Electronic media server

The present invention relates to an electronic media server (10) that is configured to provide media channel information data of a plurality of media channels to a plurality of electronic media clients (30), wherein the plurality of media channels comprises at least one real media channel and at least one virtual media channel. The system comprises a receiving unit (12) for receiving metadata of media content items, wherein the metadata comprises at least information about the title of the respective media content item and the media content source (40) the media content item originates from, a storage device (24) for storing media channel information data of real media channels and virtual media channels, a metadata delivery server (22) for providing the media channel information data of the real and the virtual media channels to a plurality of electronic media clients (30), wherein the media channel information data of a real media channel comprises a link to a linear media content source (40) and the media channel information data of a virtual media channel comprises for each media content item of that respective virtual media channel a link to a respective linear media content source (40) or non-linear media content source (40).