Foxtel Smooth (formerly Smooth) was an 18-hour (originally 24-hour) Australian

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music channel available via

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satellite and cable services. It launched on 3 December 2013, dedicated to

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music. The channel ceased broadcasting on 1 July 2020.

History

On 1 November 2013,

announced they were refreshing their music genre channels to allow for more diversity in their offerings. In addition to changes to the channels being offered by

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and the branding of the audio channels, it was announced that smoothfm would launch a television station that would offer

music which will correspond to their radio network. Smooth is the first radio station in Australia to launch a television channel.

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and Cameron Daddo are the faces of the channel. From 11 October 2017, it was announced that Foxtel Smooth would become a part-day channel, and would only be broadcast between midnight and 6 pm. This was due to a move by Foxtel to enable Foxtel Smooth to share the same broadcast bandwidth as Foxtel Arts, which in turn would only be available between 6 pm and midnight. On 3 June 2020, it was confirmed by Foxtel and NOVA that the channel would cease operations at the end of the month. This was followed with an announcement in May that Foxtel would be outsourcing its music video channel operations to Network 10's parent company ViacomCBS (now known as

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). On 1 July 2020, following the closure of the channel, Foxtel Arts was reverted back to a 24-hour channel.

References

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