Holy Shit - MTV - When Did They Stop Playing 24/7 Music
 

Ive just put MTV on for the first time in probably 4 years, how long has it been since they stopped playng 24/7 music?

I think i may have to watch more TV :eek7

Regards,

Lee

6 years ago.

Pretty much, Its all crapy shows now

years and years ago. The only shit they play now are real world, road rules, and other shitty reality TV shows. THe rare music video is usually rap, or pop garbage like britney spears or shit like that.

MTV2 actually plays some decent music these days though.

umm in the 90's lol

They have several channel versions now. One is music, one has older music, the main channel is all pretty much TV shows now, and another one or two.

thats why MTV2 is there, for videos. u can catch videos on MTV late late at nite, but its all hip-hop/r&b

once they realized they could make more cash playing stupid shows.

you can get 24/7 music with satellite/digital cable only now

other than that you're stuck with really shitty shows

Welcome to cable Lee. Welcome to cable.

I can't stand mtv...so I stay away from there! Besides, I have no time...

About 1992

I have a 10' big dish. Despite what cable companies or little dish pushers tell you they are not obsolete. Cable and little dish companies get their signals from a big dish before they send them to you.

A 4DTV receiver combines traditional C-band with consumer subscriber digital. That means lots of channels and you get the digital extras for free. For example, Showtime & Co. is 27 channels for less than $30 for 4 months. Not counting movie channels I rotate I spend less than $200 per year for all the subscription channels I want. Channels are available ala carte and most channels are 5-10/year. If you didn't subscibe to anything there is more than you can watch.

Add an FTA receiver to the system (less than $150) and watch even more channels. FTA=Free to Air. If it's unscrambled you can watch it (you can add a card to your PC to watch FTA <$50 ebay, just hook up a dish).

The reason I tell you all of this is because the thread is about music. There is so much free music, both video and audio bouncing over our heads for free that MTV is only a distant memory for me. It's not that expensive to tap into it. You can often get a big dish by offering to haul it off of someone's property. After that you can not only hear music from the world you can see the news from all angles.

Any questions? Just ask me:)