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MTV Aitio

Scandinavian premium television channel owned by C More Entertainment

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ16828682 ↗
Source-derived summary

MTV Aitio is a Finnish pay television channel owned by MTV Oy showing movies and TV shows. It is the flagship movie channel of the MTV Katsomo+ package.

History

The channel started out as Canal+ Film 1 on 1 May 2004 and replaced the channel Canal+ Gul. From September 2005 the channel was known as Canal+ Film, but the numeral was added again in November 2006. On 1 November 2007 the channel became Canal+ First as part of a major reorganisation of the Canal+ movie channels. On 14 August 2023, C More First rebranded its name to MTV Aitio.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “MTV Aitio” as scandinavian premium television channel owned by C More Entertainment. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aitio, Scandinavian and premium.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2005, 2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aitio, Scandinavian and premium providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “MTV Aitio”, the useful work is to connect “scandinavian premium television channel owned by C More Entertainment” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16828682. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “MTV Aitio”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow MTV Aitio primary sources, MTV Aitio archive and Aitio research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “MTV Aitio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.