Kerrang! TV

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Kerrang! TV
Launched	Spring 2001
Owned by	EMAP
Audience share	0.1% (Jan '06, Source:[1])
Website	www.kerrang-tv.co.uk
Availability
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 354
Cable
Telewest	Channel 332
NTL	Channel 342
NTL Ireland	Channel 715

Kerrang! TV is a digital television station owned by EMAP, which is loosely connected to the EMAP owned magazine, Kerrang!. As of 2005, all of its programme content is music videos, the majority of which is open scheduled, for 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 bands, 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, and very few requests, most noticeably Eminem and Blink-182. There are also some unusual plays by Beastie Boys

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, as its 0.1% share of the overall viewership actually amounts to a very high share of the music television market. Heavy Metal is least played, as Death metal, Black Metal and Power Metal is never played. Indeed more mainstream rock acts are favoured. British and American music is most featured, however European music isn't. Gothic Metal is rarely played.

One of the most notable features of the network are its adbreak endboards, which usually consist of normal video that has been heavily edited - such as cow heads grafted onto a dancing couple - or are cartoons in the style of the infamous Protect and Survive films with a surreal twist.

The station has an annual video countdown called the Rock 100, which covers the 100 most requested videos on the station (Rock or otherwise) in the previous year, and with links between blocks of tracks given by one of the featured bands. In 2005, Good Charlotte presented the Rock 100 from a strip club in Manchester.

It is part of subscription packages on all platforms, which include Sky Digital, NTL and Telewest. It is part of a boquet of channels owned by EMAP, which include The Hits, Smash Hits!, KISS, Q, The Box, FHM and Magic.