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I want my MTV!
- Thread starter dgendvil
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Of course, if MTV or its sisters decide to celebrate by replaying the first hour of MTV, maybe they should consider going by what REALLY happened on that first day:
http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/therealfirstday.html
http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/therealfirstday.html
It was cool because there were so few people making videos at first, MTV played anything. I recall when Olivia Newton-John did her Physical special on ABC and it consisted nothing more than a video from each song off the Physical album, it was considered so "the future"
After MTV got popular they skewed a lot and stopped playing videos by anyone, because everyone was making them they could pick and choose. I mean I recall seeing Cliff Richard and Sylvia (the country artist who's big pop hit was "Nobody") on MTV. Can you imagine either one being on MTV today, or even similar artists.
Of course with YouTube, the demand for such videos is less, because a lot of artists have their "official" videos there or on MySpace (still good for music) and people can pick and choose.
After MTV got popular they skewed a lot and stopped playing videos by anyone, because everyone was making them they could pick and choose. I mean I recall seeing Cliff Richard and Sylvia (the country artist who's big pop hit was "Nobody") on MTV. Can you imagine either one being on MTV today, or even similar artists.
Of course with YouTube, the demand for such videos is less, because a lot of artists have their "official" videos there or on MySpace (still good for music) and people can pick and choose.
After the 1980s I turned off MTV for good and never missed it.
Occasional shows like "Just Say Julie," "Half-Hour Comedy Hour" and the "Remote Control" game show were funny but after that came the 90s and with it,less music videos and the emergence of "The Real World"..it is now a wasted channel as is the original VH-1 sister channel. It was all about the music ...not the celebrity/reality/gossip tabloid type trash that is on now.
Occasional shows like "Just Say Julie," "Half-Hour Comedy Hour" and the "Remote Control" game show were funny but after that came the 90s and with it,less music videos and the emergence of "The Real World"..it is now a wasted channel as is the original VH-1 sister channel. It was all about the music ...not the celebrity/reality/gossip tabloid type trash that is on now.
MTV is a channel that has hopelessly lost it's way.
I don't expect things to ever stay the same, but what this channel has become compared what it started out as is unexcuseable.
And yes, I do like Beavis & Butt-head. But at least they poked fun at some music videos. So it is music related in that sense. I don't see the point with all the other crap.
I could see creating a sister channel for all this teenage tabloid "reality" garbage. But honestly, the music BELONGS on the main MTV channel. It's in it's very name..........
I don't expect things to ever stay the same, but what this channel has become compared what it started out as is unexcuseable.
And yes, I do like Beavis & Butt-head. But at least they poked fun at some music videos. So it is music related in that sense. I don't see the point with all the other crap.
I could see creating a sister channel for all this teenage tabloid "reality" garbage. But honestly, the music BELONGS on the main MTV channel. It's in it's very name..........
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imhomerjay
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The first thing I think is it doesn't matter in the least if the original MTV generation likes what the channel is now, or fails to grasp why they've evolved in the way they have (like how this here interweb doohickey makes the concept of a music video channel one step north of pointless).
What matters is that they have, in a world that has gone from 30-ish to 300-ish channels, managed to generally be successful in appealing to successive generations of the target age group. Van Halen and Madonna music videos were no more high-minded to 1981's old fogies than the shows MTV now airs are to today's fogies.
What matters is that they have, in a world that has gone from 30-ish to 300-ish channels, managed to generally be successful in appealing to successive generations of the target age group. Van Halen and Madonna music videos were no more high-minded to 1981's old fogies than the shows MTV now airs are to today's fogies.
imhomerjay said:
It honestly doesn't matter to me at all what the music is. The main MTV channel was supposed to evolve musically with every current generation. But what they are doing now isn't even CLOSE to music.
But I hear they have a more appropriate logo now
http://blog.rebellen.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MTV-WTF.jpg
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flashback
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bongwater makes a good statement.
the point of MTV was music for a generation.i wouldn`t expect to watch it much if it continued with todays music but would be fine.
to me the bad thing is that MTV went from a music channel to whatever it is but anything but music.
the point of MTV was music for a generation.i wouldn`t expect to watch it much if it continued with todays music but would be fine.
to me the bad thing is that MTV went from a music channel to whatever it is but anything but music.
Cable operators thought the Weather Channel had more demand than MTV
http://fredseibert.com/post/502390691/i-want-my-mtv-part-3
http://fredseibert.com/post/502390691/i-want-my-mtv-part-3
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EZway2go
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flashback said:
Yep... Do you think Snookie and The Situation will be as fondly remembered 30 years from now as Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, and J.J. Jackson?
EZway2go said:
Probably not. Partly, that's because the original Veejays represented something new in a way that's no longer the case for anything on MTV. But it's mostly because a 300 channel universe tends to mean that nothing is going to be as special and fondly remembered as what we remember from the days when we had access to anywhere between 3 and 20 channels (depending on where you live).
Much as I dislike what MTV ("Miscellaneous Television") has become, this is nothing particularly unique to that channel. Is anyone going to have particularly fond memories of *any* of the current cable networks in the same way that we have fond memories of the independent TV stations, superstations, and early cable networks that we grew up with? I seriously doubt it...again because the current environment isn't conducive to it -- there's just so much more to choose from now that nothing is really all that special or exciting.
ssetta said:
A lot of early TV game shows and sports were commonly wiped until the 70s, did that tape come from MTV or did they track down someone who posted that on youtube?
ercjncpr said:
NO.I do not want my MRealitycrapTV.No MTV Networks dont want to screw up their reality crap schedule with good programming.
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FreddyE1977
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dgendvil said:
I did not actually get to see it for about another year and a half, since Pittsburgh was so late in getting cable due to all of the political infighting and bickering about the franchise. And I lived in a part of town where the geography was pretty rugged, so we were among the last of the last to get it.
Some of my classmates from a part of town that did have cable started talking about "Channel 71" at my high school.
MTV was on Channel 71 on the old Warner QUBE system. But I really had no clear idea what Channel 71 was.
I remember when we did finally get QUBE my dad absolutely HATED MTV! Especially the video for "Mexican Radio" for some reason.
ercjncpr said:
It probably wouldn't have held much appeal to their target demographic, which is pretty much teenagers and twenty somethings. It would interest those folks about as much as an hour of music clips from 1951 would have appealed to me in 1981 (when MTV launched and I was well inside their target demo).
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flashback
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its a shame MTV did not even acknowledge the occasion on its main channel.its like they are ashamed of how they started even though it was popular and if it was not for the music video thing MTV would not be here now.
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