Hit Video USA
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'.
From 1985 to 1993, the station was located on the 35th floor of the Allied Bank Plaza/First Interstate Plaza, a skyscraper in Downtown Houston.
History
On September 17, 1987, a station spokesperson explained that the channel would sign off within 30 days unless it received $5 to $6 million in new equity. By 1990, it distributed music videos to 57 television stations in the United States. The venture removed obscenities from music.Across the country, several independent TV stations elected to carry the programming, along with numerous cable television systems.
Original Veejays included Chris Kinkade, Suzanne Vafiadis, Greg Johnson, EJ Thacker, Karen Kay, Todd Stevens, Eric Easton, Betsy King and Dangerous Darren Burns.