Rell84shots
Veteran
That's not a hot take, that's the general consensus.
Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years
They also wiped older Comedy Central stuff.
There's always piracy as mentioned. I have some banned WW2 Disney and WB cartoons...just cause. It's history just like anything else.
We can't even tell the fukking truth about shyt that happened in our current generation. If it's erased than anyone can distort history to their own narrative.
There's always piracy as mentioned. I have some banned WW2 Disney and WB cartoons...just cause. It's history just like anything else.
We can't even tell the fukking truth about shyt that happened in our current generation. If it's erased than anyone can distort history to their own narrative.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
I remember that was around the time people really started complaining that they lost focus on music programming.
This is going to happen a lot more often and is a big problem of digitalization. Before, you had physical products like newspapers, books and tapes that would be stored somewhere and could also be handed over to archives and museums. But digital media can be deleted just like that if a company, news organization etc. either goes bancrupt or just doesn't want to pay for the archive anymore.
Paramount Global Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years - Showbiz411
MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth. Parent company Paramount Global, formerly Viacom, has tossed twenty plus years of news archives. All that’s left is a placeholder site for reality shows. The M in MTV – music — is gone, and so is all the reporting and all the journalism...www.showbiz411.com
Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years
June 25, 2024 12:36 am
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MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth.
Parent company Paramount, formerly Viacom, has tossed twenty plus years of news archives. All that’s left is a placeholder site for reality shows. The M in MTV – music — is gone, and so is all the reporting and all the journalism performed by music and political writers ever written. It’s as if MTV never existed. (It’s the same for VH1.com, all gone.)
There’s no precedent for this, and no valid reason. Just cheapness and stupidity.
This follows the shut down of MTV News on the channel last year. MTV is now just a graveyard for reality show crap. All of its substance has been desiccated over time.
MTV News became a force in music, entertainment, and politics in the early 90s. As the channel’s popularity soared, the News division — including the faces of Kurt Loder, Alison Stewart, Serena Altschul, Sway, and John Norris — became incredibly important especially to political campaigns. Now all those interviews — hundreds of thousands of hours with rock stars and what we now call influencers of generations — have been replaced by a link to “Help! I’m in a Secret Relationship.”
Writer Kathy Iandoli posted: “ MTV.com deleting all of our articles and replacing them with schedules for TV shows that can also no longer be streamed on their site is proof that no one has any idea of what the hell they are doing right now.”
She’s not alone. There is fury among MTV.com writers past and present who now see their histories erased, along with all the music and political reporting.
Patrick Hosken posted: “So, http://mtvnews.com no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace. All because it didn’t fit some executives’ bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word”
Michell Clark wrote: “I don’t even have the words. I was just a freelancer but I put so much blood, sweat, and tears into telling stories that I cared about, the right way, on that platform. What a gut punch.”
The end of the MTV.com archives is not unprecedented. When the former New York Observer was bought by Jared Kushner years ago, hundreds of articles disappeared.
As Paramount destroyed the library of articles, some writers managed to save a few for the WaybackMachine.com, which was just profiled for trying to hold onto evaporating information on the internet. But mostly the articles about pop culture will vanish now.
Paramount owner Shari Redstone has allowed something to happen here much worse than any of her recent fears about selling the company.
The greed of the company is obvious, as well as its lack of respect for journalism. But this is also a wake up call for anyone though the internet was forever. Not having print copies of a writer’s work is a big mistake. A big lesson is learned here.
Mindfield333
Superstar
I don’t understand this pov at all. nikkas was pissed about sohh message board not being archived but nobody supposed to care about articles about the culture of music?
Mindfield333
Superstar
People on the Coli myopic? I’m shockedSome of yall are really either playing dumb or try to dismiss this as some CAC shyt dont see the big picture. This is BAD and this is how history gets rewritten
Paramount Is Taking Down Decades Worth of Old TV Clips from the Web
Paramount has purged much of the content on websites for Comedy Central, TV Land, Paramount Network, and CMT that previously hosted many old TV clips.
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Paramount Is Taking Down Decades Worth of Old TV Clips from the Web
Websites for Comedy Central, TV Land, Paramount Network, and CMT now all just tell you to try Paramount+, and MTVNews.com is gone.BY BRIAN WELK
JUNE 26, 2024 7:18 PM
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Creators and fans have come to learn all too well what it feels like when an old show or film that used to be available through streaming is suddenly gone, even as we’ve been sold the idea of infinite choice and endless libraries at our fingertips.
Now though even older examples of TV history are disappearing in the blink of an eye. Paramount this week has quietly purged much of the content being hosted on several of its cable channels, including Comedy Central, Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT, all as of Wednesday afternoon. And on Monday, MTVNews.com was completely removed from the web, with it erasing years of music news articles, columns, and features.
As a result, you can no longer find full episodes or clips of classic Comedy Central late night shows such as “The Colbert Report,” “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore,” or “The Opposition with Jordan Klepper” available for online streaming. Full episodes of sketch comedy show “Key & Peele” are also gone, and even vintage episodes of “The Daily Show” from before 2016 are nowhere to be found. The blog LateNighter first noticed the websites had been wiped.
YouTube offers a few answers, but finding specific clips, let alone full episodes, can be more of a challenge. In their place, websites for each of the above-mentioned cable channels features a pop-up window saying, “While episodes of most Comedy Central series are no longer available on this website, you can watch Comedy Central through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of Comedy Central shows.”
A rep for Paramount told IndieWire: “As part of broader website changes across Paramount, we have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows.”
For now though, many of these series are not currently available on Paramount+, such as “The Colbert Report” or “The Nightly Show.” Even “The Daily Show” has only two of the most recent seasons, encompassing 2024 and 2023, available, despite decades of the show’s history. “South Park” clips used to be hosted on Comedy Central’s website, but the only place to watch full episodes of those are via Max, not Paramount+.
The likely reason for this? Cost cutting. In a town hall this week, Paramount’s “Office of the CEO” including co-chiefs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy, and Brian Robbins, expressed plans to save $500 million in order to stave off profit drops and one day make Paramount+ profitable. The company has $12 billion in debt it must pay off, and David Ellison’s Skydance isn’t coming in to save the day anymore.
It’s unclear if or when any or all of these shows could migrate to other streaming locations. Years worth of “The Daily Show” and “Colbert” is no easy feat to house, especially if timely, individual old episodes aren’t being well-viewed. And it’s further unlikely such shows would be licensed to other buyers. We wouldn’t be surprised if some shows wound up on Paramount’s free streamer Pluto TV, not unlike how HBO’s “Westworld” now lives permanently on Warner Bros. Discovery’s FAST channels.
There’s also no word on if websites for Nickelodeon, BET, or VH1 might suffer similar fates. But BET and VH1 have each been the subject of sales talks, so what happens to those sites and that content may one day be in other hands.
The erasure of MTVNews.com particularly stings, as there’s no archive of the news articles that used to be housed there and are even less likely to see the light of day again.
As former MTV News editor Patrick Hosken says, it really stinks: “So, http://mtvnews.com no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace. All because it didn’t fit some executives’ bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word.”
He never hosted the movie awardsMTV hasn’t been good in years. The last VMAs I watched were when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift.
Their awards shows used to be epic. They had Chris Rock hosting the movie awards.
Another prime example is the Universal fire of the early 70's, because of that ALL of their films from the past (mostly pre 50's) were burned.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Damn so that means.
They successfully scrubbed the reference video source online. I use to prove the miz from wwe is racist.
This is like a cover up.
on a level of epic proportions.
Of how viacom was used during the communications act to sway things into the bullshyt it is now. With no real internet linkable proof.
of what and how things were in the past.
Art Barr
They successfully scrubbed the reference video source online. I use to prove the miz from wwe is racist.
This is like a cover up.
on a level of epic proportions.
Of how viacom was used during the communications act to sway things into the bullshyt it is now. With no real internet linkable proof.
of what and how things were in the past.
Art Barr
Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
“Run up on Hammer”I'll never see that footage of OutKast talking about MC Hammer again
CreepyMcCreeperson
Veteran
The Pledge
THE PRICE OF THE BRICK GOING UP!
Who cares? What the fukk
Y’all MFers have the wildest takes I swear
I hope people have been putting shyt up on archive. This is why I’ll never stop pirating, stupid ass companies will flush a whole legacy down the drain in a few keystrokes.