My Media Project

1. Music Channels
Aaron Friel

2. MTV Base is a digital television channel which began in the United Kingdom on July 1,
1999. Since then localised digital broadcast versions for the African Continent and
France have launched. The pan-European channel is also available in digital
television in the United Kingdom and through digital providers in the Republic of
Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. The channel in Africa plays all genres of
music appealing to the primary youth and young adult audience including rap, hiphop, R&B, Rock, Alternative, Afrobeat, Kwaito, Reggae and many other genres
from the African continent, USA and other urban hotspots. MTV Base Africa also
hosts a local awards show and local events.
Q TV is a UK music channel based on Q Magazine, launched in 2000. It is operated by
Box Television, and specialises in indie, rock and alternative. In common with other
EMAP channels, Q was originally a jukebox channel, where music video selections
made were by the viewers using premium rate phone lines; however this element
was dropped in 2004.
It is only available on digital satellite and cable.
For a few years much of the prime time output of the channel was instead given over
to FHM TV, based on another magazine (also by EMAP), which specialises mainly
on female R&B and pop groups. However in October 2007 the FHM TV block on Q
was dropped and now Q broadcasts its full hours again.
Kiss TV is a commercial music television channel from Box Television available on the
Sky Digital and Virgin Media digital TV platforms. The playlist is predominantly
mainstream Urban Pop, Dance and R&B, although since its relaunch in Summer
2006, (and the launch of a sister channel Q TV) it has begun to focus more on
dance music once again.
It is based on the format of the Bauer owned London radio station Kiss 100, which
started as a pirate radio station in London in 1985. Kiss TV celebrated the 20th
Anniversary since the launch in 2005.

3. Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on
November 2, 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly
owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority
(IBA), the station owned now and operated by the Channel Four Television
Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993.
Over recent years 4Music has risen, showing new single releases, as well as other
music shows frequently broadcast across T4, Channel 4 and E4. 2007 saw its own
logo being devised and since then has had many themed weekends dedicated to a
current band or performer.
The Box is a music television channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The channel
is one of many within the Box Television network, a joint venue between Channel
4 and Bauer Group. The channel mainly broadcasts music videos, although it also
features other music-related programming. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day
with Teleshopping shown late at night.
The channel was brought to the United Kingdom by Vincent Monsey (of Radio Caroline
fame) and his partner Liz Laskowski, who discovered the channel in Miami in 1991
as The Jukebox Network. The UK Company, Video Jukebox Network International
Limited, was formed in 1991 and the channel was launched in 1992 as THE BOX in
the early days of cable television, carried by four operators United Artist, Telewest
in London and Bristol, Nynex in the south of England, and Videotron which is also
based in London.