A television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts, or the possession of a television set where some broadcasts are funded in full or in part by the licence fee paid. The fee is sometimes also required to own a radio or receive radio broadcasts. A TV licence is therefore effectively a hypothecated tax for the purpose of funding public broadcasting, thus allowing public broadcasters to transmit television programmes without, or with only supplemental, funding from radio and television advertisements. However, in some cases the balance between public funding and advertisements is the opposite – the Polish TVP broadcaster receives more funds from advertisements than from its TV tax.
MTV Base is a 24-hour hip-hop/urban music channel from Viacom International Media Networks Europe. The channel focuses primarily on hip hop, R&B, grime, garage, reggae, funk and soul music.
VIVA was a German free-to-air music television channel, first broadcast on 1 December 1993 The channel was intended to compete against MTV Europe and was the first German-language music TV channel, while MTV was only broadcast in English until the introduction of MTV Germany in 1997. It was also supposed to focus more on German music and pop culture while MTV only broadcast anglophone music by artists mostly from North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia.
Bloomberg Television is an 24-hour American-based international cable and satellite business and capital market television channel, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is headquartered in New York City, with European headquarters in London and Asian headquarters in Hong Kong.
Viacom International Media Networks is a subsidiary of Viacom. The unit was launched as MTV Networks Europe in 1987. Today, VIMN Europe consists of the brands Viacom International Media Networks UK, Northern & Eastern Europe and Viacom International Networks Southern & Western Europe, Middle-East and Africa.
Nickelodeon is a British pay television network focused on kids programming, it is operated under a joint venture between Viacom International Media Networks Europe and Sky.
MTV Brasil was a broadcast television network owned by Grupo Abril dedicated to young audiences. The network went on the air on 20 October 1990, as the first segmented television network to broadcast over free-to-air, becoming the local version of MTV. It was the third MTV version launched in the world, and the first to broadcast via free-to-air television.
MTV Adria was a localized version of the music and entertainment channel MTV Europe, customized for the Balkan countries that used to be constituent parts of Yugoslavia. It served the following countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.
MTV Brand New is a 24-hour specialist music channel featuring new music videos, alternative and indie music available in the Netherlands, Germany, and In Italy until 2011, when it was replaced by MTV Rocks. The Italian version of the channel launched on September 14, 2003; it then launched in the Netherlands on August 1, 2006. The German-speaking version of the channel launched in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on February 1, 2011.
Discovery HD is the international name of the high-definition television channels from Discovery Communications.
Nickelodeon Germany is a German free-to-air television channel in Germany, part of the international Nickelodeon franchise. Launched in 2005, Nickelodeon is based in Berlin. The channel is available on subscription services and as an unscrambled, free-to-air (FTA) satellite signal. On 31 March 2010, the channel adopted the name Nickelodeon on-air and online, in addition to the new Nickelodeon logo and graphical package being rolled out internationally at the time. Since then, the channel is also broadcast in English in addition to German on a secondary audio track.
MTV Israel, is the Hebrew-speaking branch of MTV. A 24-hour music channel launched on January 17, 2011.
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is the international division of Viacom. The company oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of key Viacom brands outside of the United States. These brands include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, VIVA, Colors and Game One.
MTV is a Dutch free-to-air television channel broadcasting in the Netherlands. It launched as MTV NL on 12 September 2000. Before the start of country-specific channels, the Pan-European version of MTV aired in the Netherlands.
Television in Switzerland was introduced in 1950. People who live in Switzerland and receive television services are required by law to pay a television licence fee, which is used to finance the public radio and television service SRG SSR. Licence fee-payers in all the linguistic regions of Switzerland all pay the same amount and, in return, are entitled under the law to services of equal quality.
Nickelodeon is a pay television network dedicated to kids. Nickelodeon is widely available throughout Europe as a subscription service or free-to-air service; depending on what region in Europe you are living in. Nickelodeon is seen in 24.2 million households throughout Europe, via channels and blocks.
MTV is a British pay television channel operated by Viacom International Media Networks Europe, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
VIVA Schweiz was a TV channel which timeshared with Nickelodeon Switzerland and featured music videos and quizzes. It launched on 6 September 2000. The channel served German-speaking regions in Switzerland. It closed on 31 December 2018, along with all other Viva-branded channels.
VIVA was an Austrian free-to-air television channel launched 2012 as the localised feed of VIVA Germany. In June 2018, Viacom announced that it will shut down all Viva operations worldwide by 31 December 2018.
