Yesterday MTV Tr3 went live with much hype. The channel formally known as MTV Espanol promises to be the music canal with bilingual sabor, its own programming and its own VJ’s for Latinos like me, who speak English and Spanish and like our media that way.

The MTV shows “My Super Sweet 16″ and “Pimp My Ride” will be offered, along with “Quiero Mis Quinces,” a show about quinceañera parties, and “Pimpeando,” which shows off car culture. Subtitles will appear when Spanish is spoken.

While I have yet to see the offerings for myself (my cable co. doesn’t carry MTV Tr3), the offerings don’t sound that original. When I did watch MTV Espanol, it was to hear and watch some of my favorite Latino artists that I couldn’t see anywhere else, not to watch people act the reality tv fool.

Today I paid a visit to the MTV Tr3 website. The site offers up a MySpace/Friendster community for Latinos (um didn’t that used to be called MiGente?), a featured artist of the month (this month it’s Mana), Mi TRL-a Latinized version of regular TRL with Fergie’s London Bridge competing for your votes against Julieta Venegas’ Limon y Sal), Los Hits featuring, sigh, Hips Don’t Lie, Emerging Artists fearuring Miranda’s Don (which has been playing for months so how emerging that is can be questioned), and info on the upcoming Los Premios MTV 2006 to be held in Mexico City.

I’m still undecided if I need my MTV Tr3. What do you all think?

Via / The Washington Post