Comments on: Viacom's MTV ready to take risks on Web

MTV is diving deep into content syndication, digital downloads, and social networks. Unlike its parent company, it isn't warring with technology or users.

[georgiarat]

MTV death knelll

When my kids said they no longer cared for MTV I knew they were
headed in the wrong direction....

[SeizeCTRL]

MTV is a LIE!

Why keep the name? Every one knows they are no longer playing videos. Heck the channel they created after they started all the reality show crap M2 to play videos when MTV was playing shows now plays mostly shows.

So STOP the lies... change your name already, you haven't been MTV since 1994.

I used to think there was hope with VH1, but every time I turn to it now, some stupid ass how is on. ***? Does any music channel still play music videos?

It's no damn wonder people rip videos to YouTube because we can't see them anywhere else!

[Sparky650]

Wow

I didn't even know MTV were still around. I looked through the Direc Tv list and was surprised it is there. Wow! I haven't heard anyone in the wild talk about MTV in at least 7 or 8 years.

[gudipudi]

thats great

Its something exciting to learn that MTV is penetrating into the social media.

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[jltnol]

It's over...

MTV, like so many other properties on TV, have become nothing
more than a way for someone to make money.

When it started, it was good. But perhaps in an effort to make it
more profitable, it got dumbed down big time. No longer hip, no
longer smart, no longer relevant, it's just a cash cow has been,
being led by people who have no idea what they're doing.

Kill it, or give it back to the kids to run.

[krosavcheg]

Are You Kidding Me?

Empty-V is going to be the new sign of "hip" from Viacom?

So, the author seems to have completely forgotten that one of Viacom's other holdings is getting it right. Comedy Central is the front runner in Viacom's stable (followed very closely by Cartoon network's Adult Swim crew.) The only way Mtv is going to recover is if they realize that they need to dump all of the music industry hacks and start stealing sharp people who actually have a clue. Then they will need to get rid of the inept management that has hamstrung most of Viacom's other properties, so that those talented people can actually make a difference.

I don't want to seem any more negative than I already have been, but it seems that Cnet is publishing more and more of these "clueless journalist needs to turn in so many items a month" type of stories and it's slowly driving me to look for news else where :-(

[assclownbush]

MTV is still on the air?!

I thought MTV went under with the launch of "YO! MTV Raps!"