Comments on: Reality Shows v. Music Videos on the Music Television Network

By: Lambchops

Lambchops — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:33:11 +0000

Ugh, sadly very accurate :/

By: holly

holly — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:25:50 +0000

2002 was a good year

By: Caity Lynne

Caity Lynne — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:22:14 +0000

oh i LOVE that song!

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:17:57 +0000

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

By: Esther

Esther — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:07:34 +0000

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By: perlcub

perlcub — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:28:06 +0000

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

By: bluenowait

bluenowait — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:33:32 +0000

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

By: jjmblue7

jjmblue7 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:23:57 +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: leah

leah — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:24:12 +0000

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!

By: skinflaps

skinflaps — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:39:16 +0000

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?

By: Dexter

Dexter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:54:02 +0000

thats why we prefer MTV2…or youtube XD

By: ryszard

ryszard — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:20:06 +0000

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.

By: Jon G

Jon G — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:32:41 +0000

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/

By: Phizzle

Phizzle — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:32:48 +0000

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.

By: Concerned Viewer

Concerned Viewer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:41 +0000

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

By: Boter

Boter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:57:12 +0000

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

By: dark_fader

dark_fader — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:33:10 +0000

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.

By: Ope N. Wyde

Ope N. Wyde — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:14:15 +0000

Overdone, yet completely true. I hate MTV.