Robot Monkey Pants: Some good MTV news, for a change? Internet Archive now hosts MTV News content

What records they will have will have been pirated by people who wanted to have copies of their own and couldn't get them any other way. But even those will have storage issues. Not just long term storage issues. There are formats from a decade ago that are hard to access now.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

Other than a potential rights issue, all those historical video clips should be posted on YouTube OR given to the Internet Archive as a time capsule of comedy. The MTV News clips would probably qualify as news/commentary and shouldn't have rights issues with a YT posting

Some good MTV news, for a change? Internet Archive now hosts MTV News content

MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount Content Purgevariety.com After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

MTV was great until they fucked with it and put shitshow reality garbage.

The early seasons of The Real World were pretty good (NY1, Seattle, Boston, NY2, Miami, Vegas1, SF all have defining moments for the genre) The game show Remote Control introduced an audience to Adam Sandler and Colin Quinn And 40 seasons of The Challenge (plus iterations) counts for something ...

that said? 24/7 of Ridiculousness was a bad idea. Shifting away from being a music leader wasn't great. Adding on the MTV Movie/TV Awards was out of their area of influence

But eventually the music went away. I switched to VH-1 but they were ghosted as well. I came from a generation of Radio AM then to FM. Shit happens I suppose. I do remember the poor lad who had contracted AIDS. That was very hard to watch.

VH1 was great - fill a video void w/older stuff while the main channel shifts focus to culture and new music promotion MTV2 was a reasonable expansion also Now? PBS airs P!NK and Rolling Stones concerts (check local listings). AXS has their own concert series too. Stuff that SHOULD be on MTV 🎵📺

YouTube streams Coachella live. Hulu streams Lolla, Bonnaroo, and ACLFest (all 💯 coverage) All things that SHOULD be in MTV's wheelhouse - but for whatever reason, Paramount/Viacom chose not to leverage their music brand equity (and associated streaming platform) to cover major live music festivals

I do remember PBS airing Cheap Trick way back when. I didn't mind at all when the Chairman of the Board would do a concert or two on PBS.

PBS: "We're more than just Broadway shows these days"

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