| Flaunt | |
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| Launched | April 2003 |
| Owned by | CSC Media Group |
| Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.2% (March 2008, [1]) |
| Sister channel(s) | Scuzz Bliss Chart Show TV The Vault Flava NME TV |
| Website | www.loveflaunt.com |
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| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 376 |
| Eurobird 1 | 11642V 27500 2/3 |
Flaunt is a British music TV channel owned and operated by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels). It launched in April 2003 as a female aimed music channel playing a mix of pop and dance music.
In July 2006 Flaunt Relaunched as a Gay music channel playing a mix of Disco & Pop Music the gay theme was dropped in early 2007.
In March 2007 Flaunt relaunched a dance music channel playing various types of dance music such as trance music , house music and electronic music
The Flaunt logo is on screen in the top left-hand corner during music videos and the song information is shown with graphic equizlers in the centre at the start and near the end of each music video. The channels' identity is also seen before and after advert breaks when the Flaunt logo is in the center of the screen.
Flaunt is available on air 24 hours a day on Sky Digital channel 376 and is part of a bouquet of music channels owned by CSC Media, including Bliss, Scuzz, Chart Show TV, The Vault, Flava and NME TV.
Flaunt dropped its NDS encryption in December 2006 , This means that it is available on Sky Digital, Freesat and on any FTA satellite box on Eurobird 1. On 29 April 2008 Flaunt went through another revamp with a new logo and new graphics new themed programming is now part of its daily line up. It remains the main competitor of MTV Dance.
The channel was launched alongside sister channels Scuzz and The Amp, as part of a trio owned by Sky. However, they were sold to Chart Show Channels. The Amp has now been replaced by classic hits channel, Bliss. On Tuesday 6 May 2008, CSC Media launched a +1 timeshift channel called Flaunt +1. It was available 24 hours a day on Sky 367. However, after nearly 4 weeks on air, Flaunt +1 was replaced with Pop Girl +1 on 4 June 2008.
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Current Programming
- Pump It Up
- 10 Essential Tracks Of The Week
- Floorfillers
- Weekend Floorfillers
- Hot New Ones
- Flaunt Anthems
- Flaunt Hard
- Friday Night Classics
- Summer Anthems
- Let's Go Electro
Former Programming
- Get Up Flaunt It!
- Club Classics
- Flaunt Classics
- Most Requested
- Twice As Nice
- 100 Per Cent Dance
- Non Stop Party!
- Essential Tracks of the Week
- Nothing But...
- Rise 'N' Shine
- Just Great Dance
- Pop Party
- Freak Le Chic
- Weekender
- Rave Nation
- Trashed
- Back2Back
- Bass Beats
- Sexiest Beats
- Pump N Grind
- Stamp of Approval
- We Love....
- XXX Hot Videos
- Play/Stop/Rewind
- R.O.A.R
- Too Cool for School
- Flaunt Chart
- Flaunt Doubled Up
- Flaunt Extreme!
- Flaunt Fresh
- Flaunt Hard
- Flaunt Hot
- Flaunt It!
- Flaunt Lounge
- Flaunt Loves
- Flaunt Party
- Flaunt Sessions
- Flaunt Trance
- Flaunt Weekender
Criticism
As of April 2009 Flaunt's format was changed into a similar styled music channel to Clubland TV and MTV Dance and its sister music channel Flava.
A New schedule was introduced on 3 April 2009, the new format now means that the channel has dropped its percentage of dance music which now only appears in Flaunt Anthems while the rest of the other shows on the channel now have a mix of Pop, RnB and Urban Music. This has caused uproar to the channel's fans.
It has since reverted to an all dance channel.
New Website
Recently the channel relaunched its website, the site has facilities to air videos online and with 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 merchandise and CDs.
Ofcom licences mix-up/Flava TV Channel
The problems started on Monday 18 February 2008, when the currently named "Flava" Ofcom Licence was renamed from its original name of Flaunt to Flava. This caused a major uproar about the fact that Flaunt, a 24/7 dance channel would be closed, in favour of Flava (a 24/7 Urban/R&B music channel, similar to Kiss and B4). This, however turned out to be an error on Ofcom's part and they accidentally changed Flaunt, when they were meant to change the B4 one. But, on the following Monday, Ofcom corrected the problem by removing the B4 licence, keeping the newly renamed Flava licence and adding a new Flaunt licence.
Virgin Media Removal
On 6 November 2007, Flaunt along with Bliss and Scuzz, 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.
External links
- Flaunt's Official Website
- Flaunt TV Listings and Schedules
- Ofcom License for Flaunt, permitting name change
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