Institutions: Music Channels

Weekly viewing: 1.7%

This music channel/ company, reaches a fair amount of people, it focuses on mainly charts and pop music, which reaches a large number of listeners, however not as many as could be reached as it doesn't play an extremely wide variety of music genres. This channel is owned by box television (Bauer group/ Channel 4) and so has a large number of sister channels in Channel 4, Film 4, E4, 4Music, Kerrang, Magic, Q, Smash Hits and The Box. This station started as a pirate radio station and so has been seen as quite a well known influential station.

 

Weekly viewing: 7.4%

This radio station is used generally to play up to date chart music, however it does play a larger range of genres, compared to other stations. It has one of the largest weekly viewings. It has mainly available in the United Kingdom however it is available on some digital television providers and so can be on certain channels in the Republic of Ireland. It also has its own website, as well as Facebook and Twitter pages. As well as music this channel also broadcasts tv shows, and so reaches a much wider audience. This channel also has the rights to broadcast most summer festivals and through links with sister channels hosts it own, 'T4 on the Beach'.

Weekly viewing: 1.2%

This stations is focused mainly on the rock music genre, and so only reaches a small selected audience. It started as a rock music magazine and then branched out to tv. This station is an open one, and so the main majority of music played comes from texted requests from their viewers, so that don't have as much of a variety of music to suit all viewers played.

Weekly viewing: 3.8%

This is an American company based in New York city and so reaches an is exposed to a wide range of views and different genres of music, this channel therefore played a range of different genres as well as chart based music, it also broadcasts a range of television shows. It does now however focus more on the broadcasting of these tv shows than it does of the music. MTV has been around for a large number of years, and so has become quite an influential station and one of the most well knowns, it has however been criticised over the years for devaluing the importance of music.

Weekly viewing: 0.9%

This channel plays mainly classic pop and music from the 70's, 80's and 90's. They have specific times slots for power ballads and music from movies. This channel is aimed at a specific audience and does not suit everyones tastes as it only plays a very specific genre of music. To begin with the bliss logo was quite bold in gold colouring, this however has developed over time to suit the genre of music played.