THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); musically-oriented films and full-length concerts are possible future additions to the schedule.

The network is owned and operated by Cool Music Network, LLC of Lawrence, Kansas. In addition to the network, the company also distributes recorded music and performances through digital cable/satellite channels and post-concert CDs at music venues.

See also: List of TheCoolTV affiliates

TheCoolTV's carriage consists of terrestrial digital television subchannels and cable television in the United States media markets listed in the linked article, the first of which was WTMJ-TV, which added TheCoolTV to subchannel 4.3 on July 8, 2009. A large portion of the list consists of stations owned and/or operated by Journal Communications, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and LIN TV The affiliate roster will grow in the coming months with help from an affiliation deal with 3 stations operated by McGraw-Hill.. On April 05, 2011, CoolTV signed an affiliate agreement with Newport Television for carriage on 10 of their 22 stations.

Matthew Kiichi "Matt" Heafy (born January 26, 1986) is a Japanese-American musician, best known as the lead vocalist and lead/rhythm guitarist for the American Metal band Trivium. Heafy is also the vocalist for the band Capharnaum, along with Trivium's former producer Jason Suecof. Heafy has a baritone vocal range.

Heafy is Japanese from his mother and Irish-American from his father. As stated in an interview, he was born in Iwakuni, Japan, and only lived there for one year. His family then moved to Orlando, Florida, where he currently resides.

Heafy learned to play the saxophone in years leading up to becoming more serious on guitar at the age of twelve.

Heafy attended Lake Brantley High School. He completed his senior year while also touring in Europe, and graduated in 2004. He currently plays a custom Gibson 7-string guitar. He used 6-string guitars for Trivium's first two albums, utilizing standard tuning and Drop D tuning on Ember to Inferno, and solely drop D tuning on Ascendancy. On Trivium's third record, The Crusade, he returned to standard tuning and performed some songs on 7-string guitars. On Shogun, Heafy used 7-string guitars almost exclusively, with only two songs using a 6-string. For Trivium's fifth studio album "In Waves", Heafy returned to using solely 6-string guitars and used drop C# tuning similar to the drop D as seen on Ascendancy.

Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Philadelphia. Her song "Jar of Hearts" charted in the United States after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. Rolling Stone named her the "Band of the Week" on October 26, 2010. On May 10, 2011, Perri's "Jar of Hearts" was featured on Glee (Season 2, Episode 20 "Prom Queen"). Also, on June 27, 2011, Perri's "Jar of Hearts" was featured on Switched at Birth (Season 1, Episode 4 "Dance Amongst Daggers"). One of her songs, "A Thousand Years", has been in the Twilight saga movie Breaking Dawn.

Perri grew up in Bensalem, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) with her older brother, Nick Perri, who formerly played guitar with Shinedown, Silvertide, Perry Farrell and Matt Sorum. Her father is from Italy. She attended Archbishop Ryan High School as a member of the class of 2004. She taught herself how to play guitar as a 16-year-old by watching a videotape of Shannon Hoon from the group Blind Melon performing on VH1.