- 1. Music Channels
2. MTV is considered to be the leading music channeland has been for many years, having their channelsbroadcasting all over the world. Its has several individual channels which showdifferent genres of music videos such as: MTV MUSIC,MTV BASE, MTV HITS, MTV DANCE, MTV ROCKS,MTV CLASSIC. It launched on 1 August 1981, based in New York City,US. The first images shown on MTV were amontage of the Apollo 11 moon landing 3. The first music video shown on MTV was The BugglesVideo Killed the Radio Star The original purpose of MTV was to be "MusicTelevision", playing music videos 24 hours a day, 7 daysa week, guided by on-air personalities known as VJs, orvideo jockeys For the first day MTV managed to show 87 music videos During MTVs first few years on the air, very few blackartists were included in rotation on the channel. Thosewho were in MTVs rotation included Eddy Grant, TinaTurner, Donna Summer, Musical Youth, Herbie Hancock,Grace Jones, and Prince. The very first non-white actplayed on MTV in the U.S. was UK band The Specials,which featured an integrated line-up of white and blackmusicians and vocalists 4. Although the original MTV channel no longer playsmusic videos 24/7, several of its spin-off channels doso, including MTV Hits and MTV Jams In 1984, the channel produced its first MTV VideoMusic Awards show, or VMAs. The first awardshow, in 1984, was punctuated by a live performanceby Madonna of "Like A Virgin". The statuettes that arehanded out at the Video Music Awards are of theMTV moonman, the channels original image from itsfirst broadcast in 1981. Presently, the Video Music Awards are MTVs mostwatched annual event 5. 4Music launched on 15 August 2008 It is the only channel within the Box TelevisionNetwork to be branded under Channel 4 and is oneof the only channels in the network to be broadcastin widescreen It broadcasts 24 hours a day It shows several programmes on the channel,including Todays 4Music Top 10, Fresh MusicTop 20, Your Official Top 20, The UK Airplay Top20, UKHot40, 4Music Doubles 6. The channel was officially launched on 26October 2009 The channel is owned by Viacom InternationalMedia Networks Europe and was originally aGerman channel. It is also the first channel fromMTV that is on Freeview The channel replaced TMF As well as music videos, Viva also showsprogrammes from other Viacom channelsincluding MTV, and Comedy Central.
