VH1 to become entertainment channel

Listings released today show VH1 will change to an Entertainment channel (made up of recycled MTV/C5 content) from 1st May so presumably that will move from Music. This is a screenshot of a TV listings site. This could be a response to 4Music moving to the Entertainment section also? There's too many entertainment channels as it is.

https://m.imgur.com/ebIxtrq

We'd heard about 4Music, but this looks odd.

EDIT: So this isn't the official release of the new Sky EPG listings?

Don’t think it’s a direct response, but 4Music’s change in direction may have something to do with it, but then again the American version is mostly entertainment now isn’t it? And has quite popular shows I believe, especially with the likes of Drag Race. (Could it be possible these shows make its way onto VH1 here?)

Wow. It’s a completely different channel to what it was originally - which ironically I think there’d be a market for these days. It used to be pitched towards what now is the Radio 2 / 6 Music audience. Now they seem to be targeting the same audience as every single one of their other entertainment channels. Feels like the same content is spread between about 15 channels right now.

Be nice to have a bit more of a grown up music channel.

It was great at one point - got me into loads of old and new music I wouldn't have heard otherwise, at a time when I was still watching The Box and MTV Hits and the like. Sad to see it go even if MTV haven't done anything with it in ten years.

It would, and it's been tried several times - Q and The Amp being the two examples that spring to mind, but they always just end up with music for 'the kids'. I don't know whether it's just that the sort of people they targeted just don't watch telly in the same way as the kids. Or maybe the muso market just isn't that big or profitable


I do remember some bars that used to have VH1 Classics on and that worked really well for them, but presumably not something that ticked up the figures at the channel


I think though that such a channel has missed the bus now though, music channels are increasingly a thing of the past. The likes of YouTube and Spotify have rendered them mostly obsolete, linear music channels are only really useful for background at places like gyms and barbers

VH1 here in the U.S. is more of an entertainment channel nowadays (then again, even though I'm 19, I still remember when VH1 still showed music videos and music related programming that wasn't reality TV).

So I won't be too surprised if VH1 UK gets more or less the same schedule as the U.S. version.

I'm old enough to remember when the History Channel focused on, you know, history, when the Discovery Channel aired intelligent documentaries, and when TLC stood for The Learning Channel. Now all of these channels are all about morbidly obese moms, second-rate pawn brokers, UFO hunters, mechanics who specialize in ugly cars, people who don't wear clothes, and a wide assortment of other "rednecks on parade."

Sounds like Blaze.

There's a reason VH1's full name, Video Hits One, isn't used any more. It's definitely a relic of the past. It's a wonder the brand even survives at all.

History is more known for it's successful Ancient Aliens format these days. I remember watching History in the 90s when it was wall to wall Nazi documentaries. H stood for Hitler!

But at least Hitler is history. Pawn brokers are not.

I have been waiting for them to do this for a long time, I can imagine a HD port coming soon and VH1 originals (such as Drag Race, America’s Next Top Model and their catalog of reality TV) being moved there. It seems to be the less sleazy version of current MTV. Actually looking forward to it.