Posted on 03/11/2005 12:23:25 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
MTV has been the death of anything that used to be good and worthwhile. They have entirely wayyyyy too much control over culture, our kids, and how horrible buying,watching, and listening to music has become.
They NEVER show videos except for 3 hr periods from 4 am til 7 am and even those are rotated and never played on the weekends. It is programs of teen and useless crap for hours on end. VH1 has become completely useless as a music video format. They show videos from 4 am til 10 am only and those are mixed up and repeated in that same rotation.
VH1 Classic has been the saving grace for years now but you can tell the vultures are getting their grips on the network when all of a sudden those VH1 Movies and programs are slipping in here and there into the schedule.
MTV ripped off the air one of the great digital cable channels at the time..MTVX. MTVX was all rock videos,hard rock,metal etc...people have NO PLACE AT ALL TO GO TO WATCH ROCK VIDEOS. So MTV pulled the channel and decided to make it MTV Jams which is geared all towards rap and hip-hop. They said there is no money in rock music at all.
They literally dictate what we the people should see and hear according to their tastes.
It's wrong and I can't wait for the day where people start standing up and demanding quality programming from music cable channels. So many great artists are buried before they are dead for no good reason other than MTV wouldn't make them popular.
If that doesn't get them to launch their nukes, nothing will.
I'm still waiting for MTV to launch a single channel aimed at Americans in the USA.
Good. Now the asian kids can be as stupid as the blacks, whites and hispanics.
Amen to that. Everything MTV touches turns to crap.
LMAO
http://www.petitiononline.com/mtvx1/petition.html
To: MTV, MTV Networks, Viacom Inc.
We the undersigned demand that MTV Networks/Viacom Inc. put MTVX (MTV ROCK VIDEOS)back on the air to cable and satellite networks that previously carried it. This is unfair to sacrifice one audience to pander to another. As paying cable/satellite subscribers, we have a right to get what we paid for. We have as much right to 24/7 rock videos as do other music fans have a right to spanish language/world, pop, and classic rock music.
Does that mean they're be a lot of mathmatecial videos?
:) I'm only kidding!
Been a while since I watched MTV.
that would be, "Ro! MTV"
unfortunately anything from petitiononline is laughed at in the corporate world
I wonder how dumbed down it will be. MTV India is good but somehow when they introduce things into America, it goes mushy.
I'm waiting for MTV to lauch a channel aimed at music fans.
I'm waiting for the day when I can subscribe to cable and not have to pay for MTV and any other Viacom channels.
"I'm waiting for MTV to lauch a channel aimed at music fans."
I hope you brought something to read and a change of clothes. It'll be a long wait. MTV ain't about music anymore. It's about urban youth "culture".
There's always hope for a comeback...
http://www.antimusic.com/sd/05/march.shtml
And reality tv...24-7.
Aaah, for the days of Headbanger's Ball...
Or Just watch the videos online....
http://music.yahoo.com/musicvideos/lists/byalpha.asp?l=M&p=24
Hm, if they're going to have a channel featuring Japanese and Korean artists, I know someone who might be interested.
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