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[[Image:mtvdaria.JPG|right|frame|A much reduced view of the front page of the MTV ''Daria'' website, from June 2007]]
'''MTV''', short for '''Music Television''', is the network that hosted and produced ''[[Daria (TV series)|Daria]]'' from 1997-2002. (This article principally refers to MTV/U.S. Daria was also broadcast on many international MTV channels during its original run.) MTV also hosts, through MTV.com, the official ''Daria'' website, though it is no longer updated and is missing some links. The site was probably last updated in 2002, as it includes an
MTV was launched in 1981 as a 24-hour music video network. In the late eighties, MTV began developing and airing non-video programming, such as the news program ''The Week in Rock'' and the game show ''Remote Control''. In the early nineties, animated programming made its first appearance on the channel in the form of Liquid Television. Arguably MTV's most popular animated program to date was [[Beavis and Butt-head (TV series)|Beavis and Butthead]], first aired in 1993, and from which ''Daria'' was spun off.
MTV was launched by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner-Amex_Satellite_Entertainment Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment], a joint venture between Warner
In [[off-canon canon]] material such as [[Sarcastathon 3000]], Daria and Jane would gently (and not-so-gently) rib MTV, its shows, its work culture, and the small amount of money it spent on animation. The "[[Look Back in Annoyance]]" retrospective even had the characters worry that, after the attacks they'd just made, they weren't going to be invited to the 2002 Video Music Awards.
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==External Links==
* [http://www.mtv.com/shows/daria/series.jhtml MTV's current Daria website]
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