Scuzz | |
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Launched | 17 April 2003 |
Owned by | Sony Pictures Television |
Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
Audience share | 0.01% (September 2015BARB) | ,
Sister channel(s) |
Chart Show Hits Chart Show TV Flava Kix Movies4Men Pop Sony Channel Sony Movie Channel Starz TV Tiny Pop True Crime True Entertainment True Movies The Vault |
Website | www.scuzz.com Redirects to Twitter page |
Availability
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Satellite | |
Sky | Channel 367 |
Eutelsat 28A | 11307 V 27500 2/3 |
Cable | |
WightFibre | Channel 54 |
Scuzz is a British music television channel owned and operated by Sony Pictures Television. It launched on 17 April 2003 and has gone on to be the highest-rated rock TV station on satellite platform Sky which is available in over 12 million homes in the UK and Ireland.
The channel broadcasts mainstream rock, pop-punk, and metal, with unsigned and lesser known bands featuring in on evening show 'Scuzz Underground'. Scuzz tends to play a broader selection of music videos compared with the other British rock channels MTV Rocks and Kerrang! although K! and Scuzz do share quite a few songs. The channel has been known to break many UK artists including Enter Shikari, Young Guns, You Me At Six, Bullet For My Valentine, Lower Than Atlantis and more recently Mallory Knox. International bands are often first broadcast on Scuzz TV, the likes of Avenged Sevenfold, Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, Letlive, All Time Low and Paramore all first appeared on Scuzz.
The channel shows many exclusive music videos for their first time. Scuzz often plays live concerts including Slipknot, Korn, Devildriver and 36 Crazyfists. Scuzz has band 'Take-Overs' where artists present music video shows, as well as interviews with artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, Deftones, Machine Head, Kiss to smaller bands that are deemed up and coming.