Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“That's not the UK though.
I'm amazed people watch music channels much I put them on if I can't be bothered changing songs however I use YouTube as music which Q/NME/The Amp/Lava/VH2 use to play.
To think how many indie/alternative festival channels there use to be it's strange to only see Kerrang and Scuzz which are more metal and punk based.
Majority of UK channels only play wall to wall chart including Magic and VH1. Basically only Vintage plays music which Magic use to.
Also out with MTV Live HD YouTube is better picture quality as it offers full HD. HD music channels never really took off.”
I mostly drift through the channels, Does MTV Rocks not play punk/metal? I thought it was since its titled "MTV Rocks" but then again when you have likes of Ed Sheeran/George Ezra on it, it makes you wonder!
I'll agree that all these channels seem to be doing wall to wall charts - again back in the 90's charts were mostly confined to weekends (speaking of what I remember with VH1), and the odd artist picking their top 10 but most of the time it was themed music programming - these days its basically themed music countdowns ie Top 50.... can they not just play without a countdown?
As for MTV Live HD - What is this channel meant to be? When it was running from Poland it looked like a far superior channel (Ok it did show animation at weekends) but to what is now looks nothing to what it was previous under MTVNHD, Since UK control its fell from grace (barrage of MTV ads and of course advertising MTV's main channel too), they still doo live gigs but at times its gone way too "poppy" and it ain't any different to its sister channels MTV Hits/Music/Base/Dance apart from videos are in HD but other than that its another waste of space. I knew my time was up on MTV in general when the phasing of reality shows came in .... but with the UK doing more of it on the main its off putting but again it does not help with the constant ads for MTV appearing on every MTV channel they have let alone appearing on VH1! Why on VH1? VH1 is meant to be a different demographic to MTV and be more on par to Vintage TV but Vintage TV seems more to fit in with me to that of VH1!
I noticed last night (since mentioning Vintage), I briefly dipped in but they played a song from T-Rex that I ain't seen before but why is it this channel seems to be at times able to play what I would call "classics" or "old skool" but VH1 seems they don't want to touch?

.... I ain't going to talk about the Bauer channels - Heat/Smash Hits/Magic one of them should be at least classics but whats the point? Again stuck in playing modern (todays) music than anything else - channels in UK are in a sad state but I wonder what its really like in USA/Europe - probably they still are more adventurous with archives than here!