The Box Reviews

The Box TV Channel

Product Type: other TV channels

Description:The Box is a television channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland which mostly plays music videos, although it also ... more

The Box ... features some music-related programming. Co-founded in the United Kingdom by Vincent Monsey (of Radio Caroline fame) and his partner Liz Laskowski, who discovered the channel in Miami in 1991 as The Jukebox Network. The U.K. company, Video Jukebox Network International Ltd., was formed in 1991 and the channel was launched in 1992 as THE BOX in the early days of cable television on cable operators United Artist Telewest in London and Bristol, and Videotron, also in London. THE BOX "rolled out" across the United Kingdom on every cable system available, and eventually onto Sky Digital satellite in 1998. THE BOX was also broadcast on the Astra Satellite during the downtime of Granada Plus and Men & Motors. From 1999, all the regional versions of The Box were shut down and replaced with this version.

Newest Review: ... I think is a bit expensive to request a song so I have not rang in before. The Box typically shows popular music, in dance, pop hip hop and the RnB genres, however they also show some indie and soft rock, they generally play music that is in the charts at the moment though some times they take a trip down memory lane and show different programmes like The Number 1s of the 90's or similar ... more

 ... shows. The Box also sometimes has competitions to win concert tickets, or love games that you can text in and pay for like love calculators and baby name predictions just for fun, though these games will probably cost you around £3 to play or enter wh...more

Customer The Box Reviews (60)

lorrainek858
The Box (298 words)
by - written on 17/09/09 (Very useful, 45 readings)
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The Box is a great music tv channel that is available on Sky TV, im not 100% sure on what channel number it is but it is available in the music channel category on the TV Guide Menu. The Box is shown in the UK and Ireland and shows Music Videos on request of viewer, you can ring in and request the songs that you want to be played, the song with the most requests is normally the song that is next played, it costs around £1.50-£2 from landlines to phone in which I think is a bit expensive to request a song so I have not rang in before. The Box typically shows popular music, in dance, pop hip hop and the RnB genres, however they also show some indie ...  Read the complete review

leeanne160480
CHART-TASTIC (333 words)
by - written on 01/03/09 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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In my opinion this channel was great. When I first got Sky in 2000, fair enough there wasn't the amount of music channels there is now, but The Bob was my favourite channel. Tis was because it always featured the up to date pop music videos and just the general chart stuff I like. The format has changed over the years though. This channel mainly was you got to choose the songs and through all the music videos was a moving banner of the song names, artists and the code for them. To get the songs you dialled a premium rate number - which used to cost 60p per minute, but it was £1.50 the last time I saw it. Although I never phoned up - probably too stingy, but I ...  Read the complete review

angry+chris
The Box: Gareth bloody Gates, anyone?? (761 words)
by - written on 16/11/02, updated on  16/11/02 (Very useful, 46 readings)
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There's something I need to get of my chest before I start. Pop Music today is bloody awful. I do not for the life of me understand why talentless, soul less, tone deaf no-bodies like Westlife, S Club 7 and the like sell records. Worse still, we have now got the current crop of "popstars": glorified kareoke singers murder Elvis songs in the name of music. It is all a shoddy, money-dominated gravy train run by ar*!holes like Pete Waterman, who's sole aim is to milk as much money as possible out of as many people as possible. Nu metal? Nivarna, Green Day and Metallica all did it better 10 years ago. Even The Offspring sold their sole for the pot of  Read the complete review

stoffy
Living With The Box (829 words)
by - written on 14/10/02, updated on  14/10/02 (Very useful, 377 readings)
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The rise of Digital Television has resulted in a number of things: greater choice, greater value for money, and an impossibility to avoid that man who sells blenders. One area where it has probably had greatest impact is in music television. People with Sky can now see a total of 13 music which are on tap 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. MTV, MTV Hits, VH1, VH1 Classic, MTV-2, MTV Base, MTV Dance, The Box, Kiss, Smash Hits, Q, Kerrang and The Chart Show all pump out the songs with their own unique selling points and playlists. One of the oldest channels is 'The Box' (channel 449 for Sky viewers), which caters mainly for under 18's and plays mostly ...  Read the complete review

topsyturvy
The Box: Ring that box up and select your video (413 words)
by - written on 27/03/02, updated on  27/03/02 (Useful, 75 readings)
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The box is a music channel on cable and satellite television. The main purpose of it is, that viewers phone up to vote for their favourite music videos using the selection numbers which are usually shown at the bottom of the screen while videos are being played. The slogan of the channel is 'music television you control', which is the very truth. Box Tops is the chart from 10 all the way to number 1 of most selected videos that week. This is run by the box because only they know whats the most selected videos. Some of the videos on top I just do not understand how they are there when they are not played and I watch this channel quite a lot. ...  Read the complete review

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