[a fool in paradise]

GenX PING

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’m old enough to remember when MTV played music and the Comedy Channel was funny.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

For example, many of them watch "Jersey Shore" with their parents

LOL - wow. The one time I caught this collection of ugly steroid abusers and skanks on MTV, I was embarrassed for myself. I can't even imagine the kind of parenting relationship it would take for parents to regularly watch with their kids.

[autumnraine]

The problem is that MTV (who deserves credit for starting the reality show concept) has hung on for deal life to these shows replacing actual music.

Now granted, when they started these (and I am a Gen Xer and watched MTV from the day it started on until I got married-including LOVING the first season of The Real World and Beavis and Butthead) types of shows, the animation and reality show/contest, they were cutting edge. Now they are giving up valuable air time that could be used to attract teens by playing music and giving them a chance to glance at their teeny poster on the wall crush. Instead, they produce garbage (and I don’t say that because I’m an old fuddy duddy, but they have to get more and more outrageous to be considered ‘cutting edge’ and now are bordering on absurdly ridiculous) that is competing with 30 other channels showing stupid reality shows.

MTV, you want to be “cutting edge?” PLAY SOME MUSIC!

Oh, and the dumbest thing MTV EVER did was to start MTV2, supposedly to be the ‘music channel’ and within months they had moved to an all reality channel. So now they have TWO “music television” channels devoted to stupid reality TV. And we won’t go into VH1 and the Flavor of love stuff. (Although I do have to admit that I got kind of caught up in the hot mess that was Rock of Love)

All this being said... back in the day (God, I’m getting old) the ONLY way we had an opportunity to see (not just hear with a record or cassette) our favorite musicians was through MTV. With the internet, the video can be seen in the blink of an eye. So I have to give them that. However part of the awesomeness that was MTV was an exposure to new bands and new genres that you hadn’t heard before.

One last thing, they have a show called “16 and pregnant” which is obviously about teen pregnancy. Now at first I was upset about this show and especially that my 13 and 14 year old daughters heard about it and wanted to watch it. I have MTV blocked, so had to ask me. Well, I watched it and now I want them seeing it. They can see how unfun being a teen mom can be. I repeatedly tell them that the joy of being a mom is the same, if not better in your 20’s as it is in your teens. But you can’t get your teen and early 20’s back. So if you wait, you can have the pleasure of experiencing both.

[SkyPilot]

"music videos were the soundtrack of pop culture," but then the audience demanded "more genre shows," and MTV moved into animation, reality TV and social campaigns.

Bovine Scatology (BS).

MTV's execs simply moved their programming into the left's cultural sewer because they wanted to.

The network (and their subsequent award shows) are disgusting garbage.

Imagine. Just a few decades ago, MTV was a platform for the music of the likes of Tom Petty, The Who, and the Rolling Stones.

When it went "Ghetto", things started to go down quickly. Then it became a full time show for cultural "reality" dysfunction, sex, and a simmer cauldron of hatred for anything remotely related to morality.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I wish I were the president/CEO of Viacom!They own pretty much everything! Ca-ching!

[GenXteacher]

Wonder how that “constantly evolving” works- considering the end result is always brown and stinks.