Seemingly Intractable Questions In Pop, No.1 in a Series

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How do you make pop work on TV?

Comments

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

most people would rather watch TMF

Really? What makes you say that? Or are you saying that most people THAT YOU KNOW would rather watch TMF? I know that whenever I've seen TMF, I've been bored after about 10 minutes max, and that's assuming that within those first 10 minutes, they haven't played anything that I dislike enough to change the channel. Same goes for all dedicated music television in my opinion. Dedicated music TV only works as "background" TV. I doubt many people would have a conversation such as:

What are you doing tonight? Fancy coming to the pub?
Nah, I'm staying in to watch an hour or two of TMF

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I've been bored after about 10 minutes max, and that's assuming that within those first 10 minutes, they haven't played anything that I dislike enough to change the channel

Ah but then you change it to Hits!TV, where there's always something good on. :-)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

...and then you realise you've been flicking between the two for FIVE HOURS and your house is on fire.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

In my second year of uni I had MTV, MTV Base, MTV Dance, MTV2, Smash Hits TV, Kerrang TV (never tuned in to this) and a WHOLE LOAD of others on tap.

I didn't do very well in my second year.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I meant in terms of 'ooh I fancy some music telly' people will watch TMF rather than wait until a dedicated program is on because most people don't get much more out of one than they do from dodgy old freeview music channels.

I have infinite patience with TMF and The Hits, although TMF should go back to actually playing music occasionally.

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

They haven't played much music at weeknights but they do play quite a lot at the weekend.

re: 'background'. I think that's quite fine...I quite like reading to it and glancing every now again to catch a video I haven't before or listening to a song I like again.