MTV 80s
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Defunct worldwide music channel from MTV
Television channel
Broadcast areaAustralia
Europe, Middle East and North Africa
Latin America and Caribbean
New Zealand
Europe, Middle East and North Africa
Latin America and Caribbean
New Zealand
NetworkMTV
LanguageEnglish
 Final logo, used from February to December 2025 | |
| Broadcast area | Australia Europe, Middle East and North Africa Latin America and Caribbean New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Network | MTV |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Paramount International Networks |
| Sister channels | MTV Club MTV MTV Hits MTV Live MTV 90s MTV 00s |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 July 2020; 5 years ago (2020-07-01) (New Zealand) 5 October 2020; 5 years ago (2020-10-05) (Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean) 1 March 2021; 5 years ago (2021-03-01) (MENA) 1 August 2023; 2 years ago (2023-08-01) (Australia) |
| Replaced | VH1 Classic Europe (Europe) MTV Classic (Australia & New Zealand) |
| Closed | 28 April 2022; 3 years ago (2022-04-28) (Russia) 14 December 2022; 3 years ago (2022-12-14) (Belarus)[1] 1 November 2025; 5 months ago (2025-11-01) (Australia) 1 December 2025; 4 months ago (2025-12-01) (New Zealand) 31 December 2025; 3 months ago (2025-12-31) (globally) |
MTV 80s was a channel featuring music videos from the 1980s. It had a commercial-free schedule.
Pop-up channel and launch
From 28 February to 31 March 2020, MTV 80s was broadcast for one month as a themed alternative to its host channel, MTV Classic UK, but was not planned as a full-time replacement. From 30 June 2020, until 5 October 2020, VH1 Classic Europe broadcast a block of MTV 80s programming from midnight until midday as a test bed for what would eventually become the permanent replacement to VH1 Classic Europe.
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MTV 80s broadcast around the clock in New Zealand since 1 July 2020 and Australia since 1 August 2023 replacing MTV Classic. On 5 October 2020, from 05:00 CET onwards, MTV 80s started broadcasting full-time, replacing VH1 Classic in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Closure
The channel closed in Australia on 1 November 2025.[2]
On 31 December 2025, MTV 80s, along with MTV's other international music channels, closed globally due to the company's restructuring policy.[3][4] The last video played was "Together in Electric Dreams" by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder before the channel's closing at 7:00 AM CET.[5][6][7][8]
Other versions
References
- ↑ "Телеканалы MTV, Nickelodeon и Paramount прекращают вещание в Беларуси". Tvnews.by | Новости Тв, It И Коммуникаций. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ↑ Laidlaw, Kyle (19 September 2025). "FETCH TV set to lose all PARAMOUNT branded channels from November". TV Blackbox. Archived from the original on 19 September 2025. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ↑ Dániel, Szalay (15 July 2025). "Ez tényleg súlyos: nem 8, hanem 10 tévécsatorna tűnik el év végén Magyarországon, köztük a Comedy Central és a Paramount Network – itt a bizonyíték!". Media1 (in Hungarian). Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ↑ "MTV music channels to be switched off across Europe by end of 2025". euronews. 13 October 2025. Archived from the original on 13 October 2025. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
- ↑ McPherson, Chris (30 December 2025). "After 44 Years, MTV Is Officially Dead". Collider. Archived from the original on 30 December 2025. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
- ↑ Blez, Andrea (31 December 2025). "El adiós de los videos musicales en la televisión: la historia de la MTV, el canal que cambió el consumo musical". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2025.
- ↑ Durr, Matt (31 December 2025). "MTV shutting down music TV channels after nearly 40 years". mlive. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ↑ en, Por Virginia GarcíaSeguir (31 December 2025). "MTV apaga sus canales musicales icónicos y despide una era de videos las 24 horas". infobae (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ↑ "our music portfolio is changing". mtv. 15 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
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