MTV---Rembember when it was cool?

[Ashwyn]

Just for the sake of accuracy, MTV does still play videos. It's only a third of the daily schedule, but there you go.

 

[Desdichado]

Not just Remote control, but Real World (the first one) as well. They started the long death of MTV.

Yep, I agree. Real World and Beavis & Butthead were later than Remote Control, but they are what changed the slow decline of MTV into a headlong lemming-like dash for the edge of the cliff.

 

[reveal]

Just for the sake of accuracy, MTV does still play videos. It's only a third of the daily schedule, but there you go.

Today's MTV Schedule (from tvguide.com):

7am-9am - Videos
9am - Midnight - Not Videos
Midnight - 7am - Videos

So, ya, in a 24 hour period 38% of the time is dedicated to videos.

 

[Desdichado]

Today's MTV Schedule (from tvguide.com):

7am-9am - Videos
9am - Midnight - Not Videos
Midnight - 7am - Videos

So, ya, in a 24 hour period 38% of the time is dedicated to videos.

Yes, but those are the times when nobody is watching MTV too, keep in mind.

 

[reveal]

Yes, but those are the times when nobody is watching MTV too, keep in mind.

Oh I know. I was just trying to point out that, yeah, they play videos for more than a 1/3 of the day but at times that, as you pointed out, no one is watching it. Most people in the age group that MTV targets get up after 9am, or can't watch TV before 9am, and if they are awake after midnight, they're probably not sitting around watching MTV.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

They have music videos on MTV?!?!?!?!?!

Who'd'a'thunk that?!?! They have too much non-videos programming on that I've pretty much quit watching MTV unless it's in the mid-morning when they *do* have a few vids on.

 

[GentleGiant]

While I doubt that you guys across the pond ever saw these shows, the ones I miss the most (on MTV Europe) - besides the music video's, of course - are the ones with Ray Cokes as the VJ. Ray's Request and MTV's Most Wanted were the greatest shows ever on MTV.
To give you an idea of the shows, let me quote Ray himself:

I think that you can explain the success of Most Wanted very easily. The programme is a relief between all those other pre-recorded shows. It introduces viewers to the reality: Most Wanted has some kind of 'Hey! Everyone makes mistakes. MTV VJ's aren't as special as you might think. Look I'm losing my hair and I tell bad jokes!' We show that MTV isn't a smooth running machine, but a channel that makes many mistakes. I find that human aspect very important.

During the Most Wanted days I received 2000 letters a day, of which 75 to 80% were from female viewers. I read most of them and I discovered that you can put most of the writers in 3 categories:

• 14 to 17 year-olds that see me as some kind of pop star. They write that they find the show brilliant and they ask me if I want to marry them.
• 18 to 24 year-olds react more to the things discussed or asked on the show. Or they write in with tips and constructive criticism that I take very seriously.
• Writers who describe in great detail how they want to spend a night with me and they attach a revealing photo. Maybe it's my own fault for flirting with the viewers.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

I'm glad this thread got the support it has. Thanks. Now I just found that Mariah Carey is going to perform at the Video Music Awards! She was just on the Movie Awards; shouldn't that have been enough? Mariah Carey and movie awards are two things that don't go together! I didn't watch the Movie Awards this year because of Mariah; now that whiny talentless freak had to ruin the VMAs. And MTV's awrards were the only things on during the summer.

I don't want my MTV anymore.....

 

[Laurel]

MTV at one time was the thing to watch... then it went to tv shows instead of music, and finally tv shows that had very little to nothign to do with music. And so they put MTV2 out there, and it played music videos for a short while... but even that could not last apparently.

So now they are the disney channel for high school through early college.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I have a solution:

Sirus Sat. Radio!

or XM I suppose, but i prefer Sirius.

I might be working for them soon.

If you catch a show by a DJ named Demos, give him a call and say Arthur said Hi!

He's also on K-Rock he's one of the better nighttime DJ's.