Trace Urban is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 music video television network devoted to play urban contemporary

Urban contemporary

Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...

 music videos, founded by the French businessmen Olivier Laouchez and Claude Grunitzky

Claude Grunitzky

Claude Grunitzky is a journalist, editor and entrepreneur. He is best known as founder and editor-in-chief of the quarterly publication TRACE, an international fashion and music title, and as a co-founder of the Trace TV network...

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Along its sister channel Trace Tropical is available on 150 countries on various cable and satellite pay television platforms, becoming also one of the most popular music video channel in the Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa as a geographical term refers to the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. A political definition of Sub-Saharan Africa, instead, covers all African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara...

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