MTV (Latin America)

MTV (Latin America)

MTV Latin America (also known as MTV Latinoamérica, MTV Latino or MTV Latin) is a cable television specialty service aimed at residents in Hispanic American countries. It was launched on October 1, 1993 as MTV en Español. The channel is a Hispanic American version from MTV. The channel is property of MTV Networks Latin America, a subsidiary of Viacom.

MTV Latin America’s principal objective is to broadcast music videos as well as reality shows, series, and films, which may be directly or indirectly related to music. All programming is related in some way to youth culture. MTV Latin America’s programming focuses on certain musical genres, mainly pop, soft rock, Latin pop, and hip hop. Each of these categories includes music in English and Spanish.

The service is headquartered in Miami Beach. MTV Latin America is distributed via satellite, cable, and other terrestrial distribution through of three different feeds in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.

The channel has also their own versions of MTV reality shows like Room Raiders or Dismissed, but most of the time curse words are not censored in Latin América Regions (specially during the watershed time). The first video shown was We Are South American Rockers by the Chilean band Los Prisioneros.