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Encyclopedia > Kerrang! TV
Kerrang! TV
Kerrang! TV Logo
Launched Spring 2001
Owned by Box Television
(Bauer Group/Channel 4)
Audience share 0.0%
(February 2008, [1])
Website www.kerrang-tv.co.uk
Availability
Satellite
Sky Digital Channel 358
Cable
Virgin Media Channel 342
UPC Ireland Channel 715

Kerrang! TV is a digital television station owned by Box Television, which is loosely connected to the magazine, Kerrang!. As of 2005, all of its programme content is music videos, the majority of which is open scheduled, for text requests from their playlist. Image File history File links Kerrang! TV Logo. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the British television station. ... For a wider corporate history and profile, see British Sky Broadcasting. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... UPC Ireland N.V. is Liberty Global Europes operation in Ireland. ... Digital television (DTV) refers to the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by means of discrete (digital) signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV. Introduced in the late 1990s, this technology appealed to the television broadcasting business and consumer electronics industries as offering new... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... For other uses, see SMS (disambiguation). ...


The TV station's playlist is mainly nu metal and pop-punk/skate punk, although with some unusual exceptions. Certain bands, such as Tenacious D and Limp Bizkit get higher than average play rates, due to higher rates of text requests. Themed 30 minute segments often cover artists who are on the playlist, with large numbers of videos, most noticeably Green Day and The Offspring. There are also some unusual plays, such as Avril Lavigne, Beastie Boys, and The Bloodhound Gang. Rap artist Eminem has many of his videos played on Kerrang, which has caused controversy among long-time fans. Nu metal (also called aggro metal, or nü metal using the traditional heavy metal umlaut) is a musical genre that has origins in the mid 1990s. ... Pop punk (also known as punk pop and other names) is a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. ... Skate punk (also known as skatepunk, skate-punk, skate-thrash, surf punk, or skate-core) was named because of its popularity among skateboarders, and the fact that many members of skate punk bands were themselves skaters. ... This article is about the band. ... Limp Bizkit is a nu metal band from Jacksonville, Florida. ... This article is about the band Green Day. ... For other uses, see Offspring (disambiguation). ... Avril Lavigne Whibley,[7] better known by her birth name of Avril Lavigne (IPA: ), (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian rock/punk-pop singer, musician and actress. ... The Beastie Boys are a hip hop musical group from New York City consisting of Michael Mike D Diamond, Adam MCA Yauch, Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz. ... The Bloodhound Gang performing live in Germany The Bloodhound Gang are a comedic American rapcore synth-pop band, mixing an alternative/punk sound with hip-hop. ... Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. ...


The station unusually guarantees to play a requested video, unlike others where a voting system is in place. However, it may take some time for the video to be played.


It shares much of the ethos of its namesake magazine, although it will not go as far as to play unsigned acts or veer too far off music which is accepted by the mainstream, as its 0.1% share of the overall viewership actually amounts to a very high share of the music television market. Heavy Metal is least played, as Death metal and black metal are never played. Indeed more mainstream rock acts are favoured. British and American music is most featured, however European music is rarely. Gothic Metal and Power Metal are rarely played. The MTV logotype, often used in different, less stylized, forms. ... Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... Gothic metal is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the mid 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a fusion genre of doom metal and death metal. ... This article is about the sub-genre of heavy metal music. ...


Often, they will show video countdowns. Ones that have been shown are 'Gods Of Rock', 'A-Z of Punk', 'Today's 10 Most Rockin' and 'Metal: 87-07'.


The station has an annual video countdown called the Rock 100, which covers the 100 most requested videos on the station (Rock or otherwise) in the previous year, and with links between blocks of tracks given by one of the featured bands. In 2005, Good Charlotte presented the Rock 100 from a strip club in Manchester. This article is about the genre. ... This article is about the band. ... For the book or movie Striptease see Striptease (book) and Striptease (movie) A striptease is a performance, usually a dance, in which the performer gradually removes their clothing for the purposes of sexually arousing the audience, usually performed in nightclubs. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...


It is part of subscription packages on all platforms, which include Sky Digital, and Virgin Media. It is part of a boquet of channels owned by EMAP, which include The Hits, Smash Hits!, KISS, Q, The Box, FHM and Magic. The subscription business model is a business model that has long been used by magazines and record clubs, but the application of this model is spreading. ... For a wider corporate history and profile, see British Sky Broadcasting. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... EMAP plc (LSE: EMA) is a British media company, specialising in the production of magazines, and the organization of business events and conferences. ... The Hits is a music video channel in the United Kingdom owned by EMAP. It showcases a range of pop centering on chart hits and current favourites. ... Smash Hits TV is a British commercial television channel provided by EMAP. It mainly broadcasts general mainstream pop music on a jukebox system, where viewers call a premium rate telephone number to select a music video to play. ... Kiss TV is a commercial music television channel from EMAP available on the Sky Digital , and Virgin Media digital TV platforms. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... FHM or For Him Magazine is an international monthly lads mag. ... Magic TV is a British music television station owned by EMAP. It plays mainly easy listening music videos and is based on the Magic Radio network also owned by EMAP. Like the other EMAP music television channels, Magic operates as a jukebox service where viewers are able to request videos...


Debut

The first broadcast of Kerrang! TV had a countdown of voter's most desired videos. The most popular choice and the first video ever shown on Kerrang! TV was Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff and Everlast's Black Jesus were also in the first 3 videos ever played. This article is about the American grunge band. ... Nevermind track listing Smells Like Teen Spirit is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, and the opening track and lead single from the bands 1991 breakthrough album Nevermind. ... Limp Bizkit is a nu metal band from Jacksonville, Florida. ... Break Stuff is a song by rapcore/nu metal band Limp Bizkit. ... Everlast (born Erik Schrody, August 18, 1969 in Valley Stream, New York) is an Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter, best known for his hit What Its Like, and for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music. ... Black Jesus is a song by American rap turned folk artist Everlast from his 2000 album Eat at Whiteys. ...


External links

  • Kerrang! TV


 

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