The Hits

The Hits was a music video channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, owned by Box Television.

Overview and availability

The channel showcased a range of pop centering on chart hits and current favourites. Originally, the vast majority of music videos were selected by viewers by means of calling a premium rate telephone number, however the policy was abandoned with the channel playing an automated selection of videos and countdown shows presented by celebrities and singers past and present. Programming was often themed to coincide with events such as St. Patrick's Day and Christmas.

The channel was available free-to-air on the British Digital terrestrial television service Freeview on channel 18. It is no longer a pure music video channel because the evening on the channel has been replaced by various shows from Channel 4 like Balls Of Steel. It was also available on Sky Digital, encrypted as apart of Sky's Music Pack. The Hits was also available on Virgin Media and was included in the basic (TV Size: M) package. It was also be seen through the British Forces Broadcasting Service.

Programmes on The Hits

87-07 is a series of programmes where a song is played from each of the years from 1987 to 2007. There was a more up to date version called 88-08 which is the same as 87-07 except it goes from 1988 to 2008. There were different collections of songs depending on different things that the songs had in common, an example of 87-07 is Cheesy Pop 87-07 which...
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