MTV (Latin American TV channel)

MTV Latin America

Broadcast area	Latin America
Headquarters	Miami Beach, Florida Mexico City, Mexico Buenos Aires, Argentina
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Paramount Networks Americas (Paramount Global)
Sister channels	Nickelodeon Comedy Central Paramount Network Telefe Chilevisión Nick Jr.
History
Launched	1988 (block, MTV International) 1 October 1993 (channel)
Closed	c. 1993 (block)
Links
Website	mtvla.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Antina (Argentina)	Channel 74

MTV is a Latin American pay television network that was launched on 1 October 1993 as the Hispanic American version of MTV. It is owned by Paramount Networks Americas, a subsidiary of Paramount Global.

The channel broadcasts music videos as well as reality shows, TV series and movies, which may be directly or indirectly related to music, aimed at the youth. Its schedule is focused on certain musical genres, mainly pop, rock mix, reggaeton (since 2005), hip hop, trap, electronic music, and K-pop (since 2018). Each of these categories includes music in English, Spanish and Korean.

MTV Latin America is headquartered in Miami Beach covering the region, centered in Mexico City, Mexico and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The channel has also produced its own versions of MTV reality shows like Room Raiders or Dismissed, but curse words are usually not censored in Latin American countries (specially during the watershed time). The first video broadcast by the network was We are sudamerican rockers by Chilean band Los Prisioneros.^[1]