Scuzz
Encyclopedia
Scuzz is a British
music television
channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels). It launched on 17 April 2003 and has gone on to be the highest-rated rock TV station on UK satellite. The channel plays a broad range of rock and all its subgenres. The daytime tends to play more pop-punk, current metal and up and coming artists while the evening plays predominately heavier music ranging from traditional heavy metal, hard rock
and punk
to deathcore
and death metal
which no other music channel currently plays.
The rock channel particularly specializes in the hardcore and metalcore genres. Scuzz tends to play more underground music videos than the other British rock channel Kerrang!TV although they do share quite a few songs. The channel has been known to break many UK artists including Enter Shikari
, Young Guns
, You Me At Six
, Deaf Havana
and more recently Lower Than Atlantis
.
Scuzz also shows many exclusive music videos for their first time. Scuzz often broadcasts live concerts including Slipknot
, Korn
, Devildriver
and 36 Crazyfists
. Scuzz broadcasts band 'Take-Overs' where artists present music video shows, as well as interviews with artists such as Ozzy Osbourne
, Deftones
, Machine Head
, Kiss
to smaller bands that are deemed up and coming.
The channel also runs weekly competitions, giving viewers the chance to win band merchandise, signed guitars and concert tickets and more.
Scuzz has a presence at the majority of the UK's rock festivals. Scuzz's current festival partnerships include:
Download Festival
,
Sonisphere,
Bloodstock
,
Hevy and Slam Dunk.
Scuzz is available 22 hours a day on Sky channel 374 and Freesat
Channel 503 and is part of a bouquet of music channels owned by CSC Media, including Bliss
, Flaunt
, Chart Show TV
, The Vault
, Flava
and NME TV
. The other 2 hours between 4 am and 6 am are teleshopping broadcasts.
On Monday, 17 November 2008, CSC Media Group launched a +1 timeshift of Scuzz, Scuzz +1. It was available 24 hours a day on Sky channel 375. This was CSC Media Group's third music timeshift, after launching Flaunt +1
and Bliss +1
earlier in the year, although both have since been closed down and replaced, with PopGirl+1
and allowing Showcase TV
to go 24 hours respectively.
On Friday 21 November 2008, just four days after Scuzz +1 officially launched, it was closed down as the EPG slot had been bought by news channel NHK World TV.
On 29 September 2009, Scuzz was removed from Freesat channel 502 and replaced with sister channel Flava. On 3 November 2010, NME TV was replaced with Scuzz on Freesat channel 503.
group Trivium
, and more recently, a weekend devoted to Swedish melodic death metal
band In Flames
.
As of at least 31 December 2007 Scuzz was once again revamped; being given a much more industrial style look.
and Flaunt
, were removed from Virgin Media
's ex-NTL platform as a deal with Chart Show Channels
could not be made to make the channels available to their ex-Telewest platform.
The new site also offers the chance for fans of three selected bands to put forward questions for the bands to answer. These questions will later form the basis of an interview, which is also shown on the site.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
music television
Music television
Music television is a type of television programming which focuses predominantly on playing music videos from bands, usually on dedicated television channels broadcasting on satellite or cable. Music TVs may host their own shows charts, award prizes. Examples are VIVA, Scuzz, MTV, JBTV, MuchMusic,...
channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels). It launched on 17 April 2003 and has gone on to be the highest-rated rock TV station on UK satellite. The channel plays a broad range of rock and all its subgenres. The daytime tends to play more pop-punk, current metal and up and coming artists while the evening plays predominately heavier music ranging from traditional heavy metal, hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
and punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
to deathcore
Deathcore
Deathcore is an extreme metal music genre that combines elements of death metal with elements of metalcore or hardcore punk, or both. It is defined by an "excessive" use of death metal riffs, blast beats and use of hardcore punk breakdowns...
and death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
which no other music channel currently plays.
The rock channel particularly specializes in the hardcore and metalcore genres. Scuzz tends to play more underground music videos than the other British rock channel Kerrang!TV although they do share quite a few songs. The channel has been known to break many UK artists including Enter Shikari
Enter Shikari
Enter Shikari are a British band, that combine post-hardcore with elements of various electronic genres, formed in 2003 in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The band is named after a boat belonging to Roughton "Rou" Reynolds' uncle, and a character in a play which he wrote before forming the band, both of...
, Young Guns
Young Guns
Young Guns is a 1988 action/western film, directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film was the first to be produced by Morgan Creek Productions...
, You Me At Six
You Me At Six
You Me at Six is a British rock band from Weybridge, Surrey. Formed in 2004, the group rose to fame in 2008 with the success of their debut album, Take Off Your Colours, which included the singles "Save It for the Bedroom", "Finders Keepers" and "Kiss and Tell", with the latter two peaking at #33...
, Deaf Havana
Deaf Havana
Deaf Havana are an English alternative rock band from King's Lynn, Norfolk in the UK. The band was formed in 2005 at the King's Lynn campus of The College of West Anglia...
and more recently Lower Than Atlantis
Lower Than Atlantis
Lower Than Atlantis are a four-piece Melodic hardcore/Rock band based in Watford, United Kingdom. The band was started in 2007. They have since released their debut EP, Bretton via Thirty Days of Night Records in January 2009...
.
Scuzz also shows many exclusive music videos for their first time. Scuzz often broadcasts live concerts including Slipknot
Slipknot (band)
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...
, Korn
Korn
Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...
, Devildriver
DevilDriver
DevilDriver is an American heavy metal band from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 2002. The band was originally named Deathride, however, due to copyright issues and the name being taken by several bands, Deathride changed its name to DevilDriver, which refers to bells Italian witches used to...
and 36 Crazyfists
36 Crazyfists
36 Crazyfists is a four-piece metal band originating from Anchorage, Alaska. They are now based in Portland, Oregon. The band's name comes from a Jackie Chan movie, Jackie Chan And The 36 Crazy Fists...
. Scuzz broadcasts band 'Take-Overs' where artists present music video shows, as well as interviews with artists such as Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
, Deftones
Deftones
Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...
, Machine Head
Machine Head (band)
Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California. Formed on October 12, 1991, the group was founded by Robb Flynn and Adam Duce. There have been 4 member changes since their inception. The current lineup of the band comprises Flynn , Duce , ex-Vio-Lence guitarist Phil Demmel ,...
, Kiss
KISS (band)
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
to smaller bands that are deemed up and coming.
The channel also runs weekly competitions, giving viewers the chance to win band merchandise, signed guitars and concert tickets and more.
Scuzz has a presence at the majority of the UK's rock festivals. Scuzz's current festival partnerships include:
Download Festival
Download Festival
The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England . It usually takes place in June...
,
Sonisphere,
Bloodstock
Bloodstock
Bloodstock was an annual metal music festival held from 2001 to 2006 over two days in The Assembly Rooms, Derby, England. The event featured big-name mainstream, underground and new bands split between two stages, as well as a 'Metal Market' offering general genre merchandise and CDs...
,
Hevy and Slam Dunk.
Scuzz is available 22 hours a day on Sky channel 374 and Freesat
Freesat
Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc, serving the United Kingdom. The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008...
Channel 503 and is part of a bouquet of music channels owned by CSC Media, including Bliss
Bliss (TV channel)
Bliss is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group . It launched in March 2006 and has been advertised as Total Chill-out Classics. The channel plays classic pop songs and music from the 70's, 80's and 90's, along with hours dedicated to love songs and power ballads...
, Flaunt
Flaunt (TV channel)
Flaunt was a British Electronic Dance Music TV channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group .-Flaunt Throughout the Years:...
, Chart Show TV
Chart Show TV
Chart Show TV is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group . The same people behind The Chart Show, a television programme that had previously been on Channel 4 and ITV, before relaunching it themselves in 2008...
, The Vault
The Vault
The Vault is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group. It launched in Summer 2003 and shows classic music videos from yesteryear and songs which are between one and five years old. It also plays some music from the eighties and nineties...
, Flava
Flava (TV channel)
Flava is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group it launched on Wednesday 26 March 2008 and replaced B4 TV, a previous pre-launch music channel from CSC Media Group...
and NME TV
NME TV
NME TV is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group . This is a similar arrnagement to its radio station, NME Radio, which is operated by DX Media. The channel replaced Minx on 22 November 2007...
. The other 2 hours between 4 am and 6 am are teleshopping broadcasts.
On Monday, 17 November 2008, CSC Media Group launched a +1 timeshift of Scuzz, Scuzz +1. It was available 24 hours a day on Sky channel 375. This was CSC Media Group's third music timeshift, after launching Flaunt +1
Flaunt (TV channel)
Flaunt was a British Electronic Dance Music TV channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group .-Flaunt Throughout the Years:...
and Bliss +1
Bliss (TV channel)
Bliss is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group . It launched in March 2006 and has been advertised as Total Chill-out Classics. The channel plays classic pop songs and music from the 70's, 80's and 90's, along with hours dedicated to love songs and power ballads...
earlier in the year, although both have since been closed down and replaced, with PopGirl+1
Pop Girl
Pop Girl is a free-to-air television channel owned by CSC Media Group, showing cartoons, live action and pop music videos for girls aged 6 to 16...
and allowing Showcase TV
Showcase TV
Showcase TV was a television channel in the United Kingdom that replaced AnimeCentral on 27 August 2008. It showed a mixture of different content from other CSC Media Group channels such as Pop Girl, Chart Show TV, True Movies 2 and had retained some AnimeCentral programming, in its own block...
to go 24 hours respectively.
On Friday 21 November 2008, just four days after Scuzz +1 officially launched, it was closed down as the EPG slot had been bought by news channel NHK World TV.
On 29 September 2009, Scuzz was removed from Freesat channel 502 and replaced with sister channel Flava. On 3 November 2010, NME TV was replaced with Scuzz on Freesat channel 503.
Scuzz revamp
Scuzz was given a new look and revamp on April 1, 2006. Replacing the old black and white logo and song titles to a blue, smokey look. After the revamp the channel has begun to air more special, dedicated shows, such as a live performance from the metalcoreMetalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
group Trivium
Trivium (band)
Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999. Signed to Roadrunner Records, the band has released five studio albums, eleven singles, and twelve music videos...
, and more recently, a weekend devoted to Swedish melodic death metal
Melodic death metal
Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...
band In Flames
In Flames
In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. Since the band's inception in 1993, they have released ten studio albums and one live DVD...
.
As of at least 31 December 2007 Scuzz was once again revamped; being given a much more industrial style look.
Virgin Media removal
On 6 November 2007, Scuzz along with BlissBliss (TV channel)
Bliss is a British music television channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group . It launched in March 2006 and has been advertised as Total Chill-out Classics. The channel plays classic pop songs and music from the 70's, 80's and 90's, along with hours dedicated to love songs and power ballads...
and Flaunt
Flaunt (TV channel)
Flaunt was a British Electronic Dance Music TV channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group .-Flaunt Throughout the Years:...
, were removed from Virgin Media
Virgin Media
Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...
's ex-NTL platform as a deal with Chart Show Channels
Chart Show Channels
CSC Media Group are a UK-based satellite television channel provider, named after the defunct The Chart Show. CSC evolved from the original Chart Show production company Video Visuals. They own 16 channels all of which are advertising funded and FTA...
could not be made to make the channels available to their ex-Telewest platform.
Scuzz.com
Recently the channel relaunched its website, previously only for use to examine the channel listings, playlist and forum. Now, it has facilities to air videos online, premiering videos for bands such as 3 Inches of Blood and, more recently, Silverstein, to act as a social networking site and to promote the channel's competitions. Also, the website, through its forums, has also been known to present competitions to users, allowing them to win band merchandise and CDs.The new site also offers the chance for fans of three selected bands to put forward questions for the bands to answer. These questions will later form the basis of an interview, which is also shown on the site.