High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CD:UK (an abbreviation of CountDown:United Kingdom) was a British music television programme. Originally run in conjunction with SMTV Live, the programme was first aired on ITV (ITV1/STV/UTV) on 29 August 1998 to rival the BBC`s Live Kicking and was the replacement for The Chart Show, which had been airing on the network for nine and a half years.