Country | Romania |
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Ownership | |
Owner | RCS & RDS |
Sister channels | Digi 24 Digi Animal World Digi Life Digi Sport Digi World Digi 4K Film Now H!T Music Channel Hora TV U TV |
History | |
Launched | May 28, 2008 |
Links | |
Website | 1music |
Music Channel is a Romanian music television channel, opened on May 28, 2008. On January 1, 2010 was launched a version in Hungary. [1] Music Channel came to prominence as the first Romanian TV station to host Live streaming on the internet. [2] The TV station is known for hosting the yearly Romanian Music Awards [3] Unlikely to MTV Romania and Kiss TV, the station is more genre-broadcasting, dividing its airplay into the four most prominent music genres — pop, rock, urban and dance, much in the likes of UTV. Noteworthy, Music Channel is known for also airing Latin pop, adult contemporary, J-pop and K-pop among other genres that don't receive significant airplay from other music stations. Compared by many to VH1, the TV station conceived many Top-Tens and Top-100s and starting late-November they start playing Christmas music.
Its sister channel, H!t Music Channel was launched on September 1, 2011. [4] Its closure in Hungary was announced on 27 June 2022, citing loss-making operations as the reason for the decision, along with its other sister channels. [5]
Since 2024, Music Channel broadcasts only Romanian music and adverts.
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