The Death Of YouTube
Posted by Devonte Swag on October 30, 2008 at 12:00am
photo: Maxi Adrian
 
Once upon a time in TVLand there was a channel that you could turn to that scratched your music video itch. That killed the radio start. And all its shows like TRL, Beavis and Butthead, Yo MTV Raps, were centered around the music videos themselves. All those shows are now off the air.

Now, MTV is more of a youth entertainment machine pumping one show out after the next. You have to wait until about five a.m. to dodge all the reality monkey dung being thrown at you. Even MTV2 which was originally created to be the new home for the old MTV format now plays reapeats of Pimp My Ride and Rob and Big.

So where will the videos roam free? An exodus from TV screen to the computer screen; to MTVMUSIC.COM .

MTV's new site serves as a music video archive sprinkled with "exclusive" MTV concert footage and MTV "Unplugged" performances.

Ever since the lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube began, YouTube's music video bank has gotten scarce and MTVmusic is here to fill that void. But lets not forget the bigger void in music videos on music video channels.
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