What Do You Miss the Most About the ‘Old’ MTV [VIDEO]

I have to say that I'm a bit surprised that MTV is still called MTV. Where's the music?

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I think they might show a video show for about an hour a day and then it's loaded up with mindless reality shows that, in my opinion, dumb down anyone who watches. Even the other networks that are owned by Viacom subscribe to the same format that MTV has now become. Where's the music? Where's Kurt Loder?

I grew up in the time when MTV first debuted and it freakin' rocked. It truly was 'music' television. Now to some extent there was a paradigm shift and as the Buggles proclaimed, 'Video Killed the Radio Star,' but only after a while. In the beginning it was the perfect entity to promote your brand as an artist. Slackers like me ate it up and wanted to be in every rock video ever made. They started the whole 'Behind the Music' craze with the MTV Rockumentary. Don't forget MTV Unplugged.

The Veejays were cool! Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, JJ Jackson, Adam Curry, Kennedy, and the list goes on. MTV News was even hip with Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, Allison Stewart. Let's not forget that MTV launched the career of Carson Daly. And Pauly Shore. Okay, let's forget that part. Where did that all go? Does anyone watch anymore?

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