MTV: Music Television today announced the launch of an unprecedented global competition for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA), the hottest ticket of the summer honoring the best in music videos. Alongside the competitions running in the United States, MTV will broadcast internationally a “Global MTV VMA’06 Video Diary Competition” on-air and online starting July 26 across 25 MTV channels reaching 90 countries from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The competition will give 25 pairs of winners the ultimate experience at the 2006 VMAs, marking the biggest ever competition around the VMA franchise on a global scale. The 23rd annual awards show will take place on Thursday, August 31 at 8PM ET/PT from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

MTV viewers worldwide can enter the competition through http://www.mtv.tv/vma by describing their ultimate New York experience and why they are the best fan to win this amazing opportunity. The competition winners and their guests will receive VIP tickets to the 2006 VMAs; roundtrip flights to New York City, courtesy of American Airlines; three night hotel accommodations at the Chelsea Savoy Hotel; an excursion at the new “Top of the Rock” observation deck at Rockefeller Center; dinner at Tony’s DiNapoli Times Square Restaurant; a tour of The Museum of Modern Art; all on-the-ground transportation; and $300 spending money. In addition, while in New York, all 25 pairs of winners will be charged with the task of filming their own video diaries of their VMA experience. The footage that they shoot (camera and microphone will be provided) will then be used on local MTV Web sites and broadband services so that viewers everywhere can check out the winners’ video journal entries.

For complete details and competition rules, log on to http://www.mtv.tv/vma.