Kerrang! (TV channel)
| Kerrang! TV | |
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| Launched | 2 April 2001 |
| Owned by |
The Box Plus Network (Bauer Media Group/Channel Four Television Corporation) |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.01% (March 2017, BARB) |
| Sister channel(s) |
4seven Channel 4 Film4 E4 More4 4Music Box Upfront The Box Box Hits Kiss TV Magic |
| Website | www.kerrang-tv.co.uk |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 18 (HD online via 4Music) |
| Satellite | |
| Sky (UK only) | Channel 368 |
| Astra 2E | 12304 H 27500 5/6 |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 342 |
| Virgin Media Ireland | Channel 715 |
| Streaming media | |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK only) |
| Horizon | Watch live (Ireland only) |
| Watch live | |
Kerrang! TV is a digital television station owned by The Box Plus Network, 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-schedule so as to permit text requests from their playlist.
The TV station's playlist is mainly nu metal and pop punk/skate punk, although with some unusual exceptions. Certain acts 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, Panic! at the Disco, Paramore and You Me at Six.
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. Heavy metal is least played, as death metal and black metal are very rarely played, although extreme metal act Cradle of Filth have appeared on late-night and even daytime Kerrang! TV from time to time. More mainstream rock acts are favoured. British and American music is most featured, European music is played rarely; although Rammstein (Germany) have featured weekly. Gothic metal and power metal are rarely played.
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