A2 MEDIA
CHARLOTTE LLOYD
Music Channels
4 music's programmes include: Today's 4 music top 20, Yur offical top 20, The 4 music buzz chart, 4Music big ones, UKHOT40, The UK airplay top 20, The month with Miquita, Orange unsigned act, Fromt he begining, Six steps, The versus chart, 4 music Doubles and the Crush.
The channel launched on 15th august 2008, replacing the hits.
The channel also stages both events - V festival and T4 ont he beach.
4 Music has coverage at both v festivala nd t4 on the beach during the summer which includes all live performances and highlights of the events including interviews, which is rpated frequently throught the summer.
4 Music is a music and entertainment channel in the Unitd kingdom.
It is avaible on Freeview, Virgin media, Sly and smallworld cable.
The channel Launched with an on-sreen countdown counting down from then minutes down to zero. During he countdown, clips from popular music videos were faded through the screen including clips from promotions for the channel.
MTV
MTV is an American based cable and satellite tevelvison channel owned by the MTV Networks Music and Logo Group. The channel itself is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. It launched in 1981, August 1st. In it's early years, MTV's main target demographic were young adults, but today MTV's programming is primarily targeted at adolescents and teenagers. Sale of MTV to Viacom international inc. In 1985 changed from its status as a percieved fad to that of a cultural instiution. It launchedin Europe in 1987 and went global for the first time.
Orinigal idea was to show music videos all day in stereo, in the US which gave advertisers to reach 12-34 year old audience for album-prienetated rock.
MTV started showing primarily music videos and nothing else. However in the present day MTV now has 7 varies of their channel avaible. They had transformed their brand into a whole new experience. All music based programmes are now shown on the genre related channel.
MTV (formly M2) launched in 1998
MTV BASE launched in Europe in 1999
MTV CLASSIC (formly VH1 CLASSIC) launched in 1999
MTV HITS launched in 2002
MTV DANCE launched in 2001
MTV MUSIC (formly MTV SHOWS) launched in 2011.
Their main base channel 'MTV' now bases all showings on reality tv. Shows including:
Geordie Shore,
Jersey Shore,
Teen Mom,
The valleys,
Are you the one?,
Awkward,
Catfish and many more.
Even though moving into reality TV was a huge success for MTV, they are now slated incredibly for the abbusive and controversial shows, setting bad examples for their target audience of young teens and adolescents.
As of August 2013, approximately 97,654,000 American households recieve MTV.
4 Music
MTV owned music channel, VIVA, was first launched in Germany, on 1st December in 1993. The channel is also led by Time Warner, Sony Television, EMI music and Polygram Records.
The channel was only aired in Germany until 14th January 2005, when MTV Networks Europe acquired VIVA and began broadcasting the channel in Austria, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Switerzland and the United Kingdom.
The channel is linked to sister channls such as MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
KISS
After the hugely popular pirate radio station 10 was legalised in 1990 (after 5 years of playing as a pirate radio station.) Co-creator Guy Wingate proposed the original idea for the station's very own television channel in 1993.
The channel ran for one hour a night on the Mirror Group's Live TV cable circuit, after moving up, one year later , to the Granada satelite and cable platform.
The channel is widely avaible on digital television and is linked to sister channels such as 4seven, Channel 4, Film 4, E4, More4, 4Music, Heat, Kerrang!, Magic, Smash Hits, and The Box.
The channel apperas to young adults and consits of mainly mainstream hip-hop, trance and R&B.
VIVA
