MUSIC TELEVISION CHANNELS

These are some of the main channels that solely show music videos during their airplay. These are the the channels that I watch in my own time. I have also chosen them because they bear some relevance in genre (or did) to my song choice. 

MTV

MTV is an american owned company and one of the most succesful and groundbreaking music television channels. MTV was initially intended as a music only TV channel intended to show all the latest trends and popular genres (as a result the content it has showed has varied drastically over the years) however it has also branched out into reality television in order to reach a wider audience.

MTV shows what is currently in the top charts. This means it has seen  a huge variety of acts over the years, from Guns N' Roses in the mid 80's to Jay Z in recent times. They also own a number of children's channels like nickelodeon. MTV is an american owned Company however it does have a european stationed branch and in fact a majority of its views and income is primarily european. It also now hosts reality shows like "the only way is essex no longer restricting itself to showing solely music videos.


KERRANG

Kerrang is a television station owned by Box Television and is in connection with the popular Kerrang magazine. All of its programme content is music videos, the majority of which is open scheduled, for text requests from their playlist.
The TV station's playlist is mainly nu metal and pop punk, although there are exceptions eg. Tenacious D, Beastie Boys and Bloodhound Gang. Rap artist Eminem has also many of his videos played on Kerrang, which has caused controversy among long-time fans as Rap is generally not popular amongst the fans of the genre.

SCUZZ TV

SCUZZ is a British music television channel owned by CSC Media Group. It launched on 17 April 2003 and has gone on to be the highest-rated rock TV station on UK satellite. The channel plays a broad range of rock and all its subgenres. The daytime tends to play more pop-punk (similar to Kerrang) as well as classic rock and heavy metal. During the evening the channel becomes predominately based around much heavier music ranging from traditional heavy metal, hard rock and punk to deathcore, death metal, black metal etc. which no other music channel currently plays. The music Generally becomes more underground and heavier as the night goes on.

Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrang!_TV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuzz