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Author Topic: Favorite MTV Shows Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-15-2007 04:38 PM                       What is MTV?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-15-2007 04:47 PM                        Music Television. It began as a cable channel that showed music videos all the time--essentially a TV version of a top-40 radio station. Sometime in the early 1990s, they decided that their viewers really wanted to see crappy original programming instead and they started to produce their own shows, most of which had little or nothing to do with music. The only decent one was Beavis and Butt-Head. The rest, well, sucked (huh huh...yeah). Do they even still show music videos?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-15-2007 04:58 PM                       Scott, I'm not that old! I guess my sarcasm doesn't come across as well as Joe's does.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-15-2007 08:25 PM                     MTV's first game show Remote Control was very popular. And it helped launch the career of Adam Sandler. In 1990, I was a contestant on MTV's second game show: Turn It Up! It was a youth-driven rip-off of Jeopardy! and Name That Tune. I think it aired only one season. It just didn't have the comedy of Remote Control. I used to really enjoy MTV many years ago. But around the mid to late 1990s I stopped watching. The network overdid it on all the stupid reality shows and other crap that didn't have one damned thing to do with "Music Television." And when they actually bothered to play any music videos it was almost nothing but Britney Spears bubble gum pop or "gangsta rap" videos that glorified violence, materialism and misogyny. VH1 has walked down the same path and turned into another output of MTV's no-music-video sludge. quote: James Westbrook In Lubbock, one must be in the digital tier of cable to receive the actual VIDEO channels, which includes some programmed by MTV networks. They must not do very well as I got to witness one of the VH1 networks get deactivated while I was on digital cable. You have to be in the upper tier of digital satellite service packages to get some of those same video only channels too. I just have the standard "Top 120" package from Dish Network. That just gives you MTV and VH1. At least FUSE is in there as an alternative. I think some of the music video only channels aren't doing all that great because the entire music industry itself isn't doing well at all either. So much of the music out there is just plain SHIT. It's the same flavor of crap we've been hearing for nearly the past 20 years with just a few minor adjustments and different people singing the same sounding junk. These days, when I want to see music videos I'm turning to the Internet more often. I can see lots of classic and new music videos on YouTube and at the web sites for most rock bands. YouTube can give exposure to bands who don't even have record deals yet. In the long run YouTube (and other similar video streaming services) could wind up disrupting a lot of the stale cultures entrenched within the music industry.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-15-2007 09:07 PM                     quote: Scott Norwood Do they even still show music videos? Yes, early in the morning when the kids are getting up for school.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 12-16-2007 01:05 AM                     MHD, MTV's HD channel shows music videos from 3am to 10am. One big problem - they have been pretty much showing the same set of videos for the last year. A lot of second rate country stuff. Then they repeat the same old music specials in the day. Even MOJOHD when it was INHD was a better music HD channel. I dont see why COMCAST even gives MHD any fees. They should just put their own HD music channel and save the rights fees. VH1 has become even trashier than MTV.  |  IP: Logged

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