Yeah. But before it did when there were accusations that MTV didn't play black videos, I always loved watching Rick James bitch and complain that MTV wasn't giving him enough air time.
The story is that Michael Jackson's record company bullied MTV into playing "Billie Jean" by threatening to withhold some of their other major artist's (which Michael Jackson was not , yet)videos. MTV didn't want to as they were a rock channel, but they folded, and that was the end.