When MTV played their one millionth video, they counted down their most frequently played videos from 25 to 1. Their website shows which videos were in the countdown. Aggravatingly enough, it does not show which position each video was in!
Does anyone know the positions of those videos in the countdown, or at least the top 10?
MTV plays videos?
MTV2 does. Awsome!! A lot like what MTV used to be with guest VeeJays, songs you do not hear on the radio. Short attention span video productions. Musical guests choosing videos (Never heard of Ben Harper before).
MTV? Lost me when Beavis and Butthead ended.
They lost me when Remote Control ended.
Let’s see…MTV just played their millionth video. They’ve been on the air since the middle of 1980, which makes it roughly an even 20 years; 365 days a year, times 20, that’s 7300 days. Divide 1 million over that, that makes, rounding up, 137 videos per day. Assuming a generous 5-minute length for videos, that’s 685 minutes per day. Twenty-four hours times 60 minutes per hour, there are 1440 minutes in a day.
Divide 685 by 1440, and you find that, since its creation, MTV has devoted a whopping 48% of their on-air time to playing videos. If we use a more realistic 4-minute video standard, the number falls to 38%. Considering that they played practically nothin’ but videos when they first went on the air, they’ve really been slipping of late.
They lost me when Remote Control started.
Well, I was only 15 or 16 at the time.