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Broadcast area | Pakistan and Worldwide |
Network | ARY Digital Network |
Headquarters | Karachi,Sindh,Pakistan |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Urdu,English |
Picture format | (1080pHDTVMPEG-4) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Salman Iqbal |
Sister channels | ARY Digital ARY News ARY Zindagi ARY Qtv A Sports |
History | |
Launched | August 14, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-08-14) |
Former names | The Musik |
Links | |
Website | www |
ARY Musik (Urdu:اے آر وائے میوزک, formerlyThe Musik) is aPakistanipay television music channel, first launched in August 2003 as "The Musik" in Dubai by Salman Iqbal.[1][2] It is part of theARY Digital Network. In 2009 its name was changed to "ARY Musik". It features music genres including pop, rock, rap, bhangra, classical, and folk. It also airs interactive shows, celebrity interviews, comic fillers, theme shows, animations and live concerts.
The channel's longest-running international music based show wasMusic Hour with Wiqar Ali Khan, hosted in English and Pashto. ARY Musik is one of the first satellite channels to have live link-ups between its studios based in London, UK, USA,Pakistan,India,Bangladesh,Sri Lanka,Afghanistan andDubai,Cologne andSlovenia.[3]
Programs aired by ARY Musik include:[4]
The Musik Records was a Pakistani record label that originated at the same time during the launch of ARY Musik and was active till the early 2010s. It retained ARY Musik's former name, The Musik. It was one of the two major record labels in Pakistan that was active till the 2010s with the other beingFire Records. Some of the albums the label released includeAtif Aslam'sDoorie,Haroon'sHaroon Ka Nasha,Karavan'sSaara Jahan,Aaroh'sRaag Neela andMekaal Hasan Band'sSaptak. The label had the distribution rights for these albums in Pakistan only.
Prior to ARY Musik's launch, the record label was referred to as ARY Records. Albums released under ARY Records includeFaakhir'sAatish andJunoon'sDaur-e-Junoon.
In 2016, the label under the network name ARY Musik released Abrar-Ul-Haq's albumBillo Part 2.