MTV...I'm so old I remember when they actually played videos

Can anyone tell me if MTV actually eve plays any videos anymore?? I've be by that channel at all times of the day this week and I have yet to see a single music video. WHAT THE?

I hate that channel so bad now...not that it was ever stellar but still! Compared to now CMT is much preferred!!

Yes, I'm watching CMT...but only b/c "The making of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders" is on now that's entertainment!

 

Yup MTV these days are full of reality stuff and other things not related to music videos at all. Be nice to have them go back to what they actually were created to do, show music videos.

 

rumor has it that they occasionally play videos on MTV2 but I don't have MTV2 ATM!!

 

No, not anymore. Do they still have TRL? mtv 2 does thoough

 

I'm a little older than that ... I can remember our family buying one of the earliest TV sets to watch black-and-white television! Everything was live then. I recall watching the late Jackie Gleason break his leg on live TV when he slipped while running through some fake snow (perhaps soap flakes).

 

Not sure about the TRL...I thought that was crap anyway but oh well

B&W

 

men that was such a long time ago that network went down the drain now its all stupid reality shows i dont think i turned my TV to MTV for at least 3 years now

 

VH1 has more music from your generation... But I never watch it, so I'm not sure if they do videos anymore either...

 

Jackass was the only show on MTV that wasn't music videos, but still made the station good.

 

If you are talking about MTV India.. I must say, you are wrong. They do play videos. Its a FTA channel and they must show ads to survive.

 

I think it's been a lot longer than 3 years....maybe pushing a decade by now...I think The Real World started the bad trend

MY...yeah, in my day stamps were 14 cents!!

I had no idea there was such a thing but no, USA

 

Sorry man.. No Idea about MTV USA..

 

give the India one time, I'm sure they'll eventually ruin that one too

 

I remember VH1 used to play good music, but now the have the worst reality shows. I heard they play some music in the morning, but who watches tv in the morning?
I have my tv programmed to skip MTV.

 

I am only 24 and I also watched black n white TV till I was 18. LoL. It was gift by my GrandFather for my mom when My dad and mom got married.

:d

 

I actually looked through my DVR the other day, MTV plays less than 6 hours of music videos during the week, on any given day, same for VH-1.

Geez.

 

6 hours haha, what a joke!

I bet those 6 are a weak 6 @ that

 

I'm surprised they play that many.

 

MTV used to be cool, 120 minutes was awesome, stuff like that. Even when they started doing the early Real World stuff and like Beavis and Butthead, Aeon Flux and Liquid Television, it was OK...but at some point they lost any balance of music shows / other shows and it totally lost it for me.

MTV2 was OK for awhile, but then it became like all rap. I don't mind rap or anything, just rap all the time, which it played, so I stopped watching.

Maybe there is an MTV3 coming soon.

 

You had both colors, black and white??

Color TV was for people who liked to waste money. I grew up watching hockey on a UHF station that was so snowy I wasn't quite sure what a puck looked like until I got one at Christmas.

MTV was new when I was in college and we used complain the VJ's talked too much which limited the music to about 54 minutes per hour. You might as well just load up the turntable with a stack of 12" LPs and turn off Martha and J.J..