CMT Pure Country
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CMT Pure Country is a digital cable
and satellite
television channel
, it is the sister network to CMT
. It showcases country
music videos all day from the 1980s to the current day, using the same 8-hour programming wheel schedule repeated three times daily as sister networks MTV Hits
and MTV Jams
. Unlike CMT, CMT Pure Country focuses entirely on music videos, with no entertainment programming.
The network was called VH1 Country until Memorial Day
Weekend 2006 (launching in 1999 and predating the merger of CBS Cable networks TNN and CMT into Viacom
), complementing that network until Viacom shifted VH1 towards more pop culture programming while using the CMT brand for all of their country music programming.
Digital cable
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and satellite
Satellite
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television channel
Television channel
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, it is the sister network to CMT
Country Music Television
Country Music Television, or CMT, is an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming includes music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs...
. It showcases country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
music videos all day from the 1980s to the current day, using the same 8-hour programming wheel schedule repeated three times daily as sister networks MTV Hits
MTV Hits
MTV Hits is an American music video channel that debuted on May 1, 2002. The format of the network resembles that of the classic MTV before the additional of other programming to that network in the 1990s and their slow decline of music video programming...
and MTV Jams
MTV Jams
MTV Jams is a Viacom-owned American hip-hop/urban music video channel that debuted on 1998 as MTVX, then was relaunched in 2002 under its current name...
. Unlike CMT, CMT Pure Country focuses entirely on music videos, with no entertainment programming.
The network was called VH1 Country until Memorial Day
Memorial Day
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Weekend 2006 (launching in 1999 and predating the merger of CBS Cable networks TNN and CMT into Viacom
Viacom
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), complementing that network until Viacom shifted VH1 towards more pop culture programming while using the CMT brand for all of their country music programming.