Comments on: MTV Through The Years

By: jjmblue7

jjmblue7 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:22:28 +0000

And you gotta love how ALL the reality shows (with the exception of True Life, a documentary) are so obviously and so POORLY scripted and acted.

*The Hills Chick: “Oh look at me I just woke up from yet another night of heavy drinking and anonymous sex with a cookie-cutter-cute guy and my makeup is still perfect and not a hair is out of place. I’ll call in sick (hungover) to work and not face a single consequence, recovering just in time to go out, get drunk, and gossip all over again, just like the real life of the average American teen! Teeheehee!”

By: C'est Moi

C'est Moi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:51:27 +0000

Very true. TLC used to have some kick-ass medical documentaries. Now its interior design, midgets, and a family with a ton of kids.

By: steven richards

steven richards — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:54:34 +0000

I am working on getting the other person to cancel cable.

By: steven richards

steven richards — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:52:29 +0000

I stopped watching MtTV in 1992 For some reason. I knew it. Rod Stewert this old heart of mine was about the last video. For VH1, it was livin la vida loca

By: Scott in the SOLO

Scott in the SOLO — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:35:44 +0000

No kidding, now it’s loaded with those vapid bitches from The Hills and their ilk. MTV blows!

By: markster

markster — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:54:54 +0000

u meen i had choyce. how i stopp?

By: sam

sam — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:00:39 +0000

All those shows are on The Movie Network. check out there site and your see when they plat uncut and commercial free

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:18:37 +0000

This is truly a sad trend, and one not just apparent in the “pop” channels. Have you seen Discovery or TLC lately? They are inundated with crap, whereas they used to have interesting and thought provoking material they are both now largely about interior decorating, “men’s men” doing some overly dangerous jobs, oh and midgets, can’t forget midgets.

By: Mello

Mello — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:18:09 +0000

You sir, win.

By: Ponsiv

Ponsiv — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:38:22 +0000

Pop-Up Video is part of the “Other Crap”, I don’t give a fuck who’s cousin pays the hamburger waitress on Warrant’s latest wank-fest.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:18:17 +0000

Moron TV…’nuff said.

By: TheChad

TheChad — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:10:18 +0000

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!? This graph has NOTHING to do with viewership, is simply shows the amount of airtime that video’s actually get…ASS.

By: massivemutant.com

massivemutant.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:57:49 +0000

Interesting stuff.

By: mtpagan

mtpagan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:09:48 +0000

The fall of MTV started the moment Riki Rachtman cut his hair

Soon after, they cut all the good shows they had (Remote Control, Liquid Television, AMP) and replaced all with the crap they have on today…such fond memories from back then…so sad how pathetic it has become.

By: wonkydonkydotnet

wonkydonkydotnet — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:40:22 +0000

I TOTALLY Agree, and have had this theory for years.
Where is all the goddamn MUSIC* on MUSIC TELEVISION???

*You know, where people write their own music&lyrics & play instruments & sing at the same time? (dance optional)

By: Craig Collier

Craig Collier — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:39:47 +0000

it happened on mtv2 as well, that makes 3

and fuse is slowly declining if I remember right

By: sal

sal — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:34:18 +0000

american people choose to be dumb

By: Mickey Dubya

Mickey Dubya — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:45:46 +0000

You speak the truth!!!!

And i have a feeling it is going to happen for a third time…..
Ever heard of VH1 Classic??? I watch music videos on there (its mostly classic rock stuff). I can guarantee you it will all be gone in 3 years tops

By: Munn

Munn — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:04:05 +0000

I am indifferent towards you for quoting dream theater.

By: Syd

Syd — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:11:25 +0000

Imagine that ESPN had decided that “jocks like to watch other jocks on TV…getting drunk and stuff…”, and imagine that Real World appeared on ESPN instead of MTV, and that they eventually phased out sports coverage.

You would say “they couldn’t have done that…it wouldn’t even make sense…they would lose true sports fans…replacing them with jock types who don’t actually play sports or care so much about sports…it would ruin ESPN.”

Yeah, that’s what MTV did.

By: Fisty

Fisty — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:06:11 +0000

You’re not just whistling Dixie.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:02:46 +0000

You are referring to that tool, Carson Daily. HAHAHAHA! I agree!

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:56:23 +0000

You are so right it makes me sick! The General public is too dumb now-a-days to notice this anymore.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:16:25 +0000

YO! MTV RAPS. jajajaja

I love that take a retarded families girl out to a trailer park shindig and see who gets Sifilis first show.. jajajaja

Gimme back Head Banger Brawl, Gimme back 6 hours of non-stop video. I don’t buy new music ’cause there’s no where to find new music any more. Radio shows don´t say the name of the song and band they just played, and well TV doesn’t play music anymore.

But then we all saw this coming some about a decade ago, when Mat Pinfield disappeared and all of the sudden that no talent hack (can’t remember his name. Still alive, doing some late late show that blows) was the big thing on MTV, and they justified music with TRL. WTF IS THAT?????

I effectively cancelled all my subscriptions to mtv and the others about 3 years ago.
NO HOPE!

By: Spoke

Spoke — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:14:15 +0000

I hate you for quoting Dream Theater.

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By: Furanku

Furanku — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:52:08 +0000

I remember my last hope, when MTV X was still out, that was like the answer to all my prayers, pure rock, and metal the whole day long, no interuptions! Untill one sad, sad day it changed to MTV Jams I was like WTF?!!!!!! And so another MTV kill (u_u )

By: Marcelo Abans

Marcelo Abans — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:50:46 +0000

MTV Still rules, just to a different generation. I loved MTV then I turned 18, moved out and went to discover different music. If you find yourself saying any derivative of “…. Back In the day ….” then you should take a good hard long look behind you. See that hill? Yeah, you are over it..

By: jenny

jenny — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:43:55 +0000

Painful but true, I remember when MTV hardly had any ads at all, and only a rare break between videos, which were still cool, because we werent all jaded to death from seeing 1 billion videos… I was 13 when MTV started up, and it was pretty great in the 80’s. Now that I’m 40, I really don’t have to care if it sucks!

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:34:35 +0000

NEXT!

I love that show!!!

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:26:40 +0000

get mtv jams, always plays music videos

By: joseph

joseph — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:09:41 +0000

Viacom owns it all. So it’s big business trying to dumb down the american people and thats the truth of this chart.

By: joseph

joseph — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:08:40 +0000

all owned by VIACOM, the big corporate is trying to dumb down the american people. and thats the truth.

By: Jason Godsey

Jason Godsey — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:18:51 +0000

I stopped watching MTV when they dropped Headbangers Ball.

Before that, I loved USA’s Night Flight

Jason

By: Bostonian

Bostonian — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:44:25 +0000

Yes. But about five years later VH-1 effectively became MTV when MTV stopped being about music and started being about lame reality shows. Suddenly the videos on VH-1 got decent. But eventually MTV noticed that they had accidentally created a compelling music channel again, and decided to fill it up with fashion shows and other junk. The decline of MTV is a tragedy that happened twice.

By: 80s

80s — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:26:50 +0000

In 80’s there such channels as Sky Channel and Music Box…..
Full of GOOD music!

By: juneau21

juneau21 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:50:51 +0000

MTV?!

By: Josh Townsend

Josh Townsend — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:23:05 +0000

MTV rocked back in the day. I remember the day it launched. For the first week we sat up all night every night watching. I’ll never forget it. Now, MTV is a reality chick show. Sucks.
http://www.Fireme.to/udi

By: Johnjo

Johnjo — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:08:10 +0000

MTV in Europe over the years.

creative, creative, expressive, creative, globalisation, centralization, controlist, controlist, controlist, controlist controlist controlist.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:02:45 +0000

I don’t consider Jackass to be other crap. In fact it was hilarious and an amazing show. Groundbreaking. And no I’m not an MTV addict nor do I watch a lot of TV. I prefer to educate myself nevertheless I’m tired of threads where everything is defined in absolute terms. A little differetiation would be appropriate

By: two

two — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:45:57 +0000

in Europe there are digital mtv channels dedicated on different music types,
like for eg. MTV TWO is for Rock and Alternative and it’s focus olny on music
Here mtv is still music televison.
Main channel MTV is like in US. focus on entertainment crap.

By: radar

radar — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:35:45 +0000

MTV in Europe is way better then MTV US with it’crap:) but they based their shedulle on viewers research and acording to that people want to see reality shows, music videos are on their website.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:14:38 +0000

Why not make an MTV3 to broadcast videos if MTV and MTV2 spew crap all day. B
But IF that ever happens, eventually I can see MTV3 pulling the same ploy as MTV and MTV2. Mindless programming completely irrelevant to music videos.

By: Beezle McNasty

Beezle McNasty — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:39:27 +0000

Everything you’re saying is true, but there are exceptions:
Avatar, Planet Earth, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Flight of the Conchords, Curb Your Enthusiasm and a handful of other diamonds in the rough.

That said, the best way to get this stuff certainly isn’t via the mind-draining tube, all cut up to hell and with billions of commercial breaks.

None of these ore on network TV either; go figure…

By: tantheman

tantheman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:39:03 +0000

What is the data source?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:29:32 +0000

Stopped watching mtv years ago. Seems every music video under the sun can be found on youtube nowadays. The DMCA takedown notices must have been misfiled it seems. Sound quality is so-and-so, but it makes a very passable party-jukebox.

By: dj.ik

dj.ik — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:18:23 +0000

couldn’t agree more….

people really don’t care about music videos anymore, probably because you can only copy so much from a music video …

programs, documentarys and all that other MTV crap makes it much easier to learn how to be cool…

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:15:28 +0000

I love you for quoting Dream Theater.

By: fudabi

fudabi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:59:33 +0000

What? Least there is hope for MTV2. Oh wait…

By: gss

gss — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:50:49 +0000

this doesn’t prove shit. Where is the # of viewers plotted? Without that, you just have the programming data, that doesn’t prove shit. Seems to me you’ve started with an assumption (MTV is dead) and then just plotted the programming shows. Without # of viewers plotted, this is just a bunch of garbage. You have to show viewership decreasing.