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Originally Posted by Adult Lounge - Brad
Damn straight. Welcome to tomorrow. MTV doesn't play anything but top 40 videos and even then that's probably only 1 hour in the middle of the day. The radio replay the same tracks all day and they are bands that only have singles and no album. MySpace is key for marketing bands.
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MTV has become more of a television station rather than a music station. They found that their viewership was higher with production of programs rather than music. You can't fault them for anything if they are making money doing it.
If the demand for music videos was high enough, they would either change their format back, or another channel would be introduced which focused on the music.
Supply and Demand rules the economic decisions, not outsider opinions. I imagine if you sat in on a session at MTV discussing such things, they would have realistic and logical answers that made sense to you.
I hate MySpace. It sucks. It lost it's ability to promote a long time ago. Something new will come along I am sure, but MySpace is just sad now.