Sky ownership In March 2003,
British Sky Broadcasting announced they would enter the music television market and launch three themed channels - Scuzz,
Flaunt, and
The Amp. Scuzz would launch with its sister networks on 17 April 2003. Scuzz through its life focused exclusively on the heavy metal and rock genres. In September 2004, due to poor viewing figures and ratings, Sky announced that
Chart Show Channels would take over operating Scuzz, Flaunt and The Amp beginning in January 2005, although they would retain full ownership in all three channels, alongside advertising control. Scuzz was given a new look and revamp on 1 April 2006. Replacing the old black and white logo and song titles to a blue, smokey look. After the revamp the channel had begun to air more special, dedicated shows, such as a live performance from the
metalcore group
Trivium, and a weekend devoted to Swedish
melodic death metal band
In Flames.
CSC ownership Sky announced in November 2006 that their music channels would go Free-to-Air beginning on 11 December, and soon afterwards transitioned full ownership to Chart Show Channels in December 2006, previously, Scuzz alongside its sister music channels were encrypted in
NDS from its launch, and broadcasting on the
Eutelsat 28A communications satellite meant that the channels could be viewed for the first time all across parts of Europe. On 6 November 2007 Scuzz and its sister channels were removed from the ex-NTL
Virgin Media areas following a failure of an agreement from Chart Show Channels for the networks to be made available in the ex-Telewest areas, alongside Virgin Media focusing more on their free On-Demand services. On 21 December 2007, Scuzz was once again revamped; being given a much more industrial style look. On 17 November 2008 a +1 timeshift of Scuzz,
Scuzz +1, was launched. It was available 24 hours a day on Sky channel 375. This was
CSC Media Group's third music timeshift, after launching
Flaunt +1 and
Bliss +1 earlier in the year, although both have since been closed down and replaced, with
PopGirl +1 and allowing
AnimeCentral to go 24 hours respectively. On 21 November, the channel was closed, with its EPG slot sold to
NHK World TV. On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Scuzz was removed from Freesat channel 502 for being too heavy and replaced with sister channel Flava. On 3 November 2010, NME TV was replaced with Scuzz on Freesat channel 503. On 15 July 2013, Scuzz was replaced by Chart Show Dance on Freesat channel 503. It returned to Freesat in August 2017, replacing
Chart Show Hits just as
they had replaced Scuzz four years earlier, but was removed along with
Chart Show TV,
Starz TV and
Tiny Pop +1 on 31 July 2018. On 5 June 2013, Scuzz swapped positions with
Flava on Sky. The channel moved from 374 to 367 (to sit next to
Kerrang!), while Flava moved from 367 to 374.
Sony Ownership On 2 March 2015, Scuzz launched
Animax Movie Nights, a block, provided by Sony Pictures Television under the
Animax brand, that aired anime films streamed on
SVOD in the UK and Ireland by the British version of
Animax, which launched on 24 October 2013, on Thursday nights. After 15 years the channel closed on 15 November 2018, along with sister channel
Sony Crime Channel 2 culminating with special shows celebrating the channel's history. The last video played on the channel was "
Girl All the Bad Guys Want" by
Bowling for Soup. "Resist" by
Shadows Chasing Ghosts was the final video to be played in full, as the signal was cut halfway through the former. ==Music==