It disappeared on Thursday. They blame lack of advertising as the problem.
"Far and away the biggest obstacle to our cash flow was the slowness in which the advertising came in," says founder Mark Shipman, adding, "by the time we finally had the agencies interested, time was running out, hence our decision to come off air."
"We thought it better to take p-rock TV off air to re-group and re-launch with the correct amount of financial backing. We have proved the concept is strong but you can't run a channel on a shoestring budget."
The p-rock founders started the business with no previous TV experience, on a budget of £2,500. By the end of its life, it was averaging 600,000 viewers per week.
Full details of the closure are on their site: www.p-rock.tv (UPDATE FROM THE FUTURE: their website has been taken offline!)
DiScuss: Were you a viewer? Are you unhappy? Did you prefer Kerrang! TV anyway? Do you care?
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to give it it's dues, it did attempt to be different to all the rest and did play a lot of bands that don't get much exposure [King Prawn were on it constantly, for instance], as well as some of the more commercial stuff. but its not really my type of music, but at least it tried to dig a little deeper ::shrugs::
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problem was, most of it looked so poor as a result that the MTV generation couldn't be bothered to get past the slightly shoddy look of a great deal of it and actualy *watch* it
I'm pretty sur eit was one of the first channels to run The Transplants vid before every other place grabbed it tho, so it wasn't all bargin bin stuff...
ollie
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they say on the website they're going to relaunch in the autumn with two more specialist channels, hopefully something thats more to my tastes will be there ;)
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Er, no. Did you actually read the news story?
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sean
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thats why i respected P-Rock, it actually took risks and stepped out of the mold that Kerrang / MTV2 seem to be stuck in. the mention of several new channels is a good one, hopefully there'll be something there to appeal to me ;-)
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thats a good enough reason to axe any television channel in my opinion.
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my idyllic music channel would be .. well there's this guy who's at all the good hardcore/whatever shows in London - mostly at the verge and the swan, i'm not sure if they let him in stinkin' mean fiddler anymore, but anyway, he must have hundreds of live footage of AMAZING bands. i'd love to see them. mmm.
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screw you
you are a twat, p-rock is a class channel that never played lavigne unlike kerrang which deserves to come off the air. It actually played some proper music and grass root punk revival. go screw yourself you ignorent hick!
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Dude this suxx ass big time.Yeah you could say i am a little pissed off that your off air.Now the only Rancid vid I get to see is the ONE video showing on kerrang.Now i dont get the chance to see any Distillers,Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards vids that p-rock only seemed to show.Yeah i love Kerrang but I also had a new found love for p-rock.Cos of p-rock I got into a shit load of different bands and music I have not listened to before such as my band of the moment RANCID,shit these guys kick ass,distillers,lars frederiksen and the bastards.
Anyway hope ur back on soon,
CARNY...
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thank you and donate so that p-rock can be put back on
clarke
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Calm down lad, or you'll die of apoplexy
they showed one great anti-american vid on there once though
but apart from that youre right
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There was no other channel playing songs of this nature and most times had to fight with members of my family so i could just watch it!
Well done p-rock, you introduced some brilliant artists to a wider audience, can't wait for your comeback
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it takes the piss.
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so the whole thing is dead now then? i ain't got digital telly here...
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BRING IT BACK TO BRITISH TV!!!!
(+flicking between Kerrang and Scuzz is slowly rotting my brain)
Sam
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p.s can't moon ska europe help with funds!!!
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save me 4rm the trendys!!!!!!!
peace out! x x x x x xx
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:-(
I used to watch it when i went to my g/f's, used to watch it when mates were round, this damn channel was my life!
Guys, bring it back :-(
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then it went away again.
the news story was written the first time it went off air, not the second (and last)...
.....should i turn to suicide
Gahh! Music is poor now!
If it was on TV for as long as it was with no money, surely it wouldnt take too much to get it back on...?
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I can't bear Kerrang! its so cheesy and Scuzz is just metal shit...
I've grown very accostumed to the Old's cool indie on The amp and MTV2 however...
Bring back P-rock...
My taste for punk needs wetting... there is no punk on kerrang and scuzz only shitty punk... no decent underground stufff.....
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their site is on a default creation page atm so maybe theyre building a website??? we can only hope
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the one in particular was by something like At The Drive In....scene from a drive in american restaurant thing....
there were loads of speech bubbles round people heads etc....
maybe someone has got a playlist from p-rock?
p-rock was so cool, not least because they played bad religion stuff...which scuzz does too now..
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did the song go like this "no you're not alone, i know what you're thinking (whoa oh oh) i know how you're feeling (whoa oh oh) believe me (whoa oh oh) you're not alone)
there other stuff is good 2 spesh kiss me diss me!!
neway p-rock shud b brought back on air!!!!
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Franco Un-American by NOFX
It was cool cos it was about the time of the war in Iraq and they were playing this really cool song about not wanting to be an American and that. The video was great too.
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that channel was my life.
please bring it back, i will donate, i will donate as much as possible!!
if you would just put up a valid site and let us know how to donate, thousands of us will!!!
we need it.
it is not resting in peace, it is just losin the battle of ignorance forced on it by all of the selfish, inbred metalheads.
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gimmie an address i will donate!!!
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I miss all the videos that you only saw on p-rock and not on Kerrang and MTV2 etc.
Although, P-rock did play Avril Lavigne once, they played 'Complicated' but they had put it under 'S8ter Boi' which was hilarious.
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I Spent A Hell Of A Lot Of Time During My School Time Watching P-Rock And Watching That Got Me Through School When It Comes To Kerrang! And Scuzz They Just Cant Compete To P-Rock, I Really Really Miss The Channel And Hope It Gets It's Ass Back On Air Soon
Peace, Mike.