MTV Hits
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MTV Hits is an American music video channel that debuted in mid-2002. Unlike MTV presently, MTV Hits plays music videos all day, every day, with very few commercials. Like the other digital MTV/VH1 channels, MTV Hits is based off of the original programming format that MTV2 followed, whereby eight hours of videos are programmed each days—airing first at 6AM, and then repeated twice, starting again at 2PM and 10PM. A completely new cycle begins on the next day at 6AM.
For a while, MTV Hits' playlist was becoming more predictable and less random than it originally was at its inception; at present and during the past couple of years, the new videos that are in heavy rotation are sometimes spun once an hour or once every two hours.
However, more recently, MTV Hits seems to have taken efforts to add variety into its programming. As of the summer and fall of 2004, MTV Hits played more obscure videos, as well as a larger selection of older music videos, than it had played during the previous year.
Presently, most of the music videos that have ever aired on MTV, VH1, or BET network can be seen on MTV Hits.
There is also an 'MTV Hits' TV channel in the United Kingdom which shows a selection of music videos which are in the chart today.