MTV 80s

MTV 80s

Final logo used from 4 February to 31 December 2025.
Broadcast area	Europe, Latin America, Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and North Africa
Network	MTV
Programming
Language	English
Picture format	4:3 576i/480i SDTV 16:9 576i/480i SDTV
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;4 years ago (2021-03-01) (MENA) 1 August 2023;2 years ago (2023-08-01) (Australia)
Replaced	VH1 Classic Europe (Europe) MTV Classic (Aus and NZ)
Closed	28 April 2022;3 years ago (2022-04-28) (Russia) 14 December 2022;2 years ago (2022-12-14) (Belarus) [1] 1 November 2025;14 days ago (2025-11-01) (Australia) 31 December 2025;45 days' time (2025-12-31)

MTV 80s is a channel featuring music videos from the 1980s. It has a commercial-free schedule.

History

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.

MTV 80s broadcasts 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.

The channel closed in Australia on November 1, 2025. ^[2]

On 31 December 2025, MTV 80s along with MTV’s other international music channels will close globally due to the company's restructuring policy. ^{[3] [4]}

Other versions

As part of restructuring at Paramount Global UK & Australia, MTV 80s replaced MTV Classic in the UK from 6am on 31 March 2022. ^[5]

References

1. "Телеканалы MTV, Nickelodeon и Paramount прекращают вещание в Беларуси". Tvnews.by | Новости Тв, It И Коммуникаций.
2. Laidlaw, Kyle (2025-09-19). "FETCH TV set to lose all PARAMOUNT branded channels from November". TV Blackbox. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
3. Dániel, Szalay (2025-07-15). "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 2025-10-12.
4. "MTV music channels to be switched off across Europe by end of 2025". euronews. 2025-10-13. Retrieved 2025-10-14.
5. "our music portfolio is changing". mtv. 15 March 2022.