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poptimistsFor the last month or so I've been mourning the loss of Hits!TV. Since Channel 4 took it over and rebranded it, whenever I've flicked over to see some pop music videos I've been confronted by Shipwrecked: Battle Of The Idiots or some dudes with trendy haircuts talking to each other. There are NO music videos being played at prime time, only during the day (I'm at home right now and am enjoying some classic Nelly Furtado and the new Leona Lewis, hurray).
So that's the last of the freeview video channels to soundtrack the evening's washing up then (TMF never really showed videos except at weekends anyway). It's definitely meant the amount of new pop I digest properly (as opposed to a once-over on Youtube if it enters the charts) has diminished. As has the number of Ultimate Hardcore Party Classics adverts I see - I've missed seeing Cascada's face merge into Basshunter's every ad break. I'm even missing the dreadful list countdowns (Fall Out Boy's top 20 Legends Of Brat-Rock, Worst Boybands '88-'08 etc).
I know WHY they've done this of course. We've got Youtube and newfangled on-demand telly now so Shipwrecked is meant to bring back the viewers (hmmm). Perhaps it's just me? Do you lot even watch music telly at all these days? Did you ever watch it in the first place? If you pay for telly do you bother watching The Box and its ilk? Or would you prefer to watch Miquita Oliver giggling on a sofa for four hours?
So that's the last of the freeview video channels to soundtrack the evening's washing up then (TMF never really showed videos except at weekends anyway). It's definitely meant the amount of new pop I digest properly (as opposed to a once-over on Youtube if it enters the charts) has diminished. As has the number of Ultimate Hardcore Party Classics adverts I see - I've missed seeing Cascada's face merge into Basshunter's every ad break. I'm even missing the dreadful list countdowns (Fall Out Boy's top 20 Legends Of Brat-Rock, Worst Boybands '88-'08 etc).
I know WHY they've done this of course. We've got Youtube and newfangled on-demand telly now so Shipwrecked is meant to bring back the viewers (hmmm). Perhaps it's just me? Do you lot even watch music telly at all these days? Did you ever watch it in the first place? If you pay for telly do you bother watching The Box and its ilk? Or would you prefer to watch Miquita Oliver giggling on a sofa for four hours?
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Date: 2008-10-03 03:27 pm (UTC)6am: CURRENT POP VIDEOS
10am: TOP 10 AT 10 (a top 10 from yesteryear - Pat Sharpe commentary available by pressing the red button)
11am: NEW VIDEOS (stuff only just released this week or next)
1pm: 60s/70s
3pm: 80s
5pm: 90s
7pm: 00s
9pm: ARTIST OF THE DAY (10 videos by one artist)
10pm: GENRE OF THE WEEK (you get the idea
11pm: some kind of magazine show ft news, interviews with worthwhile artists from all over the world
12am: repeats of The Chart Show/...Forever/Pop-Up Video/The Best Of MTV Europe/Sifl & Olly
2am: NIGHT BEATS (inc. unofficial videos e.g. new dance tracks over classic animation etc. while people's silly txts flash up on screen)
MAKE IT SO
Date: 2008-10-03 03:29 pm (UTC)Re: MAKE IT SO
Date: 2008-10-03 03:34 pm (UTC)playing 10 videos in an hour does seem particularly idealistic tho