Originally Posted by linkinpark875:
“I may get hit down for this but I still say they are the best UK network. Only music network to put music videos out in HD too. I find they make better use of the archives more than the other networks. They still have all there channels playing the under the right genre like MTV Dance > Dance and MTV Rocks > Indie and MTV Base > R&B.
Much better than the mishmash of CSC with cheesy pop occupying The Vault (once a good channel about 2004!) and sinking low buying up tacky channels like Starz TV. Bauer is all recent pop other than Kerrang.
MTV now is miles better than the mid 00's about 2005 where they felt programming was the way forward. Yes a lot of the music shows have been axed in that time but they offer a lot more than the rest. Majority of there channels are quite uncluttered these days too.
If only other networks set the standard MTV had. We might have Chart Show TV HD and The Vault remastering 80's videos in some form of upscaled HD. If only?”
The quality of the videos are better, but the programming is awful. Same songs, same artists day in day out.
They are no better than Bauer with their obsessions over certain artists. MTV Classic is the only channel of MTV's that I rate.
They also promote their handful of new artists every year at the beginning of the year and then forget about them from February onwards - it's basically if they make it, we broke them, if they fail, we'll pretend they never existed.
CSC don't even have a website, which is criminal in this day and age. They also have Jake Quickenden who should be released from his contract ASAP - the guy can't even talk sense, let alone present.
Vault caters for something different, but they could have used Bliss as a real oldie channel, but instead opted for Vault Part II with 21st Century.