* The MTV Thanksgiving Special " Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving " aired on November 27, 1997, the day before the series finale Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead written by Andy Rheingold and Scott Sonneborn.

On May 22 Kid Rock's June 8, 2008 concert at Germany's Rock AM Festival was aired on every MTV affiliate around the world on their debut show " World Stage ".

* First music videos aired on MTV

Abdul also co-produced a 2001 pilot episode of Skirts, a dramatic series that would have aired on MTV about a high-school cheerleading squad ; Abdul was also set to appear as the head coach.

MTV aired the video for " Baby Got Back " only during evening hours because of its sexual nature.

Cartman is also featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, telling his version of the film's titular joke to Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, and in " The Gauntlet ", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth that aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

Undressed is an American anthology series that aired on MTV from July 26, 1999 to September 5, 2002.

In 2004, MTV created a reality television show titled Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which aired on MTV for three seasons.

* Fantomas was the inspiration for the character Mr. Ixnay, who appears in The Chuckling Whatsit, a 1997 graphic novel by writer / artist Richard Sala, creator of Invisible Hands, an animated homage to old-fashioned mystery thrillers which aired on MTV.

Sony and MTV Networks ' Comedy Central collaborated on a fourth Gong Show revival as The Gong Show with Dave Attell in 2008 ; this did sell and aired on Comedy Central from July to September 2008.

The series aired on CTV in Canada, Channel 4 in the UK and MTV UK and Ireland in Ireland and the UK, VH1 India in India, RTÉ Two in Ireland, Network Ten, MTV Australia in Australia, MTV Finland and Nelonen in Finland, MTV Latin America in Latin America, MTV Portugal in Portugal, TV2 in New Zealand, MTV Germany in Germany, MTV Ukraine in Ukraine, MTV Brasil in Brazil, MTV Italia in Italy and MTV Nederland in the Netherlands.

During the network's first decade on the air, Cinemax had also aired some original music programming, during the mid-to-late 1980s, upon the meteoric rise in popularity of MTV, Cinemax tried its hand at airing music videos by airing an interstitial between films called Max Tracks, it also ran music specials under the banner Cinemax Sessions during that same time period.

In Italy, it's aired on FX Italia, uncensored and unrated ; in Latin America is transmitted by MTV Latin America ; and in Brazil is transmitted by Multishow.

* Alicia Keys ' Unplugged special aired on MTV on September 23, 2005.

* In May 2011, Los Tigres Del Norte MTV Unplugged was aired on MTV Tr3s.

MTV will transmit special programming from Acapulco in 2010.

The same year the band was honoured with an MTV Icon award in a television special presented by Marilyn Manson.

Clips of this performance surfaced on the MTV special Hips, Lips and Genderbenders: MTV's History of Sex but has otherwise remained unreleased.

MTV broadcast A Tribute to Pedro Zamora, a special memorial program, in his honor.

An entirely separate and simultaneous US feed was provided for cable viewers by MTV, whose broadcast was presented in stereo, and accessible as such for those with special receivers of the time, as there were very few stereo sets in the summer of 1985, and few television stations were able to broadcast in stereo.

The video, filmed in London, was nominated for best video ( special effects, art direction and editing ) along with videos by Madonna and Bruce Springsteen at the second MTV Music Video Awards in 1985.

* The Eagles ' 1994 acoustic reunion concert was broadcast on MTV as a one-off special called Hell Freezes Over.

* Lauryn Hill unveiled her much-anticipated new material on a 2002 MTV Unplugged special, and later released it on the album MTV Unplugged No. 2. 0.

It was the first Unplugged for MTV in nearly three years, and special guests for Keys ' performance included Mos Def, Common, Damian Marley and Maroon 5's Adam Levine.

* In April 2012, popular band Florence and the Machine starred in a MTV Unplugged special.

Eight of them appear on the DVD ( MTV also aired a special that Smith hosted but it could not be secured for the DVD for clearance reasons ).

In April 2002, MTV2 created a special program, MTV's Most Controversial Videos, to complement an MTV News documentary on the subject.

MTV2 aired the top 20 videos in full, many of which were previously banned from MTV, in a three-hour late-night special, rated TV-MA and hosted by Andrew W. K ..

The clip aired as a part of Jackassworld. com: 24-Hour Takeover, a February 23, 2008 television special on MTV to coincide with the official launch of jackassworld. com.

In addition a poor quality Germany-only DVD Blond Ambition Tour 1990 is from the same Houston show, not to be confused with the 1st night of the USA leg of the tour ( May 4, 1990, Houston, Texas ) which was also partially aired live on the MTV special ' Blond Date ' during the ' Madonna Weekend '.

During her run on MTV, Daria would narrate or " host " special events and shows, either with a real-life presenter or with Jane.

There was also a special cash ++ rebate promotion in July 1993 that was featured in the MTV.

Toward the end of the tour, Morissette recorded her MTV Unplugged concert special.

Loeb toured the world again, making special stops in Sanrio stores for in-store autographs while appearing with Hello Kitty at the Japanese MTV Music Awards.

In mid-2002, this video was aired in its entirety on MTV2 as part of a special countdown showing the most controversial videos ever to air on MTV.

The day after the release of the book MTV aired a special called The Day In Madonna hosted by Kurt Loder ( the title of this special was a pun of the title of the channel's daily show The Day In Rock ), which profiled the release of Madonna's Sex and her new album Erotica, even taking the book to the streets to allow people, including a sex therapist and group of real-life New York City dominatrices, to view it.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pioneer Electronics dominated the international karaoke music video market, producing high quality karaoke music videos ( inspired by the music videos such as those on MTV ).

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

* Kevin Seal, an MTV VJ in the late 1980s, the host of the pilot of Club MTV

In September 1997, Sting performed " I'll Be Missing You " with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute of the late Notorious B. I. G ..

As MTV shifted its attention to the new style, glam metal bands found themselves relegated increasingly to and late night airplay, and Headbanger's Ball was cancelled at the end of 1994, while KNAC went over to Spanish programming.

Bennett staged a remarkable comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and expanding his audience to the MTV Generation while keeping his musical style intact.

In late 2002 they did an MTV Unplugged session in a school auditorium with the school's band ( Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium, Hamburg, Germany ) which they released under the title Rock ' n ' Roll Realschule ( in allusion to the Ramones ' song and the film Rock ' n ' Roll High School ).

Throughout the late 1980s, Nixon and Roper produced several satirical pieces lampooning contemporary celebrities, such as MTV VJ Martha Quinn (" Stuffin ' Martha's Muffin "), Rick Astley, and Deborah Gibson (" Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child ").

Furthermore, Arsenio found its cable audience eroded due to a new late night program airing on MTV and hosted by comedian Jon Stewart, which premiered earlier in the summer of 1993 and quickly became the second most popular show on the cable network, behind Beavis and Butt-head.

In 1997 Sara presented on the UK feed of MTV, hosting MTV Hot, a late night music show.

His work also appeared on the 1992 – 1993 Fox comedy series The Edge ; on MTV during the late 1980s ; and on MTV's animated series Liquid Television in the early 1990s.

When the show started airing on MTV in late 2000, it was broadcast live from WWF New York.

The main MTV Cribs series created and broadcast a few new episodes in late 2010 and early 2011 featuring the homes of Penn Jillette, Julie Benz and Manny Pacquiao, and others.

In the mid to late 00's MTV Network took ownership of the channel from Optus.

This exclusivity deal was dropped in late 2002 and in 2003 MTV became available in a premium package on the Foxtel subscription TV platform.

One of which, was the group Milli Vanilli and in late 1989 during a live performance on MTV, the group gave the the first public sign that they where

MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program The Week In Rock, hosted by Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News correspondent.

Shortly after the tour ended in 2000 he returned to Guns N ' Roses, playing four shows with them in late 2001 followed by a brief tour of Europe and Asia in mid-2002 and a live appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards.

In late 2002 Berry was signed up by MTV UK where along with hosting shows such as the Hitlist UK and fronting coverage for the MTV Europe Music Awards, he launched and was the anchor for MTV UK's TRL UK, which aired daily for three years ending in December 2005.