Originally Posted by
Sylvester2007:
“It's only been recent. An hour long Prodigy progamme. IT'S AN OMEN....sorry, was getting carried away 
You'd have thought they'd put the old stuff on earlier for us oldies as we may not be able to stay up too late 
I Got Mashed IN......aaahh memories.
I had a brief look at an old DVD yesterday - I have hundreds of DVD's and VHS, probably a couple of thousand, of old music channel stuff. The DVD was March 2012 - things have changed considerably, for the poorer as well, since then,
Smash Hits played nineties and noughties music and it was Dance Nation not CS Dance. MTV Hits played older music too - mainly noughties but some from late 90's (Britney).
Shows the sad decline.”
Let's go back even further, 2006! :
MTV - MTVs flagship channel once emailed in the top of the music section featuring Reality TV shows from 9am until 12am. Music was played from 1:00am onwards... Weekends had Party Hard , Chill Out. Considering it still featured Reality shows, music content was decent and variety for it really was there. MTV Hits, MTV Base, MTV Dance, MTV 2 - Used to be more varied and had a far less repetitive playlists. All used to have a Spankin' new Music strand to promote new songs tailored to each channels format.
VH1 - Became less focuses on programming and more towards plating music videos. It had more variety and themed countdowns not like the ones we have today which feature the same artists and predictable songs.
VH1 Classic - This channel was more 70s and 80s and played a lot of Classic rock, disco and power ballads and pop.
TMF - More reality focused and aired The Osbournes, Totally Scott Lee, Pimp my Ride, Jackass, Room Raiders, 16 & Pregnant. Music was only on from 1am until 6am, TMF had Nick Jr shows on the Noggin' strand in the mornings.
The Box, Kiss, Magic, Q, Kerrang and The Hits* still had video selections. No real change to The Box still focuses on new music as it always did. Kiss still urban. Smash hits much the same focusing on the latest popular pop songs. Magic alot more focused on 80s and more obscure songs from popular and one hit wonder 80s and early 90s artists. Kerrang much the same altho alot less countdowns. The hits was a mixture of the entire Emap channels at the time. Q was a hybrid channel at the same sharing with FHM Music TV from 4pm til 6am. Q was only on air from 6am til 4pm. Q was more Indie/Alternative and FHM Music TV on Dance and sexy Pop and R&B videos.
Chart show TV was more varied and aired Minx after 10pm which used to focus on Older pop videos from female pops stars from the 90s and 00s. The Vault was heavily obscure and more varied and played loads of 80s and 90s videos. B4 did as it said on the tin playing videos before anyone else and had great variety for fresh new music at the time, I remember they were the first channel to premiere 'Chicane and Tom Jones - Stoned in love' video about a week before it was showed anywhere else.
Channel U focused on obscure Urban music talent and made a few names into stars today. Fizz as the interactive channel which is pretty much still the same format and still uses the same layout what Fizz used apart from the name.
Classic FM TV was a classical music channel which is no longer on air.
The Amp was replaced with Bliss exactly 10 years ago this month. Bliss closed last year. Scuzz much the same channel it still is today. Flaunt was still in its pop format, that later turned into a channel focused towards the LGBT community in July 2006. Then ditched all that format and opted more towards into a Dance music oriented channel towards Christmas time when ex sky owned channels Bliss, Scuzz and Flaunt turned FTA in December 2006.
Bubble Hits was on air and played new music and popular hits at the time. Now no longer on air and closed down in 2009.