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Wouldn't it be nice if VH1 and MTV actually showed music videos all day everyday?

Dec 21, 2011 6:08 AM

Sick and tired of mindless shows? Remember when a when a music video channel was actually a music video channel?

vistaseas vistaseas

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I'm pretty sure Congress will actually get something done before that ever happens.

captainsuperdawg captainsuperdawg
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I thought the M just stood for "mediocre" nowadays? Or maybe it was "mindless," hmm...

lordebon lordebon
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I know what you mean! I miss being able to know that I could always find music videos to watch/listen to leisurely when I want!

dmaz dmaz
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I'm old, old, old, and I started watching music videos when I was just old, old. I especially liked watching VH1 during the holidays, when they would play all manner of holiday videos...from the traditional to the cockeyed. Now the only thing that goes from traditional to cockeyed during the holidays is moi.

gertiestn gertiestn
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@lordebon Mediocre is being very generous.

mugford mugford
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sometimes, if you put it on at 4-5 am or so, you can catch them playing a few. I don't know if they still do this, I gave up on them a long long time ago.

mugford mugford
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But..

How will I watch Basketball Wives?

1298ty 1298ty
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You mean you want the Music Television channel to show actual music videos?
This is unheard of!

I do miss flipping on one of these channels and jamming out while cleaning house or something.
I couldn't tell you the last time I saw an actual music video beside on Beavis & Butthead.

wickedd365 wickedd365
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Well, video killed the radio song, it seems that somehow a bunch of pregnant teen mothers and greasy drunken guidos have killed the video. Took a while, but radio seems to have gotten it's revenge...

jml879 jml879
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What do you think this is, the 80's?

scarabkafer scarabkafer
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@jml879: The quote goes "Video killed the radio star"

woadwarrior woadwarrior
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They would if videos drew ratings as good as the crap they show now.

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." -Clive Barnes, British-born American writer and critic.

hossdawg97 hossdawg97
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@hossdawg97: That's making the assumption the ratings mechanism is accurate. Frankly, I wish the production companies paid more attention to the stats on hulu/netflix/amazon/itunes, etc... Last I knew (and I may be stupendously wrong) the Neilsen TV estimates were still king.

psaux psaux
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@psaux: Neilsen is still the tops for TV and I am pretty sure that it is still Arbitron for radio.

hossdawg97 hossdawg97
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fuse.tv

lisatran03 lisatran03
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That's almost as crazy as a network playing sports all day.... That would never work. Smashes chair

eyeflytwohigh eyeflytwohigh
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The current target audience for MTV wasn't even born yet when it stopped playing videos, so they'd have no idea what you're talking about. To them, music videos are something you watch on YouTube.

wingnutzero wingnutzero
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I remember when MTV started, had to watch it at grandma's house since my family didn't have cable.
I was let down when reality shows took over.
Now I can't recall the last time I voluntarily went to these channels.

I miss Denis Leary commercials on the original :)

spikedknight spikedknight
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There is a terrestrial sub-station of the CBS affiliate here called "The Cool TV" which sounds lame, but all they play is music videos. Oh, and commercial length infomercials, but I think I'll take those over VH1's reality shows.

madcow19 madcow19
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A bunch of other channels are going the same way. Like the History Channel going reality TV with Pawn Stars, IRT, And sliding further with alien garbage.

svenkirk svenkirk

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