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MTV Classic Coming 8/1/16
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cardfaninfl
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Re-airing MTV Hour One at 6AM, not the original broadcast time of 12:01AM. Presumably because the people most interested in seeing this are never awake after Midnight, anymore, but are usually wide awake at 6AM.
MTV Classic will focus on programs of the 90s and early 2000s. Basically it will be a documentary, starting with MTV being diagnosed with a terminal disease up until it fell into an irreversible coma, on infinite loop. Awesome.
MTV Classic will focus on programs of the 90s and early 2000s. Basically it will be a documentary, starting with MTV being diagnosed with a terminal disease up until it fell into an irreversible coma, on infinite loop. Awesome.
how about you just make MTV what it used to be? I would watch it. Music videos and beavis and butthead? I am in!
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MHD err, Paladia, err MTV Live is pretty good. Lots of concerts and no goofy sitcoms/reality shows.
i have no idea what that is!
I want my MTV! (80's version)
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http://www.mtv.com/live
It's gone through a couple of name changes since it started, hence all the different names.
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I wouldn't say that. Runs the gamut in my opinion.
DeAnna
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Yes!
I remember where I was the first time I ever heard/saw MTV. We were in a private louge of a nightclub and they had this big screen TV that had music videos ... we thought "wow, that's a great channel! wonder if it'll ever stick."
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Makes me wonder how much of a future has MTV has left. I mean, hasn't Youtube (and the interwebs in general) pretty much killed off the music videos from MTV?
How much more crappy reality/tabloid programming can they come up with? Curious how much the younger crowd watches it.
How much more crappy reality/tabloid programming can they come up with? Curious how much the younger crowd watches it.
MTV left music videos before youtube I believe. The problem with youtube is you find what you are looking for. MTV and the radio are fun because you find new stuff without even trying.
cardfaninfl
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Every article on the launch of MTV Classic mentioned "Hour 1" would be live broadcasted via MTV's Facebook page. This did not happen. Following social media post, the rebroadcasting of the original 1981 start was a huge success (other than the obvious Facebook Live fail). It seemed everyone enjoyed the extra surprise of MTV keeping the original advertising spots that aired during "Hour 1". The 2nd hour was a steady stream of complaints that MTV was exclusively playing videos from just a few years back. By the third hour, social media posts concerning the channel reboot had all but ceased. Probably because those looking for nostalgia and desired music videos had stopped watching.
The 35 year history of Music Television was condensed into less than 3 hours.
The 35 year history of Music Television was condensed into less than 3 hours.
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Maybe the History channel will do the same thing one day. Call it History's History.
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Really early MTV was like a few dozen videos played over and over. They'd run commercials that showed snippets of videos they never actually played. Apparently they had time blocks and if you always watched at the same time, say after school, you saw the same block of videos, the commercials might be showing videos that played say 2am time block something like that.
It was a good idea at the time and played right into the 80's where so much of the music was about what the bands looked like, their hair etc.
It was a good idea at the time and played right into the 80's where so much of the music was about what the bands looked like, their hair etc.
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I watched about 20 minutes at lunch. A few observations:
The second half of a common trivia question's answer is, The Buggles.
As much as I respect Rod Stewart, the man is never going to be "cool" in these eyes.
Pat Benatar on the other hand is timelessly cool.
I should buy stock in Dolby.
The second half of a common trivia question's answer is, The Buggles.
As much as I respect Rod Stewart, the man is never going to be "cool" in these eyes.
Pat Benatar on the other hand is timelessly cool.
I should buy stock in Dolby.
