C Music TV

C Music TV is an international music television channel dedicated to classical, soundtrack and chillout music videos.

History

C Music Entertainment Ltd was founded in 2007 and the channel's distribution is handled by Paris based Agents Thema. The C in C Music TV stands for the genres of the channels playlist which covers classical music (e.g. Beethoven), Crossover music (e.g. Il Divo), Cinema music (original film soundtracks e.g. John Williams) and Chillout music (e.g. Lemonjelly).

C Music TV avoids long form concerts and operas traditionally associated with classical music on television and instead replaces them with short form music videos, more widely associated with pop music.

C Music TV broadcasts to host cable, DTH satellite, IPTV and mobile phone networks via six contribution satellites. To Europe on the Eurobird 9A (9° East) satellite (encrypted with CONAX) and on Eutelsat W7 (36° East), to North Africa on the Eutelsat W2A (10.0° East) satellite, to South Africa on Astra 4A (4.8° East), to Portugal on Hispasat 1C (30.0° West) and on Hellas Sat 2 (39° East).^[1]

In June 2008 C Music TV launched a subscription service on their website cmusic.tv and in September 2008 launched a new High Definition and video on demand channel called "C Music TV Plus".

C Music TV won the Award for 'Best Music TV Channel' at the Hot Bird European TV Awards which were announced on 14 November 2008 at a ceremony held at the “Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista” in Venice, Italy. It also received the Hot Bird Jury's "Special Mention" Trophy in 2009.

Broadcast Regions & Television Networks

References

External links

• Official Site
• HOTBIRD TV Awards