[Stooky Bill]

There was a Smash Hits Radio alongside Heat Radio. Heat apparently it's part of the Kiss network, which seems odd. 

I'm surprised they haven't expanded the Hits brands, a few years ago they did a festival weekend linking Hits, Greatest Hits and Country Hits. The latter has since become Absolute Country. 

Not sure it really fits in with the Absolute network either

I'm guessing because of the whole guitars thing maybe.

Possibly, although I notice from the Wikipedia page about Kiss, that both Kerrang and Planet Rock (along with Heat) are part of the Kiss Network