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Post by CAwasinNJ on May 23, 2009 20:59:20 GMT -6
Does anyone disagree with the statement that MTV has officially given up any pretense about being a music channel? Tonight they're running two Star Wars movies.
Yes, I know they really haven't been MTV for a long time, but at least for a while the not-really-music programming they were running had some connection to musicians if not music itself. Now....forget it.
Maybe we can get The Buggles to write "Reality Killed the MTV Star".
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Post by dxstuboy on May 23, 2009 23:14:39 GMT -6
Just as I read this, I have access to cable and am seeing this too. Come on, there must be something more entertaining to watch.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on May 25, 2009 1:30:37 GMT -6
The Star Wars movies are fine with me. It's the location that bothers me.
Oh, and there were more Sunday. Blech.
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Post by dxstuboy on May 25, 2009 12:43:26 GMT -6
I meant MTV has to have something more entertaining to program. Now are they going to be the "Movie" Television station?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on May 25, 2009 17:00:31 GMT -6
I don't have a clue. I'm not sure they do either. That's the problem. They have a brand and they aren't following it. It's not really that different from radio. When someone has a brand people expect that brand when they tune in. *sigh*
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Post by thebaldone on May 31, 2009 19:38:07 GMT -6
MTV seems to have NO focus. Unfortunately the teenagers still think that everything on MTV is cool. I guess us old folks are just out of touch, or we have a bigger mess on our hands with our youth and the Crap they think is good.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on May 31, 2009 21:01:59 GMT -6
MTV seems to have NO focus. Unfortunately the teenagers still think that everything on MTV is cool. I guess us old folks are just out of touch, or we have a bigger mess on our hands with our youth and the Crap they think is good. That's what every generation since our grandparents have said. We survive. At least there's some decent music out today. There was a good period in the 90's where it was hard to find anything new that was decent. |
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Post by moundofsound on Jun 5, 2009 12:40:31 GMT -6
You could also make this argument for the sister network with ease. VH1's logo should be "Music LAST!"
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 5, 2009 22:03:43 GMT -6
Oh yes. But at least they haven't used that slogan for years. They came up with that one of those times when some genius realized that there wasn't any music on the music channels and tried to refocus it. That was happening every 2-4 years or so during the 90's. Then a few non-music shows would creep in, then a few more and a few more until they took over the network. Then they clean house and start over. Lather Rinse Repeat. Wikipedia says "Music First" showed up in '94, but I'm pretty sure it was '95. Either way that was ages ago. I think that even "My Generation" had been canned by that point. Anyone remember that?
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