Chart Show Channels
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Chart Show Channels are a UK-based satellite television channel provider, named after the defunct The Chart Show. They own 7 channels, all advertising funded FTA, and operate three other channels on behalf of BSkyB, which were Videoguard encrypted until December 11, 2006, when they went FTA.
Until May 2005, their sole output was music television, with the channels Chart Show TV, The Vault, B4, Pop, and Tiny Pop (previously Pop Plus), Bliss (previously The Amp), Scuzz and Flaunt.
They are also the majority owner of Moving Movies, with True Movies being the first channel from the company, which launched in late April 2005, which was joined by True Movies 2 in March 2006.
Chart Show's channels have no on-screen presenters, only a rarely heard continuity announcer who works on all channels, usually introducing prize draws. The channels are funded by advertising and SMS revenues.
They were announced as being one of the channel providers providing DVB-H channels in a 16 channel trial of the technology in Oxford, a system which will carry Chart Show TV, and were said to be one of the parties involved in bidding for a low-bandwidth, 18 hour a day stream on the UK's Digital Terrestrial Television system in November 2005 "Freeview bidding reaches £10 million"
