30 Facts About VH1

VH1 is an American basic cable television network based in New York City and owned by Paramount Global.

VH1's aim was to focus on the lighter, softer side of popular music, including US and international musicians such as Olivia Newton-John, Kenny Rogers, Carly Simon, Tina Turner, Elton John, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Sting, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, Kenny G, Michael Bolton, Anita Baker, Chicago and Fleetwood Mac, in hopes of appealing to people aged 18 to 35, and possibly older.

Once VH1 established itself a few years later, they catered to Top 40, adult contemporary, classic rock, and 1980s mainstream pop.

VH1 to One was a program in the Video Hits One era that was very similar to Behind The Music.

On October 17, 1994, VH1 re-branded itself as VH1: Music First, following a slight ratings decline in the early 1990s.

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In February 1996, VH1 again hit it big with the premiere of the first of the network's flagship shows, VH1 Storytellers.

VH1 scored another hit in August 1997 with the debut of Behind the Music.

Shortly after, VH1 created a companion series, Legends, profiling artists who have made a more significant contribution to music history to qualify as "Legends" (that is, those artists who have gone beyond the category of Behind the Music biographies).

In 1998, VH1 debuted the first annual VH1 Divas concert and featured the "divas" Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan, and Celine Dion, and the "special guest" Carole King.

VH1 continues to air "Movies That Rock" on a regular basis, expanding to include movies not produced by VH1.

Various late-night rock shows have been shown on VH1, featuring alternative rock and metal videos from the 1980s and 1990s.

VH1 eventually warmed up to harder rock acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Foo Fighters, the Stone Temple Pilots, and Metallica.

VH1 plays music from Latin artists such as Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, Thalia, and Shakira.

RockDocs was the title under which VH1 aired various music documentaries, both those produced by VH1 and those produced by third parties.

Such documentary series produced by VH1 include "And Ya' Don't Stop", a five-part series on the history of hip-hop and rap, a four-part series on the history of heavy metal, Heavy: The Story of Metal, and The Drug Years, which tells the story of different drug cultures that changed America.

VH1 endured criticism for Music Behind Bars, which mainly focuses on musicians in custody.

VH1 would continue to air its music video blocks despite its decreasing reliance on such programming.

In 2004, VH1 began this mini-series category with "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs.

In January 2005 VH1 launched its Celebreality programming block of reality shows featuring celebrities, anchored by The Surreal Life, which mimics MTV's The Real World, instead placing celebrities from the past into a living environment.

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

On June 3, 2013, VH1 premiered The Gossip Table, another live daily entertainment news program featuring five entertainment columnists presenting entertainment news and gossip.

On January 5, 2013, VH1 introduced a new logo that closely resembles their first.

The logo has a "plus" sign in it, representing VH1's focus on music-related shows and events and pop culture-based reality programming.

Since 2014, VH1 programming was noted to be shifting towards shows centered around African American personalities, similar to BET and its sister channels.

Conversely, VH1 + Music was discontinued and replaced by reruns of 1990s–2000s sitcoms shared with Paramount's other networks.

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Also in 2016, VH1 would revive the former CW reality competition series America's Next Top Model.

VH1 has seen further shifts to its programming as part of Viacom's 2017 restructuring plan.

VH1 HD is a 1080i high-definition feed, with all major providers carrying the network; as of 2016 this feed is downgraded at a provider's headend to provide the network's standard definition channel on systems.

VH1 has launched spinoff digital networks as part of The MTV Suite.

Out of the list of VH1 channels aired worldwide, Canada has never operated a VH1 branded channel.