The Box Music Channel

I have looked on Wikipedia and The Box website to find out when and where it formed. Looking at these websites has shown what types of music The Box plays on its many shows, from this I can see if we chose to have The Box play our video it would be on the programme UK Airplay. Even though this could be appropriate for our song 'What A Life' by Noel Gallagher as The Box operates in the UK which is mainly Noel Gallagher's audience, I feel that MTV would be more suited as it is a larger corporation than The Box.

The Box is a TV channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The channel was formed in April 1992 and 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 from 4Music. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day with Teleshopping shown late at night.

Here are some of the programmes available on The Box:

• UK Hot 40
• Fresh4Summer!
• UK Airplay
• VIP Track of The Week
• The Crush Party Bangers Top 20
• Teleshopping

Brief History

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.

This information was taken from Wikipedia (Click for link)