Monday 1 October 2012

RESEARCH: MUSIC TV CHANNELS

Music television channels like "MTV", after being created in 1981, have changed a lot in the past ten to twenty years. Back in the 80s and 90s MTV aired purely music videos and programs/documentaries about the bands and their music. However, because off sites like YouTube, which make music videos much more easily and freely accessed music channels have been unable to sustain themselves. T.V channels that can put their hand on their heart and call themselves a "music" channel are practically non existent in the modern day. Instead, they now show programs that would appeal to people involved with musical culture, that often have no direct connection with the bands or music that are also played every now and then on the channel. Sites like YouTube, allow you to watch whatever music video you want, whenever you want, where as if you were watching MTV you would have to settle for whatever music video was being played, whether you liked it or not. Also, to help boost viewing figures, MTV in particular has started to air much more mainstream music, where as in the 80s and early 90s, they would have aired less mainstream artists.

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  1. Please change the way that you entitle each blog post so that it exactly echoes the instruction; you need caps and the word RESEARCH. This is to demonstrate to the OCR moderator that you have an orderly sequential, comprehensive approach.

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