Subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television | |
Industry | Multi Channel TV |
Predecessor | Chart Show Channels |
Founded | January 2006 |
Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Area served
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United Kingdom and Ireland |
Key people
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Remy Minute |
Owner | Sony Pictures Television (Sony) |
Number of employees
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(51) |
CSC Media Group (formerly known as Chart Show Channels) is a British-Irish cable television broadcasting company that is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television.
CSC Media Group was named after the now defunct UK music show The Chart Show, which ran on ITV and Channel 4 for twelve years. CSC evolved from the original Chart Show production company Video Visuals, to Chart Show Channels, of which was acquired in 2007 by private equity group Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
They own 15 channels all of which are advertising funded and FTA. (Bliss, Scuzz and Flaunt were previously encrypted in NDS while they were owned by British Sky Broadcasting).
Until May 2005, their only output was music television, with their three fully owned music channels Chart Show TV, The Vault and B4 (now Flava), plus the three music channels Bliss (previously The Amp), Scuzz, and Flaunt (now Chart Show Dance), which were owned by BSkyB but run by CSTV. Their two children's channels Pop (previously Toons & Tunes) and Tiny Pop (previously Pop Plus) also both show music videos along with cartoons.
In 2006 CSC Media Group took full ownership of Bliss, Scuzz, and Flaunt from BSkyB. They made them FTA like the rest of their channels.