About Us

CSC Media Group (CSC, the Group) is one of the UK’s fastest growing media companies. Founded by the producers of the ground-breaking music programme The Chart Show, which ran on ITV and Channel 4 for twelve years, and acquired in 2006 by private equity group Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS.com) and a new management team. CSC now owns and operates sixteen television channels on Sky Digital, Virgin Media and Freesat, as well as five complementary websites.

The Group’s current focus is on kids, music, movies and entertainment channels on television and associated online and IPTV/VOD platforms.

The kids channels and websites are aimed at clear and differentiated market segments – Tiny Pop and Tinypop.com for pre-schoolers, POP and Popfun.co.uk for four to nine year old boys and girls, Kix and Kixtv.co.uk for boys seven to twelve and finally, PopGirl and Popgirlworld.com for girls seven to twelve. The Group's kids channels accounted for 14% of all UK kids commercial delivery in 2010 and over 20% of UK girls. Up 46% on 2009.

The Group’s musical heritage is well represented with seven music channels (of which five are wholly owned brands) that cross the full musical spectrum from contemporary chart, through rock, R&B and nostalgia to easy listening.

The group also owns and operates two music channels under licence from IPC and Ministry of Sound in NMETV and Dance Nation TV respectively. The Group’s portfolio accounted for a 25% share of the music market in satellite homes in 2010. An increase of 20% on 2009.

With its two True Movie channels and associated website, CSC is the home of true stories. True Movies1 and True Movies 2 feature some of the hardest hitting and emotionally heart-wrenching movies ever made starring a whole host of Hollywood’s leading performers including Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Hugh Grant.

In a few short months after launch, True Movies 1 became the number one movie channel on Sky and continues to be one of the most popular movie channels on the Sky EPG (despite the launch of over twenty movie channels in the same period).

True Movies 2 delivers an exciting mix of true movies alongside some of the biggest mini-series and author based dramas ever produced. With such highlights as Roots, Lonesome Dove and authors such as Danielle Steele, Barbara Taylor-Bradford and Stephen King, True Movies 2 provides a clearly differentiated yet synergistic viewing proposition to its sister channel. True Movies 1 grew 47% on 2009 and True Movies 2 by 22% on 2009.

Building on the success of the True Channels CSC launched its first general entertainment channel in August 2009 - True Entertainment. In its first 18 months of operation the channel has grown by 219%.

True Entertainment shows true movies, fantastic mini-series and author-based dramas and is quickly becomming the 'home of UK drama' with such shows as The Vice, The Knock, Life Begins and, coming back to our screens in Spring 2010, Cold Feet!

CSC is already the largest provider of free to air (FTA) TV channels in the UK and is poised to expand internationally. In 2010 CSC will be announcing a host of new initiatives in online gaming, live events and video production so watch this space!!

We believe in speed to market, total audience focus, sophisticated branding and the development of new niches. The modern media market demands nothing less.

CSC's Board is comprised of:
Richard Emery
Morgan Callagy
Marco Sodi

and the original founders:
Keith Macmillan
Gail Boardman