Kiss TV

Kiss TV is a commercial music television channel from The Box Plus Network, available on the Sky, Virgin Media, Smallworld Cable and TalkTalk Plus TV digital television platforms. The playlist predominantly consists of mainstream hip-hop, trance and R&B.

It is based on the format of the Bauer owned London radio station Kiss 100, which started as a pirate radio station in London in 1985. Kiss TV celebrated the 20th anniversary of its launch in 2005.

History

The original incarnation of Kiss TV was created by Guy Wingate, who, as an original co-creator of London's Kiss 100 (in its pirate days) was brought back in to head up EMAP's fledgling TV division by the more-widely known Kiss chief, Gordon McNamee (Mac). The channel ran for one hour a night on the Mirror Group's L!VE TV cable circuit and after a year moved up to the Granada satellite and cable platform, taking a similar slot in the evening.

Although the original idea for the channel was proposed in 1993 (three years after Kiss FM launched as a legal station), it took many months for Wingate to convince UK television regulators to permit the extension of a brand name over to television. When permission was finally granted, Kiss had once again innovated by becoming the first "Masthead" TV project in the UK.

Kiss TV (Romania)

Kiss TV is a music television station located in Bucharest owned by ANT1 Group .

Fresh Top 40

Fresh Top 40 is the music chart presented by Kiss TV. The chart is weekly and is voted by viewers, on Kiss TV's site. Kiss TV begun producing the chart in late 2006. So far, the songs which spent the most weeks at number one are: "Disturbia", by Rihanna; "In and Out of Love", by Armin van Buuren; "Poker Face", by Lady Gaga; and "Amazing", by Inna. The current number-one single is "Locul Potrivit" by Guess Who.

The show was closed in 2009, but started again in 2014. Now is hosted by Andreea Berghea, (Voice over).

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