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MTV is at death’s door
NY Post ^ | July 23, 2015 | Richard Morgan

Posted on 07/23/2015 12:43:54 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mtv; trashtv
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To: henkster

Guys like Peter Gabriel became big stars by way of MTV. It wasn’t my kind of music but I stared at it for hours on end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93mz_eZ5N4


81 posted on 07/23/2015 1:26:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: BlueLancer

I love Rock the Casbah. :-)


82 posted on 07/23/2015 1:27:37 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: mrsmel
"I liked the armadillo."

I've got enough of those digging up my back yard.

I do remember chasing armadillos and jackrabbits while driving M113 armored personnel carrier back in the '70s when I was stationed at Fort Hood with 2/12 Cav. Those little buggers were fast and, if you could keep up with their zigs and zags in an APC, you learned tactical maneuvering very quickly.

83 posted on 07/23/2015 1:27:58 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: dfwgator

Everyone knows the best drummer was Carl Palmer. And Jimmy Page was the best guitarist. ;)


84 posted on 07/23/2015 1:28:08 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: oh8eleven
The biggest swipe at management, though, was Juenger’s claim that the alleged death rattle could have been averted had Viacom spent the $14.5 billion devoted to share buybacks since January 2011 on assets to prepare the company for change. “Instead, with that cash, they could have acquired some combination of: Lionsgate, Starz, AMC Networks, and/or a handful of [YouTube-affiliated channels] such as Maker Studios,” he said.

Another company playing games to boost stock prices and enrich the major shareholders and executives instead of building a sustainable business. And when it all goes under, leaving thousands out of work, the executives will shrug, say they did all they could, and then go hit the golf course.

85 posted on 07/23/2015 1:28:45 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Ouderkirk

Hahahaha there hasn’t been Music on MTV in more than 20 years.


86 posted on 07/23/2015 1:29:05 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

$14.5 billion would have been thrown down the drain if they had done that stuff. They ruined themselves by moving so far left they have the homo agenda front and center on childrens sit-coms.

“Sustainable” is not the word for that drift.


87 posted on 07/23/2015 1:30:45 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: OttawaFreeper

I like Spike. Their Programming is geared to the Male Demographic.

I always watch the four Powernation Car Shows every Sunday morning and although I hate to admit it, I watch Bar Rescue and the To Catch a Contractor Shows as well.

Other times they show old Movies and I think they have the Contract for those Cage Fights. Not my cup of Tea.

I watch very little Alphabet Network programming.


88 posted on 07/23/2015 1:30:46 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the ony ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: cripplecreek

Ditto here.


89 posted on 07/23/2015 1:30:46 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: dfwgator
Yes, high school was full of discussions about who the better guitarist, drummer, etc. were.

Haha, yes there were many of those conversations. There was always strong support in the arguments between Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani at my high school.

90 posted on 07/23/2015 1:31:21 PM PDT by Marko413
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To: oh8eleven

For me the downfall of MTV began when Martha Quinn, one of the original VJs, left in 1993 and at the same time they began reducing music videos and running the show Real World in marathons. Then shows like Singled out began. I can’t recall everything, but the focus on music started to shift. For a time the channel was just aiming at teen pop stars, rap stars and at mass produced rock singers that came between 1995 and 2003 like idiot Limp Bizkit.


91 posted on 07/23/2015 1:31:27 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: dfwgator
Don't forget about the boys
92 posted on 07/23/2015 1:32:13 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: oh8eleven

I think they’re declining because white privilege is dying.


93 posted on 07/23/2015 1:32:19 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: henkster

Zappa pretty much nailed MTV here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgVUei2853A


94 posted on 07/23/2015 1:32:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: oh8eleven

Two wasted generations later? Damage is so extensive, I’m not sure it’s reversible.


95 posted on 07/23/2015 1:32:42 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: cripplecreek

Shock the Monkey


96 posted on 07/23/2015 1:33:29 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

the 80s

It was really neat to see those bands (I always think of Bob Seeger when I hear the song, video killed the radio star) and the variety of the videos they produced. Really liked the one by Robert Plant- Big Log (my lifes in league with a freeway) - have not seen it since 85 but understand it is not what it was.


97 posted on 07/23/2015 1:33:41 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Rock the Casbah - The Clash

I had a friend back then who argued that the lyrics were

"F___ the gas pump,
F___ the gas pump..."

98 posted on 07/23/2015 1:34:01 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: GeronL

Maybe that’s what it is, as CPC rates are based on a thousand views. Still, VEVO alone is generating $350 million a year in revenue (and growing) so that’s a lot of nickels and a lot of views!


99 posted on 07/23/2015 1:35:11 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: oh8eleven

unicast & multicast is killing broadcast


100 posted on 07/23/2015 1:35:53 PM PDT by tophat9000 (SCOTUS=Newspeak)
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