Wednesday 12 October 2011

Music channels which may distribute the track

MTV


MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1; 1981.The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs. MTV launched in 1999 in the UK. Mostly shows music videos from the genres Hip Hop, RnB, Grime, reggae and Soul. MTV Base is available in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Republic of Ireland, Kenya and South Africa. The channel was previously available in the Netherlands, Germany and other European countries but was replaced by MTV Dance in some territories from March 2009.

KISS


Kiss is a UK radio station broadcasting on FM and Digital Radio, specialising in hip hop, R&B, urban and electronic dance music. It also broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and TalkTalk TV.

VIVA



VIVA has recently changed its name in the UK from TMF to Viva. It also shows entertainment programmes. It is famous for showing UK top 40 every week. In the UK the channel was launched in 2009. They show music videos of all genres especially pop, R&B and Hip Hop videos. The channel is available on Freeview channels in the UK and originally the channel came from Germany where it was launched in 1993.

4music
4music is limited to the UK and some Ireland digital TV providers. It is owned by Box Television Company, who also own channel 4 in the UK. The channel is free to own as it is shown on Freeview television. The music shown on the channel is predominantly Hip Hop, pop, Dance, RnB and rock. They are a relatively new channel having only been launched in 2008. There slogan is “music and more”, and there sister channels are 4 channel, E4, more 4 and film 4.

AKA



Channel AKA (formerly Channel U) is a British digital satellite TV channel, owned by Mushroom TV Ltd. It is a music channel, focusing on playing upcoming UK urban/hip-hop music and has helped the breakthrough for acts such as Tinchy Stryder, Tinie Tempah, Chipmunk and N-Dubz.

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