Hit Video USA

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Hit Video USA was a 24-hour music video television network based out of Houston, Texas. The station debuted in 1985 as a low power television station in Houston, operating on channel 5 there as 'TV5'.[1] The network currently streamcasts two music video channels -- Top 40 Hits and Classic Favorites -- on the Internet.

From 1985 to 1993, the station was located on the 35th floor of the Allied Bank Plaza/First Interstate Plaza (now Wells Fargo Plaza), a skyscraper in Downtown Houston.[2][3]

History

On September 17, 1987, a station spokesperson stated that the channel would go off the air within 30 days unless it received $5 to $6 million in new equity.[4] By 1990 it distributed music videos to 57 television stations in the United States. The venture removed obscenities from music.[5]

References

  1. [1] Billboard Magazine Oct 5, 1985
  2. Rendon, Ruth. "HOUSTON'S HIT VIDEO VIES FOR LARGER SHARE OF VIEWERS." Associated Press at The Dallas Morning News. March 29, 1987. Retrieved on April 8, 2010. "This isn't MTV -- it's Hit Video USA -- and the video jockey is talking not from New York but from the 35th floor of a skyscraper in downtown Houston."
  3. "HIT VIDEO USA." Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved on April 8, 2010.
  4. "HIT VIDEO CITES NEED FOR MORE FUNDING TO STAY ON AIR." The Dallas Morning News. September 18, 1987. Retrieved on April 8, 2010. "Hit Video, begun July 1985 as a music service on a Houston low-power television, started" and "A 24-hour music video service based in Houston, Hit Video USA, will go off the air in 30 days unless $5 million to $6 million in new equity can be raised, a spokesman for the company said Thursday."
  5. "MUSIC: Pat Boone's Kind of Sound." TIME. Monday July 30, 1990. Retrieved on April 8, 2010.