Scuzz
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| Launched | 17 April 2003 |
| Owned by | CSC Media Group |
| Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.0% (June 2011, BARB) |
| Sister channel(s) | Bliss Chart Show TV Dance Nation TV Flava The Vault Kix! Pop Pop Girl Tiny Pop True Entertainment True Movies 1 True Movies 2 |
| Website | www.scuzz.com |
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| Freesat | Channel 503 |
| Sky | Channel 374 |
| Eurobird 1 | 11307V 27500 2/3 |
Scuzz is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels). It launched on 17 April 2003 and has gone on to be the highest-rated rock TV station on UK satellite. The channel plays a broad range of rock and all its subgenres. The daytime tends to play more pop-punk, current metal and up and coming artists while the evening plays predominately heavier music ranging from traditional heavy metal, hard rock and punk to deathcore and death metal which no other music channel currently plays.
The rock channel particularly specializes in the hardcore and metalcore genres. Scuzz tends to play more underground music videos than the other British rock channel Kerrang!TV although they 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, Deaf Havana and more recently Lower Than Atlantis.
Scuzz also shows many exclusive music videos for their first time. Scuzz often broadcasts live concerts including Slipknot, Korn, Devildriver and 36 Crazyfists. Scuzz broadcasts 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.
The channel also runs weekly competitions, giving viewers the chance to win band merchandise, signed guitars and concert tickets and more.
Scuzz has a presence at the majority of the UK's rock festivals. Scuzz's current festival partnerships include:
Download Festival, Sonisphere, Bloodstock, Hevy and Slam Dunk.
Scuzz is available 22 hours a day on Sky channel 374 and Freesat Channel 503 and is part of a bouquet of music channels owned by CSC Media, including Bliss, Flaunt, Chart Show TV, The Vault and Flava. The other 2 hours between 4 am and 6 am are teleshopping broadcasts.
On Monday, 17 November 2008, CSC Media Group launched a +1 timeshift of Scuzz, Scuzz +1. It was available 24 hours a day on Sky channel 375. This was CSC Media Group's third music timeshift, after launching Flaunt +1 and Bliss +1 earlier in the year, although both have since been closed down and replaced, with PopGirl+1 and allowing Showcase TV to go 24 hours respectively.
On Friday 21 November 2008, just four days after Scuzz +1 officially launched, it was closed down as the EPG slot had been bought by news channel NHK World TV.
On 29 September 2009, Scuzz was removed from Freesat channel 502 and replaced with sister channel Flava.[1] On 3 November 2010, NME TV was replaced with Scuzz on Freesat channel 503.[2]
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[edit] Scuzz revamp
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The previous Scuzz logo (2003 - 1 April 2006)
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The Scuzz logo (1 April 2006 - 31 December 2007)
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Scuzz logo (1 January 2008 - 12 May 2011)
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Scuzz logo (13 May 2011–present)
Scuzz was given a new look and revamp on April 1, 2006. Replacing the old black and white logo and song titles to a blue, smokey look. After the revamp the channel has begun to air more special, dedicated shows, such as a live performance from the metalcore group Trivium, and more recently, a weekend devoted to Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames.
As of at least 31 December 2007 Scuzz was once again revamped; being given a much more industrial style look.
[edit] Virgin Media removal
On 6 November 2007, Scuzz along with Bliss and Flaunt, were removed from Virgin Media's ex-NTL platform as a deal with Chart Show Channels could not be made to make the channels available to their ex-Telewest platform.
[edit] Scuzz.com
Recently[when?] the channel relaunched its website, previously only for use to examine the channel listings, playlist and forum. Now, it has facilities to air videos online, premiering videos for bands such as 3 Inches of Blood[3] and, more recently[when?], Silverstein, to act as a social networking site and to promote the channel's competitions. Also, the website, through its forums, has also been known to present competitions to users, allowing them to win band merchandise and CDs.
The new site also offers the chance for fans of three selected bands to put forward questions for the bands to answer.[4] These questions will later form the basis of an interview, which is also shown on the site.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Flava replaces Scuzz on Freesat". The Airwaves. 2009-09-29. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20110724095920/http://www.theairwaves.net/index.php/satellite/3941-flava-replaces-scuzz-on-freesat.
- ^ "Scuzz To Return To Freesat This Week". Join Freesat. 1 November 2010. http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.php/scuzz-to-return-to-freesat-this-week.
- ^ Roadrunner Records UK
- ^ Send Us Your Questions
- ^ Scuzz TV
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