Phua
• Donita Rose
  Donita Rose
  Donita Rose-Villarama, , also known as Donita Rose, Donita, is a Filipina actress, TV Host and former MTV Asia VJ.-Biography:...
  
  
• Regine Tolentino
• Francis Magalona
  Francis Magalona
  Francis Michael Durango Magalona , also known as FrancisM, Master Rapper, MC The Mouth and The Man From Manila, was a Filipino rapper, entrepreneur, songwriter, producer, actor, director, and photographer. He was the first Filipino rapper in the Philippines to cross over to the mainstream...
  
  
• Sarah Sechan
• Kamal Sidhu
  Kamal Sidhu
  -Early life:Kamal was born in an Indian Sikh family who lived in the Philippines, where she stayed till the age of six. Later they moved to Canada, where she was raised and educated. She has a university degree in pre-medical...
  
  
• Sophiya Haque
• Ruth Winona Tao
  Ruth Winona Tao
  Ruth Winona Tao , a.k.a. Nonie Tao and Kwun-Mei Tao 关美涛 , was an American-born Chinese film actress, TV personality and MTV Asia and Channel V video jockey in the early 1990s. She hosted on BY Demand, Asian Top 20...
  
  
• David Wu
  David Wu (entertainer)
  David Wu , also known by the nickname Wu-Man, is a well-known Chinese American film actor, TV personality and formerly MTV Asia and Channel V video jockey. He attended the University of Washington...
  
  
• Angela Chow
  Angela Chow
  Angela Chow is a Canadian-raised actress and presenter of Chinese ethnicity known for hosting Miss World 2003 until Miss World 2012 as well as currently having her own talk shows Good Morning China and Du Bao Magazine Critique....
  
  
• Sally Yeh
  Sally Yeh
  Sally Yeh , sometimes written as Sally Yip or Yip Sin-Man, is a Cantopop singer in the Hong Kong music industry and an actress in the Hong Kong film industry.-Overview:...
  
  
• Jamie Wilson
  Jamie Wilson
  Jamie Wilson is a beauty queen from Minden, Louisiana who has competed in the Miss America pageant.Competing as Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival, Wilson won the Miss Louisiana 2006 title in a state pageant held in Monroe, Louisiana in June 2006. Earlier in the pageant week she won a preliminary...
  
  
• Annisa Nurul Shanty
• Shannen Torres
• Danny McGill
• Andy Ingkavet
• G. Toengi
  G. Toengi
  -Songs from Dawson's Creek Volume 2 :* I Will Win Your Love This Season-External links:* *...
  
  
• Stella Soohn
• Paolo Bediones
  Paolo Bediones
  Paolo Bediones is a Filipino commercial model, television host, journalist, newscaster, and radio announcer.Bediones started his career as a commercial model, and later transitioned to television show hosting. He is best known for hosting GMA Network's Extra Challenge and Survivor Philippines...
  
  
• Bianca Araneta
• Sahntaya "Taya" Rogers

See also

• MTV (Music Television)
• MTV Networks Asia Pacific
  MTV Networks Asia Pacific
  MTV Networks Asia Pacific comprises three distinctly branded television channels, MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1 in the Asia Pacific region reaching more than 300 million households. Since its inception in 1 January 1994, MTV Networks Asia Pacific has been providing localized channels for young audiences...
  
  
• MTV Mandarin
  MTV Mandarin
  MTV Mandarin is a 24 hour music channel combined mandarin and international music programs owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific. One of the first three MTV Asia channels along with MTV Southeast Asia and MTV India. MTV Mandarin has two different feed...
  
   (1995-2003, split)
  • MTV Taiwan (2003-ongoing)
  • MTV China (2003-ongoing)
• MTV India
  MTV India
  MTV India is the Indian version of MTV , 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. . "MTV India" is one of the oldest Music Television Networks in Asia...
  
   (1996-ongoing)
• MTV Korea
  MTV Korea
  SBS MTV is a South Korean music channel. Being a South Korean version of American MTV, it features Korean Pop artist, International Music, news and few of reality programs. It also program brought also from MTV program in the US and few of Asian programs....
  
   (2001-ongoing)
• MTV Thailand
  MTV Thailand
  MTV Thailand is a 24-hour music and entertainment channel owned by MTV Networks Asia Pacific, a division of Viacom. This channel broadcasts both Thai and International music programs as well as a youth lifestyle T.V...
  
   (2001-ongoing)
• MTV Pakistan
  MTV Pakistan
  Music Television Pakistan is the Pakistani subsidiary of MTV, a cable television network owned by Viacom Inc. headquartered in New York. The Pakistan franchise has been set up in collaboration with Pakistan's first satellite channel media group known as Indus Media Group . Indus TV is Pakistan's...
  
   (2006-ongoing)
• MTV Vietnam
  MTV Vietnam
  MTV Vietnam is a 24 hour music channel owned by MTV Networks Asia, a division of Viacom and UTV Corporation, a division of BHD Group and is under management of Vietnam Television...
  
   (2011-ongoing)

• MTV Philippines
  MTV Philippines
  MTV Philippines was a 24-hour music/entertainment television network owned by All Youth Channels, Inc., with a partnership with MTV Networks Asia Pacific...
  
   (1992-2010, defunct)
• MTV Indonesia
  MTV Indonesia
  MTV Indonesia is the Indonesian branch of a music television station MTV, parts of MTV Asia. It was first shown in ANTeve in the since was launched together with Nickelodeon Indonesia on 1 January 1993 on ANTeve, MTV Indonesia aired MTV Shows from USA such as TRL, Fanatic, Diary; Europe, Asia such...
  
  (1993-2007, defunct)

External links

• Official Website