History of Kiss

Kiss is a commercial music channel first launched 26th June 1998. It is owned by Box Television (Bauer Group/Channel Four Television Corporation). Kiss playlist mostly consist of mainstream hip-hop, dance and R&B. 

Background 
Originally Kiss TV was created by Guy Wingate, (co-creator of London's Kiss 100. The channel ran for one hour a night on the Mirror Group's Live TV cable circuit and after one year moved up to the Granada Satellite and cable platform. It took Wingate five years to  convince UK television regulators to grant him the permission to extend the brand name over to television. Once permission had finally been granted Kiss became the first 'Masthead' TV project in the UK. 

Within one year of Kiss becoming a music channel, the station began beating MTV in its time slots. The channel's presenters included legendary DJs such as BBC Radio 1's Judge Jules. By the time the channel was one year old, it had attracted major sponsorship from blue-chip brands (Levi, Sony consumer products and The Guardian newspaper). As mentioned earlier Kiss is part of a group channels owned by Box Television - which includes 4 Music, Kerrang! TV, Smash Hits, Q, The Box and Magic.

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