The Box (British and Irish TV channel)
British television channel
The Box was a television channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland, owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It primarily broadcast music videos and music-related programs.
On 29 January 2024, Channel 4 announced in a press release that they would close The Box and its sister channels, which occurred on 30 June 2024.
History
Launch and early years
The Box was brought to the United Kingdom by Vincent Monsey and his partner Liz Laskowski, who discovered the original American music video channel in Miami in 1991, when it was then known as The Jukebox Network. The UK company, Video Jukebox Network International Limited, was formed in 1991 and The Box was launched the following year in April 1992. The Box was initially carried by four operators UA, Telewest in London and Bristol, Nynex in the south of England, and Videotron, which was also based in London, and over the next few years, The Box started to launch on a regional basis across all of the United Kingdom's cable system and eventually onto Sky Digital in 1998. The Box was also broadcast on the Astra Satellite between 2:00 am and 6:00 am during the downtime of Granada Plus and Men & Motors. From 1999, all the regional versions of The Box were shut down and replaced with a single UK version.
Ticketmaster Inc. briefly owned 50% of the company (Box Television Ltd) before becoming a public company on the FTSE. EMAP took ownership of these shares in 1997, and purchased the shareholding held by the US company VJN Inc, which had then become TCI Music and then Liberty Digital.
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