Channel AKA (formerly Channel U) is a British digital satellite TV channel, owned by All Around the World Productions, available

through Sky within the UK and Ireland on channel 370. It is a music channel, focusing on playing upcoming UK urban/grime/hip-hop music and has helped the breakthrough for acts such as Tinchy Stryder, Tinie Tempah, Chipmunk, Wretch, Devlin and N-Dubz.

MTV Base is a 24-hour music and general entertainment channel from Viacom International Media Networks Europe. The channel focuses primarily on music from the world of R'n'B, hiphop, reggae, soul and urban. The MTV Base brand first launched in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland on 1 July 1999, later launching in other European territories such as the Netherlands and Germany. MTV Base Africa launched in February 2005 throughout the African continent and MTV Base in French-speaking territories launched on 21 December 2007. MTV Base began broadcasting in widescreen on 28 March 2012.

Black Entertainment Television (BET, part of BET Networks) is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Washington, D.C.. Currently reaching more than 90 million households, it is the most prominent television network targeting African American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980, by its founder, Robert L. Johnson. Programming of the network comprises mainstream music and movies and television series. BET is the most prominent urban Hip-Hop bases music channels in the world, with connections globally after they outspanned their programmes to many countries including the UK in 2009. BET also provide various music awards such as BET Music Awards and BET Honoura

Kiss TV is a commercial music television channel from Box Television, available on the Sky, VirginMedia and Smallworld Cable digital telvision platforms. The playlist predominantly consists of mainstream Hip-Hop, Dance and R&B. 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.

MTV Hits is an American music channel that debuted on May 1, 2002. The format of the network resembles that of the classic MTV before the addition of other programming to that network in the 1990s and their slow decline of music video programming. The network has a schedule dominated by videos.