Lila
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Post by Lila on Jan 26, 2014 16:52:28 GMT -5
My god, MTV used to be amazing. Remember when Spring Break week on MTV was the thing to watch/go to back in the late 90s and early 00s?
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 26, 2014 16:53:33 GMT -5
I think Remote Control started in 1988 or 89. Besides by the mid 90's thing the "nothing but music thing was bunk" when MTV was airing "Beavis and Butt head", "The State" and "The Jon Stewart Show" regularly just to name a few non-music video based programs. That doesn't even consider "The Real World" which after the San Francisco season (AKA The Puck/Pedro season) became a pop culture phenomenon for a couple of years.
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Jan 26, 2014 18:27:19 GMT -5
For the record, MTV is currently more music-friendly now than it's been in a long time. Even in their non-music based programming, whenever a song is used or heard in the background, it gets credited at the bottom of the screen, which it's never been before. That means a wider variety of credited music is in rotation on MTV now than there's been since the 80s.
Plus, you have to feel for the network to a degree. Because of the industry bleeding money, legislation had to be passed 3-4 years ago that said MTV had to pay royalties for each video they broadcasted. Prior to that, MTV operated in the legal grey area that said it was free promotion, as opposed to the labels supplying them with free content. Thus, MTV has to pay publishing costs.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2014 19:55:46 GMT -5
For the record, MTV is currently more music-friendly now than it's been in a long time. Even in their non-music based programming, whenever a song is used or heard in the background, it gets credited at the bottom of the screen, which it's never been before. That means a wider variety of credited music is in rotation on MTV now than there's been since the 80s. I appreciate the song credits a lot because they're usually independent artists (really, who isn't one these days? heh), so they're getting exposure. Plus there's more variety in the background music, so we don't have to hear the intro to "The Funeral" a million times a day.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jan 27, 2014 0:22:20 GMT -5
I don't mind MTV as it is, but I do think there needs to be a bigger emphasis on MUSIC. MTV should be the network having the "win a recording contract" contest shows, not the Big Four. Why not have a reality show chronicling the struggles of an aspiring artist or highlighting the life of an indy band? They have shows like that, but they don't put their muscle behind them like they do for their teen D'botch shows. Wanna hear something even more crazy that flat out couldn't exist today? The Box Music Television, a channel that would show listings of what music videos were out, and people would call in and pay like 2-3 bucks for a music video to be shown, and it would be shown. Mostly rap videos would be called in, or dennis leary's "asshole". Where I'm from, the type if TV you had dictated what videos got played on The Box. Rock videos dominated the cable version of The Box and rap and R&B dominated the regular TV version of The Box.
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