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MTV is just one of many cable TV channels that changed everything in the 21st century. In this video, I go over why channels like History, Bravo and more have abandoned their original concepts for reality TV.
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I always interpreted Bowling for Soup’s “music still on MTV” as music that is still on MTV right now, meaning that music from 1985 was still on MTV in 2004. MTV still played music back then. It just wasn’t the be-all and end-all of its existence.
IMHO, the technical issue is fascinating: As TV/satellite capabilities geared up in the past 25 years, new cable channels kept appearing, decreasing the audience and money pie-slices any one channel could keep, no matter how successful they were. Cue the reality TV era. I’m not advocating a return to 3 channel network TV, but I think some technical limitations and fewer channel availability wasn’t a bad thing after all.
Lady Gaga was on Boiling Points, an MTV game show!
Teen nick is one example! It went from showing mostly live-action shows for teens and tweens to showing The Loud House and Henry Danger.
Didn’t even mention The Weather Channel, another one that got into original reality content and airing movies (even at one point ignoring a tornado warning to keep showing the movie, which caused one of the OG on camera meteorologists, Jim Cantore, to call them out). They’ve actually come back from the cliff of completely abandoning their namesake.