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| Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
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| Launched | 17 April 2003 |
| Closed | 15 November 2018 |
Scuzz was a British 24-hour rock and metal music television channel owned and operated by Sony Pictures Television. It was launched on 17 April 2003 and went on to be the highest-rated[citation needed] rock TV station on the Sky satellite platform, available in over 12 million homes[1] in the UK and Ireland. The channel was closed on 15 November 2018.[2]
The channel broadcast mainstream rock, pop-punk, and metal, with unsigned and lesser known bands featuring in the late night show 'New Noise'. Scuzz tended to play a broader selection of music videos compared with the other British rock channels MTV Rocks and Kerrang! although K! and Scuzz did share quite a few songs. The channel was known to break many UK artists including Enter Shikari, Young Guns, You Me At Six, Bullet For My Valentine, Lower Than Atlantis and later Milk Teeth and Creeper. International bands were often first broadcast on Scuzz TV, the likes of Avenged Sevenfold, Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, Letlive, All Time Low and Paramore all first appeared on UK TV on Scuzz.
- ^ Plunkett, John (29 July 2015). "Sky profits rise as it passed 12 million UK and Ireland customers". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Scuzz TV is closing". Louder. 8 November 2018. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2024.