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LiveFromNewYork95 t1_irp35ad wrote

>Did I miss something?

Yes, this has been covered a ton for like 5 years now.

I say this every time it's brought up. I don't get it, everyone was so giddy to to kill cable and now they go back to something like MTV and go "I don't get it, the only thing they show is like the cheapest thing to produce and re-run." This isn't what MTV became, it's what we made it.

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jereezy t1_irp6ell wrote

>This isn't what MTV became, it's what we made it.

Bullshit. Fucking bullshit. MTV ran Real World down our throats before streaming was even a pipe dream. They've been playing to the lowest common denominator for decades.

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LiveFromNewYork95 t1_irp95yw wrote

Playing the lowest common denominator is different than this.

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CableCoShow t1_irproud wrote

Reddit can never handle truth based on critical thinking. As you say, lowest common denominator isn't the same as playing 2-3 shows over and over every single day, which is what MTV and Comedy Central do now. I assume they're shelling out $0 until their cable license agreements run out and then they'll shutter the cable channels and move what's left of those brands to sections of Paramount+.

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jereezy t1_irswjm4 wrote

Except playing the same 2-3 shows over and over has been MTV's modus operandi for the last 3 decades. This is not something remotely new from the era of streaming that MTV was forced to do. The show that they're pushing may have changed, but that's all.

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CableCoShow t1_irsx6qf wrote

That's not true at all. There was tons of different programming throughout the 90s and early 2000s.

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Snuggle__Monster t1_irpa76a wrote

MTV and Viacom did this to themselves over the past 10 years.

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jereezy t1_irpb2rz wrote

>MTV and Viacom did this to themselves over the past 10 30 years.

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kjhwkejhkhdsfkjhsdkf t1_irqs8vm wrote

Early to mid 90s it was still pretty good. While less music, the programming was watchable. Liquid TV, Beavis & Butthead, early seasons of Real World, etc. But second half of the 90s it really started to go downhill.

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emusabe OP t1_irpcbk5 wrote

I was just legitimately curious, really only got the tv part of the package cause it was only like $10 more for like 550 channels or something. The only ones I really even cared about were the sports stuff (finally big ten network!) but I just was confused as hell that mtv literally has one show in its lineup. I read some more about it and it seems like this horse has been beaten to death and back a bajillion times so sorry for posting yeeshhh

I do remember a handful of tv shows from Mtv when I was like middle school to hs age (looking at you, Jackass and whatever the spin off was called about bam and the cky guys) but I do remember really enjoying Daria* later as an adult

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LiveFromNewYork95 t1_irpcstg wrote

Sports is why I kept cable for so long, and I still think streaming isn't prepared to fully take over the task of broadcasting the full slate of major professional and NCAA sports. But honestly I just like the format of cable better than streaming so I'm gonna stick with it until it goes down.

The interesting thing to me is when they aren't showing Ridiculousness, like on Saturday afternoons they have a pretty good mix of movies, especially early and mid-2000's comedies.

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thevictater t1_irpuxx8 wrote

You act like we should feel bad about choosing streaming services. Wouldn't everyone prefer to watch what they'd like, as opposed to being force fed whatever the station threw in the timeslot? Fuck cable, I'd kill it again and again.

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