Launched September 1, 2009 Slogan #1 Music Channel! Sister channel(s) H!t Music Channel Headquarters Bucharest Owner RCS & RDS | Owned by RCS & RDS Country Romania Website 1music.ro Founded 2005 Motto #1 Music Channel! | |
Music Channel Romania, also known as MusicChannel or 1Music, is a Romanian music television channel, opened on November 1, 2010 and owned by Media House. On January 1, 2010 the company also opened Music Channel Hungary. Music Channel came to prominence as the first Romanian TV station to host Live streaming on the internet. The TV station is known for hosting the yearly Romanian Music Awards Unlikely to MTV Romania and Kiss TV, the station is more genre-broadcasting, dividing its airplay into the four most prominent music gengres — pop, rock, urban and dance, much in the likes of UTV. Noteworthy, Music Channel is known for also airing Latin pop, adult contemporary, J-pop and K-pop among other genres that don't receive significant airplay from other music stations. Compared by many to VH1, the TV station conceived many Top-Tens and Top-100s and starting late-November they start playing Christmas music.
Its sister channel, H!t Music Channel was launched on September 1, 2011.