Hit Video USA was a 24-hour music television channel based out of Houston, Texas

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The station was located on the 35th floor of the Allied Bank Plaza/First Interstate Plaza (now Wells Fargo Plaza), a skyscraper in Downtown Houston

Downtown Houston

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History

The station debuted in 1985 as a low power television station

Television station

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in Houston, operating on channel 5 there as 'TV5'. On September 17, 1987, a station spokesperson stated that the channel would go off the air 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.