It is not nearly what it was in the 80s.
You know ... people playing guitars, and drums, and singing? Music? Some of them even were a short movie illustrating the song. Imagine that!
Now it's mostly inane and obscene 'reality shows'.
Spike TV, I can remember when that was TNN (The Nashville Network). Not long ago, I was watching 1990s videos of TNN stuff somebody uploaded onto YouTube and feeling a little teary eyed after a while thinking about the days of when real country music and programming was on accompanied by just that little bit more sanity in American life (even in spite of WJC being in the White House).
Back in the 80s, before the Internet. for a Midwestern kid it was a portal to a world of (Britpop/Europop/New Wave) music that was difficult to find in the US outside of large cities. I have good memories of MTV in the early and mid-80s.
Palladia now fills that slot...................
It came about at the right time for me when I was 17 or 18 years old.
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.