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| Palladia (formerly MHD) | |
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| Launched | January 16, 2006 (as MHD) September 1, 2008 (as Palladia) |
| Owned by | MTV Networks (Viacom) |
| Picture format | 1080i |
| Slogan | Epic. Awesome. Music. |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Website | Palladia.tv |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | Channel 332 |
| Dish Network | Channel 369 |
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| Available on some cable systems | Check Local Listings for channels |
| IPTV | |
| U-verse | Channel 1502 |
| Verizon FiOs | Channel 711 |
Palladia (formerly MHD) is a 1080i high definition music television network that shows music-related content from its owner, MTV Networks, a division of Viacom. The network broadcasts music programming from MTV, VH1, CMT.
History
In the Winter of 2005, the five person crew of F. Stone Roberts (Director/Producer ) Agent Ogden (Editor/Post Supervisor), Colin Oberschmidt (Director of Photography), Sonia Taylor (Production Assistant) and George Oliphant (VJ), took residence in Vail, CO to launch the channel. Producing live concerts and a one hour weekly music show, called Uncompressed, from a look alike ski lodge built inside the Eagle's Nest at the top of Vail Mountain at 10,350 ft.
The channel's original executive producer was Morgan Hertzan, who was part of the MTVu team.
Olympic bump skier, pro football player, Jeremy Bloom was a guest VJ during the original run in Vail.
Original concerts produced at Vail Resorts included: James Blunt, Jamie Cullum, Yellowcard, Train, P.O.D, Hoobastank, Goo Goo Dolls, Gary Allen, The Fray, Death Cab For Cutie and Mat Kearney.
The network first aired on January 16, 2006 with limited distribution. In the beginning only Verizon's FiOS TV carried the channel. Within two months Cox Communications had started carrying Palladia (then known as MHD) in New Orleans, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Phoenix. Around the same time Comcast started carrying the station in the Boston and Atlanta markets. The former slogan was "MHD: the best music you've ever heard".
In June 2006, Cox Communications added the Fairfax market, where the company competes with FiOS TV. Charter followed suit in St. Louis on July 18, 2006, adding their Northern Midwest systems in early November. Time Warner Cable began carrying the channel in some regions in late December, 2006. In 2007 Service Electric Cable Television began to carry the channel for those in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. On October 4, 2007, DirecTV began carrying the network nationwide. Initially, Mitsubishi Electric Digital Televisions was the exclusive sponsor of Palladia and continues to partially sponsor them. Currently, Brighthouse Networks CFL, Charter, Comcast, Cox Communications, DirecTV, Dish Network, Insight Communications, Verizon's FiOS TV, RCN, Blue Ridge Communications, AT&T U-verse, Time Warner Cable, and Cablevision's iO Digital Cable carry the station.
The network had been branded Music: High Definition (MHD) until the name was changed to Palladia on September 1, 2008 to coincide with the addition of more exclusive programming.
Programming
Series:
- Storytellers from VH1. The greatest singers and songwriters play their music and tell the stories behind their greatest songs. Artists include the Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Dixie Chicks, Coldplay.
- Soulstage from VH1 Soul. Featured performers include India.Arie, Q-Tip, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Raphael Saadiq.
- MTV Live from MTV International. Artists include the R.E.M., Oasis, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Kings of Leon, The Verve, and The Cure.
- Life & Rhymes from MTV. The show explores emcees and their raps through each live performance.
- CMT Crossroads from CMT. Shows the far-reaching roots of country music by pairing country artists with musicians from other genres. Each episode features a different set of stars playing together, swapping stories and sharing their common love of music. Artists include Def Leppard & Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 & Sara Evans, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, .38 Special & Trace Adkins, Kelly Clarkson & Reba McEntire, Joss Stone & LeAnn Rimes, Lindsey Buckingham & Little Big Town, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds & Trisha Yearwood.
- Several episodes of the Soundstage concert series from PBS are also shown on Palladia. Artists include the KT Tunstall, Sheryl Crow, Fleetwood Mac, Train, Counting Crows, Matchbox Twenty, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, John Mayer, Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride, Robert Plant, and Daughtry.
Current specials on Palladia include the HD simulcasts of the MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, CMT Music Awards, and VH1 Hip Hop Honors. As carriage of MTV HD, CMT HD and VH1 HD expands, these programs are expected to become exclusive to their parent channel's HD broadcast stream, though encore telecasts will probably remain on Palladia.
Despite the progressive line-up of artists that challenge thoughts on a variety of subjects including race, sex, drug abuse and use of strong language, Palladia does its best to sanitize all content, which has affected many great performances. In censoring Tom Petty's Soundstage performance of "You Don't Know How It Feels," the word "joint" was cut from the audio track from a concert that had originally aired unaltered on PBS.
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