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MTV 25th anniversary

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Is MTV doing anything at all for their 25th anniversary comming up?
 
Just checked the listing for August 1st at tvguide.com and there's not even a hint of 25th anniversary anything. :(

Guess that means I won't be watching...as usual.
 
The only celebration for MTV's 25th is their annual Video Music Awards...which, after spending two years in Miami (last year's show was threatened by Hurricane Katrina), returns to New York on August 31 -- and on a Thursday!

Jonathan Allen
 
VH1 Classic will be doing an all day special on August 1st, starting at midnight. They will be airing clips from MTVs first day as well as airing other related specials.
 
I don't think they want to admit to the world that they are supposed to be a channel who's original mission statement was a video version of radio with VJ's introducing music. What's it been now about 15 years since the last day of music videos 24 hours a day?

(watching the tube on WTXX DT-2 more since it signed on than I have MTV in the last few years)
 
There's nothing fancy about The Tube. At least they're playing music and rarely, if ever, have an outside commercial. :)
 
No, nothing fancy, they just are doing what MTV used to claim, video music 24 hours a day. I do with they have a bit more current music, not too much though.
 
From the VH1 classic website

VH1 Classic to Air First Day of MTV
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of MTV, VH1 Classic will be airing the entire first day of MTV programming. Tune in starting at Midnight on Tuesday, August 1st, and again at 9AM on Saturday, August 5th.
 
It figures that VH1 would air anything that is associated with MTV. Why doesn't MTV host its own 25th anniversary celebration? It would be like MTV hosting an anniversary party for VH1 or CMT hosting an anniversary party for whatever. But since I mentioned it about Viacom's programming,TV Land hosted a 20th anniversary deal for Nick at Nite and Nick at Nite didn't show any programming that they aired in 1985.

Besides that,I hate MTV now more than ever,I haven't even watched their programming since the late 90's at best. And I haven't watched any of Nick at Nite's or CMT's programming since they turned Nick at Nite into the Roseanne channel,then with CMT showing reality shows all the time.
 
Braves2005 said:
It figures that VH1 would air anything that is associated with MTV. Why doesn't MTV host its own 25th anniversary celebration? It would be like MTV hosting an anniversary party for VH1 or CMT hosting an anniversary party for whatever. But since I mentioned it about Viacom's programming,TV Land hosted a 20th anniversary deal for Nick at Nite and Nick at Nite didn't show any programming that they aired in 1985.

Besides that,I hate MTV now more than ever,I haven't even watched their programming since the late 90's at best. And I haven't watched any of Nick at Nite's or CMT's programming since they turned Nick at Nite into the Roseanne channel,then with CMT showing reality shows all the time.
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It really wouldn't make sense for MTV to blow out their normal programming for a 25th anniversary celebration when their target audience is about half as old as the network itself. The Buggles, clips of VJs, the moon launch top-of-the-hour ID--none of it means anything to the audience, so why not go where the people who actually remember that era of MTV may be?

I was part of the original MTV generation, so I absolutely miss the "original" MTV and can't stomach what it is now, but it's not supposed to be for us. They're programming for today's teens, not '80s teens.
 
DJKraze said:
No, nothing fancy, they just are doing what MTV used to claim, video music 24 hours a day. I do with they have a bit more current music, not too much though.
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Whoa, I guess I need to fully wake up before posting, let me translate:

No, nothing fancy, they just are doing the same thing that MTV used to claim, video music 24 hours a day. I do wish they would have a bit more current music, not too much though.
 
i don't get why mtv is still called mtv, what they should do is make a channel named mtv reality or ttv (teen tv) and make mtv and mtv2 all music again
 
Personally--I DON'T GIVE A FLYING ****. For most of my life without cable I had no MTV, and frankly MTV doesn't rep a 32-year-old like myself. They are all about degradation of culture and like say CNN if I had my way, MTV would be gone--nothing but color bars.
 
The only true 24-hour music channel I have access to anymore is The Tube, which is available on WTXX-DT (WB) Waterbury/Hartford channel 12-2, a.k.a. "20-2". It's a shame that MTV has to turn their back on the past this way. CNN and ESPN did plenty with their 25th anniversaries. Shame on you MTV! :(
 
Posted by: Kevin Lagasse
The only true 24-hour music channel I have access to anymore is The Tube, which is available on WTXX-DT (WB) Waterbury/Hartford channel 12-2, a.k.a. "20-2". It's a shame that MTV has to turn their back on the past this way. CNN and ESPN did plenty with their 25th anniversaries. Shame on you MTV!
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Do you also get The Tube on WGGB-40 (55) DT-2?
 
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060731/D8J72UA00.html

"No one knows how to throw a party like MTV. So there must be quite a bash planned for Aug. 1, celebrating 25 years on the air. Right? Sorry. MTV is staying in that night. There are no plans to even mention the birthday.

"When your average viewer is 20 years old - too young to remember Martha Quinn, not even born when Madonna buckled on her "boy toy" belt - perhaps it's wise not to mention you're 25. MTV wants to be the perpetual adolescent. On a relentless mission to stay hip, MTV casually discards generations. Yesterday, "Beavis and Butt-head." Today, "Laguna Beach." "

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"Hi! I'm your video DJ!
I always sound like I'm wonked out on Quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
My job is to help destroy
What's left of your imagination
By feeding you endless doses
Of sugar-coated, mindless, garbage!

So don't create, be sedate
Be a vegetable at home and thwack on that dial
If we have our way, even you will believe
THIS is the future of ROCK'N'ROLL!"

--Dead Kennedys, "MTV Get Off The Air"
 
Press release
VH1 Classic is paying tribute to the historic impact MTV has had on music and pop culture over the last 25 years by airing the first 24 hours of programming from MTV's August 1, 1981 network debut. The day of celebration will begin on Monday, July 31 at 12:00 midnight with the first video that started a music revolution, The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star." The 24-hour historic marathon will run through Tuesday, August 1. From the songs that stood the test of time to the ones that haven't, all are sure to spark some spandex-tinted memories as they are brought back to life for this one-day event.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060719/nyw027.html?.v=64
 
And how did MTV really celebrate their 25th?

Simple: They announced the nominations for this year's Video Music Awards, which is of course the channel's biggest event of the year (much like how Wrestlemania is for the WWE). Maybe a 25th anniversary medley could be in the works for the big show on August 31.
 
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