The 80s, myth and reality?

[Zombie_61]

When did MTV cease to be a thing? I remember always having MTV on when I was getting ready for work or classes. Then one day people stopped talking about MTV and it disappeared from our radar.

Couldn't have ended fast enough. To me MTV was the television equivalent of the "Top 40" broadcast on the FM radio stations on Sunday mornings; garbage music made for the masses that had zero appeal for me. Then MTV became soap opera shows for the truly dumb masses, and by then they had already lost me. At this moment I couldn't tell you if MTV was living or dead, and I don't really care either way.

 

[Trenchfriend]

The Buggles were wrong. Good old Radio wasn't killed by commercial tv. Producing radio programm is so much cheaper than the tv crap.
Our german MTV equivalent VIVA failed very soon and DSL internet came also up.