Posted on 07/23/2015 12:43:54 PM PDT by oh8eleven
Viacom is vulnerable in that many of its networks, including MTV, Nickelodeon and Spike, target youngsters — “the segment of the population that’s most rapidly and definitively abandoning linear TV,” according to the analyst.
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Guys like Peter Gabriel became big stars by way of MTV. It wasn’t my kind of music but I stared at it for hours on end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93mz_eZ5N4
I love Rock the Casbah. :-)
I've got enough of those digging up my back yard.
I do remember chasing armadillos and jackrabbits while driving M113 armored personnel carrier back in the '70s when I was stationed at Fort Hood with 2/12 Cav. Those little buggers were fast and, if you could keep up with their zigs and zags in an APC, you learned tactical maneuvering very quickly.
Everyone knows the best drummer was Carl Palmer. And Jimmy Page was the best guitarist. ;)
Another company playing games to boost stock prices and enrich the major shareholders and executives instead of building a sustainable business. And when it all goes under, leaving thousands out of work, the executives will shrug, say they did all they could, and then go hit the golf course.
Hahahaha there hasn’t been Music on MTV in more than 20 years.
$14.5 billion would have been thrown down the drain if they had done that stuff. They ruined themselves by moving so far left they have the homo agenda front and center on childrens sit-coms.
“Sustainable” is not the word for that drift.
I like Spike. Their Programming is geared to the Male Demographic.
I always watch the four Powernation Car Shows every Sunday morning and although I hate to admit it, I watch Bar Rescue and the To Catch a Contractor Shows as well.
Other times they show old Movies and I think they have the Contract for those Cage Fights. Not my cup of Tea.
I watch very little Alphabet Network programming.
Ditto here.
Haha, yes there were many of those conversations. There was always strong support in the arguments between Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani at my high school.
For me the downfall of MTV began when Martha Quinn, one of the original VJs, left in 1993 and at the same time they began reducing music videos and running the show Real World in marathons. Then shows like Singled out began. I can’t recall everything, but the focus on music started to shift. For a time the channel was just aiming at teen pop stars, rap stars and at mass produced rock singers that came between 1995 and 2003 like idiot Limp Bizkit.
I think they’re declining because white privilege is dying.
Two wasted generations later? Damage is so extensive, I’m not sure it’s reversible.
Shock the Monkey
the 80s
It was really neat to see those bands (I always think of Bob Seeger when I hear the song, video killed the radio star) and the variety of the videos they produced. Really liked the one by Robert Plant- Big Log (my lifes in league with a freeway) - have not seen it since 85 but understand it is not what it was.
I had a friend back then who argued that the lyrics were
"F___ the gas pump,
F___ the gas pump..."
Maybe that’s what it is, as CPC rates are based on a thousand views. Still, VEVO alone is generating $350 million a year in revenue (and growing) so that’s a lot of nickels and a lot of views!
unicast & multicast is killing broadcast
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