   mtv hits is an american digital cable television network that is owned by the mtv networks music & logo group, a unit of the viacom media networks division of viacom. the channel primarily broadcasts music videos and its format resembles that of mtv before the addition of other programming to that network in the 1990s, and the slow decrease in its reliance on music video programming. like mtv and vh1's other spin-off channels, mtv hits is based on an automated "wheel" schedule that was introduced during the early years of mtv2. the loop repeats three times a day, starting at 6 a.m. eastern time, and then resetting at 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. ==history== when mtv hits launched on may 1, 2002, its programming consisted entirely of music videos. as with mtv jams, the network was named for a daily program on mtv; in this case, mtv hits, which was that network's main pop music video program. the network consisted of current hit music videos, along with a few older videos from earlier in the year, as well as a few from the late 1990s. the network maintained a commercial-free format, outside of internal promotions for mtv and mtv-branded properties. ===my hitlist era (2005â2006)=== thumb|left|100px|mtv hits's first logo, used from the network's launch in 2002 until march 26, 2012. the logo was modified in february 2010 to remove the music television tag, though the publicity department of mtv networks never released a version of that logo. in 2005, the network began airing a feature called "my hitlist month", which was based on viewer selected playlists, submitted to a newly launched network website. this, as well as artist-selected playlists, aired occasionally on the network through 2006. ===playlistism era (2006â2011)=== on december 18, 2006, the "hit list" theme returned to mtv hits. at first, "playlistism" consisted of replays of the viewer hit lists from the pas
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