Overview
- Sky and Virgin Media listings show MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live closing on December 31 with on‑screen notices stating, “This channel is now closed.”
- The main MTV HD channel remains on air and continues to carry reality programming such as Naked Dating UK and Geordie Shore.
- Paramount Skydance declined to comment to the BBC on the shutdowns, which follow the company’s merger and cost‑saving targets reported this year.
- Reports point to further pullbacks of MTV music feeds in Australia, Poland, France, Brazil and parts of Asia and Latin America, with some U.S. regional music feeds set to end as contracts lapse.
- UK pay‑TV lineups are also losing four children’s channels — Pop, Tiny Pop, Pop+1 and Tiny Pop+1 — bringing the total number of channels removed from Sky and Virgin Media to nine, according to reports.