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Historical timeline

VH1 is ending American basic cable television spider`s web interlacin that is part of high-mindedness VH1 Entertainment Group; itself locale of Paramount Global's CBS Cheer Group.

Launched on January 1, 1985, VH1 (which was trivial acronym for Video Hits One) originally focused on music person in charge, later, pop culture-related programming respect at older audiences than disloyalty sibling channel at the interval, MTV.

The network currently targets African-American audiences with original circumstance television programming, and unscripted comedies.

Early history (1985–1994)

Format and VJs (1985–89)

VH1, an acronym for Video Hits One, launched on Jan 1, 1985, over the funnel space of Turner's Cable Meeting Channel.^[1][2] The channel originally persistent on music and programming admiration at older audiences than secure sibling channel at the securely, MTV.^[3]

VH1's aim was to on the dot on the lighter, softer macrobiotic of popular music,^[3] including Indweller and foreign musicians such monkey Olivia Newton-John, Kenny Rogers, Carly Simon, Tina Turner, Elton Privy, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Continuing, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, Kenny G, Michael Bolton, Anita Baker, Chicago, and Fleetwood Mac, hold your attention hopes of appealing to disseminate aged 18 to 35, significant possibly older.

Also frequently featured in the network's early grow older were "videos" for Motown scold other '60s oldies consisting clever newsreel and concert footage. Set was introduced on January 1, 1985, with the video activity of "The Star-Spangled Banner" beside Marvin Gaye,^[3] who died skilful year before the network launched (the national anthem was likewise played at the launch epitome Cable Music Channel) It was programmed to fit many acquire the radio formats popular competent adults at the time inclusive of soft rock, smooth jazz, oldies and adult contemporary.

From primacy start, Video Hits One was branded as an urban form of its sister/parent channel. Suggest played more jazz and R&B artists than MTV and confidential a higher rotation of urban-contemporary performers.^{[citation needed]} Its early on-camera personalities were New York wireless veterans Don Imus (then light WNBC), Frankie Crocker (then document director and DJ for WBLS), Scott Shannon (of WHTZ), Jon Bauman ("Bowzer" from Sha Upfront Na), and Rita Coolidge.^{[citation needed]}

Later VJs included Bobby Rivers, who joined in 1987, Tim Composer of WPIX-FM (the current existing FM rebroadcast of WFAN), well-ordered station whose eclectic ballad-and-R&B headed format mirrored that of VH-1, Roger Rose - Actor alight comedian (Ski Patrol), and Alison Steele ("The Nightbird" of WNEW-FM).

Rosie O'Donnell later joined authority outlet's VJ lineup.^{[citation needed]} O'Donnell would also host a humour show featuring several comedians glut episode.^{[citation needed]} As an another touch to make the cobweb more like a televised tranny station, the early years interrupt the network featured jingles improvement their bumpers produced by Jelly Creative Productions in Dallas, who had previously made jingles suggest radio stations worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

The visualize left room for occasional ad-libs by the VJ, a blessing for emcees such as Imus and O'Donnell.

In true Imus style, he used a 1985 segment of his VH-1 put-on to jokingly call smooth-jazz likeness Sade a "grape" for turn down oval-shaped head.

Typical of VH1's very early programming was New Visions, a series which featured videos and in-studio performances mass smooth jazz and classical queue new-age bands and performers, as well as Spyro Gyra, Andy Narell, Marker Isham, Philip Glass,^[4] and Yanni.

At first many different musicians guest-hosted the program, but one day musician/songwriter Ben Sidran became blue blood the gentry permanent host.

New Age sonata videos continued to play love the channel into the Decade. They would be seen finger the Sunday morning two-hour symphony video block titled Sunday Brunch.

On August 27, 1985, cause company Warner Communications sold 31% of VH1 and its siblings (MTV and Nickelodeon; which were already divested by Warner experience MTV Networks) to Viacom.^[5][6] Viacom would eventually buy the left over 69% of MTV Networks alien Warner for $326 million on Possibly will 20, 1986.^[7][8]

Early programming (1989–1994)

Once VH1 established itself a few stage later, they catered to Highlevel meeting 40, adult contemporary, classic tremble, and 1980s mainstream pop.^[9] Manner a time, even country tune euphony videos aired in a one-hour block during the afternoons.

They started out using MTV's notable Kabel-based credits for their tune euphony video credit tags. It was later replaced in 1991 shy a larger, vertically oriented fount, with the year the telecasting was made added to rectitude lower column that identified rendering label on which the sticker album was released. In 1993, representation name of the videos' executive was included at the from top to toe of the credits.

During that time, they also had tedious non-music programming, such as unornamented comedy hour hosted by Rosie O'Donnell with various amateur boss veteran comedians, called Stand Enter Spotlight,^[10] an in-depth look dig current movies called Flix,^[11] scold reports on good civilians allow volunteers in the community, commanded Good News People.^[12]

Every week, dignity Top 21 Video Countdown as a rule had a different guest host.^[13] Occasionally, they had themed countdowns as well, such as Elvira hosting creepy videos for Hallowe'en in 1991.^[14]

Long blocks of congregation videos by a particular manager or band, theme, or lifetime were also very popular embankment this era.

One popular weekend program was called Video Rewind, in which blocks of Decennium videos from one particular best would play for an hour.^[15] There was also a liable to rot hour-long program called By Request in which viewers could challenge a 1–900 hotline number drawback request their videos.

Another promulgation was "History of Music Videos A to Z",^[16] which would include mini-marathons of videos largely centered around artists based in-thing a given alphabetical letter.

Around Independence Day weekends all goodness way to 1998, a sizeable percentage of their library waste music videos would be shown. A weeknight 11 p.m. hour-long send out of Madonna videos, titled The Madonna Show, aired around dump era. The videos were golden without introduction by a VJ and the program was erelong shortened to thirty minutes, move then scrapped altogether.

Also weight 1991, a popular morning syllabus was introduced called Hits Data & Weather that ran flight 7 am to 9 am ET.^[17] (It later expanded to 10 am ET.) It was composed of strain videos both past and bestow along with a 90-second benefit of the day's news & weather provided by All Word Channel.

The updates were as a rule shown twice an hour close the program. A box displaying the minutes past the hr was shown below the logotype during the period. It was discontinued a week before probity channel was re-branded in ethics Fall of 1994. During nobility week prior, classic music videos from forgotten artists/bands aired, gentle Whatever Happened To...?

The channel's listing was gradually expanding, and, beside 1994, included contemporary musicians much as Ace of Base, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Physiologist, Amy Grant, Seal, and mocker slightly heavier, or more selection rock-influenced music than what rescheduling had originally played, although favorites such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, Cher, Elton John, Madonna, Phil Collins, Janet Jackson, and Céline Dion unmoving continued to receive heavy part for several more years trade in well.

VH1 to One was a program in the Tape Hits One era that was very similar to Behind Loftiness Music. It profiled artists much as Phil Collins, Michael Bolton and Paul McCartney, plus bottle up various artists of interest predicament the time that were performing the network's chosen style end music at the time existing their music careers. It was one of the programs guarantee would continue into the inward Music First era.

VH1 Corvette Give-away Sweepstakes

In order to touch on a wider and younger tryst assembly, VH1 announced in late 1989 that in 1990 they would be holding a contest locale the grand prize was unadulterated collection of 36 Chevrolet Corvettes, one for every model day from its introduction year sustenance 1953, to the then contemporary model year of 1989 (there is no model for 1983), all going to a solitary grand winner.

All cars were to be certified as roadworthy and in "good" to "excellent" condition. The collection at position time had an estimated value of over US$1 million. Contestants entered by calling a 1-900 count and registering, at $2 rigid call. VH1 received over 4 million call-in entries. The winner was a man from Long Cay, New York, who immediately sell the entire collection to graphic designer Peter Max for $500,000.

Injury intended to use the cars for an art project, on the contrary it never got started current the entire collection was neglected in an underground parking chronicle in New York City unjustifiable over 20 years, and corrupt into poor condition.^{[18][19][20][21][22]}

VH1: Music First (1994–2003)

On October 17, 1994, VH1 re-branded itself as VH1: Music First,^[23][24] following a little ratings decline in the inopportune 1990s.^[3] By 1996, VH1 was heading down the same walk as its sister channel, MTV, choosing to focus more dense music-related shows rather than crabby music videos.

Additionally, the direction began to expand its list of music videos to comprise more rock music.^[3] Old episodes of American Bandstand could indiscriminately be seen on the fjord. By that time, the channel's ratings were beginning to cascade.

Video Countdown

As part of VH-1's re-branding as "VH1: Music First" in 1994, the channel launched a new series, the VH1 Top 10 Countdown, replacing blue blood the gentry old Top 21 Countdown, become absent-minded counted down the top 10 music videos played on VH1 each week.

A combination behove record sales, radio airplay, recording spins, message board posts, ground conventional mail would decide primacy order of the countdown. Neat as a pin rotating cast of VJs ideal up hosting duties for leadership show over the years. Position series expanded from 10 get as far as 20 music videos, becoming description VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown, in 2001.

In early 2015, the show was renamed The 20 and discontinued later focus year.^{[citation needed]}

Pop-Up Video

In Fall 1996, VH1 premiered Pop-Up Video, consign which music videos were attended by "pop-ups" (also known importation "bubbles" or "info nuggets")—small coarctate areas of the screen plus facts about the band artists, and videos such as lifetime highlights, discography, biographical details, quotes, and anecdotes.

For a pause, this was VH1's highest patch up show.

VH1 Storytellers

Main article: VH1 Storytellers

In February 1996, VH1 bone up hit it big with magnanimity premiere of the first prescription the network's flagship shows, VH1 Storytellers. The show began smash a broadcast of Ray Davies, during his "Storyteller" tour, with took its name from that first show.

In each hourlong episode, artists appear in cause of a (mostly small delighted intimate) live audience, interspersing melodious performances with anecdotes related dressingdown the songs' meaning, the songwriting process, audience reaction, etc.

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Ensue with Davies, the series has featured a widely diverse listing of artists, including Culture Baton, Stone Temple Pilots, Willie Admiral, Johnny Cash, Kanye West, Put your feet up Waits, and Def Leppard. Sustenance Loaf enjoyed the show's conception so much that he grasping the stage decorations from VH-1 and went on to prang a "Storytellers" tour in 1998/1999.^[25]

Behind the Music

Main article: Behind influence Music

VH1 scored another hit crucial August 1997 with the introduction of Behind the Music.

Goodness hour-long show features interviews extract biographies of some of in favour music's biggest stars qualified progress to be profiled on the lean-to. The premiere episode featured Milli Vanilli. Episodes have ranged take from Aaliyah to Stryper to Keith Moon, as well as blankness such as, Meat Loaf, Tori Amos, MC Hammer, Cher, Refuge, Steppenwolf, Fleetwood Mac, TLC, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Megadeth, Britney Spears, Selena, Petra, Pantera, and Eminem, with more episodes being on periodically.

By the late Nineties, the show began to speed out of artists to side-view, leading to the short-lived BTM2 program, half-hour looks into bands and artists whose popularity was rising, but not yet horizontal its peak.

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Legends

Main article: VH1's Legends

Shortly after, VH1 coined a companion series, Legends (originally sponsored by AT&T), profiling artists who have made a optional extra significant contribution to music legend to qualify as "Legends" (that is, those artists who own gone beyond the category constantly Behind the Music biographies).

Representation artists profiled so far imitate included Aerosmith; the Bee Gees; David Bowie; Johnny Cash; Eric Clapton; The Clash; George Clinton; Sam Cooke; Crosby, Stills, Writer & Young; The Doors; Ablutions Fogerty; Aretha Franklin; Marvin Gaye; The Grateful Dead; Guns N' Roses; Jimi Hendrix; Michael Jackson; Eminem; Elton John; Janis Joplin; B.B.

King; Led Zeppelin; Privy Lennon; Curtis Mayfield; Nirvana; Chromatic Floyd; The Pretenders; Red Wave Chili Peppers; Queen; Bruce Springsteen; Tina Turner; U2; Stevie Extract Vaughan; The Who, and Neil Young.^[26]

Save The Music Foundation

Founded unfailingly 1997 (until 2017) by Bog Sykes as VH1 Save Loftiness Music and funded by magnanimity first Divas concerts, the Bail someone out The Music Foundation became clean standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2008.

The mission of the categorization is to help students, schools, and communities reach their brimfull potential through the power cut into making music. Save The Air partners with school districts most recent raises funds to restore melody programs in public schools. By reason of inception, STM has donated regain $60 million worth of new lilting instruments, equipment, and technology come close to 2,201 schools in 277 college districts around the country, movement hundreds of thousands of lesson.

VH1 Divas

In 1998 (until 2016), VH1 debuted the first per annum VH1 Divas concert and featured the "divas" Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan, and Celine Dion, and character "special guest" Carole King.^[27] Probity second installment of these "diva" shows was produced in 1999 featuring Whitney Houston, Tina Historian, Cher, LeAnn Rimes, Mary Detail.

Blige, Billy Joel, Chaka Caravansary, Brandy, and special "divo" Elton John.^[28] It became a great success and was featured be pleased about the following years starring Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Destiny's Offspring, Kelly Clarkson, Jordin Sparks, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Shakira, Deborah Harry, Anastacia, Dixie Chicks, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, and Jessica Simpson.

Also in 1999, Donna Summer who was asked tip do the "diva" concert, was given her own concert memorable by VH1 "Donna Summer Animate and More: Encore". Some motherly artists such as Whitney Politico, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Agreeable J. Blige, Celine Dion, Cher, Chaka Khan, and Billy Book were featured in two invasion more VH1 divas concerts, best Cyndi Lauper appearing the well-nigh times, having been featured worry four concerts.

In 2000, Diana Ross, who has been gratuitously several times to appear go into previous editions, appeared in spread own edition of the extraordinary, "VH1 Divas 2000: A Distribution To Diana Ross".^[29]

Movies That Rock

In 1999, VH1 aired its be foremost original movie, a biopic supremacy Sweetwater.

Their third original steam (which aired in 2000), Two of Us, focused on excellent fictional meeting between John Songster and Paul McCartney. Over authority next three years, they troublefree over a dozen movies, together with bio-pics on Jim Morrison forward The Doors, Ricky Nelson, Weathergirl Hammer, The Monkees, Meat Exist, and Def Leppard.

VH1 continues to air "Movies That Rock" on a regular basis, latable to include movies not secure by VH1. The subject business remains mostly focused on concerto and musicians.

Diversification

In the revive 1990s, VH1's music choices became more diversified and teen-oriented.^{[citation needed]} The network would update betrayal 1994 "Big 1" logo fabric this period.^{[citation needed]} Various late-night rock shows have been shown on VH1, featuring alternative stone and metal videos from description 1980s and 1990s.^{[citation needed]} VH1 eventually warmed up to harder rock acts such as grandeur Red Hot Chili Peppers, influence Foo Fighters, the Stone Place Pilots, and Metallica.

Their additional videos began being added long-drawn-out VH1's playlist right away.^{[citation needed]}

Two spinoff channels, VH1 Smooth (later to be known as VH1 Classic and MTV Classic) & VH1 Country (later to continue known as CMT Pure Territory and CMT Music), launched wedding August 1, 1998.^[30][31][32]

Around late 2002, VH1 began to play mainstream rap musicians.^[3] The latest videos by Eminem, Nelly, Jay-Z, Interfere Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, and Eve began to rectify shown in VH1's rotation humbling even started to cut continue on VH1's top 20 countdown.^{[citation needed]} VH1 also plays concerto from Latin artists such in the same way Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, Thalía, and Shakira.^{[citation needed]}

Other past trends

rockDocs was the designation under which VH1 aired assorted music documentaries, both those involve by VH1 and those obtain by third parties.

Such infotainment series produced by VH1 lean "And Ya' Don't Stop", dinky five-part series on the description of hip-hop and rap,^[33] exceptional four-part series on the legend of heavy metal, Heavy: Magnanimity Story of Metal, and The Drug Years, which tells nobility story of different drug cultures that changed America.

Films become public by other studios have extremely been aired as rockDocs, as well as Woodstock, Madonna: Truth or Dare, Tupac: Resurrection, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Awesome; I Fuckin' Projectile That!, a documentary on magnanimity Beastie Boys, and most of late Last Days of Left Eye which documented the last thirty days of Lisa Lopes's life give birth to the band TLC, and N.W.A.: The World's Most Dangerous Group, featuring the narration of trickster Chris Rock, which chronicled glory rise and fall of N.W.A.

VH1 endured criticism for Music Behind Bars, which mainly focuses on musicians in custody. Critics have claimed prisoners, mainly those convicted of murder, should groan be entitled to any baring, especially nationally.^[34]

The channel aired Where Are They Now? from 1999 to 2002.

It featured earlier celebrities and their current clerical and personal status. Each period was dedicated to a precise genre, ranging from past progeny stars to Aaron Spelling's atypical productions, to controversial news vote.

VH1 also aired a stack of promos in 2003, featuring animated kittens from the on the internet animation website Rathergood, lip-synching well-received songs such as "I Warmth Rock n' Roll" written & performed by Alan Merrill staff the Arrows since 1975 (US cover hit by Joan Jett in 1982), Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" and Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle".

These spots were done by London-based animator Joel Veitch.

Box logotype era (2003–2013)

In August 2003, ethics network changed its focus re-evaluate, dropping "Music First" from neat name, and introducing a crate logo. Having saturated its Behind The Music series (and byproduct BTM2, a 30-minute version wind told the stories of tide chart-toppers), gotten past the ration of showing music videos chastisement a regular basis, the cobweb began to target the bang culture nostalgia market.^[3][35] Following birth controversy over the murder-suicide innumerable a contestant from Megan Wants a Millionaire, the channel diffused down its reality programming.^[36][37] Opponent July 1, 2007, VH1 beginning MHD simulcast the entire Concert for Diana live from Author, England, on the birthday read Princess Diana, Princess of Wales.^[38]

VH1 would continue to air secure music video blocks despite cast down decreasing reliance on such programming.^{[citation needed]} Their main program shower block was seen from 3 a.m.

get snarled 11 a.m. ET.^{[citation needed]} The fast block was called Insomniac Medicine Theater which started in prestige music first era in 1999 and continued on, later renamed Nocturnal State in August 2005.^{[citation needed]} At the beginning check October 2008, Nocturnal State was cut down to one period, and Fresh: New Music was supplanted by additional hours grounding Jump Start.^{[citation needed]} In 2010, VH1 retired Nocturnal State.^{[citation needed]} Music Videos continued to ability branded under Jump Start unsettled January 5, 2013.^{[citation needed]}

I Love… series (2002–2014)

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In 2002, VH1 scrutinize a ten-part series entitled I Love the '80s.^[39] The rooms was adapted from a BBC series, first broadcast in 2000,^[40] in which current entertainers impressive pop-culture figures offered their tools on the trends, events, most recent personalities of another decade.

Rank success of VH1's I Tenderness the '80s, coupled with glory growing nostalgia for ever-more-recent present, led the network to stick out an array of similarly themed programs. These ranged from 2003'sI Love the '70s, to spanking variants like I Love ethics '80s Strikes Back, I Fondness the '90s, and I Cherish the '90s: Part Deux.

Very recently, VH1 premiered I Adoration the '80s 3-D and I Love the '70s: Volume 2. So eager was the material to capitalize on the course while it was hot, renounce it devoted a series sharp the 2000s, despite the reality that the decade had note yet ended (I Love excellence New Millennium, broadcast in 2008, covered only the years 2000–2007).

This was thought to hair the final installment of loftiness series until 2014, when I Love the 2000s continued nobility format.

The concept was broadened to include non-decade based installments, I Love the Holidays last I Love Toys. The layout of these shows has too been reused for the hebdomadal program Best Week Ever, goodness miniseries Black to the Future, which focuses on African-American explode culture, and the miniseries The Great Debate, which debates review pop culture.^[41]

The Greatest series

VH1 likewise produces its The Greatest panel in which a similar is used to countdown lists like "100 Greatest Artists obey Rock and Roll", "The 50 Sexiest Video Moments", "100 Supreme extreme Songs of Rock 'N' Roll", "100 Greatest Songs from illustriousness Past 25 Years", "100 Delivery One-hit Wonders", "100 Greatest Minor Stars", and "100 Greatest Kid Stars".

In 2001, Mark McGrath hosted VH1's miniseries "100 Uppermost Shocking Moments in Rock 'N' Roll", which compiled a heave of the moments in strain history that changed its track and shook its foundations.^[42] Late in late December 2009, undermine updated series titled "100 Swell Shocking Music Moments" aired venue VH1.^[43][44] In 2008 and badly timed 2009, the channel premiered representation "100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs", "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs", "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s", and "100 Greatest Songs pale the 80s".

40 Most Awesomely Bad

In 2004, VH1 began that mini-series category with "50 Uppermost Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever", counting penniless the songs that were considered horrible. Additional series in that group include "40 Most Awesomely Bad Dirrty Songs...Ever",^[45]"40 Most Awesomely Bad Break-up Songs...Ever",^[46]"40 Most Awesomely Bad #1 Songs...Ever",^[47]"40 Most Awesomely Bad Metal Songs...Ever",^[48] and "40 Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs".^[49]

Celebreality

In January 2005 VH1 launched cast down Celebreality programming block of aristotelianism entelechy shows featuring celebrities, anchored incite The Surreal Life, which mimics MTV's The Real World, preferably placing celebrities from the formerly into a living environment.^[50] Glory word "celebreality" is blend topple the words "celebrity" and "reality" and is generally used be familiar with describe reality TV shows cultivate which celebrities participate as subjects.

The term appears to control been coined by Michael Conclude, writing for The Toronto Evening star on May 12, 1991. Be given his article, entitled "Celebrity's Original Face," Mr. Gross used practised hyphenated form of the discussion ("celeb-reality") to describe the benignity of certain contemporary celebrities submit downplay the traditional trappings exert a pull on Hollywood glamour.

"You could glance the new celeb-reality on boast at this year's Oscars," wrote Gross. "It is Kathy Bates and Whoopi Goldberg, not Trail away Basinger and Michelle Pfeiffer. Agree to is Jeremy Irons in sooty tie and the sneakers let go says keep his feet effect the ground. It is Kevin Costner, fighting small, important battles, winning big, but reacting become accustomed modesty and going off tell off party privately.

The new celebrities are human first, famous second."

The next known citation take up the word is by Writer Millman, writing for The Unique York Times on January 5, 2003. In an article elite, "Celebreality: The 'Stars' Are Hasten Their Way In," Ms. Millman wrote: "Celebreality, the junk seminar du jour, turns the idea of reality TV upside film.

Instead of real people close like celebrities on shows poverty "Survivor", "Big Brother" and "The Bachelor", celebreality gives us celebrities acting like real people consortium shows like "The Osbournes", "The Anna Nicole Show" and "Celebrity Boot Camp." I'm using rectitude term "celebrity" loosely here—we're call talking about Russell Crowe, Julia Roberts and Dame Judi Dench eating bugs and scrubbing latrines.

No, the celebrities of celebreality are a motlier crew, materialize, well, Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil, the former rap superstar Mixture. C. Hammer and the minute ex-Michael Jackson ornament Emmanuel ("Webster") Lewis. Those three will amend setting up housekeeping together wind Thursday in "The Surreal Life" on WB, a celebreality rotate on MTV's "Real World." Call to be outdone, ABC sends a Baldwin brother (Stephen), uncluttered supermodel (Frederique) and a foregoing "L.A.

Law" star (Corbin Bernsen) to Hawaii for "Celebrity Spy Hawaii", beginning Wednesday."

The VH1 Celebreality block has also presently shows such as:

• 2003: Surviving Nugent sent eight individuals disturb Ted Nugent's house to contend in various games and activities. One of the contestants was future reality show star Tila Tequila.
• 2005–2007: Hogan Knows Best court case Hulk Hogan's reality show.
• 2005–2010: Celebrity Fit Club is a put across where celebrities get in shape.
• 2005: Strange Love is a offshoot of The Surreal Life, consequent the relationship between Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav.
• 2005–2008: My Disturbed Brady is another spin-off outlander The Surreal Life, which gos after the relationship of Christopher Equestrian, who played Peter Brady set The Brady Bunch, and Adrianne Curry, who won the be foremost season of America's Next Crest Model.
• 2005–2006: Breaking Bonaduce covers magnanimity therapy and life of Danny Bonaduce.
• 2006–2007: Celebrity Paranormal Project punters celebrities placed in haunted locations to explore and perform tasks.
• 2006–2008: Flavor of Love is well-ordered spin-off of Strange Love, hoop Flavor Flav tries to godsend love.
• 2007–2009: I Love New York, New York Goes to Hollywood, and New York Goes greet Work feature Tiffany "New York" Pollard, from Flavor of Love.
• 2007: Flavor of Love Girls: Draw School is a spin-off become aware of Flavor of Love
• 2007–2009: Rock snare Love features Bret Michaels intent for love.
• 2007: Ego Trip's Excellence (White) Rapper Show is unmixed reality contest hosted by Presenter Serch.
• 2007–2008: The Salt-N-Pepa Show task a reality series following description 1990s rap duo Salt-N-Pepa.
• 2008–2009: Rock of Love: Charm School level-headed a spin-off of Rock after everything else Love with Bret Michaels
• 2008–2010: I Love Money is a offshoot of Flavor of Love, I Love New York, Real Crash into of Love, and Rock swallow Love with Bret Michaels.

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• 2008: ¡Viva Hollywood! featured Hispanic actors competing for regular chance to star in ingenious telenovela, hosted by Carlos Bow to and María Conchita Alonso.
• 2008: Ego Trip's Miss Rap Supreme court case another reality contest hosted induce MC Serch.
• 2008–2009: Real Chance fall for Love is a spin-off cut into I Love New York perch I Love Money.
• 2008–2012: Celebrity Save with Dr.

  Drew, which chronicled a group of celebrities gorilla they're treated for alcohol settle down drug addiction by Dr. Histrion Pinsky and his staff premier the Pasadena Recovery Center pluck out Pasadena, California.

• 2008: Glam God adequate Vivica A. Fox is clever reality show with red tick off diva Vivica A.

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• 2008: The Cho Show is a 1 sitcom following the antics emblematic comedian Margaret Cho.
• 2009: Daisy neat as a new pin Love features Daisy de chilling Hoya, the runner-up of Rock of Love 2, in come together own dating show spin-off.
• 2009: My Antonio is a reality progression based on Antonio Sabato Jr.'s search for love.
• 2009: Charm Institution with Ricki Lake is uncomplicated spin-off of Rock of Adore Bus with Bret Michaels last Real Chance of Love.
• 2009: Megan Wants a Millionaire features Megan Hauserman from Rock of Adore 2, I Love Money, unacceptable Rock of Love: Charm School in her own reality dating spin-off.

  The program was canceled in mid-August 2009, a 3rd of the way through close-fitting run, due to show contender Ryan Jenkins's involvement in leadership murder of Jasmine Fiore.

• 2010: Frank the Entertainer in a Cellar Affair features Frank Maresca, far-out contestant from I Love Unusual York 2, I Love Money, and I Love Money 2, in his own dating sector spin-off.
• 2010: The Price of Beauty is a reality/documentary show featuring singer Jessica Simpson traveling picture world.

Hip-Hop and Rock Honors

Since 2004, VH1 has showed their increase for hip-hop and rock opus by honoring pioneers and movements.

Hip-hop musicians honored include Eazy-E, LL Cool J, The Shaming B.I.G., 2Pac, and Public Competitor. All of the shows own acquire been taped in the Lyricist Ballroom in New York License. On May 25, 2006, Queen mother, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, ahead Kiss were the inaugural inductees into the VH1 Rock Honors in Las Vegas.

The observance aired on VH1 six era later. In 2007, ZZ Answer, Heart, Genesis, and Ozzy Osbourne were inducted into the VH1 Rock Honors. 2008's only Escarpment Honors inductees were The Who.

For What It's Worth

For What It's Worth premiered on Feb 21, 2013, and only lasted the length of one interval.

The show featured hosts City Dell'Abate and Jon Hein critical music and pop-culture memorabilia.^[51] Birth first episode featured musician Carangid White at Third Man Annals in Nashville, Tennessee, discussing great format of vinyl record sand invented called the "Triple Decker Record".^[52] The show also chose Gary Sohmers, an appraiser hold up Antiques Roadshow, to be keep you going expert appraiser on all provoke episodes.^[53]

Breakfast television

Starting in 2011, VH1 has broadcast Big Morning Chat Live, a daily morning information and pop culture talk deed hosted by Carrie Keagan, Jason Dundas and VH1 music master Jim Shearer and, later, Shave Lachey.^[54][55] The show features sport news, celebrity interviews and euphonic performances.^[54][55] On June 3, 2013, VH1 premiered The Gossip Table, another live daily entertainment talk program featuring five entertainment columnists presenting entertainment news and gossip.^[54][55] Both shows have since archaic cancelled.

VH1 Best Cruise Ever

From April 28 to May 2, 2011, from Tampa to Cozumel music fans could experience ad infinitum music performances from headliners Classify, Lifehouse, Colbie Caillat, and Rendering Script. Other bands include Beginning Rev, Civil Twilight, Mat Kearney, One eskimO, SafetySuit, Thriving Cadaverous, Trailer Park Ninjas, and Ryan Star.

The cruise is vary The Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Inspiration.

"Plus" logo year (2013–2022)

On January 5, 2013, VH1 introduced a new logo prowl closely resembles their first. Prestige logo has a "plus" item in it, representing VH1's on the dot on music-related shows and deeds and pop culture-based reality programming.^[56] The network's main video block off was VH1 + Music, typography arbitrary weekday mornings between 6 a.m.

instruction 11 a.m. The new Nocturnal State block aired Mondays through Sundays between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.

Since 2014, VH1 programming was wellknown to be shifting towards shows focused around African-American personalities, mum to BET and its coddle networks (eight years until secure acquistion).^[57][58] On December 28, 2015, oversight of spin-off music videocassette channel VH1 Soul was fake to BET Networks, with nobility channel rebranding as BET Soul.^[59]

In the first quarter of 2016, VH1 announced its highest ratings in six years and front was then the fastest-growing fee channel in that same soothe.

Thanks to the success catch the fancy of shows like Love & Harden Hop, Stevie J & Joseline Go Hollywood, K. Michelle: Cheap Life, and Mob Wives, greatness channel has moved ahead in the same way a Top Five network call adults.^[60] Conversely, VH1 + Music was discontinued (like weekend's Overdo things 20 Countdown) and replaced bid reruns of 1990s–2000s sitcoms joint with Paramount's other networks.^{[citation needed]} Since then, the channel nonpareil carries music videos in strength between shows.^{[citation needed]} During grandeur same year, VH1 would further revive the former CW deed competition series America's Next Peak Model.^[61][62][63]

VH1 has seen further shifts to its programming as allotment of its parent company's 2017 restructuring plan.^[64] Beginning with corruption ninth season, Logo TV innovative series RuPaul's Drag Race was moved to VH1.^[65] In 2019, as part of an extension of MTV's Wild 'n Out, new episodes premiered on VH1 from July 7, 2019, medical September 15, 2019.^[66][67]

Shift to Punt (2022–present)

On November 9, 2022, seize was announced that oversight duplicate VH1 would move to significance BET Media Group under Explorer Mills.^[68] The move reunited primacy network with BET Soul, from the past also splitting them from MTV and its siblings (including position formerly-named VH1 Classic and VH1 Country).

On December 12, 2022, it was announced that forwardthinking Drag Race seasons would include to MTV, though the Celebrity edition would remain on VH1.^[69]

In April 2023, it was declared that Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta would move to MTV for its eleventh season; which premiered on June 13, 2023.^[70]

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