4 Music

4 Music is a British music television channel owned and operated by Channel 4. It was launched on 15 August 2008, and until 30 June 2022, showed a mix of music and entertainment programming.
The original version of 4 Music was replaced by E4 Extra, a new sister channel of E4, on 30 June 2022. At the same time, 4 Music was relaunched into a full-time music TV channel and replaced Box Hits, which ceased broadcasting since.
History
4 Music began its broadcast in 2008 with an on-screen countdown which lasted for ten minutes. During the countdown, clips from popular music videos were faded through the screen. The channel then launched at 7 pm with a promotional advert before fading into "Davina (McCall) and Steve (Jones)'s 20 Big Ones"; the first song at number 20 is "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters, and Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" at number 1.
The launch also saw a new Digital on-screen graphic appear on the screen, and new idents with a woman on a rocking chair with the channel's logo in the background.
On 25 September 2017, 4 Music received an update to its on-screen graphics. 4 Music changed its logo to add the Channel 4 logo to it, with '4' and 'Music' mashed up together. This change also happened to its other channels.
Longform programming returned to the channel on 9 November, beginning at 12.07pm with Come Dine with Me. The last song played before Longform programming resumed was "Remember" by Becky Hill and David Guetta.
On 13 June 2022, Channel 4 announced that 4 Music's channel slot would be replaced with E4 Extra on 29 June 2022. 4Music itself would transition to Box Hits' slot, replacing the network. With the change, the channel transitioned back to being a full-time music channel, much like its fellow sister music channels. The final music video played on 4 Music on Freeview due to the channel transitioning to E4 Extra was "As It Was" by Harry Styles at 02:57 on 30 June; following the overnight teleshopping block (closing with a short 4 Music sting), transmission of E4 Extra began at 07:00.
On 23 August 2022, the On-Screen Graphics of 4 Music were revised. The new graphics feature a larger logo, modified font and different animations when showing Artist/Song titles.