Music Television Channels Ownership

                                     

Box Television covers a wide range of musical genres as it owns The Box, 4Music (previously known as The Hits before August 2008), Heat TV (previously Q before July 2012), Kerrang! TV, KISS TV, Magic TV and Smashhits TV. These channels are all available on Sky and Virgin Media with 4 Music also being available on Freeview. 

In 2007 Channel 4 brought 50% of Box Television then Emap sold its 50% share of Box Television (along with its radio and magazine business) to Bauer Media therefore Box Television now consists of a 50:50 joint venture between Channel 4 and Bauer Media. 

Owned by Viacom International, it is available on Sky, Smallworld, TalkTalk TV, Virgin Media and WightCable IOW. 

Viacom International owns MTV, MTV Base, MTV Classic, MTV Dance, MTV Hits, MTV Live HD, MTV Music, MTV Rocks, VH1, Viva, Comedy Central, Comedy Central Extra, Nick Jr, Nick Jr. 2, Nick Replay, Nickelodeon and NickToons. 

Viacom Media Network brands come under 1) BET Networks (BET and Centric)
2) Entertainment Group (Comedy Central, Spike and TV Land)
3) Music Group (CMT, Logo, MTV and VH1) the music channels it owns are MTV Base, Dance, Classic, Hits, Music, Rocks, Live, VH1 and Viva. 
4) Nickelodeon Group (Nickelodeon and its related brands)

MTV is the world's premiere youth entertainment brand. It has a global reach of over half a billion households where it covers generations of music fans. 

Owned by CSC Media Group who have their current focus on kids, movies, music and entertainment channels on television; they fulfil this by owning Bliss, BuzMuzik, Flava, Kix, POP!, PopGirl, Scuzz, Showcase TV, Tiny Pop, True Drama, True Entertainment, True Movies and The Vault.

6 out of the 7 music channels they own are wholly owned brands. These 7 music channels cover the musical spectrum of genres. 

Dance Nation TV is owned and operated in partnership with Ministry of Sound.

BuzMuzik was launched in April 2012, it is a music channel which is driven by mobile phone (text and mms) and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. This was the first music channel in music television broadcasting. 

CSC's portfolio accounted for 25% of the music market satellite homes in 2011.