Using your Digibox

• Chart Show TV - for general current music
• The Vault - for their '80s night on Tuesdays
• B4 - for stuff before it went mainstream
• Classic FM TV - for relaxing music

Now lets get the bad stuff out of the way first... This channel plays too much rap. This is not so much a criticism of the channel as it is a reflection of how many people seem to think that it is a good style of music. I wonder, do so many people really like rap, or do they only like it because their parents really hate it? ☺ And, also, this channel plays way too much of Leona Lewis. I am probably alone in thinking that she is "okay" (yes, just "okay", nothing special), and it isn't really fair to comment on the channel playing a Leona song every other song because, well, I think she's got three or four tracks out at the same time? The word I'd use is "overexposed".
Oh, and the Digital On-screen Graphic is too brash, a spot of subtle alpha-blending would be much appreciated!

Aside: That The Feeling song "Without You" says "It's raining hard in North Virginia, just like London town". It is an annoyingly catchy song, but guys... where's NORTH Virginia?

Now let's look at Bubble Hits. Possibly entirely unique in the world, they have broken up their schedule so that we have about three music videos, followed by a small number of adverts. In fact, the disembodied announcer takes pride in saying "got a stopwatch handy?" because they'll be back with the music in sixty seconds (I measured 63 seconds!). All in, we probably get the same amount of advertising as any other channel, but given in small doses like that it's almost pleasant. As soon as the Magnum Mayan Mystica (that is Eva Longoria isn't it?!?) advert comes on, I know I've just about enough time to run into the kitchen and grab a chunky-sized KitKat. If I get at all sidetracked (like pouring a pineapple juice to atone for the chocoholicism), it's a rush to be back in time for the next lot of songs; unlike some channels where I have time to put on the kettle, make a tea, drink it, digest it, pee it, and head back just in time to see that DFS has yet another sale... I don't know who thought up this idea, but it is brilliant! Fitting in advertising (the necessary evil) in as unobtrusive a way as possible.

If I could make only one suggestion to the people at Bubble Hits, I would ask if it would be possible for them to look to including some of the lesser known artists and maybe some unsigned ones? Something outside of The World According To Simon Cowell at any rate. Perhaps once in a while some music that is not new, but is good and not the sort of thing you'd find a Clone Channel playing. How about Lamb's "Gorècki", for an example of what I mean...

 

For those with Sky Digital, it is a free-to-air channel. You'll find it as channel 374.
For those with other receivers, this channel is available across western-central Europe from Eurobird (28.5° east). If you can pick up British television from the 'Sky' birds, you'll find Bubble at:
12560MHz, vertical polarisation, 27.5Mbaud, and if you need it: VID=2337 AUID=2338 PCR=2337.