Posted on 12/06/2004 1:51:24 PM PST by unknownblogger
I recently read an article online stating that record company Universal is looking into starting their own music channel to compete with MTV. Apparently, the company is tired of giving videos to MTV for practically no cost, then watching as the channel runs episodes of "The Real World" and "Pimp My Ride" for hours on end. Warner has also expressed interest in a new channel.
The whole point of the labels giving MTV videos is so they can gain exposure, but since the videos aren't getting much airtime, the recording industry is threatening to make MTV start paying for music. I know it's ironic that MTV would be second on the list after KaZaA users, but that's beside the point. MTV only pays for exclusivity rights (in other words, so Fuse can't air those videos), but if a video is only going to air before noon and after midnight, it's no wonder the labels want them to start paying up. I recently TiVoed a 3-hour block of music videos to see what the big deal was...
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MTV cancelled their inauguration party/ball this year. I wonder why?
The sooner it dies the better. I'm in the generation that was in high school when M-TV premiered. I didn't get it then, I certainly don't get it now, and now it seems to be even less 'music' television than 'deviant lifestyles of the unbathed' television. The sooner it gets replaced with the Ceramic Cat Network the better.
I enjoyed "Headbanger's Ball" on MTV back in the day, but that's about it. There's no more MUSIC on MUSIC Television, anyway. What happened to Dokken, Van Halen, Skid Row, Motley Crue and all that?
Yeah, I still watch Headbanger's Ball on MTV2.
MTV is like Microsoft. They've gotten the arrogance of being number 1 too long.
They need some real competition.
Nice freepname!
I don't get MTV2, unfortunately.
Nice freepname!
I don't get MTV2, unfortunately.
If you are going to be a blogger breaking news, you need to checkout MSNBC's interview with MTV's parent CEO Sumner Redstone of Viacom from yesterday in which he blatantly lied about being a pro-Bush supporter...then compare it to the public records on opensecrets.org for his Campaign 2004 political donations. Here, I've done the hard work for you below. Now go forth and be a blogger hero by "breaking" this story...
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Music videos was actually a pretty neat idea.
Yep, I watched MTV from 82-84, and it was great. And then I had other fish to fry, they started playing with the format, and I quit.
Now I don't watch any TV, and I listen to Celtic music...the world is different!
c#9 & #10
I remember when MTV was Music Television – and actually had music.
c#9
LOL...MUD
Watch "Metal Mania" on VH-1 Classic. All those bands are there - every Saturday night for two hours.
The new Headbanger's Ball on MTV2 is mostly nu-metal, Cookie Monster-vocals, and New York hardcore bands...with a few exceptions there isn't much real metal at all.
I used to watch Headbanger's Ball every weekend. Three hours of Queen, Stryper, Teg Nugent, Poison...it was great. But that was circa 1985, 86, 87.
Hopefully they'll cancel in 2009 and 2013 too.
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