Stingray CMusic

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Stingray CMusic (formerly C Music TV until 30 November 2018) is a British television music channel dedicated to

The C in the channel's name stands for the genres of the channel's playlist which covers

C Music Entertainment Ltd., which operates the channel, was founded in 2007 by Julian Rigamonti (who was the head of Classic FM TV^[1]).

In May 2017, Canadian company

The channel is distributed to host cable, DTH satellite, IPTV and mobile phone television providers via eight contribution satellites. To Europe on the Eurobird 9A (9° East) satellite (encrypted with CONAX) and on Eutelsat 10A (10° East), to North Africa on the Eutelsat 5 West A (5.0° West) satellite, to South Africa on Eutelsat 36 B (35.9° East), to Portugal on Hispasat 1E (30.0° West) and on SES 5 (5° East), to the Middle East on Badr 5 (26.0° East) and on Intelsat 20 (68.5° East).^[5]

A high definition simulcast version (then named as C Music TV HD) was launched in 2013.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2008 C Music TV launched a subscription service on their website cmusic.tv, but it was suspended by the time^[when?] the channel was rebranded as Stingray CMusic in December 2018.

In December 2021, Stingray CMusic^[6][7] joined Freeview in the United Kingdom, becoming the third Stingray channel to be broadcast via Channelbox along with sister channels Stingray Naturescape and Qello Concerts. The Channelbox streaming portal can be found on Freeview channel 271 and via Google Play with Stingray's channels featuring alongside services such as FashionTV, Euronews and Fido TV.^[8][9]

Accolades

As C Music TV, the channel won the Award for 'Best Music TV Channel 2008' at the

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