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Reality Shows v. Music Videos on the Music Television Network

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  1. Ope N. Wyde says:

    Overdone, yet completely true. I hate MTV.

    • dark_fader says:

      I see MTV have recently come up with a way to multiply their air-time, just to fit in all the reality shows. Gosh that’s clever.

      • jjmblue7 says:

        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!”

  2. Boter says:

    The year’s wrong, it should be way earlier. VH-1 lasted a few more years, but eventually went the same way.

  3. Concerned Viewer says:

    Ah yes, i remember The Great Music Video Shortage of 2001… those were some tough times

  4. Phizzle says:

    Concept is a dead horse, but still true. The problem with this graph is that it seems to imply that there were only 4 music videos (or shows about music videos?) played in 1981, and that for some reason 2002 was the point where they began the rapid but steady decline. A bar graph would have been better.

  5. Jon G says:

    Someone did this already, in more detail I might add, back in June.

    http://graphjam.com/2008/06/18/song-chart-memes-mtv-through-the-years/

  6. ryszard says:

    I read once that reality shows were like crack for TV producers. They cost virtually nothing to make and are tremendously profitable. Easy to get lazy with a ROI like that.

    • skinflaps says:

      And music videos were paid for by the artist’s producers, not the TV producers. I could be wrong, but I was under the impression music videos were treated as a form of advertisement for the band’s records and tours. Wouldn’t the music videos cost nothing more than maybe a licensing fee for the station?

  7. Dexter says:

    thats why we prefer MTV2…or youtube XD

    • leah says:

      omgwtfwbbq! Are you daft? Sure, they originally started MTV2 to show more music videos, but the channel has since failed. The only time you’ll see or hear music on either channel now is during the credits of the Hills. If I want to see music videos, I’ve got to watch MTVTr3s, but I don’t even speak Spanish!

  8. bluenowait says:

    Springsteen, Madonna, and way before Nirvana, there was U2, and Blondie, and Music Still on MTV!

  9. perlcub says:

    In 1982 we were shouting “I Want My MTV!”
    In 2008 we are shouding “I Want My MTV *BACK*!”

  10. Brad says:

    Man, 2002 was PACKED to the freakin’ BRIM with programs!

  11. holly says:

    2002 was a good year


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