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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Not if you're talking about when "Remote Control" aired. That would be --- wait for it --- 1987. (Thanks, IMDB!) I think every game show should have Snack Time.
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Actually, I knew "Remote Control" was earlier. I think Aloha was just using that as an example of the first non-music video programming on MTV.
That said, I also liked RC as well as Beavis & Butthead. The thing that distinguished them from dreck like "Real World" and their ilk is that music videos were still an integral part of these shows.
I don't necessarily mind that MTV had 2-4 hours of non-music video programming per day to break things up, especially back when they didn't have the quantity of videos that they have now. (I mean, seriously, how many times can one stomach "We Built this City" (hi Paigow!) played in a day. I also didn't mind the genre shows like "Yo! MTV Raps" and the metal show, the name of which escapes me at the moment.
However, I could give a rat's ass about what Snoop Dogg's crib looks like, or watching Steve-O set his nuts on fire. I saw a tour of Snoop Dogg's crib a few years ago on "The Man Show" and it was far more entertaining than any treatment MTV could give it, and as to the other, I just have no interest. Management at MTV ought to be honest and rename the channel, as most of the programming now is at best only tangentially related to music.
Now that I'm thinking about it, it may have been 1994 that MTV almost completely abandoned music videos. Does that sound closer to being right?
