CSC Media Group is the 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). CSC now owns and operates sixteen TV channels on Sky Digital, Virgin Media and Freesat, as well as seven web sites.
The Group’s current focus is on kids, music, movies and entertainment channels for the under thirties.
The kids channels are aimed at clear and differentiated market segments – Tiny Pop and Tinypop.com for pre-schoolers, Pop and Popfun.co.uk for six to ten year olds, and finally, Popgirl and Popgirlworld.com for girls seven to eleven.
The group’s music heritage is well represented with seven music channels and social network sites that cross the full spectrum from contemporary chart, through rock, R&B and nostalgia to easy listening. The group’s portfolio accounted for 18% of the music market in satellite homes in 2008.
With its two true movie channels and website, CSC is the home of true stories. True Movies and True Movies 2 feature some of Hollywood’s leading performers, including Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Hugh Grant. In a few short months, the channel became the number one on Sky and continues to be one of the most popular movie channels on the Sky EPG.
CSC is already the largest provider of free to air TV channels in the UK and is poised to expand internationally.
We believe in speed to market, total audience focus, sophisticated branding and the development of new niches. The modern media market demands nothing less.