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Axed: Video Hits

After 24 years the music stops for Video Hits, in the wake of cost cutting and job redundancies within TEN.

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TEN this afternoon confirmed its long-running music clip show Video Hits has been axed, following media reports in the wake of cuts by interim CEO Lachlan Murdoch.

The show, which has had an impressive 24 year run on television, will wrap with a retrospective of the two decades it has been on air, hosted by Faustina ‘Fuzzy’ Agolley and Dylan Lewis.

Since 1987 the show has been a regular of weekend morning television, including playing tracks by then-emerging artists including Missy Higgins, Angus and Julia Stone and Art Vs Science. During that time it has survived as a commercial alternative to ABC’s rage.

From its beginnings as a video-clip based program it later featured hosts, interviews, live music events, compilation CDs, and sponsored music tours. Previous hosts have included Hayden Guppy, Nathan Sapsford, Axle Whitehead and Kelly Cavuoto.

Chief Programming Officer David Mott said: “Video Hits’ contribution to the network and the music industry over the past 24 years has been outstanding. Music and how people listen to it, watch it and enjoy it has changed dramatically in last few years and now is the perfect time for the institution that is Video Hits to sign off. The show will always hold a special place in TEN’s history.”

Executive Producer Rachel Moor said, “We plan to leave the music landscape as we arrived – with a bang! It will be a big celebration that honours what the shows achieved over the years, what it has brought to music fans and the music industry as a whole.”

Yesterday the show was one of several TEN programmes to face the music following cost cuts and job redundancies announced by Lachlan Murdoch. TEN denied any shows had been axed yesterday.

The music stops on Saturday 6 August at 10am.

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  2. That is just shit !!!! Bad move ten !!!!
    Vh has been a fantastic music show that we all have watched over many years and still do. Saturday morning without vh will not be the same you dicks ! Take off some other depressing rubbish.

  3. WTF?!??! They can’t just axe Video Hits!?! a generation of aussies have grown up watching it, and now they’re gona axe it for costs?!?! Why not axe shitty shows like ready steady cook, the bolt report or the renovators, ten’s ratings will plummit after this, no young people will watch it, neighbours, and most of the shows that younger people watch have gone to eleven, so what are you gonna replace it with??? more shit? more news?? theres already the bolt report, 6:30 with george negus, the 5:00 news, 7pm project and all that other shit!!! no one will watch ten, like everyone ditched nine

  4. Mmmmmmm getting it wrong again lachlan, If you want revenues to go up get people watching your channel again. Axing programs that do not cost that much but generate revenue is Not the way to go. Ahhhhhh the days of Hans Torv doing his late nite thing, funnily that man is still successful at hot tomato doing music, the medium that is now not successful? Mmmmmmm Channel 9 took their eyes off the ball and look what happened there, people turned off in droves. People like a little routine, take that away and you lose the people, mmmmmm replacing judge judy for a rerun of the renovators, you never learn. Annnnd there wont be a number 96 to save you this time.

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