VH1 Europe

VH1 Europe
Launched 1994 as VH-1 Europe (VH-1 European)
1999 as VH1 Europe (VH1 European)
Network MTV
Owned by Viacom International Media Networks Europe
Slogan The home of more.
Language English
Broadcast area
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Sister channel(s)
Website www.vh1e.com
Availability
Satellite
NOVA (Greece) Channel 604
OTE TV (Greece) Channel 603
DStv Channel 323
OSN (Middle East
& North Africa)
Channel 303
Digiturk (Turkey) Channel 93
yes (Israel) Channel 73
Telekom (Romania) Channel 456
DIGI (Romania) Channel 52
Orange (Romania) Channel 611
Cable
UPC (Romania) Channel 603
Naxoo (Switzerland) Channel 141
HOT (Israel) Channel 90
CAI Harderwijk (Netherlands) Channel 95
Kabel Noord (Netherlands) Channel 352
Kabelnet Veendam (SKV) (Netherlands) Channel 137
Kabeltex (Netherlands) Channel 227
Telenet (Belgium) Channel 650 (Flanders)
Channel 710 (Brussels)
RCS & RDS (Romania) Channel 80
IPTV
Alice Home TV Channel 708
Elisa (Finland) Channel 636
KPN (Netherlands) Channel 400
Solcon (Netherlands) Channel 233
Vodafone Netherlands Channel TBA
Sparql (Netherlands) Channel 505
Stipte (Netherlands) Channel TBA
Fiber Netherlands Channel 233
Online.nl (Netherlands) Channel TBA
Vodafone Greece (Greece) Channel 71
Streaming media
Yelo TV Watch live (Belgium only)

VH1 Europe, also known as VH1 European, is a music television channel from Viacom International Media Networks Europe, based on the American Channel of the same name. This version of VH1 is very different from its American counterpart, since it has never ceased to be a proper music channel, playing a wide variety of music programs on a daily or weekly basis. VH1 Europe was in 2013 the only major music channel in Western Europe still broadcasting in the 4:3 ratio while others broadcast in 16:9 widescreen. Since May 2014 VH1 Europe now is broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen.

It appeared for the first time in the United Kingdom in 1994 and the version airing in the UK was subsequently distributed across the whole of Europe. However, its current pan-European feed was officially launched in 2002, hence becoming a separate service from the UK-aimed channel VH1 UK.

Programming

This European version of VH1 is very different from its American counterpart, since it has never ceased to be a proper music channel, playing a wide variety of music programs on a daily or weekly basis. VH1 Europe covers many styles of music through a comprehensive selection of music videos ranging from the '70's to today, using MTV Networks Europe's London-based music video library. In 1994-1999 and since 2014, there was the 1984-1987 and 2011–present American VH-1 logo.

1st Logo (1994-1999)
2nd Logo (1999-2003)

One Pan-European feed

Since August 5, 2010, most of the European feeds of VH1 are one common music channel which airs commercials. Starting this date, VH1 started to air the first commercial in some regions, thus following the trend of the regional resellers (cable companies) to air specific language and area commercials. The regional cover-up aspect of VH1 by this date has been less aggressive as it did not have commercial and shopping shows. The revenue came only from subscribers and since then the change in its politics means VH1 now allows third parties to overlap commercial clips with regional commercials. This increases the revenue by an additional percentage and it cannot increase the low audition percentage it has on the TV market.

Themed shows

Until early 2008, VH1 Europe's schedule was largely based upon music programming, although some shows imported from VH1 US or MTV US (including classic episodes of Beavis & Butt-head, Pop-Up Video and The Osbournes) could be seen during primetime hours as well. In February 2008, the station received a major makeover in its timeslot programming, with further specialist shows being added to the already existing ones, featuring selections of music videos linked by common themes (VH1 Themed, Smells Like The 90s, VH1 Pop Chart, Boogie Night, Flipside, Chill Out, So 80s, Viva La Disco, Sunday Soul, VH1 New, VH1 Rocks, Top 10, Final Countdown, Then & Now, VH1 Classic, Smooth Wake Up, Saturday Night Fever, Best Of Charts, Greatest Hits, Aerobic, Espresso, VH1 Oldschool, Cover Power...). In January 2010, the only daily hour of non-music related programming on VH1 Europe - formerly airing between noon and 1 p.m. - was replaced by music video-based programming. The channel's schedule now purely consists of music programming.

VH1 Jukebox

For 2 hours each day, between 18.00 and 20.00 CET, the channel played selections of videos submitted by viewers via the channel's website on a show called 'VH1 Jukebox'. The show was cancelled in summer 2010.

Availability

VH1 Europe broadcasts from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK) to the whole continent of Europe, except Italy and San Marino, and covering also the Middle East and Africa. On June 1, 2010, it became officially available in Russia as well, replacing the former local version VH1 Russia. By the end of September 2012, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina got their regional version of VH1 called VH1 Adria, which replaced paneuropean feed until the end of January 2015, when it was replaced by VH1 Europe.

VH1 Europe is available in almost every digital platform in the above-mentioned areas. VH1 Europe covers countries from Europe, Middle East and Africa.[1]

References

  1. "http://www.rrtv.cz/cz/files/lic/1516234.pdf" (PDF). RRTV. 2009-10-06. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-06. Retrieved 2015-05-03. External link in |title= (help)

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