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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Broadcast area | United Kingdom andIreland |
| Network | MTV |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia |
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| History | |
| Launched |
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| Replaced | MTV Hits (relaunch) |
| Closed |
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| Former names | MTV Dance (2001–2018) |
| Links | |
| Website | (at time of closure)mtv.co.uk/club-mtv |
Club MTV was a Britishelectronic dance music channel operated byViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia launched on 20 April 2001 as MTV Dance.[1] The channel played dance, trance, clubhouse, electronica,drum andbass,rap, R&B, hip-hop, techno and house music.
The channel closed on 20 July 2020 but was relaunched 5 years later on 14 April 2025, replacingMTV Hits.
MTV Dance originally started out as a night-time programming slot on the now defunct digital music channelMTV Extra. It was on air each night from 7pm until the following morning.
On 20 April 2001, The strand expanded to become a standalone music channel broadcast on Sky in both the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it initially timeshared with theNick Jr. Channel every evening between 19:00 and 06:00. The sharing of a stream subsequently ended; since 13 August 2002 MTV Dance has broadcast as a 24-hour music channel.
MTV Dance began broadcasting in widescreen on 6 March 2012.
On 7 March 2008, MTV Dance increased its presence around Europe, when MTV Networks Europe replaced the Europe-wide feed ofMTV Base with a similar feed of MTV Dance.
From 10 January 2011 a feed of the MTV Dance channel launched in Italy on Sky Italia, replacingMTV Pulse.In 2014, MTV Dance, as well as MTV Rocks and MTV Hits started broadcasting European versions, without commercials or teleshopping.MTV Dance Europe was rebranded as Club MTV in June 2020.
VIMN launched the channel in Australia on 3 December 2013 as MTV Dance Australia, it shows the same programmes from the UK version, then rebranded as Club MTV in 2020.
This channel, along with its sister channelsMTV OMG andMTV Rocks closed on 20 July 2020, with a chart based on the channel's former content airing onMTV Base.[2] "High on Life" byMartin Garrix featuring Bonn was the last music video played on the channel.
MTV Dance Europe was later rebranded as theEuropean version of Club MTV in June 2020, as was theAustralian version a month later.
Club MTV was relaunched in the UK, on 14 April 2025, replacingMTV Hits.[3][4] The channel ceased broadcasting again on 31 December 2025.[5]Its second final song broadcast was “Don’t Stop the Music” byRihanna. Followed by a loop of the Club MTV logo rotating and changing colour every time it rotated with music in the background and text scrolling by at the bottom saying "Club MTV is now closed. Continue watching over at MTV."
