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The 80s, myth and reality?

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When did MTV cease to be a thing? I remember always having MTV on when I was getting ready for work or classes. Then one day people stopped talking about MTV and it disappeared from our radar.
Couldn't have ended fast enough. To me MTV was the television equivalent of the "Top 40" broadcast on the FM radio stations on Sunday mornings; garbage music made for the masses that had zero appeal for me. Then MTV became soap opera shows for the truly dumb masses, and by then they had already lost me. At this moment I couldn't tell you if MTV was living or dead, and I don't really care either way.
 
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The Buggles were wrong. Good old Radio wasn't killed by commercial tv. Producing radio programm is so much cheaper than the tv crap.
Our german MTV equivalent VIVA failed very soon and DSL internet came also up.
 

Turnip

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The 80s will end soon in Europe.

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LizzieMaine

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Couldn't have ended fast enough. To me MTV was the television equivalent of the "Top 40" broadcast on the FM radio stations on Sunday mornings; garbage music made for the masses that had zero appeal for me. Then MTV became soap opera shows for the truly dumb masses, and by then they had already lost me. At this moment I couldn't tell you if MTV was living or dead, and I don't really care either way.
My theory of cable evolution postulates that all cable channels/streaming services, all other things being equal, will inevitably and inexorably, become identical. All those niche channels from the first big cable boom of the '80s have evolved to dispense the same type of lowest-common-denominator slop. All those news channels that popped up in the 90s now dispense identical shrieking swill, differingly only slightly in the amount of peroxide applied to the heads of the hosts. And is there any real difference in the various streaming services that pop up like worms on the sidewalk after a summer rain and end up the same way?
 
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And the funny thing is, that our german free-tv channels went downhill long before Youtube era, because advertizing market simply went downhill after 1995.

I guess, that directly correlated with spreading internet-connection after privatization of our German Federal Post in 1995.
 

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