MTV Sweden

Infobox TV channel
name = MTV Sweden
logofile = MTV_Logo.svg
logosize = 200px
logoalt = -
launch = September 18, 2005
share = 1.1%
share as of = 2007
share source = [citation|url=http://www.mms.se/arsrapp/%C5rsrapport%202007.pdf|publisher=Mediamätning i Skandinavien|title=Årsrapport 2007]
owner = MTV Networks Europe
country = United Kingdom
broadcast area = Sweden
replaced names = MTV Nordic
web = [http://www.mtv.se Official site]
terr serv 1 = Boxer
terr chan 1 = Channel 9
sat serv 1 = Canal Digital
sat chan 1 =
sat serv 2 = Viasat
sat chan 2 =
cable serv 1 = Com Hem
cable chan 1 = Analogue
Channel 9 (digital)
cable serv 2 = Tele2Vision
cable chan 2 =
cable serv 3 = Canal Digital
cable chan 3 =
adsl serv 1 = Bredbandsbolaget
adsl chan 1 =
adsl serv 2 = Canal Digital
adsl chan 2 =
adsl serv 3 = FastTV
adsl chan 3 =
adsl serv 4 = Telia Digital-tv
adsl chan 4 = Channel 8

MTV Sweden or "MTV Sverige" is a television channel broadcasting to the Swedish market. It started in September 2005 along with MTV Finland and MTV Norway. Before the start of country-specific channels, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland had been served by a common channel called MTV Nordic, launched on June 5, 1998 to replace the MTV Europe feed.

The channel is broadcast from the MTV Networks Europe headquarters in London, partly because of the strict laws on television advertising in Sweden (interrupting programmes for commercials was illegal until 2002).

During the days of MTV Nordic, languages other than English were rarely spoken on MTV in Sweden. With the start of MTV Sweden, several Swedish language programmes were produced. These include:
* "MTV News" in Swedish
* "Celsius", a daily top 10 chart
* "Hej, kom och hjälp mig" ( _en. Hi, come and help me)
* "Strössel" ("Hundreds and thousands")
* "Mycket mer än müsli" ("Much more than muesli")

MTV Sweden is available from virtually all major television distributors in Sweden. Most cable networks carry the channel in their basic packages. It is available on satellite from Canal Digital and Viasat. In 2001, the government granted MTV a license to broadcast on the terrestrial network on the Boxer platform. Since 2006, the overnight programming between 2 and 7 a.m. has been replaced by music videos from VH1 Europe in the terrestrial network.

References

External links

* [http://www.mtv.se Official site]