The was also a Meat Loaf movie starring the "franks and beans! franks and beans!" guy from Something About Mary.

There are still two MTV channels on Comcast that play videos 24 hours a day. MTV Hits (Current pop) and MTV Jams (Hip Hop and R&B) Only problem is they are not in HD yet.

I think a purely music oriented channel could survive in today's cable market. It would play a variety of music-themed movies, television shows, old reruns of variety shows, documentaries and of course concerts. A pure music video channel probably could not, too many kids simply go search YouTube if they want to see videos today.

Most cable providers have those Music Choice channels - why can't those just show videos instead of audio only?

Most of the songs on MC don't have music videos, so I imagine they just want to stay consistent vs flip-flopping (static screen, video, static screen, video) every other song.

Those audio channels basically rehash lists of songs culled for radio. One of the dirty secrets is that MTV started deemphasizing music videos when the labels started demanding more royalties for playing them. In the golden age that most of us associate with MTV, they were paying pennies for the rights to most music videos.

27 of the 30 most watched YouTube videos are music videos.

Even a relatively obscure artist such as Sia has a single music video with more than a billion views!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...YouTube_videos

No TV station has ever used VHS.

Every commercial TV cable station that starts out with he purpose of showing a specific kind of programming will eventually dumb down its content away from its original purpose. Cartoon Network used to be only for classic cartoons, but now it's almost all newer stuff. The Travel channel is now the Gambling channel. Arts & Entertainment stopped being that a long time ago. TV Land started airing Just Shoot Me. The Discovery channel has "documentaries" on ghosts.

Apparently not. I know a guy who turned 21 last year, and he wanted to watch some live thing on TV that wasn't available online. He had to make several calls to find someone who even had TV service. It seems the under-25 crowd uses online streaming almost exclusively; while many under-25ers may own 50" TV sets, those are mostly for video game consoles and\or Netflix. They don't see the point in paying for expensive cable TV, and there's not enough to interest them on broadcast TV to invest in an antenna.

I grew up in a house where the TV was on from 8AM to 1AM, every day, even if no one was watching it. I was like that myself for several years after I moved out on my own. It doesn't bother me now to have the TV turned off, though.

What *does* drive me crazy, though, are people who constantly turn their TVs on and off. I visited some friends of mine a few months ago, and they drove me insane with that: my friend was like "oh, here's a funny YouTube video I want you to see", and he turns the TV on and sets up his Chromecast for it. We watch the video, and he turns the TV off. 15 minutes later, someone mentions a music video, and my friend turns the TV on and sets up his Chromecast for it. We watch the video, and he turns the TV off. 15 minutes after that, we start talking about European TV (the friends live in Europe). My friend turns the TV on and goes through some of the nuttier foreign-language channels. He then turns the TV off. 20 minutes later, someone suggests that we play the Chromecast version of You Don't Know Jack: my friend turns the TV on, sets up the game, we play it, and he turns the TV off. We eat dinner (take-out, not a formal "meal"), and my friend turns on the TV to watch the end of a NFL game during dinner. He then turns the TV off. 10 minutes after that we decide to watch a movie... so he has to turn the TV on and configure it for the Blu-Ray player...

And VH-1 will have my scorn for the foreseeable future for renewing, then cancelling, Hindsight. It wasn't Emmy-worthy, life-changing TV. But it was a fun show, and the first TV show that made me realize that, despite all the nostalgia I had for high school back in the 80s, I actually became a "real adult" in the 90s, with college and checking accounts and bills and nightclubs and whatnot. Besides, even without that, Hindsight was still better than most anything else on that shitty network.

I think Hindsight got caught with the network changing directions. It probably would have been renewed if VH1 wasn't reforming itself. I could see the channel getting a name change very soon.

Hindsight was great. I hate that it got cancelled. I know people who work for Viacom companies and they are not running music videos anymore because people aren't watching. The scripted reality and scripted shows draw in more viewers.

Discovery channel used to have great stuff like Firepower. Now I never watch it. I liked History Channel's Engineering an Empire but they stopped producting stuff like that.

Is there some reason to believe it's been canceled or on unofficial hiatus?

No. It's like this between every season with no official word. VH1C usually just decides to start a new season a month or so before it begins.

How do they manage to schedule Eddie and the guests with so little lead time? No wonder they have problems getting some of the guests they want.

All I want to know is where can I watch Rock N Roll Jeopardy. Damn I miss that show!!

From Jim Florentine:

No big loss. Couldn't stand Florentine and Jamieson.

Ditto. the only loss of measure is Jennifer, especially her entrance.

I realize the show was starting to wear thin, but I still watched every week. As a late 70s-early 90s fans of the genre of music I really enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed the latter half of the show with "Stump the Trunk" and the Throw down. I will miss it.

Same here, especially Jamieson. Annoying shithead.

http://eddietrunk.com/119-def-leppar...s-update-more/

January 19, 2016 By Eddie

It’s been a crazy day indeed since I posted the news on VH1’s decision to discontinue new episodes of That Metal Show. So much so this site crashed from the traffic! I can’t thank everyone enough for their kind words of support. I heard from a tremendous amount of fans and many artists. It really means a lot so thanks!

Many fans are tossing out network suggestions. I get it. I’d love to be on any of them. But it’s not that easy. The network has to want a show like this and feel it fits. It is not as easy as just saying “lets just go to____”. Any and all options are being explored. Your support and letting these networks know you want the show doesn’t hurt either.

This was all not a surprise to me and we have been trying to make a new home for TMS for a little while now. It was important to let you guys know what was up because it was the right thing to do at this time. As loyal fans you needed to know the deal.

I have no idea what the plans are for VH1 Classic as a channel. I have been a part of that channel as a host since 2002. But many of the execs that I worked with are now gone. So I am out of the loop at the moment on what they are doing. But they gave me a TV home for 13 + years and for that I am grateful!

As soon as there is news to share I’ll let you know. Thank you all!

I was surprised to find out they were both stand-up comedians. I can't think of anything even remotely funny either one has said.

Probably deciding what are the best times to air Martin and My Wife and Kids reruns.

Please somebody punch these executives or light them with gasoline since they don't belong on this earth!

No music on VH1 and no nudity in Playboy the Apocalypse is here.