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   From: nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com   
      
   On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 08:48:52 -0700, anim8rfsk    
   wrote:   
      
   >Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >> The MTV Story. Today, December 31, 2025, marks the official death of   
   >> the empire that invented modern cool. Paramount Global has pulled the   
   >> plug on the music channels that defined a generation, from the excess   
   >> of the 80s to the grunge revolution of the 90s. We explore the rise and   
   >> fall of the network that once dictated the planet's soundtrack, how   
   >> reality TV like "The Real World" became a cheaper drug than rock and   
   >> roll, and how the "Video Killed the Radio Star" prophecy finally came   
   >> full circle.   
   >   
   >Heh   
   >   
   >I never had music from MTV. By the time Cox finally connected me, it was   
   >all reality and game shows. I came aboard for the remote control era.   
   >Music was relegated to three in the morning.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> https://youtu.be/z3jTlCs_SMA?si=QrlzqoKpPE3czOra   
   >>   
      
   Wow. Thought everyone of a certain generation got the MTV. I didn't   
   get to see it when it first aired as I didn't have cable at the time   
   but did catch it a few years later.   
      
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