Yes, the 27m is very exaggerated- 11m is a decent showing, though. Remember, too, tat it’s airing on three networks now, whereas in the past, it was just MTV.

=> I think Wizards of Waverly Place Original Movie did better :-/

They air The Hills, right? I think that says enough.

I watched it, Janet rocked and as always I loved her, but watching the tribute was hilarious because you get to see what a bunch of phonies most of those celebrities are, I’ve watched MTV since I was little and I remember that a whole bunch of those celebs tearing their phony eyes out on camera were also the ones that made a bunch of Michael Jackson jokes on TRL and various MTV shows before, sad state of the world today where a child molester pop star is heralded as a saint just because he died. But this is just my personal opinion, but go ahead and bash me if you want, cause I’m not reading it. Just putting my two cents in.

I hope Kanye gets hit by a truck and dies.

Why is he a pedophile? He never did anything sexual with these kids. What was clearly stated in court documents from the trial a couple of years ago. And both Jordan from the early ’90s and the kid from a few years back stated as well that the only reason they accused was to wiggle some millions loose from Michael. And Jordan succeeded in the ’90s. Besides that, Michael, accompanied by Lisa Marie Presley, stated in a 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer in 1994/1995 that the prosecuter didn’t have any evidence against him. For example Jordan said he knew where birthmarks were on M’s body, Jordan wasn’t right. He bought him off, because the prosecutors said he would most likely not be convicted, but it would probably be killing to his music career.
If you still don’t believe that he was innocent in both cases, cool!. Strange, but unfortanely you’re not the only then.

I agree with everybody about MTV not playing videos anymore yet ironically, here’s this awards show still.

I’m sick of Michael Jackson, and I’m sure 12-34 year olds (the key demo for MTV) don’t care all that much about Michael Jackson. Most people under 18 look at him as a pedophile anyways (me included), not as a musician. The VMA’s were up from last year, yet only a bit, so Michael Jackson had NOTHING to do with it.

I was legitimately curious of what they show for 24 hours a day if none of it is Music Videos.

Please refrain from the generic “They don’t play music videos anymore” “What does the M stand for anymore” type comments. They are so tiring to hear. Not personal against you, just trying to avoid the thread becoming one of those, where each person acts like they are the first to ever notice that music videos don’t get played much.

They’ve been known for non-music video program for almost 20 years now.
What they have strayed from recently is programming with any sort of ties to music. At least “Cribs”, “Diary,” “Making the Video”, “FANatic”, “Say What Karaoke” and even shows like “2Gether” or lesser extent “Newlyweds” and mega-hit “The Osbournes” were about music or musicians (Hell “Bevis & Butthead” had music video segments). Even if a lot of them weren’t great, there was a heavy amount of music-related shows to counter shows like “Real World”. But now its all dating shows and focuses on 13 and 14years old on “MADE” or “True Life” or movies like “Scream”.

I went off track, but music videos, not so much, for a long time now. I think people want music-related programming, and MTV doesn’t get it.

It was a way to show that everyone is together because thats what the whole show was about. Truth be told, no one was really watching the mtv music awards, so they created controversy.. because “now you never know what can happen”. Nice little ratings boost. Pure showbusiness.

It’s a win win situation for everybody, that’s why I also thought that NBC had connections with MTV because Kanye is going to be on The Jay Leno Show tonight.

I was one of those people who hadn’t watched the show since 2002. i doubt they will get the same results next year.