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Where did MTV go wrong?

tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
edited July 2007 in Other Music
MTV went wrong when they started playing more hours of "shows" than music videos, What do you think?
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  • rhinomagicrhinomagic Charlottesville, VA Posts: 2,552
    It was probably one day in the early '90s when some employee in R&D came up with the idea of "seven strangers picked to live in a loft".

    MTV was all downhill from there.

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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    rhinomagic wrote:
    It was probably one day in the early '90s when some employee in R&D came up with the idea of "seven strangers picked to live in a loft".

    MTV was all downhill from there.

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    I was going to say the same thing, Real World my ass.
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  • bestsanebestsane Posts: 131
    MTV sucks balls!
  • harrymanbackharrymanback Posts: 435
    The other problem is that last year they relaunch MTV2 with the idea that it will be a music channel, but it has been re-airing a bunch of crap for some time now.
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  • EBowieEBowie Posts: 532
    tonadax wrote:
    MTV went wrong when they started playing more hours of "shows" than music videos, What do you think?

    When I read the title of the thread, I immediately thought of the exact same reason that you've posted. MTV=music television (right?). They should change the station name to RTV, for "reality television".
  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    You can just as easily say it started in the 80's with the success of the VMA's, or with Remote Control, or Spring Break, or the handful of comedy shows they had..........granted, they had very few shows like this relative to the mid-90's through now, but I'm betting that as much as we all say we want nothing but music videos, the reality is that most people weren't tuning in for that and they had to make adjustments to keep the network going strong (making money).

    MTV2 is a perfect case in point...it was designed as a narrow-band channel that didn't need to reach an overwhelming number of viewers to succeed. It was born out of all the idealic cries for a return to "music programming." It delivered. Nobody watched. Changes needed to be made.

    Besides, who wants to watch the crappy videos they actually DO play now anwyay? :)
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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,179
    for all of us, yes MTV went wrong when shows like the Real World started taking over the channel

    however, from their perspective, it was where they went right...the amount of money they have made from these new shows is crazy and mind boggling
  • Bangers_n_mashBangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    markymark550 wrote:
    for all of us, yes MTV went wrong when shows like the Real World started taking over the channel

    however, from their perspective, it was where they went right...the amount of money they have made from these new shows is crazy and mind boggling
    Sadly, that is true.

    Unless they were willing to run a station which played all the old stuff right through from the beginning again (of which there are two chances, slim and none!) I'll never have any remote inclination to look at MTV.
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  • MookieBlaylock5v1MookieBlaylock5v1 Posts: 353
    Does anybody else have the opportunity to watch The Tube?

    It's all music videos, 24 hours a day. Love it!

    http://www.thetubetv.com
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  • parel jamparel jam Posts: 7,223
    tonadax wrote:
    MTV went wrong when they started playing more hours of "shows" than music videos, What do you think?
    Agree, most of those shows are really annoying me.
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,662
    they added VJ'S to the mix like someone else stated above check out THE TUBE ..........
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  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    mtv went wrong when mainstream music went to shit. i'd say post grunge era. i liked it in the early to mid 90's when bands like pearl jam, nirvana, soundgarden, pumpkins, stp, rem, radiohead, oasis, guns n roses, and aerosmith were getting heavy rotation. also the early 90's ganster rap was pretty solid as well...and the beastie boys. the videos were at least good back then.
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    the day they fired ray cokes
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  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,969
    it was in 1997 when they shifted their market to appeal to the tween market, because they are the audience that are the easiest to be manipulated by advertising and being told what is 'cool'.
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  • Duder5kDuder5k Posts: 278
    Definitely started in the late 90's, and it only gets worse every year. Combine mostly crap mainstream songs(2nd wave post grunge like Creed, boy bands, etc) with lame non-music shows = eMpTyV
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