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{{Infobox broadcasting network |
network_name = Retro Jams |
network_logo = |
country = [[United States]] |
network_type = [[Music video]] channel/programming block |
available = National |
owner = [[Equity Media Holdings]] Corporation|
key_people = |
launch_date = {{start date and age|2007|12}}|
closure_date = {{end date and age|2009|8}}|
founder = Equity Broadcasting|
past_names = |
website = }}

'''Retro Jams''' was a [[music video]] network that played music videos from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, with the vast majority of clips used in the [[public domain]] to reduce and avoid performance and rights fees. Established in 2007, it was owned and operated by now-defunct [[Equity Media Holdings]]. Retro Jams was formerly carried full-time as a [[free-to-air]] TV channel on various Equity-owned terrestrial [[low-power broadcasting|low-power]] [[television station]]s nationwide. Blocks of programming on sister network [[Retro Television Network]] also featured ''Retro Jams'', either with videos pre-programmed or [[request line|requested live by viewers]].

== History ==
Retro Jams was established by Equity Media Holdings as a [[filler (media)|filler]] format to provide music video programming to a few individual, local Equity-owned stations which lacked a conventional television network affiliation. Programming consisted primarily of music videos from the 1980s and early 1990s.

On most of these stations, Equity replaced Retro Jams with the [[Retro Television Network]] in mid-2008. As Equity had founded RTN and owned the network until 2008, the "Retro Jams" name continued in use as a [[programming block]] name, along with certain hours being by viewer request. While most affected stations simply replaced Retro Jams with Retro TV, a few stations went to other networks.

Cash-strapped [[Equity Media Holdings]] sold Retro Television Network to [[Luken Communications]] in June 2008 and entered federal [[chapter 11]] [[bankruptcy]] protection in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], in December 2008. An option allowing Equity to re-purchase Retro TV from Luken expired unexercised on December 24, 2008.<ref>http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/EQUITYMEDIA/0x0xS1144204-08-48304/1327012/filing.pdf{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Equity continued to provide [[broadcast automation]] facilities and operate Retro TV from its [[Little Rock, Arkansas]] [[centralcasting]] facility on behalf of Luken Communications until January 2009, when Equity's failure to pay the studios supplying Retro TV programming caused Luken Communications to move Retro TV to independent facilities.<ref>[http://www.wsav.com/sav/news/local/article/whats_wrong_with_mytv/7919/ What’s Wrong with MyTV?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113030808/http://www.wsav.com/sav/news/local/article/whats_wrong_with_mytv/7919/ |date=2009-01-13 }}</ref>

Retro TV was permanently removed from all Equity-owned or operated stations on January 4, 2009.<ref>[http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/01/05/daily.5/ TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet"], 1/5/2009</ref> Some Retro TV stations had networks such as [[This TV]] or a [[public domain]] schedule compiled by Equity as a replacement, though many had a resurrection of Retro Jams placed on the channel space to provide some form of programming to the remaining Equity-owned stations. This all-music video format continued until Equity's bankruptcy in the middle of 2009, and most of its stations were either sold at auction or closed permanently shortly thereafter.

==References==
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