Some still remember the days when MTV was music television (see the reference in Bowling for Soup's "1985"). Most of us are now well aware that hasn't been the case for awhile now. It seems that MTV itself has finally been enlightened and will quit pretending that it's a music television channel. In other words, MTV has dropped the "Music Television" tagline from its logo.
The "M" and the "TV" will remain pretty much the same. The major difference is that images of the channel's reality starts will now be visible in the "M." Perhaps MTV should have kept the "television" in the tagline and replaced "music" with reality.
I, like many other consumers and music artists alike, have been disappointed in the channel's shift away from music but am glad to see that they're no longer trying to fool their audiences. However, I will finish off this entry with a tribute to the original MTV by posting the first video shown on the channel: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
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