Kiss (TV channel)
| Kiss TV | |
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| Launched | 30 June 1998 |
| Owned by |
The Box Plus Network (Bauer Media Group/Channel Four Television Corporation) |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.03% (March 2017, BARB) |
| Sister channel(s) |
4seven Channel 4 Film4 E4 More4 4Music Box Upfront The Box Box Hits Kerrang! TV Magic |
| Website | www.totalkiss.com |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 18 (HD online via 4Music) |
| Satellite | |
| Freesat | Channel 508 |
| Sky (UK only) | Channel 363 |
| Astra 2E | 12304 H 27500 5/6 |
| StarSat (Sub-Saharan Africa) | Channel 325 |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 338 |
| Virgin Media Ireland | Channel 717 |
| Streaming media | |
| Kiss TV | Watch live |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK only) |
| Horizon TV | Watch live (Ireland only) |
Kiss TV is a commercial music television channel from The Box Plus Network, available on the Sky, Virgin Media, Smallworld Cable and TalkTalk Plus TV digital television platforms. The playlist predominantly consists of mainstream hip-hop, electronic dance music and R&B.
It is based on the format of the Bauer owned London radio station Kiss 100, which started as a pirate radio station in London in 1985. Kiss TV celebrated the 20th anniversary of its launch in 2005.
The original incarnation of Kiss TV was created by Guy Wingate, who, as an original co-creator of London's Kiss 100 (in its pirate days) was brought back in to head up EMAP's fledgling TV division by the more-widely known Kiss chief, Gordon McNamee (Mac). The channel ran for one hour a night on the Mirror Group's L!VE TV cable circuit and after a year moved up to the Granada satellite and cable platform, taking a similar slot in the evening.
Although the original idea for the channel was proposed in 1993 (three years after Kiss FM launched as a legal station), it took many months for Wingate to convince UK television regulators to permit the extension of a brand name over to television. When permission was finally granted, Kiss had once again innovated by becoming the first "Masthead" TV project in the UK.
Within one year, the station was beating MTV in its time slots, and quickly gained a cult status for its low-budget edgy coverage of the UK dance music scene. The channel's presenters included legendary DJs such as BBC Radio 1's Judge Jules. By the time the channel was one year old, it had attracted major sponsorship from blue-chip brands such as Levi's, Sony consumer products and The Guardian newspaper.
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