TV8 (Italy)

2006-2009


TV8 Italia was originally launched on December 12, 2006 as Sky Show which was a channel on satellite TV, owned by Sky Italia and broadcast on channel 116.

Upon its launch, it was a sister channel for Sky Vivo that mainly had comedic content, including the show Shake It (produced by the channel itself), and Scherzi a parte taken from the Happy Channel. It also featured sitcoms and international programs and its slogan was Si fa per ridere (It makes for a laugh).

On April 21, 2009, when Sky Vivo was relaunched as Sky Uno, the channel was closed down and its frequencies were taken over by Sky Uno +1 which is a timeshift version of Sky Uno.

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August-September 2015


On August 1, 2015, when Sky Italia took over the ownership of the free-to-air channel MTV Italy, a new channel replaced the discontinued Sky Show's now-defunct frequency and it became MTV.it.

September 2015-January 2016


On September 14, 2015, Sky Italia decided to relaunch the channel and MTV.it renewed its logo as well as it changes its name by being rebranded as MTV8.

At the same time, Viacom relaunched MTV Italy that became a new MTV-channel for Italy called MTV Next (now known as MTV Italy), and is now only available as a subscription service on Sky. This ended an era where MTV Italy was available to the majority of homes across Italy free-to-air. The Italian music TV channel from Viacom called MTV Music Italy remained available free to air until July 1, 2016, when it was moved to Sky Italia.

January-February 2016


On January 8, 2016, MTV8 were requested to get a new logo. It worked, and with it, Sky Italia were again relaunching the channel which launches a new logo and also introducing a new on-air graphics package that focussing on the number 8. At the same time, the channel opened its website.

February 2016-present


On February 18, 2016, Sky Italia relaunched the channel once more, and MTV8 changed its name to TV8 Italia.