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[Odoul]

I'm mainly a hip-hop fan. MTV was the place that played garbage of any genre, but MTV2 was at least a place where if I was in the mod I could sample good shit from other styles. MTV's destroyed that. How can both channels both calling themselves MUSIC Television not play anything REMOTELY having to do with music over a 6 hour span starting in prime time? At least there's Music Choice on DirecTV. I can sample new uncensored music from all over without any jackases trying to be clever.

 

[Hawksley]

Much Music. Digital or satellite cable. Canadian. Music, music, music!

They've also got dedicated channels: Much More Music for softer stuff, Much More Retro for, well, retro stuff, Much Vibe for urban, hip hop, and the like, and Much Loud for punk and metal.

 

[Seth C]

Because they want you to demand more of their channels! If you want music from MTV you have to ask for MTV Hits and MTV Jams.

 

[The Promised One]

MTV sucks in all it's forms. It's true, cuz the Bible says so.

 

[automagnus]

so, what else is new?

 

[MIMIC]

Because they want you to demand more of their channels! If you want music from MTV you have to ask for MTV Hits and MTV Jams.

I was fucking mad when they played Madonna videos 24/7 (LITERALLY!!) on MTV Hits 2 weeks ago.

 

[OmniGamer]

I was fucking mad when they played Madonna videos 24/7 (LITERALLY!!) on MTV Hits 2 weeks ago.

Yeah...10 days of Madonna. At first I thought it was just the weekend...then they slapped the 10 days watermark on. What really sucked about it was that I had just gotten digital cable and was enjoying MTV Hits' random playlist of videos, then bam, nothing but madonna.

 

[Mumbles]

MTV sucks in all it's forms. It's true, cuz the Bible says so.

But if the bible said it, then MTV would have to be good.

*ahem* anyway, as a hip hop fan, I lost faith in MTV after they cancelled Yo MTV Raps.

 

[mightynine]

Yeah...10 days of Madonna. At first I thought it was just the weekend...then they slapped the 10 days watermark on. What really sucked about it was that I had just gotten digital cable and was enjoying MTV Hits' random playlist of videos, then bam, nothing but madonna.

To their credit, I believe that's the first time they've done anything like that on Hits. Probably trying to increase awareness of the channel.

 

[Ceros]

MTV and BET just suck period....and VH1??....yeah right lol

 

[Flynn]

Welcome to 10 years ago.

I guess realizing that MTV sucks is a rite of passage for music fans.

 

[mosaic]

~10 years ago, MTV only had Real World and a few misc cartoons to gum up their network with. Now, God, Bam, Punk'd, Newlyweds, Real World, Inferno, Pimp my Ride, etc. What the hell do any of those shows have to do with music?

Luckily, I'm a rabid insomniac and MTV actually does show videos from around midnight to 8AM.

 

[Flynn]

From the purist perspective e.g. us oldsters who enjoyed a 24-hour network of music videos with little or no playlists, even those shows were unacceptable.

For a brief and glorious time MTV2 recreated those glory days, but you know what happened.