A
television channel in
Finland.
The letter
M does not stand for
music, but the
finnish word for
advertisement,
mainos. Surprisingly, the channel is funded by
income from
commercials.
MTV3
broadcasts sports, sub-par
game shows, sports, pointless shows with
nothing but
easy listening music for the
elderly, sports and hit
series from the
US. (...which are constantly
replaced by sports. Got the idea?)
The
station is
notorious for two things:
1. Having tons* of
stupid contests and
competitions that
involve calling
expensive phone numbers or sending
overpriced SMS:s to win
cheap prizes. These competitions are advertised
approximately 100 times every
hour.
2. Using very poor,
unimaginative and
boring visual design in everything they do. Any 13-year-old kid with a
pirated copy of
Photoshop could do better.
*And I do mean TONS. When a certain program moved from Nelonen to MTV3 a while ago, it gained not one but two expensive SMS-games. And it didn't take long for Salatut Elämät to get its own regular SMS-contest plus a chat. These people make me sick.