VH1 sold out

[Statikk HDM]

VH1 has hardly any music programming nowadays. I say if you're going to be a music channel at least half of all programming should be music related, with at least a quarter of that being music videos. Now these douchebags clog what used to be a good channel for older music videos and things like metal, hard rock, and old skool/hardcore rap from the 80s and early 90s with unwatchable garbage like Hogan Knows Best and The Surreal Life. They also show a lot of movies like Showgirls and The Breakfast Club that have nothing to do with music whatsoever. Put on something like This Is Spinal Tap, Heavy Metal, Rocky Horror Picture Show, a documentary about music, something, anything, that has the first damn thing to do with music! The absolute worst is all the countdowns. Who really gives a **** what Hal Sparks or the skinniest fat guy in the Barenaked Ladies thinks of the Godfather movies?
I say a boycott is in order!
What prompted me to do this is one of their uber lame countdowns today. They've spent at least 2 hours today doing a countdown on the hundred best toys. Green Army Men weren't even in the top 50. Weeble Wobbles beating out one of the best toys for little kids ludicrous. All the decisions so far have sucked balls and they could have been doing something worthwhile like SHOWING SOME EFFING MUSIC RELATED PROGRAMS!!!
Its been so fashionable to rip MTV a new asshole over the exact same issues. I say VH1 is even worse.

[Rich]

VH2 is where its at man.

[Rex Tirano]

Kerrang and MTV all the way~!!

- Rexy

[Fez]

NME need a TV channel.

[Mutual Friend]

NME is a terrible magazine, maybe a TV channel would fare better?

[Statikk HDM]

Kerrang! is alright.
But it is no substitute for a channel on basic cable that will play music videos every once in a while. I think MTV and VH1 have discovered this dirty little "secret": They don't make a lot of money when they show music videos. As soon as execs realized music wasn't as profitable as Where My Dogs At or C list celebrities riffing on He Man they ditched the music.

[Majic]

Nah. VH1 is still a step above the likes of MTV (think "Next"... ugh). Granted, a very small, crumbly step that could break apart any day now. But you're right, it's gotten pretty bad. And their countdowns are always half assed, though come to think of it, so are pretty much all lists of the nature. I can't think of a bigger pile of shit than that Rolling Stone's "Top 500" song list.

In conclusion: it's true. The glory days of "Pop Up Videos" are over. Vh1 has reduced itself to another forgettable cable channel.