It's just an OK show. Nothing great. From what I've seen it's more bad than good. But, Hip-Hop Squares is getting better ratings than the average prime time numbers on MTV2, so it could stayOriginally Posted by CaseyAbell
It's just an OK show. Nothing great. From what I've seen it's more bad than good. But, Hip-Hop Squares is getting better ratings than the average prime time numbers on MTV2, so it could stay
VHI doesn't care either.
Neither does MTV of course because you can see all these music videos online now. It's not like back in the 90's and early 2000's where they used to air music videos all the time. I think VH1 may have some music news updates still, but basically they just air reality shows now, and they also air SNL too
When Whitney Houston died, they said or did nothing until 11:30 that night. None of them are music channels, period.
11:30pm? It was announced that she died around 8:30pm (Eastern). A matter of three hours. So that's a fast reaction, but still I agree that MTV and VH1 aren't music networks anymore.
No. Fast reaction for a very big music celebrity would have been 5 minutes, not 3 hours. The news channels had a wall to wall coverage of it so any channel who claims to be a "music" channel should have been along long before 3 hours passed
I think about it like MTV and VH1 didn't have anyone live at the studio ready to go on air and talk about her death. They probably had to take time to set something up so they could go on air, while CNN is already on air and gets the news first.
They couldn't run a crawl on the bottom of the screen informing people? Someone has to be there just to make sure things are going ok. That person couldn't do that? While we're at it, what was the excuse for no acknowledgement of Dick Clark, nor probably Donna Summer or Robin Gibb? Ok, the latter two I get. But Clark? I don't care if no one watching their trailer park trash reality shows have never even heard of them. "He died, guess what...you are GOING to hear about whether you like or not! We aren't here if not in large part for him!"
Usually E! does that, at the bottom titling E! News. MTV and VH1 I guess sometimes do that.
If MTV had taken a couple or so days to prepare a real honest to goodness tribute (like it took a few days for a couple of the other cable networks to air some of her movies after), then I would have been a lot more accepting with them not doing much on the night of Whitney's passing. But it just seemed so half-assed. Throw on the same 5 or 6 music videos for an hour, then be done. Back to Snooki. And that was pretty much that for that channel. Though BET and VH-1 Classic did do a better job. MTV may not have meant it like that, but that's how it came across as to me. And all the technical glitches didn't help either. And yes, more news bulletins would have helped too. As much as what could be needed. I've seen some older videos of their coverage of Kurt Cobain and Tupac's deaths on YouTube, and I was saying to myself "Yes, this is how things should have been done for Whitney."
Not taking the time to do anything for Dick Clark and Donna Summer was unacceptable IMO.
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But of course Whitney Houston's funeral was televised. I get it that Clark's family and Donna Summer's family may have wanted a private service, but more should have been done for Clark, and to a slightly lesser extent Donna Summer
I'm not talking about Whitney or anyone else's funeral. What I and pzimm7778 are talking about are news break-ins and just a general way of keeping viewers informed of what was going on. MTV had one guy stand in a dark studio for a couple or so interludes in between the few music videos they showed at 11 PM and that was that. They could have done some bulletins before when the news broke, or dug out some archive interview footage or something to air with the music videos. They didn't do any of that.
Donna Summer was one of the artists that helped make MTV popular in their early days. There was no excuse for not doing anything for her.
But then again this is the same channel that did absolutely nothing for their 30th anniversary last year (everything was left once again up to VH-1 Classic, a channel a lot of people don't have). So I'm not surprised. They've been horrid lately when it comes to doing anything involving someone or something's legacy.
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They are a one note joke. I thought the crap they threw on the air 10-20 years ago was bad. I shudder to think of what they can dredge up for the bottom feeders of our popuation next. And again, if you can't talk about the death of the people that helped build your network and the music into popularity on TV period. Do what Disney did with EPCOT and totally remove in every way what it original stood for. It stands for nothing now, its just the name of the park period. Just be MTV with no definition of what the "M" is anymore...same for VH-1 but MTV moreso. Then we can all just say the M stands for Moron they just don't want to admit it.
MTV should have reacted faster to some celebrities deaths in the music world this year, and should have had their own break in news reports like NBC and CBS had with Clark's death
I highly doubt that. That's (partially) what dropped the show's ratings. I think they should just either make a new theme or use one of the old themes from 1966-2002 (whether it has a new re-score or not). And either use one of the old bonus rounds (except for the Big Money Round from the 2001-02 season), or use the one from Hip-Hop Squares, but with bigger stakes.
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