SS Music or Southern Spice Music channel was a
satellite television
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channel based in
Chennai
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,
India
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. The multilingual music channel broadcast film music songs from
Tamil
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* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nativ ...
,
Telugu
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* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
,
Malayalam
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and
Kannada film industry. The music channel also aired mainstream international music from US, UK, Europe regions. The company was started by Fortune Media PVT LTD the parent company, as a lottery channel to announce lottery results. In 2004 the company was approached by MTV India for a takeover, to be branded as MTV South, but the deal fell through.
About the channels shows and hosts
Southern spice Music was started in 2001 as a pure music entertainment channel, with English as their language of communication and the content in the multilingual format, mainly Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. The southern state languages of India mainly focusing on South Indian people.
The reality shows like Voice hunt, VJ Factor, Launchpad, Dance with me, Challenge made the music channel famous in South India.
The daily show like Reach out, Virtual request, Connect, FIR, Hi5, Room with a view, Career show, Game station were hosted by
VJ Craig, VJ Sriya reddy VJ Carry, VJ Paloma, VJ Pooja,
VJ Rajiv, VJ Shyam, Vj Shaunak and many others.
References
External links
Official website
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Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television stations in Chennai
2001 establishments in Tamil Nadu