The Box

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

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

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

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

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