Max TV was a

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music channel available free to air on UHF channel 49 in

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from 28 October 1993 to 3 December 1997. When Max TV began transmission it was known as Max: The Music Channel. The channel was jointly owned and operated by Aztel Holdings (radio personality Kevin Black, who owned the frequency licence, and his partner Jeff Thorpe) and On-Line Productions, a video production house."Listener". 15 January 1994 The channel initially broadcast from 4:00pm until midnight Monday to Thursday; 4:00pm until 1:00am on Friday; 7:00am until 1:00am on Saturday; and 7:00am until midnight on Sunday. By April 1996 its transmission hours were extended to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On 20 May 1997, the channel broadcast the music video to Iggy Pop's song "Pussy Walk". Local feminist group

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considered the music video 'offensive and insulting to women'. On 2 December 1997,

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announced that the channel would close down on the following day.

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