MTV to Launch Local Africa Music Channel in 2005
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Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks will next year launch its first local channel in Africa, the final global outpost for the music video and kids' broadcaster and its 100th channel worldwide.
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A reggae concert in honor of musical legend Bob Marley, which drew an audience of more than 200,000 Ethiopians to Addis Ababa, could become an annual fixture across Africa, its organizers said Monday.
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An MTV Networks Europe head has quit to join the British broadband television service, BT Vision.  Michael Berry, managing director of MTV U.K. & Ireland, in April will join BT Vision as director of programming, Variety said Monday.
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Music television jumped off the screen on Sunday night and into this city&#39;s open arms, as Miami played host to MTV&#39;s annual Video Music Awards in a meeting of glitzy soulmates.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - With original programming, its own   VJs and an ambitious distribution plan, MTV Tr3s -- formerly   known as MTV Espanol -- aims to be more than just MTV in   Spanish.
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MTV said Wednesday that  it has given the greenlight to a comedy-reality series  featuring Oscar-winning rap artists Three 6 Mafia.
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MIAMI - An already broiling Miami prepared for even more sizzle on Sunday as MTV brought the annual party known as the Video Music Awards to the city for the first time in the awards' 21-year history.    The change of scenery for the awards, typically held in New York or Los Angeles, helped raise the decadence level at the already raucous, celebrity-soaked affair...
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MIAMI Aug. 29, 2004 - An already broiling Miami had even more sizzle Sunday night as MTV brought the annual party known as the Video Music Awards to the city for the first time in the awards&#39; 21-year history.
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Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks, operator  of music-oriented television channels, said it will cut about  250 U.S. jobs to slash costs and invest more heavily in new  digital businesses and new networks.
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In a nod to the ever-evolving world of  Web 2.0, MTV is turning to a new source for cutting-edge music  videos -- fans.
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MTV, part of the media conglomerate Viacom Inc., has recruited 51 youths to cover the 2008 elections throughout the country with weekly reports that will include short videos, blogs and animation.
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Italy, Spain and South Africa are to have their own V music festivals, Sir Richard Branson announces.
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Internet users are to be able to grab videos from all MTV-owned sites to post on their own blogs and websites.
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The music channel is trying to make its way in a multidevice, multiplatform, multichannel world and has suffered a decline in ratings and cultural cachet.
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Warner Music International (WMI)  and South Africa&#039;s Johnnic Communications are teaming up to  promote South African musicians abroad and boost sales of  global artists on the continent, WMI said on Monday.
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When MTV: Music Television debuted  on August 1, 1981, many media experts felt it was doomed.
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For MTV, a new association with a video game called Guitar Hero is opening a path back to that networkâs roots in music.