Retro Jams was formerly carried full-time as a free-to-air TV channel on various Equity-owned terrestrial low-power television stations nationwide.
Retro Jams was established by Equity Media Holdings as a filler format to provide music video programming to a few individual, local Equity-owned stations which lacked a conventional television network affiliation.
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.
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.
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.