Classic FM TV was a television channel owned by British radio station
Classic FM. Until 14 December 2007 it was available as a television channel on the
Sky Digital satellite and
Virgin Media
Virgin Media is a British telecommunications company which provides telephone, Cable television, television and Internet access, internet services in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are at Green Park in Reading, Berkshire, Reading, Engla ...
cable TV services. After that, Classic FM TV only broadcast online in the
United Kingdom
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via the Internet.
It claimed itself as the world’s first classical music television channel with programming consisting of soft and relaxing classical music videos 24-hours a day.
The channel was removed from Sky and Virgin Media on 14 December 2007. It also become online-only.
On 17 December 2007 a new channel called
oMusic TV
oMusic TV was a British music television channel. It was a classical/chill out music channel, and was available free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person ...
launched on Sky in Classic FM TV's slot.
Other media
Classic FM TV was the sister station of UK
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...
Classic FM.
Classic FM also publishes a monthly magazine, ''
Classic FM Magazine
The ''Classic FM Magazine'' was a magazine published by Haymarket in the United Kingdom each month. It was the printed organ of Classic FM, a British classical commercial radio station. The magazine reviewed classical recordings and live perfo ...
''.
Ownership
The satellite channel was owned by
GCap Media
GCap Media was a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. The merger was completed in May 2005. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. ...
.
References
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GCap Media
Classical music in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
Classic FM (UK)