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- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -3/+477MTV should be named A-MTV "Anything but music television". Gone are those beautiful days with tons of music videos every day every hour.
- rjc5056, on 06/25/2008, -32/+3771) The original Real World seasons were actually groundbreaking and if you're at all into psychology, quite interesting. They helped put a face on AIDS that did wonders for demystifying the disease and in turn helped the gay rights movement. The problems started when they started casting kids based on their propensity for irrational/dickish/obnoxious behavior for better ratings. Essentially, taking the outliers of society and thus losing any "realness" the show once had. Look at the attractiveness of the cast members increase over the years too. Same idea.
2) This graph is horrible in its execution. I have no clue by what units the y-axis is being measured. I can't figure out what the hell it's saying but there's no way VMAs are played at an almost equal rate to Real World. - edstate, on 06/26/2008, -0/+290My brother told me he had cancelled his subscription to cable because he caught his 12-year-old daughter watching MTV.. and I said "You did What? You Commie *****!" ...And he simply asked "have you seen it lately?"
Well, I hadn't. So I did. I watched on and off for a couple of weeks... and I was beyond shocked. MTV is truly a horrible, horrible testimony to the upcoming failure of the human race.
And that's being kind. - jcpcks, on 06/26/2008, -1/+209I think MTV destroyed MTV.
- ivan423, on 06/25/2008, -5/+147It wasn't the Real World. It was the Other Crap.
Music Videos started declining in 1985 when the Other Crap started inclining. - CurlyFoot, on 06/26/2008, -8/+137I'm pretty sure it was Tila Tequila's doing
- magicjohnson, on 06/25/2008, -7/+113there's no way that video music awards are aired more than music videos, but then again I wouldn't know for sure since I stopped watching MTV when the Real World started airing
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -2/+98I say the 'M' stands for mystery because you don't know what the hell is gonna come on next but your pretty certain it's not gonna be a music video.
- biggychong, on 06/26/2008, -3/+95The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game
M.T.V.-Get off the air!
NOW
DEAD KENNEDYS, "M.T.V.-Get Off The Air" - LordSkywalker, on 06/26/2008, -2/+89MTV still exists? How do they get anyone with a pulse to watch?
- Sucka27, on 06/26/2008, -4/+89BTW, VH1 is just as bad.
- ChinezePanda, on 06/26/2008, -6/+85I blocked "A shot at love with Tila Tequila"
My girl would not stop watching it and it has since polluted my TiVo...
Not to mention such filth should not be displayed on a 60inch 1080p Samsung.
Next season: "A shot at love: I have hepetitis" - theotheragentm, on 06/26/2008, -2/+79Video killed the radio star. Pay back's a bitch.
- FrankDrebbin, on 06/26/2008, -0/+73It truly represents everything I hate about our culture wrapped up in hour long segments about people who threaten to bring the Apocalypse through sheer stupidity
- Truth3, on 06/26/2008, -0/+61I think they only have one show dedicated towards music, "TRL". Well I shouldn't say music, because the stuff they play (like Soulja Boy) can't be considered music, it's that pathetic.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+58Soulja Boy can eat a dick.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+58In the 80's and early 90's Mtv's basic demographic was males and females aged 19-29. Today that has changed to 11-18 year old females. Look at the crap they show now. "My Super Sweet 16" almost made me throw up the first time I saw it. As soon as I saw it I was trying to invent a way to reach into the television and slap a bitch. "But daddy, I wanted the RED Mercedes!!!" The worst part is, think about the thousands of young girls watching this ***** that now expect their poor parents to go bankrupt on their 16th birthday. I think shows like that are one of the reasons the world hates us. Say what you will about our current administration, but I'd rather go duck hunting with Cheney than go shopping with one of those spoiled bitches.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+59I missed everything that wasn't MTV from about 1983 to 1987. People used to joke about my television being the "MTV box." Then I got a job at a local music video station in '88. I remember flying to New York to shoot a Paul McCartney press conference and having Martha Quinn walk up and start a conversation during the lunch break. It felt really strange at the time after so many hours of watching her on the box.
The thing is, the industry wasn't sure where it was going for a few years. It was like Bezos running Amazon at a loss and just having faith that the path to profits lay along the direction he was going. Nobody really knew what was going on. Our little local productions were getting significant national attention because nobody was sure that grassroots promotion wasn't going to end up being the key to making the whole thing work.
Eventually it became apparent that the revenue won't come from selling advertising during blocks of music videos. The sponsors won't pay top-dollar for the ad time because it's too unpredictable. If the videos you play aren't connecting with the audience the viewership can fluctuate wildly. So everyone dayparted. MTV started showing MTV News and 120 Minutes and programs like that and it just expanded from there. You can sell time to advertisers during "real shows" because people are creatures of habit and you can kind of predict the level of your viewership. That gives the sales maggots something to pitch. Once you start feeding that beastie it gets hungrier and hungrier until every minute of your day has some half-hour show running. And why were we ever running music videos in the first place?
It's sad, but won't be likely to change until the bandwidth for high-quality video is more commonplace on the Internet and specialty video stations can exist in the way that Internet radio exists now. But even then there's going to be a need for a commerce model or things will probably head in the same direction again. - houndeyex, on 06/26/2008, -0/+54Your brother is a hardcore dad. I'd call that a compliment.
- dojonz, on 06/26/2008, -2/+51Reality killed the video star.
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -4/+51So true. I miss the good ol' days of music videos.
- PhrosTT, on 06/26/2008, -0/+46date my mom
the ex effect
neXt
taildaters
room raiders
pimp my ride
once upon a prom
super sweet sixteen
making the band 1-4
8th & ocean
bam's unholy union
faking the video
making menudo
newlyweds
rich girls
tila tequila
parental control
taquita & kaui
til death - karmen & dave
trailer fabolous
two a days
that's amore
dismissed
that stupid karaoke show
the high school pranks *****
juvies....
THAT killed MTV - trevorleenc, on 06/26/2008, -3/+42pffft, I grew up on MTV back in the 80's, and when I wised up in the 90's, and realized MTV was no longer cool, but instead swapped it's own coolness for a better, "let's dictate" what's cool, I boycotted the network...boycott still on, though, I did catch a celebrity deathmatch one time at a friends, and was disappointed that I'd never watch an episode, being that a boycott must be 100%...
- Burento, on 06/25/2008, -6/+42Sure the Real World was ground breaking.. and had absolutely nothing at all to do with Music in the least.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+37i watched MTV for a week straight when it started....now i have it blocked....
- guydudeman, on 06/25/2008, -0/+35I'm hard-pressed to find a show on MTV that actually shows a single music video in its entirety.
- rjc5056, on 06/26/2008, -3/+38Yea, but she's missing out on the good cable now. Discovery, History, Comedy Central (between 11 and 12 pm)...
- c0nrad, on 06/26/2008, -4/+39making fun of MTV is so 90's
- LoveYouSomeEric, on 06/26/2008, -1/+35The ***** that people call music these days is heavily influenced by the ***** that MTV became.
- rjc5056, on 06/25/2008, -1/+34I don't disagree. I was just saying that waaaayyy back in the day, the show had its merits that may or may not have put enough positives out there to outweigh the negative of a non-music show on the channel. It still essentially opened Pandora's box, though. No argument there.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -3/+36this graph is trash. it doesn't say anything.
- jackbauer007, on 06/26/2008, -1/+33the blue line also represents the IQ levels of MTV's viewers over the years
- Weezergames, on 06/26/2008, -3/+34It should be called rtv "Reality Television"
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -2/+29I want my MTV !!
- sugarazor, on 06/26/2008, -0/+26VH1 was actually demolishing MTV in terms of quality towards the mid to late 90s, especially when Behind the Music hit it big. But in recent years, VH1 has turned into the place where all the MTV stars of today will go when they are washed up and need to show us what rock bottom truly is. In about ten years, I fully expect Tila Tequila to have a show on there where she's eating her own ***** for airtime.
- FreeTalkLIve, on 06/26/2008, -2/+26MTV was the cats ass in the 80's.
- Burento, on 06/26/2008, -0/+23MTV was awesome at one point..
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+23Music TV, a dead and bloated piece of corporate Real ality *****, that will maintain a slavemaster mentality until the Internet crushes it like stepping on a turd.
- fxu1989, on 06/26/2008, -1/+24Yeah.... ***** that 4ft gremlin-faced whore!
- HumbleDialog, on 06/26/2008, -0/+21When MTV2 came out, I thought "Alright, they finally get it - a station that plays all music videos". Then they ruined that too! Now MTV2 is usually playing the same ***** as MTV at the same time. It's like a mirror.
- SEGA4life, on 06/26/2008, -0/+19I thought not playing "MUSIC" killed MTV ?
- sugarazor, on 06/26/2008, -0/+19MTV2 doesn't even really play music anymore. Occasionally you'll find some cool stuff on there, but it's usually just filled with older MTV programming. And by old, I mean from 2005.
- kong27, on 06/26/2008, -0/+18Did you mean TRL ... or am i just old?
- alexforcefive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+18I think your post was TL;DR for most people, but it was a good read. I actually quite like 120 minutes, and I wouldn't mind at all if mtv was to separate its programming into "the metal hour" and "the pop hour" to keep their advertisers happy. It's a shame that showing jackass reruns is so much cheaper than showing good music
- dnields, on 06/26/2008, -0/+16No, the "M" still works. It just stands for "Marketing" TV now, instead of music.
Seeing that they don't play music anymore, but rather try to sell you on a 'lifestyle' and whatever else they can dupe people into.. - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+17"Video killed the radio star..."
- Glorydies, on 06/26/2008, -0/+16If I could have gave you two thumbs up I would have.
- stellamaris, on 06/26/2008, -0/+16Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can see the middle 30 seconds of it while screaming teenagers yell over the music.
- lokee73, on 06/26/2008, -1/+17No man, they mean the 1st season of the real world.
There was no drunken drama. There were no overly dramatic people. There were no drama queens the first season.
There was tension, but it came from real places and real fears and real prejudices.
And most amazing of all, people TALKED about their differences to try and work them out.
The first season was amazing...after that it turned to crap. - nox327, on 06/26/2008, -1/+16True,
I watch VH1 when I wake up in the morning because of the music videos, but they ruin even that by always showing the same video spots. How much more of Leona Lewis can the people take. -
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