MTV is at death’s door

NY Post ^ | July 23, 2015 | Richard Morgan

[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.

[cripplecreek]

You can also watch full concerts on youtube, Vevo and others.

[Mozilla]

Nick has resorted to promoting TV Land programming opn their channel in prime time by sometimes playing the same shows to cross promote.

[mrsmel]

I have noted to myself that the members of YES, some of the most gifted musicians in rock music history, couldn’t get a second look these days, because their musical virtuosity would be discounted because they don’t look like some emasculated twit (Justin Bieber et al), or some hoochie trash female (Miley Cyrus et al).

[BlueLancer]

"It's not possible to enjoy that song."

Oh, I don't know ... I particularly like the phrase "drop your bombs between the minarets down the Casbah way", and they show .. what I like to think of as Israeli .. Phantoms flying overhead.

My clearest memory of the newscasts from the Six-Day War in '67 were the Israeli Phantoms with their Star of David crest on them.

Video is in the eye of the beholder ...

[Lazamataz]

I have a TV that almost never is turned on. It’s huge. 60 inches or so.

I need to find a way to make it into a computer monitor.

[NorthMountain]

Good point.

IMO, the “Diva” is the worst thing to happen to popular music. (Rap isn’t music.)

[GeronL]

MTV Korea

http://www.mtvk.com/

SBS MTV in Korea

http://www.mtv.co.kr/

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wait... are these 2 different channels...

[Mozilla]

If you like music Vh-1 Classic in SD and Palladia in HD offer music programming. But Vh-1, MTV and MTV2 are not good.

[Marko413]

I loved MTV in the 80s. They lost me some time in the 90s when they stopped showing music videos, which was strange since they are called “Music Television”.

[mrsmel]

Oh wow. I didn’t know that as in spite of the fact that I love their music from their heyday, I go out of my way to not know what’s happening in pop culture.

[dfwgator]

Yes, high school was full of discussions about who the better guitarist, drummer, etc. were.

[mrsmel]

I liked the armadillo.

[henkster]

Indeed. Squire, and Yes, were proof of my point. Musicians...in a tight, cohesive band, writing and playing real music. I saw Yes twice in their 1978 "Tour in the Round." They were so good.

MTV killed Chris Squire. J'Accuse!.

[NorthMountain]

Does it have an HDMI or DVI port?

[jumpingcholla34]

Martha Quinn was a cutie in those days.

[Political Junkie Too]

LOL! I was away last week with the next generation Disney phenom Zendaya's grandmother, telling her not to let her granddaughter become the next Miley Cyrus. It's clear to me that Zendaya comes from a completely different family upbringing than the Cyruses.

-PJ

[Viking2002]

MTV started to lose my interest when grunge became the next 'big' thing. Gone were the 80's clothes, hairstyles, music, and party attitudes. The novelty wore off quick when a gaggle of morose, flannel-clad pseudo-hippies from the Northwest dominated every minute of airtime and TV and terrestrial radio. By the time Beavis and Butthead was cancelled, I was already over the horizon.

[dfwgator]

Daisy Fuentes....SCHWING!

[Mozilla]

At this point VH-1 Classic runs music videos at various times on its schedule and Palladia has concerts and music programming in HD. It’s like it all left to those sister networks. While CMT is lessening the music videos so they have CMT Pure, which some providers do not offer. So you are stuck if no CMT Pure with when GAC runs videos or overnights on CMT. If country music videos is your thing.

[Clintonfatigued]

I don’t want my MTV.

The channel should change its name. It doesn’t play music anymore. How about “Stupid reality shows for pathetic fame whores TV”?