The network was originally offered as part of the " MTV Networks Digital Suite " which was intended to offer digital cable providers exclusive channels not offered to satellite providers ( though most of these channels now do air over those services also ), and is currently the only example of two feeds provided by cable and IPTV providers to be offered to their customers.

However, MTV Rocks is being offered by several pay-TV services.

When the service launched, USSB offered a comparatively small slate of channels, but included almost all of the major American premium channels, the MTV Networks, and any channel in which Viacom had a stake at the time.

Araki offered to make the pilot episode for $ 700, 000, and MTV took him up on it, but after the pilot was shot it was not picked up for broadcast.

On the series ' DVD commentary, cast members revealed that MTV had offered contract for a guaranteed 65 additional shows, but the cast turned it down to leave to CBS, against their agent's advice.

The first three Human Giant videos, " Shutterbugs ", " Illusionators " and the " Shittiest Mixtape Boombox Blast ", caught the eyes of executives at MTV, who offered the group a pilot.

The idea, however, was duplicated twice: Once in the mid-1980s when MTV aired Scent of Mystery in conjunction with a convenience store promotion that offered scratch and sniff cards ; the second time was the 2003 animated film Rugrats Go Wild !, the makers of which claimed it was an homage to Waters.

ET executives offered her a hosting gig for ET on MTV & VH1 ; she left the program in 2005 to focus on her acting career, though she would eventually join rival program Access Hollywood later that Fall as a special correspondent.

Ironically, before launching the channel, the labels offered to fund MTV in a German speaking version, but were rejected by MTV management at the time who espoused a " one world, one language " programming philosophy ( at least for Europe since their Latin American Channels used Spanish and Portuguese ).

U2 originally planned to produce the concert with MTV for a January 1994 " triplecast " that would have offered three different perspectives of the show on three different channels.

In interviews, the group has mentioned that they were offered a third season by MTV but were unable to complete it due to Ansari's commitments to the new NBC show Parks and Recreation.

MTV felt the subject matter was too high brow for their audience and offered me the opportunity to change the show by incorporating more of my personal life.

After joining MTV, Kash was offered the presenting role on the BBC's Top of the Pops.

The video also earned the group the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist that year.

In 1986, a screening of the entire Monkees television series by MTV led to renewed interest in the group, followed by a single (" That Was Then, This Is Now " reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U. S .), a 20th Anniversary Tour, a greatest hits album and a brand new LP, Pool It!

In July 1995, Williams's drug abuse had escalated to the point of his having a near drug overdose the night before the group was scheduled to perform at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

In 1990, Madonna's music video for the song " Justify My Love " was banned by MTV due to its depiction of sadomasochism, homosexuality, cross-dressing, and group sex which generated a media firestorm.

Brazilian comedy group Hermes & Renato spoofed the film in their MTV program Tela Class, redubbing it as " Santa Claus e o pozinho mágico " ( Santa Claus and the Magic Powder ; " magic powder " being more loosely translated here as " angel dust ").

Philadelphia Daily News described Culture Club as a hot new rock act, while William K Knoedelseder Jr from Los Angeles Times said about the group, " Boy George of Culture Club, a rock group MTV helped make popular ", adding that, " There's some debate in the record industry about MTV's ability to directly increase record sales across the board but there's no doubt that the channel has been responsible for exposing such rock artists as Def Leppard, Duran Duran and Men at Work to a national audience ...".

As a result, the group won that year's MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist.

In 2007, MTV ranked them the 9th greatest Hip-hop group of all time.

The song was given a huge boost when MTV took notice of the group and began playing the video in regular rotation, including an appearance on Club MTV.

In 1999, MTV attempted to reunite the group and get them to perform on that year's VMAs.

On That Other Level ( 1989 ), a highly successful album that garnered the group a large fanbase, in spite of their violent lyrics keeping them from radio and MTV.

The group exclusively sent a letter to MTV about the decision:

He left the group to pursue music ministry, but he has made scattered guest appearances with the band ( he played cello on their MTV Unplugged performance in 1996, and played drums at Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas, on June 27, 2008 ).

The group had a string of international hit singles including " I Ran ( So Far Away )", " Space Age Love Song ," " Wishing ( If I Had a Photograph of You )" and " The More You Live, the More You Love ", and became notable in the 1980s for their MTV video for the song " I Ran ( So Far Away )".

One month before the album's release, the group played a memorable performance on Saturday Night Live of " Sunless Saturday " ( a song which later featured an MTV video directed by Spike Lee ).

The group also received an MTV Legend award, citing their 10-year history together.

* In 2009, Nagase Tomoya, of the idol group TOKIO, performed on MTV Unplugged as the sixth Japanese performer to hold a performance on the program, after artists such as Chage and Aska and Hikaru Utada

Carol Decker, the lead singer of the short-lived group T ' Pau, in an interview after a performance on MTV, said that the two were using a Synclavier and not singing at all.

The channel was formerly known as " MTV Classic " and ( especially in its last months ) was the same as present VH1, airing the same programs for the same target group.

MTV Raps, the group was seen arguing, with member Charlie Brown becoming upset over Busta's show-stealing.

In the early 1990s Finnish rock parody group the Leningrad Cowboys, a re-grouped international rock comedy band that grew out of the Finnish comedy band the Sleepy Sleepers, whose members were used as actors in Aki Kaurismäki ´ s comedy film Leningrad Cowboys Go America, achieved Central European touring success and performed live at the MTV Music Awards in New York City in 1994, together with the full Red Army Choir, performing Sweet Home Alabama.

The editors of About. com ranked them # 12 on their list of the " 25 Best Rap Groups of All Time ", and MTV called them " the most melodic hip-hop group of all time ".

The Allies, a Seattle-based rock group during the early 1980s, recorded " Emma Peel ", which was featured on MTV during its early days.

Around the mid-1990s, with the success of the big beat-sound exemplified by The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy in the UK, and spurred by the attention from mainstream artists, including Madonna in her collaboration with William Orbit on her album Ray of Light and Australian singer Dannii Minogue with her 1997 album Girl, music of this period began to be produced with a higher budget, increased technical quality, and with more layers than most other forms of dance music, since it was backed by major record labels and MTV as the " next big thing ".

The music video of Bailey and Collins rehearsing their collaboration went to the top of MTV's video playlist and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance in 1985.

These included Godflesh's collaboration with Andres Serrano, Aidan Hughes's graphics for KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails ' work with Mark Romanek, Rob Zombie's visual work for White Zombie ( for which he received the MTV Video Music Award for Best Hard Rock Video ), and Marilyn Manson's output with Richard Kern and Floria Sigismondi.

This was completely independent from MTV, although some collaboration exists between the two.

* URGE ( digital music service ), an online music service ( now defunct ) released on May 17, 2006-a collaboration between MTV and Microsoft

John Norris of MTV News has stated that the remix was " responsible for, I would argue, an entire wave of music that we've seen since and that is the R & B-hip-hop collaboration.

Subsequently, the Maharaja Television Network ( MTV ) was launched in collaboration with Singapore Telecommunications Limited ( SingTel ).