Television: Hated, Loved and Second-Guessed, MTV Is Still a Channel About Stars
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âThe Hillsâ â a dramedy, really, though shot amid the real lives of a clique of young women in Hollywood â has become MTVâs only reliable franchise.
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MIAMI - The MTV Awards show on Sunday featured typical frenetic energy and sexy style, and a few musical surprises, but it was mostly a kinder, gentler version of past shows. There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially-clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters, and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions...
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Britney Spears hasn&#39;t had a hit in  years. MTV stopped playing music videos years ago.
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Viewers who enjoy a program are more likely than disgruntled viewers to have favorable responses to advertisements during that program.
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MIAMI - The MTV Video Music Awards show on Sunday featured typical frenetic energy and sexy style, and a few musical surprises, but it was mostly a kinder, gentler version of past shows. There was no Madonna-Britney Spears kiss, no partially clad Howard Stern coming down from the rafters, and certainly no wardrobe malfunctions...
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According to the Parents Television Council, during a regular schedule for MTV shows, over 3,056 flashes of nudity or sexual situations and 2,881 verbal references to sex were counted. A spokesman for the PTC claims MTV caters to the lowest common deno...
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MTV has always been an all-or-nothing operation. They&#39;re either defining the moment, or not in the game. Battling for face-time with Republicans (or anyone) in New York during what
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Pinning responsibility for the controversial reality TV show solely on CBS is too easy. A hard look at the role parents play in blurring the line between adult entertainment and childâs play.
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âOn the Road in Americaâ looks, on first viewing, like the sort of television show that Al Jazeera and MTV might produce if they could be coaxed together in front of an editing terminal.
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MTV's fiction show effectively evokes the hot, tribal mentality of high school kids who might just redeem their adolescence with sex.
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While Current TV has gained a lot of attention, mainly because of Al Goreâs involvement, it is not clear that the cable channel is attracting an audience.
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If viewers still identify Aaron Spelling with starlets whose brassieres didn&#039;t fully rein them in, that might say as much about the viewers as it does about him.
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LOS ANGELES  - Conservative watchdog  group Parents Television Council blasted MTV as "smut peddlers"  Tuesday, accusing the music cable network of targeting young  viewers with oversexed programming.
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Music videos may not have a home in  MTV's prime-time programming schedule, but the network is  looking for new ways to give artists a presence in key viewing  hours. In the latest wrinkle, MTV is experimenting with letting  recording stars determine the soundtracks to some of its hit  lifestyle shows.
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Feeling the heat from reality shows, creators have borrowed elements such as big casts and multiple storylines.
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MTV reality shows such as "The Osbournes" and "Newlyweds: Nick &amp; Jessica" receive a ton of publicity. "PoweR Girls," MTV's new reality show, is all about publicity.
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Victoria Beckham&#39;s bid to woo  Americans has backfired with damning reviews of a reality TV  show that she hoped would overturn her image here as a  sour-faced diva.