More On How Much MTV Sucks

Fellow RINO AWS sums up the Blogosphere's thoughts on MTV's "coverage" of the Live 8 shows:

MTV sucks. That’s what I decided after watching several acts during the Live 8 telecasts today. I don’t know if we’ll end poverty this weekend, but I sure hope someone will pull the plug on the channel that used to be known as the “music” television.

Not only did the “music” channel cut away from songs while the performers were still singing! They spent way too much time focused on their blithering stable of “veejays,” most of whom are totally unfamiliar to the people tuning in to this particular event. There were far too many commercials (imagine that - an event to raise money for poverty, and Viacom is still raking in the dough with commercials).

Michelle also has some thoughts.

I watched the entire thing on AOL and they did a fantastic job. They alerted you when new acts took the stage and as I described here, let the music speak for itself.

The Inqy has a report on this same subject:

If Live Aid helped launch MTV as a media powerhouse two decades ago, Live 8 not only dethroned the music channel yesterday but made it seem quaintly old-fashioned.

The Internet left cable in the dust. To put it bluntly, MTV sank and AOL soared.

More than five million people logged onto the Web to watch the concerts, with 175,000 simultaneous streams at any one time, making it "by far the biggest Internet event in history," AOL vice president Ruth Sarfaty said.

It's easy to see why.

AOL offered, for free, streaming video from concert stages in Philadelphia; Paris; London; Berlin; Barrie, Ontario; and Rome, with brief side trips to Johannesburg. The online service did not stream from the concerts in Moscow; Tokyo; and Cornwall, England. Adding up all 10 venues, 200 acts provided almost 70 hours of music.

Exactly, AOL did more for their service than any one in that failing company ever dreamed of. You can go to the site now and for the next six weeks and watch any act you want.