MTV Archives Pulled Offline As Their Website Goes Dark

[TheJet]

My childhood

 

[tremonthustler1]

Yup. There has to be a more lucrative and smart strategy than showing that show 100 times a day lol. They could just fukk it and have one VJ playing independent music videos and older shyt, to avoid costs. Or playing some of the content they own like the Unplugged concerts. Something...anything.

There's a generation of kids right now buying vinyl, collecting cassettes, and getting into instruments again. There's also a HUGE group of girls, young women, and gay dudes who are obsessed with retro shyt and love documentaries. When we were kids VH1/MTV were always running documentaries about Metallica/Nas/Britney Spears/etc. Docs aren't expensive either...no excuse not to be running Taylor Swift, Gaga, Beyonce, etc documentaries in between re-runs of old MTV reality shows and music videos.

they have channels that MTV owns that do this stuff. They just don't get watched. There's a channel called MTV Live that shows concerts and new videos. Nobody watches it. MTV Classic shows nothing but videos from the 80s til late 00s. and I'm talking about stuff that you'd be like haven't seen this in forever, but it's the least watched show on cable. Once internet got really fast and YouTube came through, MTV's main purpose ceased to exist. It's just an IP.

You'd think someone at MTV /Paramount Plus would be like "bruh, we should re-air all the Making the Band stuff we have." Then you realize that it ain't worth it since licensing fees wouldn't make airing it profitable. That's why you can only find it on YouTube off of someone else's VHS recording.

You know what helps in making documentaries and specials like that? A news division, which MTV doesn't have anymore. Also, anything resembling that stuff just goes to Paramount Plus.