MTV is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by Bell Media with the name and branding used under a licensing. The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards took place on September 13, 2009, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, honoring the best music videos from June 19, 2008, to. MclAXjLfOs0/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Mtv Vma 2012 Full Show Online' title='Mtv Vma 2012 Full Show Online' />MTV Canada Wikipedia. For the digital television channel known as MTV Canada between 2. MTV2 Canada. MTV is a Canadian. English language. Category Acable and satellitespecialty channel that is owned by Bell Media with the name and branding used under a licensing agreement with the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. The channel is devoted to talk, lifestyle and documentary programming, and also airs some scripted series. The channel launched as Talk. When Kim Kardashian posted her Snapchat takedown of Taylor Swift last July, she officially landed herself on the singers bad blood list. Because while Swift has made. TV in 2. 00. 0, but was not as widely available prior to its relaunch in March 2. Unlike MTV channels in the U. S. and elsewhere, the channel is restricted in its ability to carry music videos and other music programming due to conditions in the channels licence issued by the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC, thus it never used the tagline Music Television as did its international counterparts prior to 2. Much. Music, now a sister channel of the Canadian MTV channel, had been launched in 1. Canadian channel dedicated to mainstream music. HistoryeditMTV in Canada before 2. CHUM Limited launched Canadian music channel Much. Music in 1. 98. 4, inspired by the success of MTV in the United States. CRTC genre exclusivity restrictions prevented MTV from either bringing its U. S. channel directly into Canada or launching a homegrown competitor. As a result, MTV was initially content to sell Canadian rights to its programming for rebroadcast on Much. Music. However, relations between the two channels were strained in the mid 1. CHUM in partnership with Cablevisions Rainbow Media launched an American version of Much. Music later fully sold to Rainbow now the Madison Square Garden, Inc. Fuse in direct competition with MTV. In October 2. 00. MTV partnered with Craig Media to launch MTV Canada as a digital cable channel. The channel in question had initially been licensed by the CRTC as Connect, a broadly based teen oriented channel, without MTV involvement. One of the conditions of licence was that a maximum of 1. In 2. 00. 3, CHUM filed a complaint with the CRTC alleging that MTV Canada was airing more music videos and music programming than allowed by its licence and had subsequently become competitive with Much. Music. In Broadcasting Decision 2. CRTC found that MTV Canada was offering a music based service rather than a broadly based teen channel. Furthermore, the Commission found that MTV was broadcasting in excess of 1. MTV was not meeting its commitment to provide educational programming for teens, nor was it providing any programming from independent educational authorities. Craig was ordered to come into compliance with its broadcasting licence. After CHUM purchased Craig in 2. MTV Networks terminated the agreement with Craig the contract had included a provision to cancel the agreement if there was a change in ownership. CHUM Limited was required to pay MTV Networks the remaining licensing fees which amounted to C1. On June 3. 0, 2. 00. MTV Canada was rebranded as Razer. CTVglobemedia purchased CHUM in 2. Razer was rebranded as MTV2 on August 1, 2. MTV branded channel. Talktv was licensed in 1. Talk. TV carried repeats of CTV talk shows, as well as a six hour afternoonevening program, The Chatroom, which aired every weekday until mid 2. CTV owned Masonic Temple in Toronto. The program featured future CTV network personalities Seamus ORegan and Ben Mulroney, as well as Craig Norris now at CBLA FM 2 in Kitchener, Ontario and Jennifer Hollett. In 1. 99. 9, Talk. TV also acquired the broadcast rights to Pamela Wallin Live, which formerly aired on CBC Newsworld. Upon its move, the program was renamed Pamela Wallins Talk. TV. Talk. TV had been licensed as an analogue channel, allowing cable companies to offer it without requiring a digital converter box, and was one of the last specialty channels to be launched with that status all specialty channels licensed since 2. However, it was not explicitly required to receive analog carriage either, provided the provider had already launched digital services. Due to this, combined with the channels late launch and cable systems approaching capacity for analog channels, Talk. TV was only available on digital programming tiers, aside from a handful of major markets such as Toronto. Because of low ratings, and much more narrow distribution than other specialty channels, The Chatroom was cancelled in 2. Talk. TV became solely a repeat service for CTV network programming and repeated segments of The Chatroom. Ironically, this came just after the CRTC had granted it the right to charge 7 per subscriber when carried on basic cable, whereas it was previously made available to these viewers free of charge the new charge had been expected to help sustain the channels live programming. The final program broadcast on Talk. TV was that nights episode of e. Talk Daily on March 2. Eastern Time this was followed at midnight Eastern Time by a large, red MTV logo and an 1. Serial 2K Database Update. Golden Software Didger 4. MTV relaunchedit. MTV logo used from 2. On September 2. 8, 2. CTV and MTV Networks announced that talktv would be relaunched as a new incarnation of MTV Canada, while continuing to maintain its licence requirement of documentary programming with over 6. Canadian content. Former MTV Networks executive Brad Schwartz was appointed as general manager of MTV Canada Schwartz is now senior vice president and general manager of the Bell subsidiary Much. MTV Group. In the September 2. CTV claimed to have applied for a Category 2 licence that would feature music videos, along the lines of the former MTV2 Canada now Juicebox. The application is believed to have been abandoned. CTV already had strong ties with MTV it was the first broadcast network to air The Osbournes, which aired during prime time, uncensored and subsequently aired Punkd and Newlyweds Nick and Jessica. CTVs exclusive rights to MTV content meant that CHUMs Much. Music lost all rights to MTV programming immediately following the announcement. CHUM released a statement saying that they would be intrigued as to how talktv could be morphed into MTV without violating its CRTC broadcasting licence, and filed a complaint with the CRTC. However, the CRTC was unable to take preemptive action based on a press release. Since MTV uses the same broadcast licence CTV held for talktv, CTV is restricted by the following conditions of licence an emphasis on talk programsa minimum of 6. Canadian contenta minimum of 7. Eastern Time must be Canadian content. Prior to the relaunch, The Globe and Mail reported that the network would. American MTV, which has increasingly moved away from music videos toward reality shows and other original programming,2 placing a heavy emphasis on talk and lifestyle shows. In a Canadian Press report, it was stated that while there could not be a Canadian version of the music oriented Total Request Live, other spin off programs were not out of the question. Canadian versions of MTV Cribs, Diary and Making the Video have already been produced. Leading up to the launch, CTV aired the specials MTV Unplugged Alicia Keys in early October 2. MTVs New Year of Music on December 3. In February 2. 00. MTV began promoting its launch date with a series of ads with the slogan the drought ends 0. Bell Globemedias now Bell Media television platforms. Talktvs bug began periodically changing into an MTV logo to notify viewers of the coming change. On March 1, 2. 00.