Starz TV (formerly Fizz TV) was a British

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music channel, owned by TRACE Group.

History

Fizz TV was launched on 24 January 2005 on Sky. The output of the station was music videos from a range of genres that were popular in the charts. The channel also had a heavy interactive texting element, through the viewers being able to send in text messages and pictures that were shown on screen. The parent company of Channel U and Fizz TV, Video Interactive Television, went into voluntary liquidation at the beginning of February 2009, before being purchased by

Mushroom TV Mushroom TV Limited was an English television company and owner of several satellite television music channels. Mushroom operated Channel AKA, Starz TV and Greatest Hits TV. The company was launched in 2000 and, according to their website, were ...

. When purchasing the two channels, Mushroom TV agreed that Channel U and Fizz TV should be rebranded. The two channels were rebranded as Channel AKA and Starz TV on 16 March 2009. On 22 June 2012, Mushroom TV entered

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's television broadcast licensing update for May 2012, indicates that Starz TV was sold to Cloud Television One Limited. From 2014 to 2018, it was owned by

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, before being acquired by TRACE Group on 13 December 2018 along with its three

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. On 15 April 2014, Starz TV was launched on Freesat, replacing BuzMuzik, which was closed 12 days earlier. It was removed from there along with

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and Tiny Pop +1 on 31 July 2018. On 21 October 2019, the channel returned to Freesat, replacing The Vault. It rebranded to 'Christmas Starz' between 1 October 2019 and 7 January 2020, and was later removed from Freesat on 30 April 2020. On 1 October 2019, the channel rebranded temporarily as Christmas Starz. At the same time, the channel also adopted a new logo, which continued on following the reversion to Starz TV on 7 January 2020. The channel closed on 1 June 2020 along with Trace Latina, with its content moving to a block on Trace Urban in the mornings. The last song on the channel was "

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" by

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, before cutting off partly through the video, similar to former sister channels Flava and

's closures.

Programming

*Breakfast Bangers! *Hot New Beats & Party Anthems *Super Fresh Fridays! *Weekend Pre Party Jamz *Massive Weekend Anthems *10 Hottest hits right now

References

External links

StarzTV Twitter
{{Music television in the United Kingdom Defunct British television channels Music video networks in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 2005 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020 CSC Media Group 2005 establishments in the United Kingdom 2020 disestablishments in the United Kingdom