Remember When MTV Played Music Videos?
September 2, 2009 · Print This Article
I’m feeling a bit nostalgic today after reading two recent articles. The first was published on AdWeek about MTV’s new plans to revive MTV.com by making it a more social and entertainment-news focused online destination to compete more closely with sites like Yahoo!’s OMG and AOL’s Popeater.com. And the second was published in the New York Times and discussed how great VH1 is doing in the ratings since changing the majority of its programming to celebrity reality shows.
And that got me to thinking….
Remember when MTV actually played music videos?
And remember those great “I Want My MTV” commercials in the 1980s?
If I had a dollar for every minute I watched MTV and VH1 in the 1980s…….
I wonder if musicians even bother making videos any more if there’s no place to have them viewed, other than award shows. MTV was a unique brand and medium, now it’s just uninteresting TV, so they should just stop pretending and drop the “M” or redefine the name to “Mediocre TV”. I’m an 80’s child and miss it for nostalgic purposes, but enough of the “reality” TV already? Maybe they should launch an RTV channel and dedicate that to all the Real World/Tool Academy crap they want, but I want my MTV back.
Scott,
Well said! I’d still watch MTV and VH1 if they actually played music and/or videos.
MTV killed the video star! Killed by the hand that fed them.
Scott:
You’re so right. I miss turning on MTV back in the day, and watching music videos. MTV really sucks now days with mindless reality shows (that suck more and more as time goes on), with commercials every five minutes.