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Thursday, June 30, 2005What will I watch during commercial breaks?MTV is ditching VH1 MegaHits to make room for a network targeted at gays? What the fuck!? The last bastion of (relatively) commercial-free alternative/modern rock on cable, gone. And to make room for yet another network aimed at gays, no less. African Americans get one, gays get three, women get four (yes, four), Catholics get one, Mormans get one, and even the mentaly disabled get a network. Everybody gets at least one, with the exception of people who like music that doesn't totally suck ass. Don't we deserve a network? Comments:Not likely, considering that my cable operator carries at least 10 networks devoted to music videos - not including MTV and VH1. Hi--don't you watch a little something called ESPN? Or maybe ESPN 2 (if you're in the mood for cheerleading or bowling)? Or FOX Sports? Or the NFL Channel? Or, if you really want to watch something that sucks--Spike TV? Spike, I believe, is created especially for your demographic. Seems like MTV and the like are moving away from videos and more to original programming. I think the days of 24/7 videos are long gone. It's what (most of) the audience wants. Even look at ESPN...less and less games/events are being aired and more series/specials/game shows. Joe- These are the 24-hour music networks my cable provider still carries: MTV Hits (9 parts rap, 1 part Good Charlotte) MTV Jamz (All rap, all the time) VH1 Country (All crap, all the time) VH1 Classic (Oh - Tommy Tutone!) VH1 Soul (No clue) BET Jazz (If you ever catch me watching this, it'll be in some sort of recreation of A Clockwork Orange) GAC (More overly tight jeans and mullets) FUSE (9 parts Good Charlotte, 1 part rap) I'm not even going to list all the foreign-language music networks. The genre is not dead by any means. You just have to pay extra for the privilege now. "Spike, I believe, is created especially for your demographic." Oh, how well you know me Ensie. I just can't get enough Dukes of Hazzard reruns and clip shows of guys getting hit in the nuts with various objects! If you have at least ten networks devoted to music videos, then you have about two dozen channels that just play music. Expand your mind. Not to be picking on you unduly, but there is some irony in that the word "mentally" in "mentally disabled" is misspelled. |
