MTV Jams is a Viacom-owned American hip-hop/urban music video channel that debuted on May 1, 2002, replacing MTVX. Like its sister stations MTV Hits,VH1 Soul, and CMT Pure Country, MTV Jams is available exclusively on digital cable packages, such as Comcast, Charter, Cox, and other various cable systems.
MTV Jams is notable for playing music videos all day every day. Short promotional commercials for MTV Jams, its sister stations, and other Viacom-related events do air infrequently between videos. Like all of the other digital MTV/VH1 channels, MTV Jams is based on of the original programming format that MTV2 followed, in which eight hours of videos are programmed each day — airing first at 6 a.m. eastern time, and then repeated twice, starting again at 2 p.m. and 10 p.m.. A completely new cycle begins on the next day at 6 a.m.
MTV Jams is currently the last remaining MTV network in the United States to use MTV's original Kabel font for their music video credit tags, which the main MTV network discontinued in October 2007.
