MTV's Big Change

[TheQueen]

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MTV is embracing change. In nearly three decades on the air, almost everything about the cable network -- from its programming, to its focus, to its place in popular culture -- has changed with the times, except for its famous tagline, "Music television." Recently, the network quietly unveiled a new logo which has dropped the tagline entirely, indicating that MTV itself is leaving its original mission of an all-music channel in the dust.

http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/mtvs-big-change--981

[figmentmom]

I still remember watching the first video they ever played - the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" - and boy oh boy, was MTV fun those first few years!!!!

Now, fuggheddaboudit. :rollseyes :goofy

[ogryn]

It's funny. Our main MTV channel recently reverted from "MTV ONE" to plain ol' MTV, and started playing more music shows (official charts, top xx of artist, MTV World Stage concerts). That's in addition to MTV2, Hits, Base, Dance, VH1, VH1 Classic and Viva. Although we have MTV(R) in the entertainment section of the EPG which handles a lot of the reality crap for us.

[figmentmom]

It's funny. Our main MTV channel recently reverted from "MTV ONE" to plain ol' MTV, and started playing more music shows (official charts, top xx of artist, MTV World Stage concerts). That's in addition to MTV2, Hits, Base, Dance, VH1, VH1 Classic and Viva. Although we have MTV(R) in the entertainment section of the EPG which handles a lot of the reality crap for us.

Back in the good old days :lol, MTV was one music video after another, around the clock. I still remember the original veejays vividly. Great stuff! The beginning of the end was the first season of "The Real World."

[Tom]

Back in the good old days :lol, MTV was one music video after another, around the clock. I still remember the original veejays vividly. Great stuff! The beginning of the end was the first season of "The Real World."

I thought it was "Yo, MTV Raps"

[Doug11]

Beevis and Butthead - the beginning of the end. Looking back on it, that was a hilarious show.

[figmentmom]

Well, I guess they all contributed, then. :lol

[ogryn]

In a multi-channel world, MTV doesn't *need* to be showing music videos 24/7. There are other splinter channels for that. However that doesn't mean it should be 100% entertainment shows. There is a place for those, hell I loved Beavis & Butthead, Jackass, Dirty Sanchez... liked Pimp My Ride, but don't stray too far from what got you there to start with.

I saw the other day they were trying to sell their Times Square Studios where TRL used to broadcast from.

[Tom]

In a multi-channel world, MTV doesn't *need* to be showing music videos 24/7. There are other splinter channels for that.

Au contraire! Those other channels do play their select videos; however, there are still commercials, and there are still "other shows," that are not videos.

NOTHING will ever be what MTV was in the early 1980s. :cry

[Computer Magic]

Well, I guess they all contributed, then. :lolI thought it was Remote Control :D


Although the Real World did change the way we watched TV. I think it was the first "reality" TV

[BeeJay]

Beavis and Butthead made fun of the music videos, though. They were like (a much dumber) Statler and Waldorf, basically lobbing insults at everything MTV was about.

Idiotic as that show was, I agree that it's still really funny to watch.

[figmentmom]

NOTHING will ever be what MTV was in the early 1980s. :cry

So true. MTV was so different from anything else on TV at the time, and the programming was GREAT.


Although the Real World did change the way we watched TV. I think it was the first "reality" TV

Yes, and just look at what it eventually spawned! Snookie, anyone? :ew :rotfl

[pinkrose]

I miss the origional MTV . All music video's, 24hrs a day. I think video's were better back then as well.

Here's part one of the very first hour of MTV :love I think there are 6 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw6xesXLIAA

[figmentmom]

I miss the origional MTV . All music video's, 24hrs a day. I think video's were better back then as well.

Here's part one of the very first hour of MTV :love I think there are 6 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw6xesXLIAA

I love one of the comments posted: "...reality killed the video star..."

Unfortunately, so true.

[Tom]

Back in the good old days :lol, MTV was one music video after another, around the clock. I still remember the original veejays vividly. Great stuff! The beginning of the end was the first season of "The Real World."


I thought it was "Yo, MTV Raps"


Beevis and Butthead - the beginning of the end. Looking back on it, that was a hilarious show.


I thought it was Remote Control :D


Although the Real World did change the way we watched TV. I think it was the first "reality" TV

I guess the cracks started in the late 80s (?).

Fall of 1985, I started college, so I was concentrating way more on coursework than MTV.

[Doug11]

Just the opposite for me. MTV was the background music of my college years. If we weren't doing anything, or studying, the TV was on MTV. Before MTV, I never thought there was a need for a television to be hooked into a stereo system. After, I can't imagine the television NOT hooked into a stereo receiver.

[figmentmom]

MTV was the background music of those early years of marriage, and, a bit later, those nights of staying up with fussy newborns. And you're exactly right about the speakers, Doug. :D