Author Topic: MTV Turns 25 (Read 2200 times)

nate80s · « **on:** July 07, 2006, 11:11:04 AM »

Does anyone know what MTV plans to do for their 25th anniversary? I don't think anyone has really acknowledged it (the UK version of MTV did). I'm surprised no one has posted about this. Will they show their old game shows? Or will they change the name of the channel? You won't be hearing people say "I want my MTV" these days.

Nate

zachhoran · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2006, 11:38:37 AM »

[quote name=\'nate80s\' post=\'123525\' date=\'Jul 7 2006, 11:11 AM\']
Does anyone know what MTV plans to do for their 25th anniversary? I don't think anyone has really acknowledged it (the UK version of MTV did). I'm surprised no one has posted about this. Will they show their old game shows? Or will they change the name of the channel? You won't be hearing people say "I want my MTV" these days.

Nate
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They didn't do a whole lot to promote their 20th anniversary as I recall, so I wouldn't expect them pulling out videos from 1981 or game shows from 1987 or 1995 too much.

tyshaun1 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2006, 11:42:30 AM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' post=\'123529\' date=\'Jul 7 2006, 11:38 AM\']
They didn't do a whole lot to promote their 20th anniversary as I recall, so I wouldn't expect them pulling out videos from 1981 or game shows from 1987 or 1995 too much.
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Actually I remember MTV doing a complete week long retrospective on their history, a 2 hour special each day. But, as we all know, Zach is always right.

Tyshaun

JasonA1 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:18:12 PM »

Yeah, the 20th anniversary thing was pretty much all of that year - they even released a DVD box set of videos called the MTV 20 Collection or something like that.

-Jason

clemon79 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:28:56 PM »

[quote name=\'nate80s\' post=\'123525\' date=\'Jul 7 2006, 08:11 AM\']
I'm surprised no one has posted about this.
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Probably because this is a game-show message board, and not an MTV one.

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Will they show their old game shows?

Probably not, unless they're gonna do a "where are they now" segment about Ken Ober and Colin Quinn. Oh, wait.

I'm gonna guess they play The Buggles at some point. It may well represent the first time Music Television has played a music video in quite some time.

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Or will they change the name of the channel?

Tell me you're not this out of touch with the concept of "brand recognition".

cmjb13 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:54:56 PM »

On a semi-related note, what ever happened to those Remote Control episodes that were supposed to air on VH1 (or was it VH1 classic)?

zachhoran · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2006, 07:13:31 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'123535\' date=\'Jul 7 2006, 12:28 PM\']

I'm gonna guess they play The Buggles at some point. It may well represent the first time Music Television has played a music video in quite some time.

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They still play them in the early AM hours, as does VH1, but that's about it for regular videos in recent years.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2006, 11:20:05 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' post=\'123573\' date=\'Jul 7 2006, 07:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'123535\' date=\'Jul 7 2006, 12:28 PM\']

I'm gonna guess they play The Buggles at some point. It may well represent the first time Music Television has played a music video in quite some time.

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They still play them in the early AM hours, as does VH1, but that's about it for regular videos in recent years.
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Wow.

Brandon Brooks · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2006, 11:23:23 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' post=\'123529\' date=\'Jul 7 2006, 10:38 AM\']
They didn't do a whole lot to promote their 20th anniversary as I recall, so I wouldn't expect them pulling out videos from 1981 or game shows from 1987 or 1995 too much.
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I thought you knew it all. They actually did this big MTV 20 shindig, televised ad nauseam. I remember because it was one of Aaliyah's last apperances.

Brandon Brooks